Photocurrent was observed upon monochromatic illumination of an ITO electrode coated with a TiO2 nanocrystalline mesoporous membrane with carotenoid 8′-apo-b-caroten-8′-oic acid (ACOA) deposited as a sensitizer (illuminated area 0.25 cm2) and immersed in an aqueous 10 mM hydroquinone (H2Q), 0.1 M NaH2PO4 solution (pH = 7.4) purged with argon, using a platinum flag counter electrode (area 3.3 cm...

We report a girl with mirror hands and feet and associated groove of the nasal columella. She represents only the sixth reported case of this spectrum of congenital anomalies, first reported by Laurin and Sandrow. (_/Med Genet 1996;33:426-428)

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Streptococcus iniae is a major fish pathogen producing invasive infections that result in economic losses in aquaculture. Development of in vitro models of S. iniae virulence may provide insight to the pathogenesis of infection in vivo. Three S. iniae strains (K288, 94-426, and 29178) were tested for virulence in a hybrid-striped bass (HSB) model using intraperitoneal injection. S. iniae strain...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) from SARS-CoV-2-positive swabs collected during the last months of 2022 revealed a large deletion spanning ORF7b and ORF8 (426 nt) in six patients infected with BA.5.1 Omicron variant. This extensive genome loss removed part these two genes, maintaining frame first 22 aminoacids three ORF8. Interestingly, deleted region was flanked by small repeats, which were l...

The clinical Staphylococcus epidermidis isolate 426-3147L exhibits an unusually high resistance to linezolid that exceeds 256 μg/ml. The presence of the cfr gene, encoding the RNA methyltransferase targeting an rRNA nucleotide located in the linezolid binding site, accounts for a significant fraction of resistance. The association of cfr with a multicopy plasmid is one of the factors that contr...