| [use of l-asparaginase in therapy with special reference to acute lymphatic leukemia]. | | 2015 | 4502507 |
| preliminary survey of ectoparasites and associated pathogens from norway rats in new york city. | the norway rat (rattus norvegicus) is a reservoir of many zoonotic pathogens and lives in close proximity to humans in urban environments. human infection with rodent-borne disease occurs either directly through contact with a rat or its excreta, or indirectly via arthropod vectors such as fleas and ticks. here, we report on the diversity and abundance of ectoparasitic arthropod species and associated pathogenic bacteria from 133 norway rats trapped over a 10-mo period in manhattan, new york, ny ... | 2015 | 26336309 |
| journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia. change of journal scope and title. | | 2000 | 86533 |
| prevalence and diversity of bartonella species in commensal rodents and ectoparasites from nigeria, west africa. | bartonellae are fastidious bacteria causing persistent bacteremia in humans and a wide variety of animals. in recent years there is an increasing interest in mammalian bartonelloses in general and in rodent bartonelloses in particular. to date, no studies investigating the presence of bartonella spp. in rodents and ectoparasites from nigeria were carried out. | 2013 | 23738028 |
| trauma care: don't forget the patient. nursing grand rounds. | | 2001 | 88032 |
| intensive care and the very low birthweight infant. | | 1999 | 89424 |
| blood and plasma ascorbic acid in indian childhood cirrhosis. | | 2016 | 4784731 |
| findings with cis-z-clopenthixol in the treatment of acute mania and schizophrenia. | the authors report the results of an open clinical trial with cis(z)-clopenthixol (cisordinol), the isolated cis-isomer of the clopenthixol racemate (sordinol). the drug was applied to 18 patients with severe forms of manic or schizophrenic disease, diagnosed according to icd 9. the compound was applied intravenously or orally, daily doses ranging from 10-160 mg. for the duration of the study (6 weeks) the patients were repeatedly rated with the cgi, bprs or imps (abbreviated version), and sever ... | 2013 | 3797470 |
| [uterine metastasis from a colloid epithelioma of the appendix]. | | 2015 | 4350561 |
| [indications for relief and palliative operations]. | torkildsen and spitz-holter drainages and/or osteoclastic trepanation were performed on 29 patients suffering from a severe increase in intracranial pressure and/or a severely worsened general condition as a relieving intervention in order to permit a tumor operation later. the relieving measure enabled a tumor operation in 28 patients. the same procedure was used as a palliative step for another group of 73 patients suffering from inoperable tumorous processes. evaluation in these cases showed ... | 1999 | 95657 |
| serum alkaline phosphatase activity in acrodermatitis enteropathica: an index of the serum zinc level. | a significant positive correlation between serum zinc and serum alkaline phosphatase levels was demonstrated in four patients suffering from acrodermatitis enterophathica for which they received oral zinc sulphate therapy. in one of the male patients a significant inverse relation between serum zinc and serum copper was found. | 1999 | 84482 |
| diagnosis of carrion's disease by direct blood pcr in thin blood smear negative samples. | bartonella bacilliformis is the etiologic agent of carrion's disease. this disease has two well established phases, the most relevant being the so called oroya fever, in which b. bacilliformis infect the erythrocytes resulting in severe anemia and transient immunosuppression, with a high lethality in the absence of adequate antibiotic treatment. the presence of b. bacilliformis was studied in 113 blood samples suspected of carrion's disease based on clinical criteria, despite the absence of a po ... | 2014 | 24651298 |
| bartonella bacteria in nature: where does population variability end and a species start? | the application of new molecular approaches has permitted the differentiation of numerous strains belonging to the genus bartonella and identification of new bartonella species. however, the molecular typing of these organisms should be coupled with studies aimed at defining the biological properties of the newly described species. the long-history of co-adaptation between bartonella(1) bacteria and their mammalian hosts and possibly arthropod vectors provides a unique opportunity for applying t ... | 2012 | 22449771 |
| effects of pure chlorobiphenyls (2,4',5-trichlorobiphenyl and 2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl) on the reproductive capacity in female mice. | the effects of two pure chlorobiphenyls (2,4',5-trichlorobiphenyl and 2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl) on the reproductive capacity in female mice have been studied. the results obtained show that females given 0.5 mg 2,5',5-trichlorobiphenyl (tcb)/day or 0.5 mg 2,2',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl (hcb)/day for six consecutive days, starting on the first day of pregnancy, have significantly lower frequencies of implanted ova than the control females, whereas the frequency of implanted ova does n ... | 2001 | 97920 |
| the measurement of oestrone, equilin and dehydroepiandrosterone in the peripheral plasma of pregnant pony mares by radioimmunoassay. | | 2002 | 154595 |
| the emergence of a health insurance system in a developing country: the case of south korea. | in an attempt to understand the social forces and the economic and political conditions under which new social policies emerge in developing countries, this study outlines factors affecting the introduction of the health insurance system in south korea. the emergence of the south korean health insurance system was influenced by changing labor needs of the industrial sector, increasing social expectations, external and international pressures, increasing medical costs, and class conflict. these p ... | 2008 | 2600387 |
| deficiencies in suppressor t cell activity seen in patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus are due to the dilution of normally functioning suppressor t cells by nonsuppressor t cells. | concanavalin a (con a)-activated t lymphocytes from patients with active, but not inactive, systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) failed to express normal suppressor activity, regardless of the phenotype of cd4+ or cd8+. con a-activated cd4+ or cd8+ t lymphocytes from the sle patients and from normal controls were further separated into two populations, using the autologous erythrocyte rosette technique. one population very rich in cells capable of forming rosettes with autologous erythrocytes from ... | 2010 | 2946769 |
| the jama journal club. | | 2010 | 2911174 |
| mallet fractures. | contrary to our observations, reports in the literature maintain that only a third of mallet finger deformities are caused by intra-articular fractures of the posterior margin of the distal phalanx. as functional impairment sometimes remains after treatment, there is still much discussion as to the relative merits of conservative and surgical management of this lesion. this article presents 21 cases of mallet finger deformities with fracture of the distal phalanx, of which 17 received surgical t ... | 2012 | 3426323 |
| experimental infection of three laboratory mouse stocks with a shrew origin bartonella elizabethae strain: an evaluation of bacterial host switching potential. | bartonella elizabethae has been reported as a causative agent of human illnesses and strains of this bacterium are commonly isolated from commensal small mammals in asia. | 2012 | 22957127 |
| basal metabolism of obese adolescents: inconsistent diet and exercise effects. | effects of 20 wk of diet-plus-behavior (db) therapy or exercise-plus-diet-plus-behavior (edb) therapy on changes in basal energy expenditure (bee) were studied in 36 obese male and female adolescents. bee was assessed by open-circuit spirometry and body composition by hydrostatic weighing. dietary restriction was based on the dietary-exchange program. behavioral treatment included record-keeping, stimulus-control, and reinforcement techniques. edb therapy included 50 min/d, 3 d/wk of aerobics. a ... | 2012 | 3414571 |
| hypercalcemia and acute renal insufficiency in a 24-year-old white male with lung disease. | | 2013 | 3754694 |
| molecular detection of zoonotic bartonellae (b. henselae, b. elizabethae and b. rochalimae) in fleas collected from dogs in israel. | fleas represent an acknowledged burden on dogs worldwide. the characterization of flea species infesting kennel dogs from two localities in israel (rehovot and jerusalem) and their molecular screening for bartonella species (rhizobiales: bartonellaceae) was investigated. a total of 355 fleas were collected from 107 dogs. the fleas were morphologically classified and molecularly screened targeting the bartonella 16s-23s internal transcribed spacer (its). of the 107 dogs examined, 80 (74.8%) were ... | 2015 | 25865162 |
| bartonella, rodents, fleas and ticks: a molecular field study on host-vector-pathogen associations in saxony, eastern germany. | bartonellae cause zoonotic diseases and are transmitted by arthropods. rodents are reservoirs for most bartonella spp. as the knowledge about bartonella in rodents and their parasitizing ectoparasites is scarce in germany, this study's objectives were to investigate bartonella spp. in small mammals and in their ectoparasites. a total of 79 small mammals (seven species) were captured and their ectoparasites collected at seven sites around leipzig, saxony, germany, in 2010 and 2011. altogether, 79 ... | 2016 | 27220973 |
| bartonella species in fleas from palestinian territories: prevalence and genetic diversity. | bartonellosis is an infectious bacterial disease. the prevalence and genetic characteristics of bartonella spp. in fleas of wild and domestic animals from palestinian territories are described. flea samples (n=289) were collected from 121 cats, 135 dogs, 26 hyraxes and seven rats from northern (n=165), central (n=113), and southern palestinian territories (n=11). the prevalent flea species were: ctenocephalides felis (n=119/289; 41.2%), ctenocephalides canis (n=159/289; 55%), and xenopsylla sp. ... | 2014 | 25424254 |
| reflections from a decade of carotid reconstructive surgery. | carotid artery reconstructive surgery for atherosclerotic lesions of the extracranial cerebral circulation has become the most common operation in peripheral vascular surgery. a better understanding of the indications for operative intervention, enhanced monitoring during surgery, and more precise management of intraoperative anesthesia have all helped decrease the risks associated with internal carotid endarterectomy. to evaluate the safety and efficacy of extracranial carotid reconstructive su ... | 2012 | 3358162 |
| elucidating transmission dynamics and host-parasite-vector relationships for rodent-borne bartonella spp. in madagascar. | bartonella spp. are erythrocytic bacteria transmitted via arthropod vectors, which infect a broad range of vertebrate hosts, including humans. we investigated transmission dynamics and host-parasite-vector relationships for potentially zoonotic bartonella spp. in invasive rattus rattus hosts and associated arthropod ectoparasites in madagascar. we identified five distinct species of bartonella (b. elizabethae 1, b. elizabethae 2, b. phoceensis 1, b. rattimassiliensis 1, and b. tribocorum 1) infe ... | 2017 | 28351673 |
| plasma exchange for failure of early resuscitation in thermal injuries. | | 2013 | 3648044 |
| the clinical response of 328 private patients to acupuncture therapy. | it is the attempt of this study to determine the efficacy of response to acupuncture at 24 hours, one week, and three week intervals at the end of a series of treatments in 328 patients. treated for a variety of disorders, approximately 60% had satisfactory responses of up to 3 weeks duration. the 328 patients were classified into 13 categories of problem disorders: headaches, cervical pain, lumbar pain without radiation, lumbar pain with radiation, isolated sciatica, parathoracic pain, knee pai ... | 2002 | 123703 |
| [thrombocytopenias. radioisotope studies. platelet survival studies]. | | 2002 | 120271 |
| jaundice. clinical pearls and perils revisited. | i recount some clinical "pearls and perils" to help reassess the contributions of abdominal ultrasound, cholangiography, needle biopsy of the liver, and laparoscopy. abdominal ultrasound demonstrates stones in the gallbladder in approximately 98% of cases, but in only 15% in the common bile duct, whereas computerized tomography scan reveals them in greater than or equal to 50%. on cholangiography a blood clot (in hemobilia) may closely resemble a common duct stone, as may spasm or tumor of the d ... | 2003 | 2958535 |
| the role of macrophages in the generation of t-helper cells. ii. the genetic control of the macrophage-t-cell interaction for helper cell induction with soluble antigens. | helper cell induction to nonparticle antigens in vitro requires the cooperation of t cells and macrophages, but does not occur if the macrophages are allogenic. the reasons for this were investigated. malfunction of allogenic macrophages was excluded by cultures with their syngenic t cells; suppressor cell induction was excluded by admixture experiments. thus, t cells and macrophages only cooperated if they were genetically similar. the genetic locus (loci) involved was mapped. using congenic li ... | 2005 | 1079849 |
| assessment of a bubble tonometer as a quality control system for blood gas analyzers (po2 and pco2). | a blood gas tonometer device, comprising an accurate gas mixer (corning 192) associated with a dual channel bubble tonometer (corning 184) was tested for reliability, accuracy and ease of use as a quality control system for po2 and pco2 blood gas analyzers. from our results it is apparent that this system can be used instead of older and more bulky tonometry devices, gas mixing systems or cylinders of fixed composition. | 2013 | 3889784 |
| infection rates of wolbachia sp. and bartonella sp. in different populations of fleas. | in the present study, a molecular detection of bartonella sp. and wolbachia sp. in ctenocephalides felis (siphonaptera: pulicidae) isolated from canis lupus familiaris from different geographical areas of spain, iran and south africa, and in stenoponia tripectinata tripectinata isolated from mus musculus from the canary islands has been carried out by amplification of the 16s ribosomal rna partial gene of wolbachia sp. and intergenic spacer region (its region) of bartonella sp. a total of 70 % o ... | 2016 | 27515668 |
| phase ii study of combining vinblastine and cyclosporin-a to circumvent multidrug resistance in renal cell cancer. | | 2007 | 1868026 |
| bartonella spp. in small mammals, benin. | this study aimed to investigate the prevalence and genetic diversity of bartonella organisms in small mammals in cotonou, benin. we captured 163 rodents and 12 insectivores and successfully detected bartonella dna from 13 of the 175 small mammal individuals. bartonella spp., identical or closely related to bartonella elizabethae, bartonella tribocorum, and bartonella rochalimae, was detected. a potential new bartonella species, proposed as candidatus bartonella mastomydis, was found in three mas ... | 2016 | 26910412 |
| whole-genome sequence analysis and exploration of the zoonotic potential of a rat-borne bartonella elizabethae. | bartonella elizabethae has been known to cause endocarditis and neuroretinitis in humans. the genomic features and virulence profiles of a b. elizabethae strain (designated as beum) isolated from the spleen of a wild rat in kuala lumpur, malaysia are described in this study. the beum strain has a genome size of 1,932,479bp and gc content of 38.3%. there is a high degree of conservation between the genomes of strain beum with b. elizabethae type strains (atcc 49927 and f9251) and a rat-borne stra ... | 2016 | 26658020 |
| the distribution and diversity of bartonella species in rodents and their ectoparasites across thailand. | our study highlights the surveillance of bartonella species among rodents and their associated ectoparasites (ticks, fleas, lice, and mites) in several regions across thailand. a total of 619 rodents and 554 pooled ectoparasites (287 mite pools, 62 flea pools, 35 louse pools, and 170 tick pools) were collected from 8 provinces within 4 regions of thailand. bandicota indica (279), rattus rattus (163), and r. exulans (96) were the most prevalent species of rats collected in this study. real-time p ... | 2015 | 26484537 |
| bartonella species in invasive rats and indigenous rodents from uganda. | the presence of bartonellae in invasive rats (rattus rattus) and indigenous rodents (arvicanthis niloticus and cricetomys gambianus) from two districts in uganda, arua and zombo, was examined by pcr detection and culture. blood from a total of 228 r. rattus, 31 a. niloticus, and 5 c. gambianus was screened using genus-specific primers targeting the 16s-23s intergenic spacer region. furthermore, rodent blood was plated on brain heart infusion blood agar, and isolates were verified as bartonella s ... | 2014 | 24575846 |
| high prevalence of rickettsia typhi and bartonella species in rats and fleas, kisangani, democratic republic of the congo. | the prevalence and identity of rickettsia and bartonella in urban rat and flea populations were evaluated in kisangani, democratic republic of the congo (drc) by molecular tools. an overall prevalence of 17% bartonella species and 13% rickettsia typhi, the agent of murine typhus, was found in the cosmopolitan rat species, rattus rattus and rattus norvegicus that were infested by a majority of xenopsylla cheopis fleas. bartonella queenslandensis, bartonella elizabethae, and three bartonella genot ... | 2014 | 24445202 |
| bartonella prevalence and genetic diversity in small mammals from ethiopia. | more than 500 small mammals were trapped at 3 localities in northern ethiopia to investigate bartonella infection prevalence and the genetic diversity of the bartonella spp. we extracted total dna from liver samples and performed pcr using the primers 1400f and 2300r targeting 852 bp of the bartonella rna polymerase beta subunit (rpob) gene. we used a generalized linear mixed model to relate the probability of bartonella infection to species, season, locality, habitat, sex, sexual condition, wei ... | 2013 | 23421888 |
| transmission dynamics of bartonella sp. strain oe 1-1 in sundevall's jirds (meriones crassus). | a high prevalence of bartonella infection is found in many natural systems; however, the transmission dynamics leading to observations of these infections is not fully understood. the capability of xenopsylla ramesis fleas to serve as competent vectors of bartonella sp. oe 1-1 (a strain closely related to the zoonotic bartonella elizabethae) to meriones crassus jirds was investigated. naïve x. ramesis fleas were placed for 72 h on naïve jirds or jirds that were either experimentally or naturally ... | 2013 | 23241972 |
| identification of diverse bartonella genotypes among small mammals from democratic republic of congo and tanzania. | small mammals from the democratic republic (dr) of the congo and tanzania were tested to determine the prevalence and genetic diversity of bartonella species. the presence of bartonella dna was assessed in spleen samples of the animals by rpob- and glta-polymerase chain reactions (pcrs). by rpob-pcr, bartonella was detected in 8 of 59 animals of dr congo and in 16 of 39 tanzanian animals. by glta-pcr, bartonella was detected in 5 and 15 animals of dr congo and tanzania, respectively. the gene se ... | 2012 | 22855765 |
| bartonella in rodents and ectoparasites in the canary islands, spain: new insights into host-vector-pathogen relationships. | bartonella genus is comprised of several species of zoonotic relevance and rodents are reservoirs for some of these bartonella species. as there were no data about the range of bartonella species circulating among rodents in the canary islands, our main aim was to overcome this lack of knowledge by targeting both the citrate synthase (glta) and the rna polymerase beta subunit (rpob) genes. a total of 181 small mammals and 154 ectoparasites were obtained in three of the canary islands, namely ten ... | 2017 | 28660292 |
| prevalence and diversity of bartonella species in rodents from georgia (caucasus). | bartonella infections are widespread and highly prevalent in rodents. several rodent-associated bartonella species have been related to human diseases. recently, bartonella species was reported as the etiology of a human case in the country of georgia (caucasus). however, information on bartonella in rodents in georgia is absent. rodent hearts were collected from georgia to investigate the presence and diversity of bartonella species. bartonella bacteria were cultured from 37.2% (16/43) of roden ... | 2016 | 27162268 |
| zoonotic and vector-borne infections among urban homeless and marginalized people in the united states and europe, 1990-2014. | in high-income countries, homeless individuals in urban areas often live in crowded conditions with limited sanitation and personal hygiene. the environment of homelessness in high-income countries may result in intensified exposure to ectoparasites and urban wildlife, which can transmit infections. to date, there have been no systematic evaluations of the published literature to assess vector-borne and zoonotic disease risk to these populations. | 2016 | 27159039 |