Treatment response in patients with clinical and supportive laboratory features of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy without demyelinative findings on nerve conduction studies: A retrospective study.

Introduction/aims: Not all patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) have evidence of demyelination on nerve conduction studies (NCS). Patients with "supportive" evidence of CIDP on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound (US), or nerve biopsy but not on NCS, often receive immunomodulating therapy. We evaluated the treatment response of patients with clinical and supportive features of CIDP lacking NCS evidence of demyelination.

Closed genome sequence of type B1 strain isolated from an infant botulism case in the United States.

We present the closed genome sequence of the strain isolated from the stool specimen of an infant diagnosed with botulism. With 4.33-Mb genome size and 28.

Overcoming Reluctance to Nursing Overseas.

A North American nurse confronted her ongoing resistance about living in the Middle East and later India. Through studying the Bible and praying, the author overcame her reluctance as she worked as a school nurse on the Arabian Peninsula, faced breast cancer, and later embraced the opportunity to provide nursing care to sex-trafficked women in a brothel. In each setting, the author experienced God's supernatural work of changing her attitude and enabling her to express her faith in Christ to those whom she served and lived among.