Publications by authors named "Shayan Assaie-Ardakany"

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  • This study analyzed why postpartum women visit the emergency department within 10 days after delivery and identified associated risk factors.
  • 381 visits were reviewed, revealing common issues like abdominal pain and wound-related problems, with the average patient age being approximately 31 years.
  • The findings suggested that educating patients on managing pain and caring for wounds could help decrease the frequency of these early emergency visits.
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Bacterial adhesins attach their hosts to surfaces through one or more ligand-binding domains. In RTX adhesins, which are localized to the outer membrane of many Gram-negative bacteria via the type I secretion system, we see several examples of a putative sugar-binding domain. Here we have recombinantly expressed one such ~20-kDa domain from the ~340-kDa adhesin found in Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, an oil-degrading bacterium.

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