Comparison of Vaginal microbiota in HPV-negative and HPV-positive pregnant women using a culture-based approach.

The purpose of this study was to conduct a comparative analysis of the composition of the dominant groups of vaginal microorganisms in healthy pregnant women and pregnant women infected with HPV using a microbiological culture-based method. The MALDI TOF MS method and 16S rRNA gene fragment sequencing were used to identify microorganisms isolated from healthy pregnant women (n=32) and pregnant women infected with HPV (n=24). It was found that vaginal secretion samples from both groups contained bacteria of 4 phyla: Bacillota, Actinomycetota, Pseudomonadota, Bacteroidota, and Ascomycota fungi.

Immunophenotypic portrait of leukemia-associated-phenotype markers in B acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Background: Multiparametric flow cytometry (MFC) is an essential diagnostic tool in B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B ALL) to determine the B-lineage affiliation of the blast population and to define their complete immunophenotypic profile. Most MFC strategies used in routine laboratories include leukemia-associated phenotype (LAP) markers, whose expression profiles can be difficult to interpret. The aim of our study was to reach a better understanding of 7 LAP markers' landscape in B ALL: CD9, CD21, CD66c, CD58, CD81, CD123, and NG2.

What Do Organizations and Clinicians of Status Owe Their Patients' Home Health Aides?

This commentary on a case offers a historical perspective on how home health work became separate from other sites and means of professional caregiving, exacerbating poor continuity of care in the US health care system. Categorizing home health work as domestic work continues to racialize and marginalize workers. Poor public policy responding to market pressures to keep home health work cheap also perpetuates home health workers' classification as independent contractors, their lack of training, and low wages.

A priori choice of neuraxial labour analgesia and breastfeeding initiation success: a community-based cohort study in an Italian baby-friendly hospital.

Objective: To investigate whether the nature of the decision about receiving neuraxial labour analgesia is associated with breastfeeding initiation success (BIS), defined as exclusive breastfeeding until discharge associated with postnatal weight loss <7% at 60 hours from birth.

Design: Single-centre community-based cohort study.

Setting: An Italian baby-friendly hospital, from 1 July 2011 to 22 September 2015.

250 MHz passive Q-modulator for reflection resonators.

A simple scheme for dynamically switching the quality factor, Q, of a Loop-Gap Resonator (LGR); working at 250 MHz is presented. The addition of this Q-modulator resulted in 30% improvement in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance imager signal-to-noise ratio. During pulse excitation, this scheme lowered the Q, while higher Q was obtained during signal detection.