Allergic fungal rhino sinusitis (AFRS) is a non-invasive resulting from an allergic and immunologic response to the presence of extramucosal hyphae in sinuses. Defined largely by mucin, which thick, tenacious, eosinophilic secretion with characteristic histologic findings. To present case series on variable presentations patients diagnosed AFRS. A retrospective study 10 cases that presented Raj...

Sweat pores on fingerprints have proven to be discriminative features and have recently been successfully employed in automatic fingerprint recognition systems (AFRS), where the extraction of fingerprint pores is a critical step. Most of the existing pore extraction methods detect pores by using a static isotropic pore model; however, their detection accuracy is not satisfactory due to the limi...

Brown ghost knifefish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus, are a species of weakly electric fish that produce a continuous electric organ discharge (EOD) that is used in navigation, prey capture and communication. Stereotyped modulations of EOD frequency and amplitude are common in social situations and are thought to serve as communication signals. Of these modulations, the most commonly studied is the...

We isolated the genetic determinant of AF/R1 pilus production in attaching/effacing Escherichia coli RDEC-1 and identified seven genes required for pilus expression and function. DNA sequence analysis of the structural subunit gene afrA corrected an error in the published sequence and extended homology with the F18 pilus subunit of pig edema E. coli strains. AfrB and AfrC, encoded downstream fr...

We report a case of Curvularia lunata infection in an immunocompetent male with an initial diagnosis of suspected left side allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS), treated surgically. He had a relapse of nasal polyposis and underwent a surgical revision under local anaesthesia with endoscopic nasal polypectomy. The histological examination of the surgical specimen showed an inflammatory polyp of...

Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (AFRS) is one of the more commonly encountered forms of noninvasive fungal rhinosinusitis, seen in immunecompetent individuals. It is caused by a Gell and Coombs Type I, IgE mediated (and possibly Type III) hypersensitivity reaction to an extramucosal fungal antigen. It bears striking similarities to Allergic Broncho Pulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA), in terms of pat...

Abstract In present work, the hydrodynamic studies and determination of oxygen mass transfer coefficients ( K L a ) were conducted in multistage flexible fibre biofilm reactor developed for treating milk processing wastewater. this regard, residence time distributions MS-FFBR under various operating conditions as water flow rates, airflow hydraulic retention times analysed using tracer experime...