Molecular detection of species in wild small mammals in western Yunnan Province, China.

Background: Small mammals serve as the main reservoir for and as a proxy indicator of the potential risk of transmission from nature to humans. They offer a valuable early warning for human infection. Nevertheless, geographical variations in the impact of the host on the occurrence of infection are underestimated.

Infection in Wild Small Mammals in Western Yunnan Province, China.

Small mammals can transmit and serve as a reservoir for () in nature by carrying infected mites. In Yunnan, one of China's main foci of scrub typhus, etiological evidence and genetic diversity for is limited. A total of 2538 small mammals were captured seasonally from 2015 to 2016 in the three counties of Yunnan, and the spleen or liver tissue was examined for based on 56 kDa nPCR.

Polycrystalline Few-Layer Graphene as a Durable Anticorrosion Film for Copper.

Corrosion of metals in atmospheric environments is a worldwide problem in industry and daily life. Traditional anticorrosion methods including sacrificial anodes or protective coatings have performance limitations. Here, we report atomically thin, polycrystalline few-layer graphene (FLG) grown by chemical vapor deposition as a long-term protective coating film for copper (Cu).

Contemporary prostate biopsy complication rates in community-based urology practice.

Objectives: To evaluate whether the increased number of rectal perforations associated with contemporary transrectal ultrasound-guided, 12-core prostate biopsy, with a periprostatic block, is associated with a greater rate of postprocedural complications.

Methods: We prospectively studied 1000 patients undergoing contemporary transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy and compared the rates of complicated urinary tract infection and significant rectal bleeding with the rates in our previous report of complications using a then-standard, 6-core biopsy technique, without a periprostatic block.

Results: Three patients developed complicated urinary tract infections, two of which were with ciprofloxacin-resistant organisms.

Gracilis urethral myoplasty: preliminary experience using an autologous urinary sphincter for post-prostatectomy incontinence.

Purpose: We investigated the effect of a neurovascular intact gracilis muscle urethral wrap to restore urinary continence in men with severe stress urinary incontinence after radical retropubic prostatectomy.

Materials And Methods: Three men with stress incontinence after radical retropubic prostatectomy and external beam radiation therapy for adenocarcinoma of the prostate underwent gracilis urethral myoplasty. Video urodynamic evaluation and cystourethroscopy revealed Valsalva leak point pressure of less than 40 cm.

Gracilis urethromyoplasty--an autologous urinary sphincter for neurologically impaired patients with stress incontinence.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of a neurovascularly intact gracilis muscle urethral wrap, to be used to restore urinary continence as a transposed urinary sphincter graft, in patients with neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction.

Methods: Five neurologically impaired men with a denervated and damaged urinary sphincter mechanisms were treated. The etiology of sphincteric insufficiency included sphincter denervation in three patients, external sphincterotomy in one, and urethral trauma due to a chronic indwelling catheter in one.

Fascial sling correction of kinked efferent limb in patients with continent diversion and catheterization difficulty.

Purpose: We determined the efficacy of using a rectus fascial sling to revise an angulated efferent limb in patients with continent urinary diversion and difficulty with intermittent catheterization.

Materials And Methods: Two spinal cord injured women who underwent modified Indiana pouch urinary diversion required revision of each efferent limb because of difficulty with catheterization. A strip section of anterior rectus sheath was harvested and used to fix the efferent limb in position, assuring freedom from angulation and facilitating catheterization.