conclusions carriage of pvl-positive s. aureus is common in this region, even in the low frequency of mrsa colonization. the detection of acme-arca gene in s. aureus isolates is a public-health concern and demands continued surveillance and close monitoring. results among the 813 subjects screened, 83 (10.2%) were persistent carriers, 86 (10.6%) were transient carriers and 644 (79.2%) cases wer...

Methods of quantitative determination of glutathione peroxidase were reinvestigated with respect to reliability and specificity. The determination of product (GSSG) by a coupled enzymatic oxidation of NADPH, as described by PAGLIA and VALENTINE, had to be modified as follows: 1. The concentration of GSH was lowered to a maximum of 1 mM in the incubation mixture to avoid product inhibition of GS...

To characterize the clinical and bacteriologic characteristics of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections, we reviewed 14 cases that were diagnosed in previously healthy patients during an 18-month period in France. Eleven patients had skin or soft-tissue infections. Two patients died of CA-MRSA necrotizing pneumonia. A case of pleurisy occurred in a ...

Pichinde virus (PV) strain AN 3739 was determined to be sensitive to natural killer (NK) cells in vivo by enhanced replication in NK-cell-depleted mice. An NK-sensitive subclone (PV-NKs1) was serially passed in mice whose NK cells had previously been activated by an interferon inducer, and two plaque isolates were shown to be resistant to NK cells but not to interferon. Inoculation of severe-co...

Information acquired early in life is processed faster than information acquired late in life. Moore and Valentine (1998) report naming celebrities' faces follows the same pattern of results. This is problematic for the account of age of acquisition (AoA) based on language development because knowledge of celebrities is acquired after early representations are formed in the phonological lexicon...