... present inthe porcine intestine and feces including swine genomic DNA The number of amplification cycles was one ofthe important factors for increasing the sensitivity ofthe PCR assay The increase ... methods include H E staining and silver staining ofthe intestinal sections 36 Dong-Kyun Suh et al Fig Section ofthe ileum from a pig infected with L intracellularis a : Presence of numerous intracellular, ... (arrow) inthe apical cytoplasm ofthe crypt epithelial cells, Warthin-Starry staining, 1,000 b : The crypts are filled with inflammatory cells, H&E staining, 400 organisms were found in the...
... possible cause ofthe decline in incidence since the 1930 s is changes inthe use of pastures Changes in legislation leading to increased use of wood pasturing may reverse the decline Hasle et ... before the study, indicating that there is a substantial risk of babesiosis in their present locality The presence of B divergens was confirmed by IFAT in a total of 17 ofthe 24 farms we tested ... present in their pasturing areas The screening of cows for B divergens infection would therefore be expected to be a sensitive method for detecting the presence ofthe parasite in a locality, if testing...
... reflected inthe highest MCC score of all the tested methods (84.2%) Taken together, the combination of SERVIC4E with either base-calling algorithm provides the highest combination of sensitivity ... present in only a single pool) Cross-pool filtering using SERVIC4E Further validation by Sanger sequencing indicated the persistence of a few false positive calls from this dataset Analysis of these ... defined as the ratio ofthe sum of Phred quality scores ofthe variant base call to the sum of Phred quality scores of all base calls; (3) average quality, defined as the average quality of all...
... awake) In addition, the EEG recorded bythe BIS is continuously displayed (BIS-EEG), together with the device's estimate ofthe SR The SR calculated bythe BIS (SR-BIS) represents the percentage of ... Guidelines for the acute medical management of severe traumatic brain injury in infants, children, and adolescents Chapter 13 The use of barbiturates inthe control of intracranial hypertension in ... ofthe study and inthe interpretation ofthe data JHB participated inthe interpretation ofthe data and helped to draft the manuscript DT conceived the study and participated in its design GHV...
... admitted to the ICU and paediatrics departments after completion of Stage I By excluding the TB patients inthe ICU, we found that 81% and 100% of TB patients inthe Internal Medicine Department in Stage ... difference might due to the increased awareness of TB in Stage II (Figure 2), or because of interference of TB diagnosis by other severe symptoms among patients inthe ICU during Stage I In fact, our COS ... Role of Cough Officer Screening in Early Detectionof Pulmonary Tuberculosisin Inpatients Thorac Med 2006, 21:321-327 Page of 13 Granich R, Binkin NJ, Jarvis WR, Simone PM, Rieder HL, Espinal...
... staining was performed: carbol fuchsin 0.3%, slow heating until steaming, rinsing after min, destaining with 25% sulfuric acid, rinsing, counterstaining with methylene blue 0.3% for min, rinsing ... conservation ofthe NaOCl solution; the incubation time; the power and duration of centrifugation (or duration of sedimentation); blinded reading; the minimum duration of smear reading; and the positivity ... to the distance ofthe target populations from the health centres: the risk of contamination by sample handling and the long delays between sputum collection and smear staining The addition of...
... respectively, which in turn indicated the ability of this method in detecting low levels of MAP organisms Moreover, with the use ofthe RT-PCR product, in general only viable organisms present inthe feces ... with μl of synthetic DNA with different concentrations ranging from 1-1,000 fmol μ/l The limit ofdetection was determined usingthe signal obtained for the negative control plus three times the ... suit the high G + C content ofthe MAP genome Generally, milk and feces are considered to be the most suitable clinical specimens for the diagnosis of JD However, because ofthe presence of large...
... and the CT values were similar inthe samples collected bythe pediatrician and parents Furthermore, thedirect involvement of parents significantly increased the patient's acceptance ofthe ... taken by a parent in four There were no differences in CT values suggesting less virus and lower sensitivity, and no differences inthe timing ofthe collections or inthe age or weight ofthe ... losing the sample when respiratory episodes occur Secondly, the samples can be obtained immediately after the onset ofthe first signs and symptoms, thus favouring the identification ofthe infectious...
... a finding confirmed by our results In other words, the specificity and thedetection limit ofthe LAMP assay are equal with FQPCR for detecting GPV The optimal condition for detecting GPV by ... survey on GPV infection in goose farming In doing so, the virus-carrying goslings can be identified during the early stages of infection; countermeasures can be devised even before the infection ... a by- product ofthe reaction LAMP amplicons inthe reaction tube were directly detected bythe naked eye by adding 1.0 μl of a thousand-fold-diluted original SYBR Green I (Molecular Probes Inc.)...
... HTLV-I infected cells, as well assessment ofthe effects of immune T cells on the development ofthe disease [17,18] Byusing this model system, we also reported the therapeutic effect of Tax-coding ... activation of 4O/1C8 by RT1AlSCTax180L may fail to induce the protective signal from AICD inthe CTLs Since a syngeneic CD4+ T cell line, FPM1.BP, was able to induce the expansion of 4O1/C8 in spite of ... against the virus in a mouse system in vivo [30] Thus, it will also be necessary to assess thein vivo effect ofthe rat SCTs for the evaluation ofthe system as a therapeutic tool in HTLV-I infection...
... between the level ofthe carina and the origin ofthe inferior pulmonary veins; and the lower zones as areas below the origin ofthe inferior pulmonary veins Each zone had approximately the same ... parenchymal finding was scored on a scoring sheet usingthe following sliding scale of relative certainty: = definitely negative; = probably negative; = indeterminate; = probably positive; = definitely ... classified each lung by zone: upper, middle, and lower, resulting in a total of six zones per patient The upper zones were defined as areas ofthe lung above the level ofthe carina; the middle zones...
... positives The slightly higher recall ofthe model usingthe sentence boundary information is mainly due to a better coverage ofthe rule usingthe features encoding the distance to the next toinfinitive ... again The results reported inthe following are from this second annotation We then examined the inter-annotator reliability ofthe annotation by calculating the κ score (Carletta, 1996) The ... recall of 55.1%, a precision of 71.9% and a resulting F-measure of 62.4% for thedetectionofthe class nonreferential The overall classification accuracy was 75.1% The advantage ofusing a machine...
... consideration Inthe study, the temperature and rainfall scenarios are built inthe monthly form of decades ofthe 21st century However, within the scope of this paper, we only introduce climate ... have been tested for the statistic reliability through: + Assumption testing the magnitude ofthe correlation coefficient Rxy + Assumption testing the magnitude ofthe coefficient of regression ... value in increasing level, followed by Quy Nhon and Can Tho This is quite compatible with the temperature happening inthe past (increasing level declined southwards) In addition, temperatures in...
... Steinheim, Germany) were injected usingthe same GC-MS method to determine the retention indices ofthe individual compounds using a modified Kovats method [33] Bacterial culturing Sputa were inoculated ... significant higher in vivo concentrations in most strains of P aeruginosa [18] This biomarker could then be used inthedetectionof P aeruginosa in breath, whether or not in combination with CH3SCN ... identify the major source of a certain VOC We tried to minimize the effect of saliva contamination by asking the patient to rinse their mouth prior to sputum production Nonetheless, finding a biomarker...
... could not be determined Proportion of indeterminate results will be the number of tests classified as ’indeterminate’ divided bythe total number of tests performed Culture contamination will be ... addressed by pre-specifying subgroups We will assess heterogeneity by visual inspection of forest plots We will further investigate potential sources of heterogeneity by adding covariates inthe models ... Comparison ofthe Xpert MTB/RIF test with an IS6110-TaqMan real-time PCR assay for directdetectionofMycobacteriumtuberculosisinrespiratory and nonrespiratory specimens Journal of Clinical Microbiology...
... previously Inthe pIFNHA construct, the IFN-b gene was tagged by PCR using an oligonucleotide containing three repetitions ofthe sequence corresponding to the human in uenza A virus hemaglutinin (HA) ... investigated thein uence ofthe ARE and the CRID on the poly(A) status ofthe human IFN-b mRNA in natural conditions of IFN-b synthesis Materials and methods Reagents All the reagents and enzymes used in ... was inserted inthe HincII site ofthe pIFNHA construct located at the beginning of IFN-b mRNA 5¢UTR To place the IFN-b gene under the transcriptional control of a constitutive promoter, the...
... when the temperature ofthe Ag catalyst is increased to 250 8C, the sensitivity ofthe WO3 sensor kept at 150 8C 71 increased by three times Without heating the Ag catalyst or bypassing the gas ... patterns (the lack of their long-range order and their heterogeneity may explain the poor re¯ection hump obtained in XRD) Typically, as seen inthe ®gure, a region containing ca Ê 6.93 A inter-planar ... gases) containing ca 100 ppm NO balanced with air) bythe ac impedance analyzer (Fig 1) The ¯ow rate ofthe gases was kept at 100 ml/min throughout the measurement using mass ¯ow controllers The schematic...
... Those parameters are: ‐ The size ofthe moving window, i.e. the number and location of neighbor points. ‐ The interpolation technique used for estimating height ofthe considered points. ... inside the moving window; coefficient (4) j K V takes a value inthe range from 2 to 4. j =1 where mi is the number of data points that fall inside the moving window around point ... radius (or ofthe minimum number of points inside the search window), the number of correctly and incorrectly detected points is decreasing. This can be explained as a ...
... portion ofthe sample into the solvent reservoir The water sample will drain into the cartridge, and from the exit into the suction flask Maintain the packing material inthe cartridge immersed in ... testThe correct setting ofthe baseline threshold, as indicated bythe presence of low intensity ions, is the next most important part ofthe performance test Finally, the ion abundance ranges ... Reagent Water Water in which an interference is not observed at the method detection limit ofthe compound of interest Prepare reagent water by passing tap water through a filter bed containing...