Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC pptx

... Prevention Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC Guidelines for Using the QuantiFERON®-TBGold ... CITATIONCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Guidelines for the investigation of contacts of persons with infectious tuberculosis; recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association ... Priorities to Contacts and Whento Expand a Contact Investigation) .• List of contacts. For each transmission setting, the inter-viewer should ask for the names of contacts and the approximate...

Older Persons in Cambodia: A Profile from the 2004 Survey of Elderly pot

... elderly live. These indicators refer to the material used for flooring and roofs, the type of toilet, and whether or not the house has electricity. For indicators with multiple categories, the categories ... source of support for the vast majority. Table 15 provides information on both the availability of children and the extent to which their elderly parents receive material support from them. The ... asked the respondent separate questions about the value of money received and the value of food/clothes received during the past year. The measure shown in the table indicates whether they received...

Báo cáo khoa học: The structural basis for catalytic function of GMD and RMD, two closely related enzymes from the GDP-D-rhamnose biosynthesis pathway pdf

... Stereoview of the RMD monomer. The cofactor-binding domain and the substrate-binding domain are shown in aqua and light sand, respectively; the APPR portion of the cofactor (dark gray) and the ligand ... of the anomeric region of the 1D-1H-spectrum over the course of incubation with His6-GMD, withoutNADPH, showed progressive depletion of signals from GDP-d-Man (compound A) and the growth of ... positions of the corresponding side chain, Arg220, the NADPH cofactor and the substrate analog hexosein the MUR1 structure (Fig. 11). Some of the distancesbetween these groups are rather long for...

Tài liệu Environmental impacts of petroleum production: Fate of inorganic and organic chemicals in produced water from the Osage-Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research sites, Osage County, Oklahoma doc

... settings of the Lester and Branstetter leases resemble that of much of the major southern mid-continent oil- and gas-producing area of the U.S. The leases are also typical of many depleted and aging ... 5. The concentrations of DOC and the Mn/Cl ratios as a function of water salinity for the oil-field brines, regional ground water (gw), Skiatook Lake and surface and ground waters from the ... showing the salinity of water and the relative concentrations (in equivalent units) of major cations and anions from the relatively deep rotary (AR) and auger (AA) wells in and near the OSPER...

Recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America docx

... approximately 47% of foreign-born persons with TB received their diagnoses within 5years of their arrival in the United States, and 19% receivedtheir diagnoses within 1 year of arrival. Among foreign-born ... recommenda-tions for improving detection of TB cases. Treatment of TB is the subject of another statement in this series from ATS, CDC, and IDSA (5).• Identification of contacts of patients with infectious TB ... infectious TB and treatment of those at risk with an effectivedrug regimen. The evaluation of contacts of cases of infectious TB is one of the most productive methods of identifying adults and children with...

Báo cáo Y học: Structural and biochemical characterization of calhepatin, an S100-like calcium-binding protein from the liver of lungﬁsh (Lepidosiren paradoxa) docx

... (pI ¼ 5.15 for both the holo and apo protein).Sequence comparison and evolutionary relationship The alignment of the amino-acid sequence of lungﬁshcalhepatin with other members of the S100 family ... equivalentto the residues of S100 A4 critical for S100 A4 dimerization [23]. The amino-acid sequence of calhepatin was aligned with those of the human form of each S100 protein, except for MRP126 and ... three-dimensional structures of other members of the S100 family as templates. The lungﬁsh calhepatinmonomer model has the same overall conformation as that of other members of the S100 family containing...

Báo cáo Y học: Identiﬁcation of mammalian-type transglutaminase in Physarum polycephalum Evidence from the cDNA sequence and involvement of GTP in the regulation of transamidating activity potx

... between the c-carboxyamide of glutamine residues and the e-amino group of lysine residues or other primaryamine. The reaction leads to the formation of an isopeptidebond between two proteins and the ... Although the predicted amino-acid sequence had similarity with the sequences of mam-malian TGase, the length of the cDNA was smaller than the length deduced from the molecular size of the puriﬁedprotein. ... weeksafter the last immunization, blood was collected from the heart. For expression of the full-length cDNA in E. coli, the same system was used except for the vector. PCR wasperformed to insert the...

Báo cáo khoa học: Identiﬁcation, cloning and characterization of two thioredoxin h isoforms, HvTrxh1 and HvTrxh2, from the barley seed proteome pot

... reductases of molecularmass  12 kDa [1]. The conserved active-site sequenceWCGPC forms a disulﬁde bond in the oxidized form of the protein. The reduced, dithiol form of thioredoxin canmodulate the ... masses and the apparentmolecular masses of the thioredoxin h isoforms as observedin 2D gels of barley protein extracts. Isoelectric points of 5.2 for HvTrxh1 (predicted pI 5.09) and 5.3 for HvTrxh2(predicted ... hproteins. The resulting Vmax and Kmvalues for HvTrxh1were 2.5 nmolÆs)1Ænmol)1 and 13 lM. Again, HvTrxh2 and TrxTa resembled each other with Vmax of 2.0 and 1.5 nmolÆs)1Ænmol)1 and Kmof...

Báo cáo khoa học: Interactions of the antimicrobial b-peptide b-17 with phospholipid vesicles differ from membrane interactions of magainins potx

... pH 7.4. For samples containing lipid, the lipidwas first made into a dry film from a solution of chloroform/methanol, and then hydrated by vortexing with buffer. The lipid suspension was then sonicated ... 467 nm and emission at539 nm, using 4 nm bandpass slits in excitation and emission and a 490-nm cut off filter in the emission path.Polarizers were set at 90° for the excitation and 0° for the emission ... II and for [Ala8,13,18]-magainin II amide (data not shown).In a toroidal pore there are two types of curvatures to beconsidered, i.e. one in the plane of the membrane and the other along the...

Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular cloning and functional expression of a gene encoding an antiarrhythmia peptide derived from the scorpion toxin pptx

... accordance with the guidelines laid down by the National Institutes of Health in the USA regarding the care and use of experimental animals and committee giving approval for the experiments. The right ... obtained was the same as the cDNA. Therefore, there is only one intron in the sequenceencoding the signal peptide. The position and structure of BmKIM intron are quite similar to that of other scorpionsodium ... Furthermodifications of residues that belong to the aromatic cluster and positive charges may be useful for final determination of the toxic site and for clarification of the molecular basis for the wide toxic...

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