Standards of the German Association of Veterinary Medicine (DVG) for the evaluation of chemical disinfectants were used to assess the anti-microbial efficacy of electrolysed oxidizing water (EOW). Enterococcus faecium, Mycobacterium avium subspecies avium, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans were exposed to anode EOW (pH, 3.0+/-0.1; oxidation-re...

A total of 123 patients with moderately advanced, cavitary lung disease caused by Mycobacterium avium complex untreated previously received different regimens of antituberculosis agents. The rate of sputum conversion (continuously negative cultures for six months or more) was compared among the regimens. It was shown that the regimens of rifampin + isoniazid + streptomycin and rifampin + isonia...

Mycobacterium avium (M. avium) causes significant pulmonary infection, especially in immunocompromised hosts. Alveolar macrophages (AMs) represent the first line of host defense against infection in the lung. Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) activation of AMs enhances in vitro killing of pathogens such as M. avium We hypothesized that airway delivery of AMs into the lungs of immunodeficient mice infect...

Let K be a totally real number field and consider Fermat-type equation A p + B b q = C c r $Aa^p+Bb^q=Cc^r$ over K. We call the triple of exponents ( , ) $(p,q,r)$ signature equation. prove various results concerning solutions to Fermat with 2 $(p,p,2)$ 3 $(p,p,3)$ using method involving modularity, level lowering image inertia comparison. These generalize extend recent work I?ik, Kara Özman. F...

We review in this paper some recent yet fundamental results on evaluating queries over probabilistic databases. While one can see this problem as a special instance of general purpose probabilistic inference, we describe in this paper two key database specific techniques that significantly reduce the complexity of query evaluation on probabilistic databases. The first is the separation of the q...

BACKGROUND Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, remains a significant problem for livestock industries in many countries worldwide including Northern Ireland, where a test and slaughter regime has utilised the Single Intradermal Comparative Cervical Tuberculin (SICCT) test since 1959. We investigated the variation in post-mortem confirmation based on bTB visible lesion (VL)...

obesity is a chronic disease that shows the most serious global health problems .it relates to the body fat .obesity is caused by an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure, this balance is regulated by genetic and environmental interactions. obesity, which is a risk factor for chronic diseases, has become epidemic in the developed countries. resistance to leptin hormone is one of the m...