Human immunodeficiency virus infection changes the clinical presentation of tuberculosis infection with atypical radiographs and more common extra-pulmonary involvement. We retrospectively studied pleural tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients over a 5-year period. We identified 70 patients with pleural tuberculosis by positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures of pleural fluid and/or pleural ...

Long-term, multi-decade research on planted tree survival in urban settings is sparse. One understudied environment highway rights-of-way (ROW), lands adjacent to high-speed, unsignalized roadways. We conducted a re-inventory of planting cohorts northern Illinois, U.S. 48 km-long near Chicago which were 10-, 21-, and 30-years old evaluate long-term patterns diversity. Using each randomly select...

Since up to 80 percent of pregnant women and 30 percent of neonates may be colonized with genital mycoplasmas, it is difficult to determine whether true infection occurs. The antibody responses to eight serotypes of U. urealyticum were assessed in mothers and infants in 21 cases of neonatal respiratory disease (RD) and 24 normal cases. Among the normal population of mothers and infants, a titer...

The survival time (ST) of the preparasitic larvae of Rornanomermis culicivorax was determined by measuring motility at 1, 6, 12, 18, 21, 27, 30, and 37 C; the ST at each of these temperatures was 2.3, 2.2, 2.0, 2.0, 1.7, 1.6, 0.9, and 0.7 days, respectively. About one-third of the preparasites infected first-instar larvae of Culex pipiens within 24 h at 27 C. The preparasites were infective at ...

First posted July 14, 2023 For additional information, contact: Director, Alaska Science CenterU.S. Geological Survey4210 University DriveAnchorage, 99508 This report provides analysis to extend the 2040 forecasts of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) land use for southern Beaufort and Chukchi Sea populations presented in a recent publication (Rode others, 2022) through year 2065. To inform long-term...

Twenty-five adult patients with sustained atrial tachyarrhythmia (ATA) and without heart failure were treated by intravenous cibenzoline, 1 mg/kg, as a slow bolus infusion, followed by a 8 mg/kg/24 h continuous infusion. Sinus rhythm conversion was observed in 18 patients (72 percent success rate). Severe adverse cardiac events were observed in only one patient (4 percent occurrence rate), as a...

Short-term storage trials were conducted with semen of Atlantic sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus collected from a total of nine wild males during the 2008 and 2009 spawning seasons on the Hudson River. Semen samples were kept refrigerated (4 ± 1◦C) and stored in different gaseous atmospheres and storage extenders. The gaseous environments included oxygen, nitrogen, and air, while the extender trea...

in order to evaluate the effects of foliar application of methanol and irrigation intervals on yield and yield components of chickpea cultivars a factorial experiment as split plots based on randomized complete block design with three replications was conducted in spring 2008 at the agricultural research station of ferdowsi university of mashhad. the treatments were 10 and 20 irrigation interva...