An oligonucleotide microarray detecting 189 Escherichia coli virulence genes or markers and 30 antimicrobial resistance genes was designed and validated using DNA from known reference strains. This microarray was confirmed to be a powerful diagnostic tool for monitoring emerging E. coli pathotypes and antimicrobial resistance, as well as for environmental, epidemiological, and phylogenetic stud...

Sebaceous glands are very rarely found in the esophagus. Existing reports do not contain sufficient epidemiological, etiological, clinical, or prognostic data. Its histogenesis suggests heterotopia or metaplasia. Despite its extreme rarity, correct and generally easy identification enables establishing the proper patient monitoring.

Judgemental positions are presented on research priorities in regard to the health effects from stationary sources of fossil fuel combustion products. Hopefully, they can provide guidance for efforts to ensure that national energy needs are met with minimum environmental and economic burdens on the public. The major areas include epidemiological studies, controlled biological studies, mutagenes...

Introduction Given the recent advances in anesthesia, surgery, and monitoring technology, day surgery (DS) offers potential advantages for elderly patients undergoing elective surgery. Epidemiological data show a continuous expansion of elderly population, associated with an increased demand for surgical treatments by older patients. This review summarizes current selection criteria, anaesthesi...

Emerging infectious diseases continue to impose unpredictable burdens on global health and economy. Infectious disease surveillance and pandemic preparedness are essential to mitigate the impact of future threats. Global surveillance networks provide unprecedented monitoring data on plant, animal and human infectious diseases. Using such sources, we report on current major One Health threats an...

west nile virus (wnv) is an important zoo-notic agent having a wide host range. due to its emergence with increased virulence in a wide geographical range, its monitoring becomes im-perative. development of more rapid and sensitive molecular techniques for instance reverse trans-criptase-polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr), reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (rt-lamp) a...

This study is focused on the description of management data exposure Russian population for State report evaluation sanitary-epidemiological well-being public in Federation, that was presented by Federal service surveillance consumer rights protection and human wellbeing . It shown mains sources radiation situation are system social-hygienic monitoring , Joint state control accounting doses ; r...

The design of efficient monitoring networks is very important to obtain a better understanding of environmental, ecological and epidemiological processes. In this paper we develop for the optimal design of monitoring networks a new hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) which combines the standard genetic algorithm (GA) with a local search operator. We compare the performance of our HGA with two other ...

Parasite drug resistance is partly conferred by single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and monitoring them has been proposed as an alternative to monitoring drug resistance. Therefore, techniques are required to facilitate analyses of multiple SNPs on an epidemiological scale. We report a rapid and affordable microarray technique for application in epidemiological studies of malaria drug resis...

The US national ambient-air monitoring network, created to verify compliance with health-based standards, now doubles as an important source of exposure data for the epidemiological analyses on which these standards increasingly rest, particularly in the case of ozone and PM(2.5). This paper was written for a workshop called to facilitate and inform the use of routine ozone and PM(2.5) data by ...