Microbiological analysis concerning the antibacterial effect of atomized Ionless® hypochlorous acid water in a nursery school environment.

Introduction: In daycare centers, infants come in close contact with each other, and contact, droplet, and mouth-to-mouth infections may occur owing to sharing of toys. Additional effective disinfection methods should be considered aside from wiping with disinfectants-including alcohol or sodium hypochlorite solution-for environmental disinfection of daycare centers. We aimed to examine the usefulness of hypochlorous acid water atomization in the effective disinfection of the classroom environment and toys at a nursery school.

Relationship Between Delirium Development and Its Causative Factors in the Intensive Care Unit After Cardiac Surgery.

Background: Delirium is a clinical symptom that can have serious side effects in patients, and it develops acutely and shows reversibility. Postoperative delirium is an important neuropsychological complication after surgery that directly or indirectly affects patients.

Unlabelled: Cardiac surgery increases the risk of delirium due to the complexity of surgical procedures, use of intraoperative and postoperative anesthetics and other pharmacologic agents, and possible postoperative complications.

Hand Hygiene Adherence Among Health Care Workers at Japanese Hospitals: A Multicenter Observational Study in Japan.

Background: Although proper hand hygiene among health care workers is an important component of efforts to prevent health care-associated infection, there are few data available on adherence to hand hygiene practices in Japan.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine hand hygiene adherence at teaching hospitals in Japan.

Methods: An observational study was conducted from July to November 2011 in 4 units (internal medicine, surgery, intensive care, and/or emergency department) in 4 geographically diverse hospitals (1 university hospital and 3 community teaching hospitals) in Japan.

SWAP70 functions as a Rac/Rop guanine nucleotide-exchange factor in rice.

Rho family small GTPases are involved in diverse signaling processes including immunity, growth, and development. The activity of Rho GTPases is regulated by cycling between guanosine diphosphate (GDP)-bound inactive and guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-bound active forms, in which guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) predominantly function to promote activation of the GTPases. In animals, most Rho GEFs possess a Dbl (diffuse B-cell lymphoma) homology (DH) domain which functions as a GEF-catalytic domain.

Menstrual disorders and their influence on low back pain among Japanese nurses.

An increasing body of evidence now suggests that menstrual disorders may influence the development of Low Back Pain (LBP) among women of reproductive age. To investigate this issue in Japan, we conducted a large cross-sectional survey of female nurses from a university teaching hospital during 2008. Nurses reported a wide range of symptoms both prior to and during menstruation, including breast tenderness, stomach pain, light headedness and fatigue.