Western blot analysis showed that the 46-kilodalton (kDa) dimeric protein antigen secreted in large amounts by some daughter strains of Mycobacterium bovis BCG corresponded to protein MPB70 present in long-term culture filtrates of the Japanese substrain. The 46/23-kDa antigen is the most abundant protein in supernatant from a 5-day culture but is masked by leaked products in old culture supern...

BACKGROUND There are numerous studies that show an increased incidence of cardiovascular disease with increasing levels of socio-economic disadvantage. Exposures that might influence the relationship include elements of the built environment and social systems that shape lifestyle risk behaviors. In Canberra (the Australian capital city) there has been a particular housing policy to create 'mix...

An algebraic approach is developed to define and study infinite dimensional grassmannians. Using this approach a quantum deformation is obtained for both the ind-variety union of all finite dimensional grassmannians G∞, and the Sato grassmannian ̃ UGM introduced by Sato in [Sa1], [Sa2]. They are both quantized as homogeneous spaces, that is together with a coaction of a quantum infinite dimensi...