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Aortopexy in Infants and Children—Long-term Follow-up in Twenty Patients
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Open AccessMycoplasma alkalescens demonstrated in bronchoalveolar lavage of cattle in Denmark
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Mutations of Genes Involved in the Innate Immune System as Predictors of Sepsis in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
Mutations of genes involved in the innate immune system have been reported to be associated with an increased sepsis rate in adults. We determined the −159T mutation of the CD14 gene, the 896G mutation of the ...
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The Bronchoalveolar Lavage Technique to Evaluate Silent Aspiration in Children with Reflux-Associated Respiratory Disease
There is a great deal of data suggesting a high incidence of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in intrinsic asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, recurrent pneumonia, recurrent obstructive bronchitis, chronic nocturnal coug...
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A Multiplex PCR-Detection Assay for Yersinia enterocolitica Serotype O:9 and Brucella spp. Based on the Perosamine Synthetase Gene
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Cloning and Characterization of the Yersinia enterocolitica Serotype O:9 Lipopolysaccharide O-Antigen Gene Cluster
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Antibodies are a crucial part of the body's specific defense against infectious diseases and have considerable potential as therapeutic and prophylactic agents in humans and animals. The development of recombi...
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Features of CD-ROM Retrieval Systems in Medical Libraries: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Laser technology (CD-ROM) has offered electronic mass storage capacity for medical databases in the mid-1980s for the first time. Since then the structure of classical bibliographic databases has remained esse...
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To provide a more precise genetic map of the p22.3–p21.2 region on the short arm of the human X chromosome, we performed multilocus linkage studies in an expanded database including 31 retinoschisis families a...