We report here the genome sequence of a clinical isolate of Staphylococcus aureus from an orthopedic infection. Phenotypically diverse Staphylococcus aureus strains are associated with orthopedic infections and subsequent implant failure, and some are highly resistant to antibiotics. This genome sequence will support further analyses of strains causing orthopedic infections.

We report a case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 infection not detected by a highly sensitive combined antigen-antibody assay. The virus was a subtype B strain harboring a unique sequence within the immunodominant epitope of the transmembrane glycoprotein. Immunochemical analysis indicated that this sequence was probably responsible for the failure to detect HIV antibodies.

most impact tests are carried out on specimens with specific stacking sequence and dimensions to meet standard and experimental limitations. the damaged areas and the resulted reduction in the strength values of specimens may not agree very well with those of real application. in this paper an attempt is made to study the variation in the size of damaged areas due to varying the dimension of te...

The introduction of carbon-fibre reinforced plastics in load bearing automotive structures provides a great potential to reduce vehicle weight and fuel consumption. To enable the manufacture and assembly of composite structural parts, reliable and cost-effective joining technologies must be developed. This thesis addresses several aspects of joining and load introduction in carbon-fibre reinfor...

Abstract We introduce a beam network model for hierarchically patterned materials. In these materials, load-parallel gaps intercept stress transmission in the load perpendicular direction such manner that damage is confined within nested, load-carrying ‘modules’. describe morphological characteristics of materials terms deterministically constructed, hierarchical (DHBN) models and randomized va...

Relay-based traffic control systems are still used in railway systems. Their correctness is most often verified by manual analysis, which does not guarantee all conditions. Passenger safety, reliability, and failure-free operation of components require formal proof the system’s correctness. Formal evidence allows certification systems, ensuring that safety will be maintained correct conditions ...

Virological failure on a boosted-protease inhibitor (PI/r) first-line triple combination is usually not associated with the detection of resistance mutations in the protease gene. Thus, other resistance pathways are being investigated. First-line PI/r monotherapy is the best model to investigate in vivo if the presence of mutations in the cleavage sites (CS) of gag gene prior to any antiretrovi...

systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is an autoimmune disease in which polymorphisms within the human leukocyte antigen (hla) region have been associated to its etiology. we conducted this study to compare the hla-dqb1 allelic sequence variation among sle patients and controls in the northeast of iran. genomic dna of 40 sle patients and 83 healthy controls were amplified by polymerase chain react...

pasteurella multocida is known as an important heterogenic bacterial agent causes some severe diseases such as fowl cholera in poultry and haemorrhagic septicaemia in cattle and buffalo. a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) assay was developed using primers derived from conserved part of 16s-23s rrna gene. the pcr amplified a fragment size of 0.7 kb using dna from nine avian p. multocida  isolates...