1 Instytut Informatyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Banacha 2, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland. chlebus@mimu., edu.pl 2 Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545 Technology Square NE43-368, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. robdep@theory. Ics. mit. edu Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Road, U-155, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. aas@...

4 Xavier Bonnet, Alain Fizesan, Catherine Louise Michel 5 6 7 1. CEBC-CNRS, 79360 Villers en Bois, France 8 9 Correspondance : Xavier Bonnet ; Tel +33 549 097 879 ; Fax +33 549 096 111 ; email 10 [email protected] 11 12 13 Submitted for consideration in Journal of Experimental Biology 14 15 16

background: clostridium difficile (c. difficile) infection is one of the most important diseases in healthcare facilities and community. ribotypes 027 and 078 are known as hyper-virulent strain of c. difficile in molecular study. pcr-ribotyping is a suitable method to interpret the relation of c. difficile isolated from food and hospital. objectives: in the present study, the clostridim diffici...

This study investigates the contamination of foods and surfaces with Clostridium difficile in a single nursing home. C. difficile PCR-ribotype 078 was found in one food sample and in none of the tested surfaces. These results indicate that food and surfaces are an unlikely source of C. difficile infection in this setting.

Echinocandins inhibit the synthesis of β-1,3-D-glucan in Candida and are the first-line therapy in numerous clinical settings. Their use is limited by poor oral bioavailability, and they are available only as intravenous therapies. Derivatives of enfumafungin are novel orally bioavailable glucan synthase inhibitors. We performed an in vivo pharmacodynamic (PD) evaluation with a novel enfumafung...

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Dr Mc-Donald for his interest in our work and concur that the role of particular ribo-types in the clinical outcome of Clostrid-ium difficile infection (CDI) is complex [1]. Our study identified several factors that predicted severe CDI in unadjusted analysis, including ribotype 027/078 (Table 2 in our article) [2]. We agree that including intermediate white blood cell (W...

Abstract Obturator hernia is a very rare type of abdominal wall hernia, accounting for less than 1% all hernias. They can be confused with femoral hernias as well they arise simultaneously, just like in this clinical case. A 82 year old female, multiple comorbidities including right inguinal hernioplasty, was brought to our emergency department complaining pain, distension and vomiting the last...

We consider a supply function equilibrium (SFE) model of interaction in an electricity market. We assume a linear demand function and consider a competitive fringe and several strategic players all having capacity limits and affine marginal costs. The choice of SFE over Cournot equilibrium and the choice of affine marginal costs is reviewed in the context of the existing literature. We assume t...