IDENTIFICATION OF A CONTACT-DEPENDENT GROWTH INHIBITION (CDI) SYSTEM THAT REDUCES BIOFILM FORMATION AND HOST CELL ADHESION OF ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII DSM30011 STRAIN

Acinetobacter baumannii is a multidrug-resistant nosocomial opportunistic pathogen that is becoming a major health threat worldwide.In this study, we have focused on the A.baumannii DSM30011 strain, an environmental isolate that retains many virulence-associated traits.We found that its genome contains two loci encoding for contact-dependent growth

Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles) from northeastern North America deposited in the University of Guelph Insect Collection (Ontario, Canada) were curated from 2008-2010 by the first author.The identification of this material has resulted in Tea Cosy the recognition of thirty-five new provincial or state records, six new Canadian records, one record for t

BACKGROUND: Many normal children have heart murmurs.Most of these murmurs are innocent but differentiation of innocent murmurs from those due to structural heart disease, pathological murmurs, is important.Some clinicians do not refer the suspected patients to cardiologist due to anxiety-provoking for the family.The aim of this study was to assess

The purpose of this descriptive study was to describe health and health risk behavior in students in Prince of Songkla University.The subjects were 380 undergraduate students, chosen by convenience sampling, registered in a family relations course.Data were collected using a questionnaire with questions selected from a CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surve

This paper proposes a Negative-buoyancy Quad Tilt-rotor Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (NQTAUV), for Puffer Jackets which an attitude-tracking controller is designed for the hover and transition modes based on a disturbance-rejection control scheme.First, the structure of NQTAUV is illustrated, a mathematical model based on the Rodrigues parameters