108°02′15″‒108°56′44″E) of Shaanxi Province, which is located on the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains, China. The county is an important transportation hub connecting the Weihe Valley with the Sichuan-Chongqing region. Natural conditions of the study area have been reported in ...
39. Although U15A lacks the IncF antibiotic resistance plasmid found in other isolates, in U15A the MDR region is carried on the IncI1 plasmid, pU12A-B. The presence of 8-bp direct target repeats flanking the MDR island indicate a recent transposition event, suggesting mobilisation and ...
Health policy; public policy; housing; social determinants of health; racial/ethnic minorities Arjumand Siddiqi, Sc.D. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada health inequalities, social policy Etsuji Suzuki, MD, PhD Okayama University, Okayama, Japan ...
Enterococcal BSI was defined by its isolation from 1 or more sets of aseptically obtained blood culture bottles and cultured using the BacT/Alert automated instrument (Organon Teknika, Durham, NC, USA). Clinical isolates were cultured, confirmed as Enterococcus, further speciated into E. faecium, ...
Briefly, FOTS cases were identified through monitoring of pathology reports submitted to the population-based Ontario Cancer Registry for province-wide recruitment. The TBOCS cases were recruited through a rapid case ascertainment mechanism in the two most populous counties in the Tampa Bay region. ...
For PiB PET, the visual interpretation of four cortical areas on each side (frontal lobe, lateral temporal lobe, lateral parietal lobe, and precuneus/posterior cingulate gyrus) was evaluated by classifying PiB uptake in each cortical region as positive, equivocal, or negative. Cases with one or ...
The presence of microbial pathogens in foods compromises their safety resulting in foodborne illnesses, public health disorders, product recalls, and economic losses. In this work, 60 samples of chilled raw chicken meat and 40 samples of packaged ready-to-eat (RTE) fresh leafy greens salads, sold...
The region of Ontario is responsible for over 50% contribution towards the country’s manufacturing sector and trade. Industry Percentage of Total National Output Food, Beverage and Tobacco Products 9.6% Paper Manufacturing 4.8% Motor Vehicle and Parts Manufacturing 23.2% Fabricated Metal Products Manufa...
Briefly, FOTS cases were identified through monitoring of pathology reports submitted to the population-based Ontario Cancer Registry for province-wide recruitment. The TBOCS cases were recruited through a rapid case ascertainment mechanism in the two most populous counties in the Tampa Bay region. ...