BACKGROUND Community-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections often affect multiple members of a household. We compared 2 approaches to S. aureus eradication: decolonizing the entire household versus decolonizing the index case alone. METHODS An open-label, randomized trial enrolled 183 pediatric patients (cases) with community-onset S. aureus skin abscesses and colonization of anterior na...

Background: Many Red Blood Cell (RBC) indices have been developed based on mathematical formulae to discriminate beta-thalassemia trait (βTT) from iron deficiency anemia (IDA). The latter two conditions represent the most common causes of microcytic hypochromic anemia in Egypt. This study aimed To evaluate the diagnostic reliability of 24 published discriminant indices for differentiating βTT f...

We evaluated apoptosis and the expression of apoptosis-related proteins in 3 mesothelioma cell lines and 34 paraffin-embedded tissue specimens. Apoptosis was evaluated by the TUNEL method, while expression of the apoptosis-related proteins, bax, bcl-2, survivin, caspase-3 and cleaved caspase-3 was evaluated by immunohistochemical staining. The mean apoptotic index of mesothelioma tissue was 17....

From the ABCC-RERF Life Span Study extended sample, there were 4,499 cases in the Pathology Study sample of atomic bomb survivors who had come to autopsy in the period 1960-83. Among 370 subjects who were heavily exposed with an estimated dose (T65D) of 100 rad or more, 72 (about 20%) of them, whose urinary bladder epithelia had been preserved satisfactorily to suit the purpose of this study, w...

the dmf index of 2000 school children (1000 boys, 1000 girls) 10 to 15 years old is reported. cases were selected randomly among the school children of different schools, situated in various economic zones of isfahan city. almost 50000 permanent teeth have been examined for healthy, decayed (d), missed (m), and filled (f), and recorded as the dmf index. the mean dmf index of boys and girls unde...

background: prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in males. tumor suppressor gene p53 plays an important role in causing cell cycle arrest and allowing apoptosis to proceed. objective: to investigate the expression of p53 protein and its relation to apoptosis and prostate cancer traditional prognostic indicators. methods: in this study expression of p53 was examined in p...

In [E. Babolian, M.M. Hosseini, Reducing index, and pseudospectral methods for differential–algebraic equations, Appl. Math. Comput. 140 (2003) 77–90] a reducing index method has been proposed for some cases of semi-explicit DAEs (differential algebraic equations). In this paper, this method is generalized to more cases. Also, it is focused on Hessenberg index 2 systems and proposed reduction i...

One hundred-nine cases of autoimmune hemolysis were reviewed to determine the frequency of reticulocytopenia, the state of the erythroid marrow in reticulocytopenic cases, and the course of reticulocyte production indices with time and glucocorticoid treatment. The mean hematocrit at presentation was 24 mL/dL, but 30% of cases had an initial hematocrit less than 20 mL/dL. Median reticulocyte pe...

Background: Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in males. Tumor suppressor gene p53 plays an important role in causing cell cycle arrest and allowing apoptosis to proceed. Objective: To investigate the expression of p53 protein and its relation to apoptosis and prostate cancer traditional prognostic indicators. Methods: In this study expression of p53 was examined in p...