German cockroach allergen levels in North Carolina schools: comparison of integrated pest management and conventional cockroach control.

Cockroach suppression is fundamental to cockroach allergen mitigation in infested homes. The effects of various cockroach control strategies on cockroach populations and allergen concentration have not been examined in schools. This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of integrated pest management (IPM) and conventional pest control in controlling German cockroach (Blattella germanica L.

Evaluation of a commercially available beneficial insect habitat for management of lepidoptera pests.

A field study was conducted in 2003 and 2004 at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems in Goldsboro, NC, to evaluate the effectiveness of a commercially available beneficial insect habitat in decreasing pest caterpillar populations in organically managed tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., plots. Six pairs of tomato plots were established and a commercial beneficial insect habitat seed mix (Peaceful Valley's Good Bug Blend) transplanted around the perimeter of treatment plots, whereas a brown-top millet, Brachiaria ramose (L.

Comparison of conventional and integrated pest management programs in public schools.

This study compared an integrated pest management (IPM) program with conventional, calendar-based pest control in nine North Carolina elementary schools. Both programs primarily targeted the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.).

[Long-term prognosis after kidney transplantation].

In Germany, nearly 8,000 patients are living with a functioning renal transplantation. The average age of those undergoing transplantation is 43.5 years.

[Comprehensive obesity therapy program].

Being overweight is now accepted as one of the big health problems of our society. A major extent of overweight is associated with numerous disease and has to be considered as a disease itself. Considerable and intensive efforts are necessary to terminate the increasing trend or to turn it into the opposite direction.

[Risk assessment in hematologic diseases].

The insurance of one's life and one's capacity to work is only exceptionally possible for patients suffering from haematological diseases. Most of these diseases are still fatal after a predictable and thus a short period, in spite of certain therapeutical results. Exceptions such as the healing of, for instance, a lymphatic leucocythaemia are mentioned.

[Thrombopoiesis, thrombocyte count and thrombocyte function before and following cell separation].

About 50% of the circulating platelets can be taken from healthy donors by means of the cell separation technique. In order to investigate the effect of cell separation on thrombopoesis bone marrow samples were taken from 12 voluntary donors up to 5 times. The megacaryocytes were analyzed before and after cell separation by morphometric measures and determinations of platelet count and platelet function (adhesion, aggregation, spreading, retraction) were carried out.

Studies in a case of Bernard-Soulier syndrome.

In two siblings, brother and sister, with a history of bleeding Bernard-Soulier syndrome was diagnosed: The stronger affected sister showed a high percentage of giant blood platelets, an abnormal platelet spreading test and a defect in ristocetin and bovine fibrinogen-induced platelet aggregation. In addition, the content of platelet ATP, ADP and AMP was increased. As leucocyte counts were consistently decreased in the more seriously affected anaemic sister, repeated cytochemical examinations of the haemopoietic cells were carried out, revealing maturational defects in the whole haemopoietic system.

[Ring-shaped inclusions in an uncommon variety of acute myeloid leukemia (author's transl)].

In cells of an acute, predominantly promyelocytic differentiated leukemia ring-shaped inclusions could be demonstrated by light- and electron-microscopic examinations. The patient showed good response to aggressive chemotherapy with complete remission. It is discussed, how far the presence of these morphological characteristics will have any bearing on the classification of this variety of leukemia.