... present inthe porcine intestine and feces including swine genomic DNA The number of amplification cycles was one ofthe important factors for increasing the sensitivity ofthePCR assay The increase ... determine the accuracy ofthePCR assay for thedetectionof L intracellularis infection (Table 1) Mucosal scraping and fecal samples were obtained from each pig Of 17 mucosal scrapings, 16 specimens ... 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,...
... 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 ... redwater in only ten ofthe farms where B divergens was detected, and only four of these cases of redwater had been recorded bythe NDHRS (Figure 3) All ofthe cows on one ofthe farms inthe study ... indicating repeated infections during the season This implies that the lifetime risk of acquiring bovine babesiosis is higher than the current rate of infection that was determined inthe study...
... with the same amplification system The same detection limits were observed using alkaline lysis in combination with the plasmid PCR and the 16s RNA PCR as well as usingthe Qiagen tissue kitin ... persisting Chlamydia are showing an Altogether, alkaline lysis and Qiaex II gel extraction kit + CTAB gave reproducibly the highest detection rates inthe C trachomatis EB as well as inthe C trachomatis ... mind be considered the most feasible detection system of C trachomatisin SF for standardized testing in a clinical practice and to advance the diagnosis of CIA 10 11 12 Competing interests The...
... 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 ... limited error modeling The pattern of errors observed in many libraries may be dependent on the sequencecontext ofthe reads, the preparation ofthe library being sequenced, the sequencing chemistry...
... 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...
... values suggesting less virus and lower sensitivity, and no differences inthe timing ofthe collections or inthe age or weight ofthe children In any case, thedetection rates ofthe two collection ... and the CT values were similar inthe samples collected bythe pediatrician and parents Furthermore, the direct involvement of parents significantly increased the patient's acceptance 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 ... Inc.) to the tube, and by observing the color ofthe solution The solution changed from light orange to green inthe presence of LAMP amplicons, while it remained light orange inthe absence of amplification...
... protein was synthesized by a multistep PCRusing pCR2 /rβ2M as a template The first PCR was performed to add the L2 sequence at the 3' end of β2m gene The following or steps of PCRs were performed ... 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 ... 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...
... 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 ... performed the actual annotation again The results reported inthe following are from this second annotation We then examined the inter-annotator reliability ofthe annotation by calculating the κ ... encode, among other things, information about the parts of speech and lemmata of words inthe context of it (obtained automatically) Other features encode the presence or absence of, resp the distance...
... 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 ... 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 ... (B2) Bythe end ofthe 21st century, under the emission scenarios from medium to high, annual rainfall can increase about 5-9% in Da Nang, 2– 4% in Quy Nhon and 2% in Can Tho In dry season, the...
... 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...
... 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 ... (17 inthe internal medicine department, inthe surgical department, and 21 inthe ICU) in stage I, and 12 patients (all inthe internal medicine department) in stage II The times from admission...
... previously Inthe pIFNHA construct, the IFN-b gene was tagged byPCRusing an oligonucleotide containing three repetitions ofthe sequence corresponding to the human in uenza A virus hemaglutinin (HA) ... (Fig 1A) We then analysed, by Northern blot, the induction and decay of IFN-b transcript inthe same conditions As shown in Fig 1B, IFN-b mRNA was detectable h after the beginning ofthe infection, ... [13], further supports the involvement of this protein inthe deadenylation process of IFN-b mRNA Interestingly, IFN-b ARE does not recruit other ARE-binding factors (data not shown), thereby emphasizing...
... 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 ... (MeCl2) by adding the solvent to the disk, drawing about half through the disk, allowing it to soak the disk for about a minute, then drawing the remaining solvent through the disk Note: Soaking the ... methanol (MeOH) by adding the MeOH to the disk and allowing it to soak for about a minute, then drawing most ofthe remaining MeOH through A layer of MeOH must be left on the surface ofthe disk, which...
... 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 ... from the health centres: the risk of contamination by sample handling and the long delays between sputum collection and smear staining The addition of 5% NaOCl to the container disinfects the ... compare the sensitivity and the specificity ofthe two methods Furthermore, the prevalence of HIV co-infection among the patients enrolled was too small to assess the benefits ofthe method in people...
... fMet-tRNA binding to the P-site [10,12,13], probably by stabilizing IF2 binding to the 30S subunit [14], and stimulates the GTPase activity of IF2 [15] It also increases binding of mRNA to the initiation ... IF1 mutant strains bythe inactivation of cspA is another functional link to IF1 In view ofthe finding that IF1 has RNA chaperone activity [26], the effects ofthe elimination of BipA, YggJ and ... model It distorts the P-site, thereby disturbing the start codon position and preventing fMet-tRNA binding during the stage of 50S subunit joining [32,33] Several aspects of kasugamycin action are...
... the thickness is 10 nm [Fig 4(b)] We verified that the thinner films still have crystalline structure, as shown inthe Raman scattering data in Fig 4(c) The widths ofthe Raman peaks inthe thinner ... are introduced to the molecular system by slightly displacing the atomic positions along the directions indicated in Fig For example, the A1 phonon 1g mode is generated in MD by stretching the ... film illuminated by 30◦ incident pump beam is determined to be 2636 K It is then found from Eq (2) that in our case, the thermal force fthermal = 1.42 × 1016 N/m3 dominates at the end of pump pulse,...