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What Causes Free Peritoneal Fluid?
Discussion Peritoneal fluid is normal. It decreases the friction of the peritoneum covering abdominal and pelvic organs and helps to protect them and allow their movement. A normal amount of peritoneal fluid is expected on radiological evaluation. Increased peritoneal fluid is a continuum and is concerning as a wide variety of pathological causes are associated with it such as abdominal trauma and appendicitis. At the far end of the scale is ascites that is the accumulation of free fluid more than 25 ml. It is usually associated with abdominal distension but fluid must accumulate before distension can occur and therefore i...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - June 8, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Intestinal Parasite Detection in Assorted Vegetables in the United Arab Emirates.
Conclusions: The study highlights the potential of raw produce serving as a major source of foodborne disease outbreaks and its role in the transmission of intestinal parasitic infections. Public education on the safe handling of raw vegetables is recommended. PMID: 32550016 [PubMed]
Source: Oman Medical Journal - June 19, 2020 Category: Middle East Health Tags: Oman Med J Source Type: research

The effect of meteorological variables on salmonellosis incidence in Kermanshah, West of Iran: a generalized linear model with negative binomial approach
ConclusionsIncrease in minimum humidity and mean temperature may have a role in increasing the incidence of salmonellosis in Iran.
Source: Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering - May 27, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

What Are Common Gastrointestinal Polyposes in Children?
Discussion Bloody stools or blood in the diaper is a relatively common complaint in general pediatrics. For most patients it is often a minor concern. Commonly it is a transient problem (e.g. rectal fissure caused by constipation or trauma) or often not blood (e.g. urate crystals in the diaper, food, menses, etc.). Real blood does occur with an identifiable cause such as long distance running or heavy exercise, or milk protein allergy/sensitivity that improves with a milk-restricted diet. Many more serious causes are associated with heavier or more recalcitrant bleeding, increased defecation, abdominal pain, poor eating an...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - January 24, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Prevention of medical device infections via multi-action nitric oxide and chlorhexidine diacetate releasing medical grade silicone biointerfaces
J Biomed Mater Res A. 2022 Feb 15. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.37372. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe presence of bacteria and biofilm on medical device surfaces has been linked to serious infections, increased health care costs, and failure of medical devices. Therefore, antimicrobial biointerfaces and medical devices that can thwart microbial attachment and biofilm formation are urgently needed. Both nitric oxide (NO) and chlorhexidine diacetate (CHXD) possess broad-spectrum antibacterial properties. In the past, individual polymer release systems of CHXD and NO donor S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) incorporated polymer ...
Source: Biomed Res - February 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Manjyot Kaur Chug Hamed Massoumi Yi Wu Elizabeth J Brisbois Source Type: research

Why Does Norovirus Spread So Easily?
Discussion Norovirus is a Caliciviridae family member. They were first observed by electron microscopy during a 1968 outbreak in Norwalk Connecticut (hence the alternative name of Norwalk virus). There are 3 genogroups and many genotypes within each genogroup. “Noroviruses are the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis in people of all ages worldwide, and are estimated to cause 12-24% of community-based or clinic-based cases…, 11-17% of emergency room or hospital cases, and approximately 70,000-200,000 deaths annually.” Seventy percent of cases occur in the 6-23 month age range. They have caused pandemics...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - June 6, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

What Are Underlying Risk Factors for Liver Abscesses?
This study specific excluded patients with ALA or candidemia. LA treatment is usually antibiotics and less invasive surgical techniques such as aspiration or percutaneous catheter drainage, but other treatment including resection is sometimes needed Overall mortality from LA has decreased from 15-40% to as low as 0.8% in the pediatric populations as noted above. Learning Point LA can occur solely because of exposure to infectious organisms but is also commonly associated with hepatobiliary pathology as well. In Northern India study, the “[m]ajority of …children had no predisposing factors for development of LA ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - August 21, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Immunohistochemical search for viral and bacterial antigens in Crohn's disease
Conclusions: Of the agents demonstrated in this search, none was located in granulomas or inflamed lymphatics. Finding the common gut microbes, E. coli and clostridia, in the mucus of patients and controls was not unexpected. The minor focal staining of E. coli and clostridia does not suggest a primary role for these pathogens in CD. Positive staining for listeria in patients and controls may very well represent cross reactivity rather than specific identification.
Source: Journal of Critical Care - April 27, 2012 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: William S. Magin, Herbert J. Van Kruiningen, Jean-Frédéric Colombel Tags: Regular papers Source Type: research

Impact of Water-Vending Kiosks and Hygiene Education on Household Drinking Water Quality in Rural Ghana.
This study presents an independent investigation of one alternative by examining for-profit water-vending kiosks, WaterHealth Centers (WHCs), in rural Ghana to determine their association with household drinking water quality. WHCs' design includes surface water treatment using filtration and ultraviolet light disinfection along with community-based hygiene education. Analyses of water samples for Escherichia coli and household surveys from 49 households across five villages collected one time per year for 3 years indicate that households using WHCs had improved water quality compared with households using untreated surfac...
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - February 4, 2013 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Opryszko MC, Guo Y, Macdonald L, Macdonald L, Kiihl S, Schwab KJ Tags: Am J Trop Med Hyg Source Type: research

Construction of an Expressible BAC Library of the Unculturable Insect Microorganism, Stink Bug Plautia stali Symbiont, for the Search of Biologically Active and Useful Symbiont Products.
In this study, the possibility of using bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries as a heterologous gene expression tool for the discovery of novel symbiont metabolites was evaluated. A BAC library was constructed from the symbiont purified from the posterior midgut cecum of the stink bug Plautia stali. The BAC library, which consisted of 513 clones with an average insert size of 41 kb, represented greater than five-fold coverage of the genome. The ability of the BAC clones to express plural genes from large-sized insert DNA in Escherichia coli was examined by the growth of BAC-transformed leu operon-deficient DH10...
Source: Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin - April 6, 2014 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Kobayashi H, Fujii-Muramatsu R, Noda H, Takeishi K Tags: Biol Pharm Bull Source Type: research

A Search for Ribonucleic Antiterminator Sites in Bacterial Genomes: Not Only Antitermination?
BglG/LicT-like proteins are transcriptional antiterminators that prevent termination of transcription at intrinsic terminators by binding to ribonucleic antiterminator (RAT) sites and stabilizing an RNA conformation which is mutually exclusive with the terminator structure. The known RAT sites, which are located in intergenic regions of sugar utilization operons, show low sequence conservation but significant structural analogy. To assess the prevalence of RATs in bacterial genomes, we employed bioinformatic tools that describe RNA motifs based on both sequence and structural constraints. Using descriptors with different s...
Source: Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology - July 11, 2015 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

A Search for Ribonucleic Antiterminator Sites in Bacterial Genomes: Not Only Antitermination
BglG/LicT-like proteins are transcriptional antiterminators that prevent termination of transcription at intrinsic terminators by binding to ribonucleic antiterminator (RAT) sites and stabilizing an RNA conformation which is mutually exclusive with the terminator structure. The known RAT sites, which are located in intergenic regions of sugar utilization operons, show low sequence conservation but significant structural analogy. To assess the prevalence of RATs in bacterial genomes, we employed bioinformatic tools that describe RNA motifs based on both sequence and structural constraints. Using descriptors with different s...
Source: Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology - September 3, 2015 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

Bringing nitrilase sequences from databases to life: the search for novel substrate specificities with a focus on dinitriles.
Abstract The aim of this study was to discover new nitrilases with useful activities, especially towards dinitriles that are precursors of high-value cyano acids. Genes coding for putative nitrilases of different origins (fungal, plant, or bacterial) with moderate similarities to known nitrilases were selected by mining the GenBank database, synthesized artificially and expressed in Escherichia coli. The enzymes were purified, examined for their substrate specificities, and classified into subtypes (aromatic nitrilase, arylacetonitrilase, aliphatic nitrilase, cyanide hydratase) which were largely in accordance wit...
Source: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology - October 31, 2015 Category: Microbiology Authors: Veselá AB, Rucká L, Kaplan O, Pelantová H, Nešvera J, Pátek M, Martínková L Tags: Appl Microbiol Biotechnol Source Type: research

The Rapid Development of ESBL E coli resistance to Ceftolozane-tazobactam in a Patient with a Liver Abscess. The Search for an Omnipotent Antibiotic Goes On!
We present a patient with a liver abscess where the organism was resistant to ceftolozane/tazobactam resulting in a poor clinical outcome. PMID: 27411471 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Infectious Disorders Drug Targets - July 12, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Teleb M, Soto-Ruiz E, Domínguez DC, Antony S Tags: Infect Disord Drug Targets Source Type: research