causes fatal septicemia and necrotizing wound infections, especially in patients with hepatic disease, heavy alcohol drinking habits and hemochromatosis. V. vulnificus septicemia is characterized by rapid and fulminant progression, and results in a high mortality rate of over 50%. Several bacterial components have been suggested to be virulence factors of V. vulnificus. Of these, an extracellul...

aDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan, bGraduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Kouto, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan, cInstitute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishi-Ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan d Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts & Batteries, Ky...

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, Vol. 33, No. 7, 1987 1297 uals (2-4). We anticipate thattheestimationof salivary melatonin may prove useful in bioavailability studies, in monitoring melatonin secretion in long-term community-based longitudinal studies of a pediatric and psychiatric type, and in studying the pathophysiological aspects of pineal function and their application to laboratory medicine and clini...

SUMMARY The variability of fatigue damage from flight to flight is examined for a fleet of aircraft, both within aircraft and between aircraft. A method is described of modifying the standard analysis of variance technique to take account of correlation between consecutive flights and an example is given. It is then shown how to use the estimates of variance so obtained in the derivation of fac...

A comparative study was performed to evaluate best practice culture media and enrichment broths for recovering Salmonella species from human stool samples. A total of 1297 human stools were collected and processed in this study. Evaluation of agar media was carried out by direct plating (DP), 1096 stool samples were inoculated on Modified Semisolid Rappaport-Vassiliadis (MSRV), Xylose-Lysine-De...