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BACKGROUND Contaminated hospital surfaces are an important source of nosocomial infections. A major obstacle in marketing antimicrobial surfaces is a lack of efficacy data based on standardized testing protocols. AIM We compared the efficacy of multiple testing protocols against several "antimicrobial" film surfaces. METHODS Four clinical isolates were used: one Escherichia coli, one Klebsi...

An investigation on the applicability of Cartesian grid approach to calculate flow over arbitrary terrain S Vengadesan, A Nakayama & S Yokojima Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai 600 036, India Department of Science of Regional and Built Environments, Graduate School of Science and Technology Kobe University, Kobe 657 8501, Japan Enviornmental Fluid Mechani...

Received June 12, 2003; revision accepted for publication December 9, 2003. Address for reprints : Dr. Tadaatsu Imaizumi, Department of Vascular Biology, Institute of Brain Science, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, 5-Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan. e-mail: [email protected] 15-Deoxy-Δ-Prostaglandin J2 Inhibits the IL-1β Induced Expression of Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-...

R. Mukhopadhyay,1,* S. Mitra,1 M. Johnson,2 V. R. Rajeev Kumar,3 and T. Pradeep3,† 1Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India 2Institute Lau-Langevin, BP156, F-38042, Grenoble, Cedex 9, France 3DST Unit on Nanoscience, Department of Chemistry and Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India R...