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Open AccessHuman brucellosis: recent advances and future challenges
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Open AccessBrucellosis in China: history, progress and challenge
Brucellosis is a neglected zoonosis. It causes acute febrile illness and a potentially debilitating chronic infection in humans, and livestock infection has substantial socioeconomic impact. Over the past two ...
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Methylnaltrexone for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation and gastrointestinal stasis in intensive care patients. Results from the MOTION trial
Constipation can be a significant problem in critically unwell patients, associated with detrimental outcomes. Opioids are thought to contribute to the mechanism of bowel dysfunction. We tested if methylnaltre...
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Open AccessThe Brucella TIR domain containing proteins BtpA and BtpB have a structural WxxxE motif important for protection against microtubule depolymerisation
The TIR domain-containing proteins BtpA/Btp1/TcpB and BtpB are translocated into host cells by the facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen Brucella. Here, they interfere with Toll like receptor signalling to...
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In vitro and in vivo assessment of silver-coated polypropylene mesh to prevent infection in a rat model
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of silver coating of polypropylene implants on infection in hernia surgery.
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The Back-End of a Two-Layer Model for a Federated National Datastore for Academic Research VOs that Integrates EGEE Data Management
This paper proposes an architecture for the back-end of a federated national datastore for use by academic research communities, developed by the e-INIS (Irish National e-InfraStructure) project, and describes...
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Combined Lumbar Spinal and Thoracic High-Epidural Regional Anesthesia as an Alternative to General Anesthesia for High-Risk Patients Undergoing Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery
A prospective study was undertaken to review the use of combined lumbar spinal and thoracic high-epidural regional anesthesia in high-risk patients who underwent gastrointestinal/colorectal surgery from 2004 t...
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Brucella
Brucellosis affects millions of animals and humans world-wide; in humans, over 500,000 new cases are reported annually. Although some vaccines are available for its prevention in animals, none exist for humans...
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A Transparent Grid Filesystem
Existing data management solutions fail to adequately support data management needs at the inter-grid (interoperability) level. We describe a possible solution, a transparent grid filesystem, and consider in d...
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Heterogeneity of Computing Nodes for Grid Computing
A heterogeneous implementation of the current LCG2/EGEE grid computing software is supported in the Grid-Ireland infrastructure. The porting and testing of the current softwareversionofLCG2iswellunder way on R...
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Deployment of Grid Gateways Using Virtual Machines
Grid-Ireland, the national computational grid for Ireland, has a centrally managed core infrastructure: the installation and configuration of grid gateways at constituent sites are controlled from an Operation...
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Principles of Transactional Grid Deployment
This paper examines the availability of grid infrastructures, describes the principles of transactional grid deployment, outlines the design and implementation of a transactional deployment system for the Grid...
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The Grid-Ireland Deployment Architecture
Grid-Ireland is unusual in its integrated infrastructure, and the stress that is laid on homogeneity of its core. The major benefit is the decoupling of site details from the core infrastructure, and the resul...
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Heterogeneous Grid Computing: Issues and Early Benchmarks
A heterogeneous implementation of the current LCG2/EGEE grid computing software is supported in the Grid-Ireland infrastructure. The porting and testing of the current software version of LCG2 is presented for...
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Fault Tolerance in the R-GMA Information and Monitoring System
R-GMA (Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture) [1] is a grid monitoring and information system that provides a global view of data distributed across a grid system. R-GMA creates the impression of a single ce...
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The evolution of chronic infection strategies in the α-proteobacteria
The α-subdivision of the Proteobacteria is a very large and diverse group of Gram-negative microorganisms. They show great variability in metabolic capacities and inhabit diverse ecological niches. The authors...
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Authentication and Authorization Mechanisms for Multi-Domain Grid Environments
This article discusses the authentication and the authorization aspects of security in grid environments spanning multiple administrative domains. Achievements in these areas are presented using the EU DataGri...
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R-GMA: An Information Integration System for Grid Monitoring
Computational Grids are distributed systems that provide access to computational resources in a transparent fashion. Collecting and providing information about the status of the Grid itself is called Grid moni...
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High efficiency transformation of Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella typhi by electroporation
Salmonella typhimurium and S. typhi were transformd with high efficiency by electroporation. Transformation efficiencies of up to 1010 transformants per μg of pBR322 were obtained. In contrast to chemical transf...
