Roadmap for the development of a resilience indicator system for protection and civil defense organizations: A literature review of the evidence.

Background: Disasters are the result of adverse events that cause human, material, environmental, and economic and social damage. To deal with disaster management, prevention, response, and recovery organizations need a system of indicators to measure their resilience.

Objective: To develop a road map to select indicators of organizational, institutional and governmental resilience to be applied to evaluate the resilience of public Protection and Civil Defense Organizations (PCDOs) of developing countries.

Colonization capability of lactobacilli and pathogens in the respiratory tract of mice: microbiological, cytological, structural, and ultrastructural studies.

Respiratory tract infections are among the bacterial infections that affect humans with higher frequency. Those produced by Streptococcus pneumoniae are reported to have the highest incidence in the world, affecting both children and old people. As a 2001 report from the World Health Organization expressed it, the basic fight of children under 5 yr old is to survive.