Pyothorax caused by sp. in a cat - Case report.

Nocardiosis is an infection caused by ubiquitous opportunistic bacteria and is rare in felines. In retrospective studies of the infection in the species, pyothorax was found in only about 5% of the cases described, with the most frequent forms being cutaneous and subcutaneous. This report describes spp.

Historical trends in health care-related financial holdings among members of Congress.

Background: Revelations that some members of Congress, including members of key health care committees, hold substantial personal investments in the health care industry have raised concerns about lawmakers' financial conflicts of interest (COI) and their potential impact on health care legislation and oversight.

Aims: 1) To assess historical trends in both the number of legislators holding health care-related assets and the value and composition of those assets. 2) To compare the financial holdings of members of health care-focused committees and subcommittees to those of other members of the House and Senate.

Predicting return to work after acute myocardial infarction: Socio-occupational factors overcome clinical conditions.

Objectives: Return to work after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), a leading cause of death globally, is a multidimensional process influenced by clinical, psychological, social and occupational factors, the single impact of which, however, is still not well defined. The objective of this study was to investigate these 4 factors on return to work (RTW) within 365 days after AMI in a homogeneous cohort of patients who had undergone an urgent coronary angioplasty.

Participants: We studied 102 patients, in employment at the time of AMI (88.

The production of yeast cell wall using an agroindustrial waste influences the wall thickness and is implicated on the aflatoxin B adsorption process.

The objectives of this study were: to evaluate the use of dry distillery grain soluble extract - DDGse to produce yeast biomass and to obtain cell wall (CW), to use the CW as an aflatoxin B (AFB) adsorbent, to study the variation in the composition and thickness of the CW under the influence of DDGse to evaluate their implication on the adsorption process using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FITR). The production of biomass and CW were variable. The CW thickness values showed that S.

Genome sequence analysis of a distinctive Italian infectious bursal disease virus.

In a recent study, an emerging infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) genotype (ITA) was detected in IBDV-live vaccinated broilers without clinical signs of infectious bursal disease (IBD). VP2 sequence analysis showed that strains of the ITA genotype clustered separately from vaccine strains and from other IBDV reference strains, either classic or very virulent. In order to obtain a more exhaustive molecular characterization of the IBDV ITA genotype and speculate on its origin, genome sequencing of the field isolate IBDV/Italy/1829/2011, previously assigned to the ITA genotype, was performed, and the sequences obtained were compared to the currently available corresponding sequences.