Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recommended annual skin testing for TB, with tuberculin-purified protein derivative (PPD), in patients with chronic renal failure. Uremia alters the macrophage function, which can lead to anergy for skin tests. The aim of this prospective ...
Streptomyces virginiae phenylpyruvate decarboxylase (PPDC) has not been identified before. Two putative branched-chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase subunit genes bkdC and bkdD from S. virginiae are similar to halves of other PPDC coding sequences. We cloned and characterized them biochemically in thi...
Periodontal therapy is an important step to prevent further disease progression, to reduce the risk of tooth loss, and to improve overall periodontal health. Evidence also suggests a bidirectional relationship between periodontitis and type 2 diabetes (T2D) [6]. Periodontal treatment can reduce glycate...
Perform matched filtering and vectorization to the received data by (5) and (6); Step 2. Calculate the covariance matrix of virtual array by (17). And perform the eigen-decomposition to it to get the signal subspace by (18); Step 3. Compute the estimation of the relative GPU of the ...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recommended annual skin testing for TB, with tuberculin-purified protein derivative (PPD), in patients with chronic renal failure. Uremia alters the macrophage function, which can lead to anergy for skin tests. The aim of this prospective ...
Conclusion/Discussion: While this is a very small sample of persons with positive PPDs, our results suggest that the PPD should be viewed only as an initial screen for past exposure to the tuberculosis bacteria. Since CDC's recommendations include treatment of all positive PPDs skin tests, the ...
catalysts Article A Robust Two-Step Process for the Efficient Conversion of Acidic Soybean Oil for Biodiesel Production Gaojian Ma 1, Lingmei Dai 1, Dehua Liu 1,2 and Wei Du 1,2,* 1 Key Laboratory for Industrial Biocatalysis, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua...
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