The diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis continues to present a diagnostic challenge, due to the lower sensitivity of the modified Duke criteria and a higher percentage of negative or inconclusive echocardiography results. Diagnostic delay might result in significant morbidity/mortality. Imaging modalities like 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/comput...

Sympatric species that in some populations hybridize and in other populations remain reproductively isolated open interesting research possibilities for the study of hybridization and speciation. Here, we test for such a situation in two littoral isopods (Jaera albifrons and J. praehirsuta) that occur in mixed populations and where past morphological descriptions suggested that the two species ...

1Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 2Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 3Center for Computational Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 4Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 5Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; 6Departmen...

The 2 groups of human coronaviruses (HCoVs) represented by the prototype strains HCoV 229E and HCoV OC43 are mostly known as viruses responsible for common cold syndrome. HCoVs are difficult to detect, and epidemiological data are rare. From October 2000 through April 2001, we tested 1803 respiratory samples for HCoV by reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. From 8 February through 27...

Federico da Montefeltro (1422-1482), the Duke of Urbino, was a well-known historical figure during the Italian Renaissance. He is the subject of a famous painting by Piero della Francesca (1416-1492), which displays the Duke from the left and highlights his oddly shaped nose. The Duke is known to have lost his right eye due to an injury sustained during a jousting tournament, which is why the p...

Dept of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center; Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Duke University Medical Center; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center; Dept of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center; Dept of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, D...

This document is a summary of my Ph.D. Thesis. I was supervised by Prof. Dr. Roberto Hirata Jr. at the eScience laboratory, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Further, I did an oneyear internship at LITIS laboratory, INSA-Rouen, University of Normandy, France, under advise of Prof. Dr. Stephane Canu. My thesis work was financed by the funding agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPESP grant 2011/50761-2, NAP ...

. Debby?Mrs. Deborah Hall?spent seven years 'n an institution before being released to the care of Merrill family in about 1927. The story tells ?f her fifteen years with them in the southern part of the United States, during which time she is dominated by Mrs. Merrill and, in the end, dies with the delusion that she actually is Mrs. Merrill. Parts the book are extremely well done, especially D...