Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute vasculitis of young children that can be complicated by coronary artery abnormalities. Recent findings suggest that a superantigen(s) may play an important role in stimulating the immune activation associated with the disease, although the origin of this superantigen(s) is unclear. Staphylococcus aureus, isolated from the rectum or pharynx of patients with KD, ...

OBJECTIVE Survival and causes of death (COD) in multiple sclerosis (MS) provide ultimate endpoints. We aimed to investigate survival and COD in a 60-year population-based MS cohort compared with the general population. METHODS All patients with incident multiple sclerosis (MS) (N=1388) with onset during 1953-2012 in Hordaland County, Western Norway, were included. Data were obtained from pati...

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Open AccessThe Bieszczady Topographies of Alienness in Jola Jarecka’s Novel HylatyElżbieta DutkaElżbieta DutkaSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.14220/9783737013888.153SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail AboutAbstract: Hylaty is the name a stream region, which was used Jarecka as title her 2...

The intentional adulteration of pet food with melamine and derivatives, including cyanuric acid, has been implicated in the kidney failure and death of a large number of cats and dogs in the United States. Although individually these compounds present low toxicity, coexposure can lead to the formation of melamine cyanurate crystals in the nephrons and eventual kidney failure. To determine the d...

Ultraviolet resonance Raman (UVRR) spectroscopy has been used to characterize the structure and hydrogen bonding state of the distal histidine (His42) in horseradish peroxidase (HRP) complexed with carbon monoxide (HRP-CO). The HRP-CO - HRP UVRR difference spectrum in D(2)O solution at pD 7.0 shows two positive peaks at 1408 and 1388 cm(-)(1), which are ascribable to medium-to-weak and strong h...

BACKGROUND Although human parainfluenza virus (HPIV) has been determined as an important viral cause of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in infants and young children, data on long-term investigation are still lacking to disclose the infection pattern of HPIV in China. METHODS Nasopharyngeal aspirates were collected from 25,773 hospitalized pediatric patients with ARIs from January 2004 th...

Objectives: The aim of this retrospective study was to clarify whether plasma markers that are routinely used in the workup of patients suspected for acute appendicitis (AA) can stratify for imaging in both adults and children. Methods: A total of 1388 patients suspected of AA between January 2008 and till 2012 were included. CRP and WBC concentrations were retrospectively abstracted from the e...