etiology of infectious diseases of the upper respiratory tract

... in the population of bacteria present in the nasopharynx The aim of the present experiment was to evaluate the influence of consecutive systemic enrofloxacin administrations on the presence and ... terminal portion of the curve (Ct/ke), where t is the last time of measurable plasma concentrations after the first dose Enrofloxacin is de-ethylated into ciprofloxacin, but the degree of this metabolic ... effect of enrofloxacin for P multocida in the nasopharynx of treated calves was present This is in line with the current PK/PD approach to prevent the selection of resistance, since the AUIC and the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... salient to the management of upper respiratory tract infections the management of upper respiratory tract infections set of multiplicatives (control beliefs × power of each belief to inhibit/enhance ... 2.5), p = 0.014) The results of the theory level analyses are shown in Table The TPB explained 3% of the variance in behaviour, SCT explained 5%, and OLT explained 6% In the cross theory analysis, ... in the regression model, together explaining 36% of the variance in the scenario score (Table 3) Predicting behavioural intention With the range of possible scores for intention of – 21, the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... from the onset of the first clinical event that was a clear manifestation of SSc (other than Raynaud's phenomenon) to the time of data collection All patients fulfilled the criteria proposed by the ... were the components of the logistic regression model for alveolitis The cut-off values of the dependent variables considered in the analysis were based on ROC curves and are reported in table The ... indicated as the next step Nevertheless BAL would be necessary to detect any infections of the lower respiratory tract that may cause further deterioration in lung function Background Methods There...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... formula and did not deal with the rationale of such choice and hence the appropriation of the formulation is questionable On the other hand, if we were to assess the efficacy of Chinese medicine without ... had been formulated into uniform tablets under the supervision of the Institute of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong The dosage of study drug was tablets (500 mg per tablet) ... from the original author was obtained The first primary safety outcome is tolerability, which was defined as a permanent discontinuation of the mixture of TCM as the result of an adverse event The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... District of Niagara for the space of eighteen calendar months, to be computed from the eighth day of November, in the sixtieth year of the reign of our said lord the King: that in the course of the ... lower level All these arrangements occupied perhaps one-third of the entire court-room The rest of the space, extending from the rear of the prisoners' dock to the lower end of the chamber, was ... was the plan of the conventional Upper Canadian courtroom in the olden time; and such, with a few inconsiderable modifications, many of them remain down to the present day The sole occupant of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... densities occupying the apical and subapical region of the upper lobes (30 patients); ( ) opacification with shrinkage of the upper lobes, often with considerable upward retraction of the lung FIGURElb ... 01/07/2013 307 persist In other instances, upward retraction of the lung roots may result in a migration of densities from below toward the upper zones Both modes of evolution of upper zonal densities ... and opacificati?n of the right upper lobe, with deviation of the mediastinum and retraction upwards of the right lung root This radiologic appearance might be regarded as typical of chronic fibroid...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... development of pottery, the introduction of the bow and arrow, and the adaptation of corn agriculture This book presents the story of past peoples of the Upper Mississippi River Valley from the first ... through the presence of artifacts Even disturbances to the record of the past by natural or cultural means are structured and therefore knowable Burial of the Dead Throughout the world, there is ... served to bind the macroband together could be held The most important of these would have been burial of the dead In some periods, the bodies or bones of persons who died during the winter were...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:35

... where Ah is the amplitude of the h-th harmonic and N is the total number of the analyzed harmonics (N = 10 in this study) The denominator of the equation represents the total power of the N harmonics ... between the pattern of the upper body movements occurring during right and left steps To quantify the effects of walking speed on acceleration, the magnitude of the correlation between the RMSH, ... analysis The average values of the above parameters were computed for each subject over the different trials From these values, the sample mean and the standard error of the mean (s.e.m.) were then...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... trial no consensus of the appropriate treatment protocol for MCC is made so far [6-8] Therapeutic options depend on the stage of the disease at the time of presentation whereas the most important ... rates of locoregional control [8,10,35,36] A benefit of this method is the better inspection of all major borders of the lesion [7,36] Postoperative radiotherapy in node free patients either discovered ... MP: drafted the article; LN: helped in drafting the article; NN helped in drafting the draft CG carried out the immunoassays; LL: participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... Role of the upper- level jet In the Mei-yu studies, the upper- level jet appears as a key factor for the development of the Mei-yu front system In order to clarify, an experiment is set up where the ... interesting that the weakening of the upper- level jet leads to an increase of rainfall in the central Indochina peninsular where the lower-level jet crosses over The reason may be the increase of moisture ... intensification of the upper- level jet that blows along the northern flank of the Tibetan Plateau toward Japan The simulated precipitation shows that the Mei-yu rainfall is well organized in form of a band...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:20

... If these nerves can be demonstrated to be the source of the pain by nerve blocks and post-block increase knee function, then "RSD of the Knee", then "CRPS I" of the knee is really a "CRPS II" of ... 68 to 100 patients with RSD, 33 in the upper and 21 in the lower extremity.[41] Regardless of whether the patient had CRPS in the upper or the lower extremity, the two groups were significantly ... Failure of the nerve block to relieve pain could imply that the block was not done properly, and therefore "failure" meant that while loss of sensation did occur in the distribution of the sensory...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... respiratory tract This hypothesis was based on two lines of evidence First, the prompt influx of neutrophils into the lungs is important for the clearance of NTHi from the airways [9] Thus, inhibition of ... inhalation of either salmeterol or salbutamol indeed impairs the clearance of NTHi from the mouse respiratory tract in vivo Our hypothesis was, in part, based on our recent studies that investigated the ... Neutrophils play an important role in the clearance of NTHi from the respiratory tract [9] Neither salmeterol nor salbutamol influenced the recruitment of neutrophils to the lungs after infection with...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... cleavage of the corresponding sense mRNAs at the many sites available in the exactly complementary regions spanning the U3R-3', and the beginning portion of the TAR mRNA at the 5'end of HIV sense ... most of the clades of group M (A-D, F-H, J and K), with the exception of the O group strains (underlined, additional file 2)[106,107] There is even conservation of a nucleotide "seed" of the HAAmiRNA1 ... required for the complete virion if conditions in the cell are suboptimal In the absence of Tat protein, one of the early regulatory proteins made by the virus, short transcripts of approximately...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... references the work of the many other scholars whose contributions permeate this thesis 2b Languages and Toponymic patterns Much of the analysis of the names in the parish surveys forming the central ... that the map of Pit-names depicts not the settlement area of the Pictish people, i.e of speakers of Celtic Pictish” (Nicolaisen 1976, 151), but rather the extent of Gaelic-speakers in the tenth ... with the period of an element’s productivity, or its being ‘in fashion’, or the quality of the land and hence the farm’s status, or the influence of power structures within the parish, such as the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 20:41

... priority;  the assessment of the task is in terms of outcome 8 This definition addresses five characteristics of a task That is, the cope of a task, the authenticity of a task, the linguistic ... lot of questions, they answered all of them themselves, while the students hardly involved in the classroom discourse When the teachers gave the students a chance to speak, they kept silent These ... other interview extracts and the classroom data The vast number of their claims and their practices confirms their adoption of traditional methods in their actual classrooms When it comes to the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:34

... lags He states: “since the 1960s the United States, like much of the rest of the world, has seen a decline in the ability of the public health system to address the threat of infectious disease.” ... because of four intentional plane crashes, because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time Among the consequences of these deaths was a major redefinition and redirection of the role of government ... intensity of hurricanes hitting the Gulf Coast this year, as the warming Gulf of Mexico feeds the ferocity of the hurricanes as they travel over water Class The response to Katrina displayed the class...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 05:20

... for FSW, has improved knowledge of managing LRTI for medical staffs of the center Practical meaning: The results of the thesis has performed the effectiveness of the intervention model to help ... results of this study to point out the high rate of LRTIs Reported by WHO, the incidence of sexually transmitted infections, including infections of the lower genital tract and upper genital tract ... FSW Currently, there are some researchs on the lower genital tract infection of women in the community and women in the military However, the study of infections of lower genital tract for FSW...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 13:32

... anesthesia was performed under supervision of an attending anesthesiologist Fentanyl was the only analgesic to be used during surgery, with the final dose being given ≥30 before the end of the ... used to deliver another ml of solution between the internal oblique and transversus abdominis muscles The second component of the IINB was administered by injecting ml of the same solution after ... designed the study and provided statistical analysis; ESS coordinated the study and drafted the manuscripts References A possible explanation for these observations may be found in the details of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... well as by the inclusive label common cold Etiology The large assortment of URI classifications reflects the wide variety of causative infectious agents and the varied manifestations of common ... clinical grounds Thus the judicious use of antibiotics in this setting is challenging Nonspecific Infections of the Upper Respiratory Tract Nonspecific URIs are a broadly defined group of disorders that ... and many antigenic types For instance, there are at least 100 immunotypes of rhinovirus (Chap 179), the most common cause of URI (~30–40% of cases); other causes include influenza virus (three...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:21