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Host-cell-dependent role of actin cytoskeleton during the replication of a human strain of influenza A virus
This study was aimed at investigating the possible involvement of the actin cytoskeleton in the modulation of host permissiveness to A/NWS/33 human influenza virus infection in two mammalian (MDCK and LLC-MK2)...
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Incidence of Neutropenia and Infections During Combination Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C with Pegylated Interferon Alfa-2a or Alfa-2b Plus Ribavirin
Combination therapy with pegylated interferon (peginterferon) plus ribavirin is associated with several side effects, including neutropenia and infection.
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Information Technology and problem solving in mathematics education
Several slightly different definitions of IT can be found in the technical literature: basically all of them state that IT:
is the confluence of informatics with other tech...
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Prevalence of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in the population of the area of Parma (Italy)
Between 1987 and 1991, the prevalence of IgG antibodies toToxoplasma gondii was determined by ELISA in 28,247 serum samples belonging to 19,432 subjects of the area of Parma (Italy). The overall prevalence was 48...
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Survey on the prevalence of leptospira infections in the Italian population
This investigation is the first nationwide survey on the circulation of leptospira infections in human beings in Italy. In nine out of twenty Italian regions, representative samples of the population were inve...
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Molecular cloning and characterization of DNA from human intestinal spirochetes
HindIII cleaved human intestinal spirochete genomic DNA was cloned into the plasmid vector pBluescript. The inserts from three of these clones (pRB.C33, pRB.C47 and pRB.F1I) successfully hybridized with DNA from...
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Serodiagnosis and follow up of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
A new ELISA assay based on antigen A60 from M. bovis BCG was used to quantitate specific anti-mycobacterial antibodies in 250 sera from 133 subjects: 90 tubercolosis cases and 43 controls. Controls were all negat...
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Epidemiological and clinical aspects of mycoses in patients with aids-related pathologies
Mycological, cultural and/or serological studies were performed on 98 patients hospitalized in the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Catholic University in Rome with diagnoses of acquired immune deficie...
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Bioty** of bacterial isolates using the yeast killer system
Forty-four presumptive killer yeasts were tested against bacterial isolates, including rapid-growing gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, as well as slow-growing bacteria, such as the mycobacteria. A kill...
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Studies on the epidemiology of Aspergillus fumigatus infections in a university hospital
The impact of the airborne opportunistic fungus pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus in patients hospitalized at the university hospital of Parma, Italy, and its outpatients was investigated during a period of six mon...
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Evaluation of Western immunoblotting technique in the serological diagnosis of human syphilitic infections
Purified human syphilitic antibodies against both 15.5 Kd and 45 Kd treponemel antigens appear T. pallidum specific and do not cross react with antigens possessed by other treponemes (T. phagedenis, T. hyodysente...
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Lyme disease in Italy: Isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi from a patient
A strain of Borrelia burgdorferi was isolated from a 48-year-old female patient suffering from a chronic form of polyarthritis. Significant titers of specific anti-Borrelia antibodies were not found. This is the ...
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Bioty** of aerobic actinomycetes by modified killer system
Forty-four yeasts belonging to the genera Pichia, Candida, Saccharomyces and Kluyveromyces were tested for their potential killer effect on 13 aerobic actinomycetes (6 Nocardia asteroides, 1 N. brasiliensis, 1 N....
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Antigenic studies on Rhizopus microsporus, Rh. rhizopodiformis, progeny and intermediates (Rh. chinensis)
Fourteen isolates belonging to Rhizopus microsporus, Rh. rhizopodiformis, the progeny of Rh. microsporus x Rh. rhizopodiformis and an intermediate species, Rh. chinensis, were serologically tested either by a mod...
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Bioty** of micellal fungus cultures by the killer system
Based on the occurrence of the yeast killer phenomenon in hyphomycetes, the toxic effect of 37 selected killer yeasts was studied on eleven strains of Pseudallescheria boydii, six strains of Aspergillus niger, 18...
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Electron microscopy studies of human intestinal spirochetes
The ultrastructure of twenty human intestinal spirochetes was analyzed using the electron microscope. Negatively stained cells were generally found to be loosely and irregularly waved. The isolates had cell di...
