Establishing Natural Tactile Mappings: Mapping Tactile Parameters to Continuous Data Concepts.

There has been limited work developing natural mappings between tactile signals and common data concepts in data rich domains. If these mappings can be established, tactile displays can become more intuitive and readily adopted. The present study aims to identify general natural mappings between perceptual dimensions of vibration and continuous data concepts.

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections in a pediatric hospital in Argentina.

Introduction: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) emerged at the Pediatric Hospital of Misiones Province, north Argentina, in 2003 as a cause of community-acquired (CA) infections, mostly associated with skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs). This study aimed to assess the microbiological, epidemiological, and clinical features of CA-MRSA SSTIs treated at the hospital.

Methodology: From 2003 through 2006, a longitudinal study on CA-MRSA SSTIs was conducted.

Prospective multicenter study of community-associated skin and skin structure infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Background: Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is now the most common cause of skin and skin structure infections (SSSI) in several world regions. In Argentina prospective, multicenter clinical studies have only been conducted in pediatric populations.

Objective: PRIMARY: describe the prevalence, clinical and demographic characteristics of adult patients with community acquired SSSI due to MRSA; secondary: molecular evaluation of CA-MRSA strains.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST30-SCCmec IVc clone as the major cause of community-acquired invasive infections in Argentina.

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections have become a major concern worldwide. We conducted a prospective multicenter study of invasive CA-MRSA to evaluate clinical features and genotype of strains causing invasive infections in Argentina. A total of 55 patients with invasive CA-MRSA infections were included.

The length of the Staphylococcus aureus protein A polymorphic region regulates inflammation: impact on acute and chronic infection.

Staphylococcus aureus protein A (SpA) plays a critical role in the induction of inflammation. This study was aimed to determine whether the number of short sequence repeats (SSRs) present in the polymorphic region modulates the inflammatory response induced by SpA. We demonstrated that there is a dose-response effect in the activation of interferon (IFN)-β signaling in airway epithelial and immune cells, depending on the number of SSRs, which leads to differences in neutrophil recruitment.