Early diagnosis of tick-borne borreliosis determines the indications for etiotropic therapy, and the detection of borrelia in a tick that has bitten you serves as the basis for antibiotic prophylaxis. To determine the causative agent of borreliosis, PCR methods are most widely used, which requires special conditions for organizing the work of laboratories and the use of expensive equipment. In addition, the procedure for isolating bacterial DNA and subsequent amplification takes several hours of working time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe paper describes a case of primary diagnosis of functioning patent ductus arteriosus in a 75-year-old female patient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To assess joint and extraarticular wrist lesions in RA patients with arthrosonography in the disease duration up to 6 months.
Material And Methods: 38 RA patients aged 40 +/- 10.5 years (25 females and 13 males) entered the study.
Cell Prolif
January 1997
To study further the factors providing for cellular quiescence, we used okadaic acid (OA) at concentrations (0.1, 1, 10 or 100 nM) inhibiting type 1 and/or type 2A protein phosphatases in mammalian cell cultures. Brief (2 h) exposure of resting (0.
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