Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains highly endemic in Laos, mainly related to mother to child transmission. Despite the introduction of the vaccination against HBV in the Expanded Programme on Immunization in 2001 and the administration of a vaccine birth dose as part of a 3-dose schedule since 2004, infant immunization coverage remains inadequate because most mothers are not...

Genetically engineered corn expressing crystalline proteins for insect control and encoded by genes derived from soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are widely adopted in the United States. Among the seven different events of Bt corn available commercially, YieldGard Rootworm (MON863) expresses a variant of the cry3Bb1 protein in the root tissue to control corn rootworm larvae. Although ...

+ This paper is dedicated with sincere friendship to Profes­ sor Günther Otto Schenck on the occasion o f his 70th anniversary. * Reprint requests to Prof. Dr. D . C. Neckers. 0340-5087/84/0400-0474/$ 01.00/0 took on significance both in photobiology and dyesensitized oxygenation. Raab, in 1900, observed that paramecia, when exposed to acridine, were killed only in the presence of light but not...

It is well known that the sets of the first category in a metric space can be described using the so-called Banach–Mazur game. We will show that if we change the rules of the Banach–Mazur game (by forcing the second player to choose large balls) then we can describe sets which can be covered by countably many closed uniformly porous sets. A characterization of σ-very porous sets and a sufficien...

doi:10.1160/TH11-07-0474 Thromb Haemost 2012; 107: 590–591 Dear Sirs, Fechtner syndrome (1) is a rare autosomaldominant disorder characterised by thrombocytopenia, giant platelets and features of Alport syndrome, i.e. nephritis, cataract and sensorineural hearing loss. It is one entity of a group of giant platelet disorders caused by mutations of the MYH9 gene, encoding the heavy chain of nonmu...

Scoliosis in children poses serious problems including respiratory problems, trunk imbalance, and depression, as well as detracting from the child’s appearance. Scoliosis can also contribute to back pain later in life. Advanced surgical techniques allow for good correction and maintenance of progressive curves, and growth-sparing treatments are now available for patients with early-onset scolio...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia and its prevalence and incidence increase with age, but also with cardiovascular morbidity, such as hypertension, diabetes, vascular and valvular disease and heart failure. Indeed, in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), who usually have one or more of these predisposing factors, a history of AF was present in 33 % [...