To investigate the genetic determinants behind the MDR and XDR (extensively drug-resistant, nonsusceptibility to at least one agent in all but two or fewer antimicrobial categories)E. coli, we examined the compositional profiles of ARGs in each genome. Among the 492 genomes containing at least 2...
Approximately one to three micrograms of genomic DNA was sonicated to ∼100 bp using the Covaris S2 system using the following parameters: cycle number, 6; duty cycle, 20%; intensity, 5; cycles per burst, 200; and time, 60 s. Sonicated DNA was purified using DNeasy MinElute columns...
Neurophysiologists are often faced with the problem of evaluating the quality of a code for a sensory or motor variable, either to relate it to the performance of the animal in a simple discrimination task or to compare the codes at various stages along the neuronal pathway. One common belief...
Myasthenia gravis was identified by ICD-10 codes (G70). Incidence of myasthenia gravis was stratified by age, sex, and province. Findings Of 59,243 patients, 30,503 individuals with myasthenia gravis were newly diagnosed. Age and sex adjusted incidence of myasthenia gravis was 0.68 per 100,...
The overeating, a major driving force behind obesity, is largely coded in genes responsible for regulation of appetite and satiety and MC4R is one of these. MC4R codes for the protein melanocortin 4 receptor, which is found predominantly in paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, an area resp...
In addition, one prior study has consistently found increased pro-inflammatory IL-6 cytokine in postoperative patients after GA [38]. However, studies on GA and asthma in children are minimal and insufficient, so the relationship between GA and the later development of asthma and the severity of...
200 years ago there were less than one billion humans living on earth. Today, according to UN calculations there are over 7 billion and projected in 2100 it will be around 11 billion with the growth rate of 2.1. At 1 BC the the population expected to be 188 Million, and at 10000 BC ...
Given postcodes can be quite large (one has a population of over 100,000!), I prefer to use population-weighted density as a metric of urban density (as opposed to raw density). Here’s how that related to licence ownership (note a log scale on the X-axis): That’s a pretty stron...
The main diagnosis was defined by using the ICD-10 codes written in the medical records. Data analysis The prevalence of critical illness was calculated as all patients with one or more danger sign identified in the three data collections divided by the number of adults in the Sörmland ...
Our study also had several limitations; first, we identified cancer cases using disease codes and reimbursement data for medical services, thus the incidence of cancer may have been slightly underreported in our study. Very old patients who refused treatment or surveillance would have been omitted, ...