Objective: The objective of this pilot project was to evaluate a model of care that consisted of a community pharmacist and registered nurse collaborating in a primary care clinic to improve guideline-directed therapy.
Setting: A regional grocery chain pharmacy partnered with a primary care clinic associated with a large academic medical center.
Practice Innovation: A community pharmacist was granted access to the electronic medical record and paired with a registered nurse care manager at a primary care office.
The majority of outer membrane (OM) lipoproteins in Gram-negative bacteria are tethered to the membrane via an attached lipid moiety and oriented facing in toward the periplasmic space; a few lipoproteins have been shown to be surface exposed. The outer membrane lipoprotein P6 from the Gram-negative pathogenic bacterium nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is surface exposed and a leading vaccine candidate for prevention of NTHi infections. However, we recently found that P6 is not a transmembrane protein as previously thought (L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFP6 has been a vaccine candidate for nontypable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) based on its location on the outer membrane and immunogenicity. Because P6 is attached to the inner peptidoglycan layer of NTHi, and is putatively surface exposed, it must be a transmembrane protein. We examined the P6 structure using computational modeling, site-directed mutagenesis, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
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May 2003
Objective: Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis is a rare cyclic premenstrual reaction to progesterone produced during the luteal phase of a woman's menstrual cycle with a variety of presentations including erythema multiforme, eczema, urticaria, angioedema, and progesterone-induced anaphylaxis. We present a case of progesterone-induced anaphylaxis and a review of literature focusing on its diagnosis and therapy.
Data Sources: We surveyed all the literature in English back to 1921 when the first case was published.