pcv7 affected the incidence of occult bacteremia

... et al, in their study, have evaluated the link between the timing of conception with risk of preeclampsia [13] They found the highest risk of preeclampsia in conceptions occurring in the summer ... [35] On the other hand, Griswold et al in their study from Florida, USA suggest higher incidence of eclampsia in the hurricane weather, which is characterised by higher temperatures rather than ... 1996 to identify the total number of deliveries, total number of preeclampsia cases and the total number of eclampsia cases The data was then divided into two groups based on the two main seasons...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... taking on the value of if the CEO also is the Chairman of the board; otherwise; BODSIZE is the number of directors on the board; ACSIZE is the number of members on the audit committee; RD is the amount ... is the percentage of independent directors on the board; CEOCHAIR is the indicator variable taking the value of if the CEO also is the Chairman of the board, otherwise; BODSIZE is the number of ... the percentage of independent directors on the board; CEOCHAIR is an indicator variable taking on the value of if the CEO also is the Chairman of the board; otherwise; BODSIZE is the number of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 19:36

... predominated Incidence of encephalitis of any cause Of the 25 studies that met the selection criteria, fourteen are discussed here in more detail as they include the studies from which the incidences ... for the minimum annual incidence of AES was not defined in the field test version of the Japanese encephalitis surveillance standards [1], pending further information about the likely minimum incidence ... give an indication of the quality of the surveillance The minimum annual incidence of a disease syndrome that one would expect to be reported provides a vital indication of whether surveillance...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... concentrated at the tip of the annual increment in length whereas there will be centres of branching on flush shoots: branches will be produced at the tip of the shoot and just below the junction of the ... III) The number of branches produced by each type of flush is related to the length of the section and in this study SECOND flush sections were always longer than those of the other types of flush ... flush of growth in 1987 was related to the number of branches growing on the 1986 SECOND flush shoot (P≤ 0.01) and the length of the FIRST flush in 1986 on the number of branches on the FIRST...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... reduce the incidence of colonic adenomas and that NSAIDs also reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer [32] The hypothesis underlying this protective association is thought to be the inhibition of ... identification of populations Other limitations include the possibility of misclassification and the wide variation in follow-up There may have been misclassification of the inclusion of patients into the ... and these titles and abstracts were screened to identify potentially relevant articles A total of 106 publications were further analyzed for the presence of the inclusion criteria, and, of these,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... examine the presence of mosaicism within an embryo it would be ideal to study the chromosomal complement of the majority of blastomeres Cytogenetic evaluation of an embryo based on analysis of a ... part of normal trophoblast development, their presence in the ICM of early embryos should be considered as a sign of abnormal cell division negatively influencing the subsequent development of the ... whereas the incidence of diploid spermatozoa is very low (Carothers and Beatty, 1975) The 2-12% incidence of diploid secondary oocytes (King, 1990; Lechniak et al, accepted for publication in Theriogenology)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... design, interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript OB gathered the data, interpreted the data and helped in drafting the manuscript AHR gathered the data and helped in drafting the manuscript ... normal The patient was fully conscious but complained of nausea and vertigo She was transferred to the ICU for neurologic monitoring and supportive therapy Because of the non-compressive size of the ... from the patients for publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal In the case of patient...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... and 31/12/2006: the skeletal site of the fracture, the gender and age of the patient, and the type of trauma of the patient (low-energy trauma or not) Fractures incurred because of low-energy trauma ... Excel (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA) software Comparative analysis The second part of our study consisted of the analysis of the National Hospital Discharge records (SDO) maintained at the Italian ... 65 years) because of the high prevalence of these kinds of “minor” fragility fractures in younger postmenopausal women [15,23] For each kind of fracture, we computed the number of patients requiring...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... On the other hand, the precision of the estimates in the present study are limited due to the small sample size Finally, there was no decrease in the incidence of RA related TKA in Denmark in the ... cases of RA over time would affect analyses of longitudinal trends Second, we studied the incidence of the first TKA in the local RA population; whereas the national study investigated the incidence ... study and the statistical analysis, and drafted the manuscript LJ participated in the design of the study and in the analysis and interpretation of data JÅN participated in the design of the study...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:23

... the incidence of pneumonia and mortality, respectively) Discussion The results of this meta-analysis suggest that the incidence of NP and rate of mortality are not reduced by administration of ... among the Gram-negatives was Pseudomonas aeruginosa Of the studies that reported on the duration of intubation and length of stay, the weighted mean differences between the treated group and the ... patients? Table shows the clinical characteristics of the patients enrolled in these trials The mean patient age was 58.5 years The severity of illness and the dental score index for the critically...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... interpretation of the data and drafting the manuscript; BA was involved in the conception and design of the study, analysis and interpretation of the data and critical revision of the manuscript; ... demographics, the results of the cosyntropin stimulation test, the use of etomidate, the time interval between the etomidate administration and the cosyntropin stimulation test, the presence of relative adrenal ... hours of the administration of etomidate Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions ZM was involved in the conception and design of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... the between-study variations with regard to an overall mean of the effects of all the studies [8] There were variations among the studies in terms of the CHX dose, the clinical setting, and the ... endotracheal aspirates rather than on quantitative cultures of the lower respiratory tract Given the limitations of these diagnostic criteria, the proof of CHX efficacy in reducing the rate of ventilatorassociated ... available – warranting an update of the analysis With the addition of two recent trials favoring the use of CHX [6,7] the sample size increased by 21%, yet the results of the subgroup analysis showed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... better clinical management of the disease, the improved adherence, the extended experience of the clinician and the assistance of the virologist through the interpretation of the genotypic resistance ... reflecting the loss of an entire class of drugs The incidence was defined as the proportion of the number of patients with an incident resistant virus with respect to the total number of treated ... unit The prevalence gives the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of resistance to the number of units at risk in the population, whereas the incidence stands for new...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 06:20

... week of stay The nine missing daily Na measurements were replaced by the value of the previous day of the ICU stay The use of DDAVP, which we took as a surrogate marker for the presence of CDI, ... day), and the use of DDAVP (that is, presence of CDI) over the course of the ICU stay In order to adjust the estimates for the baseline risk of death, we used the core + CT score from the International ... forward until the day of censoring or death We not report the results of these analyses because they were virtually identical to those of the main analyses We examined linearity of the continuous...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... (4) The null hypothesis states that there is no QTL affecting the clonal expansion of the cells (the reduced model), whereas the alternative states that such a QTL does exist (the full model) The ... this hypothesis is the log-likelihood ratio (LR) of the reduced to the full model, i.e., LR1 = −2[ln L(Ω , Θ, Ψ) − ln L(Ω , Θ, Ψ)], (5) where the tildes and hats denote the MLEs of the unknown ... associated with the marker The null hypothesis of (6) states that no significant QTL exists, regardless of its association with the marker Because of this difference, the critical value for the LR calculated...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... Propofol 39.8% of time 12.0% of time 11.2% of time 60.2% of time 56.0% of time 18.4% of time 8.1% of time 44.0% of time Analgesia-based sedation 50% of time 50% of time on SIMV (median) 81% of ... 51% of time 47% of time 49% of time 31% of time 22% of time 69% of time Diazepam (intermittent) (64.3%) of 14 patients; 15.0% of time (hours) 2.8% of time (hours) 21.1% of time (hours) (35.7%) of ... any outcomes of interest trates the flow (Quality through the systematic review The QUOROMof studiesof Reporting of Meta-Analyses) diagram illustrates the flow of studies through the systematic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Chairman of the Museum of American Finance, is the Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and a professor of economics, entrepreneurship and innovation at the ... the third BUS, the Collection of the Museum of American Finance Collection of the Museum of American Finance New York City national banks, which in that sense served as the central reserves of ... second central bank The three central banks in the nation’s history (top to bottom): The Bank of the US, the Second Bank of the US and the Federal Reserve Fed, opened for business, the United States...

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... The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org on January 6, 2013 For personal use only No other uses without permission Copyright © 1994 ... Massachusetts Medical Society All rights reserved The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org on January 6, 2013 For personal use only No other uses without permission Copyright © 1994 ... Massachusetts Medical Society All rights reserved The New England Journal of Medicine Downloaded from nejm.org on January 6, 2013 For personal use only No other uses without permission Copyright © 1994...

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... this case the patient had a panuveitis, which recovered only after a combination of medical treatment and surgery, with a final visual acuity of 40% in the affected eye [1] The only case of Lyme ... only case of Lyme disease affected a 31 year-old farmer and his ocular manifestations are described in the specific section Figure 1: Geographical location of the province of Parma (Italy) References ... Parma (Italy) References Mora P, Vecchi M, Barbera L, Toscani M, Orsoni JG Use of systemic cyclosporin A in a case of severe Toxocara uveitis J Infect 2006; 52:159-161 http://www.medsci.org ...

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