A good definition of commensal microflora and an understanding of its relation to health are essential in preventing and combating disease. We hypothesized that the species richness of human oral microflora is underestimated. Saliva and supragingival plaque were sampled from 71 and 98 healthy adults, respectively. Amplicons from the V6 hypervariable region of the small-subunit ribosomal RNA gen...

Analgesia and Sedation in pediatric intensive care unit Volakli E, Sdouga M Treating children in an intensive care unit aims at the reversal of physiologic derangement of their organism while caring for comfortable physical and psychological environment. Any correctable environmental and physical factors causing discomfort should be addressed before the introduction of effective analgesia and s...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of monogenic as well as atypical forms of diabetes mellitus has important clinical implications for their specific diagnosis, prognosis, and targeted treatment. Single gene mutations that affect beta-cell function represent 1-2% of all cases of diabetes. However, phenotypic heterogeneity and lack of family history of diabetes can limit the diagnosis of monogenic forms of di...

I review what is known about the temperature of the plasma within stellar wind bubbles and superbubbles. Classical theory suggests that it should be hot, with characteristic temperatures of order a million degrees. This temperature should be set by the balance between heating by the internal termination shocks of the central stellar winds and supernovae, which expand at thousands of km s, and c...

Combination of oral tramadol and midazolam vs midazolam alone as a premedication in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy Vrigga M, Papagiannopoulou P, Ntritsou V, Isaakidis A, Chatziioakimidis Ch, Kostoglou Ch, Zachariadou Ch. Department of Anesthesiology, “G. Gennimatas” General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece The aim of this study was to compare the combination of oral tramadol and midazolam...

Abstract The primary objective of our study was to detect the occurrence enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus in diverse types cheese (cow’s milk and mixed cheese) samples from R.N. Macedonia. Cheese were analyzed for enumeration isolation S. strains according ISO 6888-1. We detected toxigenic potential by use Enzyme Link Fluorescent Assay VIDAS system, we confirmed presence SEs ( sea, seb, se...