The study aimed to determine the epidemiological, clinical characteristics, and etiology of adults aged ≥20 years presented with prolonged acute diarrhea (≥7 days). A total of 18,210 adults aged ≥20 years were enrolled in the Diarrheal Disease Surveillance System of icddr,b between 1993-2012 and included into the analysis. Of these, 17,631 (97%) had duration of diarrhea ≤6 days, 418 (2%) diarrh...

The nucleotide sequence of a clone containing mouse carbonic anhydrase (CA) eDNA in pBR322 has been determined. The cloned eDNA contains all of the coding region except for nueleotides specifying the first eight amino acids, and all of the 3' noncoding region, which consists of 700 nucleotides. A eDNA clone was identified which contains an additional 54 bp at the 5' end, so that the complete am...

The effectiveness of a genetics-based public health screening programs depend on the successful recruitment of subjects who qualify for intensified screening by virtue of a positive genetic test. Herein we compare the effectiveness of a mailed invitation and follow-up phone call for non-responding subjects and an initial invitation by telephone addressed to male BRCA1 mutation carriers for pros...

144 Metabolomics studies of chronic atrophic gastritis cold and heat syndrome M.L. Wang, C.L. Zheng, Y.W. Zhou, T.G. Liu, Y.B. Li, H. Xie, Y. Chang, W.C. Liu, G.G. Chen, X.L. Sun, Y.H. Zhao, Z.H. Li 1 Beijing Jiangong Hospital, Beijing 100054,China 2 Beijing Gulou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100009, China 3 Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029,China 4 Bei...

The two-phase issue in the O(n) non-linear σ-model: a Monte-Carlo study Our paper [1] has motivated a comment [2] by A. Patrascioiu and E. Seiler which we reply in this note. The remarks in [2] concern three statements that the authors select from our paper: i) " The results for O(8) support the asymptotic freedom scenario ". The authors in [2] argue that at small˜β ≡ β/8 the O(8) is expected t...

Fungal infection of the genitourinary system is a relatively uncommon presentation. Cryptococcuria has rarely been recognized in clinical practice. Patients with positive urine culture for Cryptococcus neoformans from 1992 to 2003 were retrospectively reviewed. Sixteen patients were identified. Nine (56%) patients were male, with a mean age of 44 +/- 21 (range, 16-88) years. Fifteen (94%) patie...

=AbstractZFetal descending thoracic aorta blood flow velocity waveforms were measured in 63 pregnancies. They were either delivered by elective CIS before labor (56 patients) or suffered an antefartum fetal death (7 patients). There was a significant correlation between the aorta waveforms and the cord arterial pH. A cord arterial pH less than 7.20 or an intrauterine fetal death were used as ou...

This study was conducted to examine the effects of feed restriction on production performance as well as traits relating to egg and carcass yield in Potchefstroom Koekoek dual purpose chicken bred under Ethiopian conditions. A total of 240 one-day-old dual purpose Koekoek chicks were randomly distributed into 12 experimental pens, representing 4 feeding treatments to evaluate the performance of...