Molecular characterization of African swine fever viruses from Burkina Faso, 2018.

Background: African swine fever (ASF) is a viral hemorrhagic disease of domestic and wild swine. ASF has been endemic in Burkina Faso since 2003. In October 2018, substantial pig deaths occurred in Ouagadougou and two neighboring municipalities in central Burkina Faso.

How to WHO: lessons from aviation in checklists and debriefs.

Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) surgical safety checklist (SSC) has had an overall positive impact; however, it has not completely prevented adverse events and compliance with the checklist varies. The aviation industry is considered to have better engagement with their safety checklists, reporting not only safety improvements, but also a cultural shift in their checklist philosophy over recent years.

Methods: We explored the personal attitudes of pilots working in the aviation industry to identify principles of an effective checklist philosophy that could be transposed to the healthcare setting to empower more effective, consistent and ultimately successful implementation of the WHO SSC.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on application of European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines for exercise in adults with CHD: a data-based questionnaire.

Introduction: Regular physical activity is safe and effective therapy for adults with CHD and is recommended by European Society of Cardiology guidelines. The COVID-19 pandemic poses enormous challenges to healthcare teams and patients when ensuring guideline compliance. We explored the implications of COVID-19 on physical activity levels in adult CHD patients.

The longitudinal use of SaNDVis: visual social network analytics in the enterprise.

As people continue to author and share increasing amounts of information in social media, the opportunity to leverage such information for relationship discovery tasks increases. In this paper, we describe a set of systems that mine, aggregate, and infer a social graph from social media inside an enterprise, resulting in over 73 million relationships between 450,000 people. We then describe SaNDVis, a novel visual analytics tool that supports people-centric tasks like expertise location, team building, and team coordination in the enterprise.

Antileishmanial activity of furoquinolines and coumarins from Helietta apiculata.

Unlabelled: The bark infusion of H. apiculata are used to treat wound healing related to cutaneous leishmaniasis and as anti-inflammatory.

Aim Of The Study: To isolate, purify active constituents of H.

Phytochemical and antiprotozoal activity of Ocotea lancifolia.

Thirteen known isoquinoline alkaloids were isolated from Ocotea lancifolia, popularly known as << canela pilosa >> in Brasil and << laurel né >> by the Guarani people which means smell laurel. Their activities against the promastigote forms of three Leishmania strains and the bloodstream form of Trypanosoma cruzi were evaluated, as well as their hepatocytotoxicity. Among them, the noraporphine alkaloid (-) caaverine has shown the most interesting antiprotozoal activity against Leishmania and T.

KF-Silica as a stationary phase for the chromatographic removal of tin residues from organic compounds.

Through the simple expedient of using a mixture of KF and silica as the stationary phase in column chromatography, levels of organotin impurities from tributyltin hydride mediated reductions have been reduced from stoichiometric levels to approximately 30 ppm.

(Bu3Sn)2-TBAF: a new combination reagent for the reduction and deuteration of aryl bromides and iodides.

The combination of (Bu(3)Sn)(2) and TBAF has been shown to reduce aromatic bromides and iodides in excellent yields under mild conditions. When the residual water in TBAF is exchanged for D(2)O, the halogen is replaced by a deuterium atom.

Equal opportunities, welfare and child health: a review.

Many families from ethnic minority backgrounds are disadvantaged. These families have poorer access to health care provision. Social factors such as poor housing are detrimental to both child health and child safety.

Single potassium channel conductance in the frog node of Ranvier.

The single K+-channel conductance was calculated from the variance of the spontaneous potassium noise currents in voltage clamped frog node. Essential for this calculation is the mean potassium conductance during the noise measurement. So far this quantity has been underestimated, apparently due to K+-ion accumulation.

[Value of cefotaxime in the treatment of female asymptomatic N. gonorrhoeae carriers (author's transl)].

Thirty women with asymptomatic genital gonococcal contamination were cured with one single i.m. injection of 1 g cefotaxime.

[Survey of gonococcal and meningococcal infections. Results from a systematic study of patients from an urban dispensary and sexual partners (author's transl)].

Over a period of 28 months, 605 strains of gonococci and 302 strains of meningococci have been isolated in an urban dispensary. The study was particularly concerned with the identification of gonococcal and meningococcal strains isolated from the patients sexual partners and with epidemiological distribution of the two species. There was only little seasonal variations in the occurrence of gonococcal infections.

[Auxotypes and sensitivity to 6 antibiotics of strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated at Strasbourg in 1977-1978 (author's transl)].

We have studied 386 strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in our laboratory from July 1977 to October 1978, with the Catlin's auxotyping method. The distribution of the four main auxotypes, i. e.