Streptomyces turgidiscabies Car8 is an actinobacterium that causes the economically important disease potato scab. Pathogenesis in this species is associated with a mobile pathogenicity island (PAISt) that site specifically inserts into the bacA gene in Streptomyces spp. Here we provide the 674,223 bp sequence of PAISt, which consists of two ...

A microbiological study was carried out on Baobab fermented seeds (Maari) obtained from 4 different production sites in Burkina Faso (Mansila, Toulf�, Ouagadougou and Gorgadji). A total of 390 representative isolates comprising 251 aerobic mesophilic bacteria (AMB) and 139 lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated and identified to species level using a combination of pheno- ...

Special influenza vaccination programs of elementary school-aged children (ESAC) in some or all of Maryland Counties were conducted during the falls of 2005-2007. Rates of emergency department (E.D.) visits and hospitalizations for medically attended acute respiratory illnesses (MAARI) as well as deaths due to pneumonia and influenza for county residents were determined. The ...

This collection contains selected presentations from an annual accreditation and quality assurance conference. The papers are: (1) "Turning around Troubled Institutions" (Matthew Goldstein); (2) "Triadic Hierarchical Planning" (William J. Austin); (3) "Edinboro University's Triangulated Institutional Effectiveness Model" (Michael A. Mogavero and Erinn D. Lake); (4) "Developing the Mission ...

Citation Peltier MR, Gurzenda EM, Murthy A, Chawala K, Lerner V, Kharode I, Arita Y, Rhodes A, Maari N, Moawad A, Hanna N. Can oxygen tension contribute to an abnormal placental cytokine milieu? Am J Reprod Immunol 2011; 66: 279-285 Objective? The aim of this study was to determine whether culturing human placental explants under different oxygen tensions will alter expression ...

The recent accumulation of mineralogical, chemical and morphological observations of the surface of Mars allows us to take a fresh look at the evolution of magmatism and volcanism of the red planet. The diversity of volcanic features offers an increasing body of evidence for changes in magma composition and eruptive dynamics. The most widely accepted case is the relation between age and relief of ...