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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
A sustained-release formulation of doxycycline hyclate (Atridox) prevents simultaneous infection of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted by tick bite.
Current prophylaxis for infected tick bites consists of personal protective measures directed towards ticks. This study compared the efficacy of a single oral dose of doxycycline ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Virulence characteristics of community-associated Staphylococcus aureus and in vitro activities of moxifloxacin alone and in combination against community-associated and healthcare-associated meticillin-resistant and -susceptible S. aureus.
The increasing prevalence of community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) poses a challenge for antimicrobial therapy of skin and soft tissue infections ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Development of an in-house loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and evaluation in sputum samples of Nepalese patients.
A number of nucleic acid amplification assays (NAAs) have been employed to detect tubercle bacilli in clinical specimens for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. Among these, ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Development and evaluation of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for rapid and simple detection of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli.
We developed a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for the rapid and simple detection of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli. The assay provides a specific LAMP ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
PCR-RFLP assay for species and subspecies differentiation of the Streptococcus bovis group based on groESL sequences.
The sequence diversity of groESL genes among Streptococcus bovis group isolates was analysed, including five reference strains and 36 clinical isolates. Phylogenetic analysis of the groES and groEL sequences showed ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Distribution of Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-8 and SPI-10 among different serotypes of Salmonella.
Many virulence phenotypes of Salmonella enterica are encoded by genes located on pathogenicity islands. Based on genome analysis, it is predicted that Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-8 is restricted to Salmonella serovars Typhi and ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Balamuthia mandrillaris resistance to hostile conditions.
The resistance of Balamuthia mandrillaris to physical, chemical and radiological conditions was tested. Following treatments, viability was determined by culturing amoebae on human brain microvascular endothelial cells for up to 12 days. B. mandrillaris cysts were resistant to repeated freeze-thawing ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Anaplasma phagocytophilum infects cells of the megakaryocytic lineage through sialylated ligands but fails to alter platelet production.
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that principally inhabits neutrophils. However, infection with A. phagocytophilum results in a moderate to marked thrombocytopenia. In host neutrophils, A. phagocytophilum ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Prevalence of genes encoding extracellular virulence factors among meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from the University Hospital, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
A rather fast and complicated progression of an infection caused by some strains of Staphylococcus aureus could be associated with the expression and co-action of virulence factor ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Virulence of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from the cheese dairy environment, other foods and clinical cases.
The virulence potential of 51 Listeria monocytogenes isolates, including strains from cheese, cheese production environments and from human cases of listeriosis, was evaluated in this study. The isolates were used to ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Inattention, Hyperactivity, and Oppositional-Defiant Symptoms in Brazilian Adolescents: Gender Prevalence and Agreement Between Teachers and Parents in a Non-English Speaking Population.
Objective: To assess hyperactivity (H/I), inattention (IN), and oppositional-defiant (OP) symptoms in a nonclinical Brazilian sample of adolescents, and to investigate the association between scoring ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Nepalese Context.
With their numbers now approaching almost 30 million, Nepalese feature importantly in the South Asian demography. Yet, it has been only 60 years since Nepal gained international recognition as a nation-state. Nepal at present is one of the world\'s poorest ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Hyperactivity in a Sample of Omani Schoolboys.
Objective: There is a dearth of cross-cultural research on hyperactivity. This article aims to quantify the prevalence of hyperactivity in schoolboys residing in an Arab/Islamic country, Oman. Method: 1,502 Omani schoolboys from eight randomly selected schools representing the urban ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Applying Drug Dependence Research to Prevention Interventions in Spain.
This article examines the status of evidence-based interventions for preventing drug dependence in Spain. The evolution of the perception that the Spanish have of the problem and how this has influenced prevention efforts is described. An analysis ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Intimate Partner Violence Among Male and Female Russian University Students.
This article reports data from three Russian sites of the International Dating Violence Study. Using a sample of 338 university students (54% female) from three Russian university sites, four different types of partner violence are examined: ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Country Prototypes and Translation of Health Programs.
This article introduces the topic of international translation of health programs. Different perspectives toward the study of national-level variables that are relevant to translation of evidence-based programming developed outside of or in a country are discussed. Concepts including national ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Female and Male Sex Offenders: A Comparison of Recidivism Patterns and Risk Factors.
Few studies have empirically validated the assertion that female and male sex offenders are vastly different. Therefore, utilizing a matched sample of 780 female and male sex offenders in New York State, the ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Sexuality, Substance Use, and Susceptibility to Victimization: Risk for Rape and Sexual Coercion in a Prospective Study of College Women.
An 8-month prospective study examined behavioral, personality, and psychological variables thought to increase vulnerability for college women\'s experience of rape and verbal sexual coercion. Participants were ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Changing Policy and Practice in the Child Welfare System Through Collaborative Efforts to Identify and Respond Effectively to Family Violence.
The Greenbook provides a roadmap for child welfare agencies to collaborate and provide effective responses to families who are experiencing co-occurring child maltreatment and domestic violence. ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Is Sexual Victimization Gender Specific? The Prevalence of Forced Sexual Activity Among Men and Women in Denmark, and Self-Reported Well-Being Among Survivors.
The present study investigates the prevalence of sexual victimization and correlations between sexual victimization and indicators of poor health in two representative samples of ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Risk Factors for Severe Inter-Sibling Violence: A Preliminary Study of a Youth Forensic Sample.
The perpetration of severe inter-sibling violence (SISV) remains a largely unexplored area of family violence. This article describes an investigation of risk factors for intentional SISV perpetration. A sample of 111 young ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Sexual Relationship Power, Intimate Partner Violence, and Condom Use Among Minority Urban Girls.
This study examined the association between sexual relationship power, intimate partner violence, and condom use among African American and Hispanic urban girls. In this sample of 56 sexually active girls, 50% did not ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
The Relationship Between Violence in the Family of Origin and Dating Violence Among College Students.
Prior research has established that violence in dating relationships is a serious social problem among adolescents and young adults. Exposure to violence during childhood has been linked to dating violence victimization ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Domestic Violence and Dependency Courts: The Greenbook Demonstration Experience.
This field study reports on a cross-site evaluation of dependency courts in communities receiving federal funding to implement the Greenbook initiative, a multisite demonstration for community improvement of coordinated responses to families victimized by domestic violence and ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
The Role of Young Adolescents\' Perception in Understanding the Severity of Exposure to Community Violence and PTSD.
This study seeks to (a) identify and measure the lifetime exposure to community violence of 137 African American and Latino middle school students from a low income neighborhood and ...
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