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Engineering Tertiary Lymphoid Structures: Nanomedicine, Bioengineering, and Biomaterials for Precision Immunotherapy

Advanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
This review explains how biomaterials and nanoparticles can be used to induce or modulate tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs), which are ectopic immune hubs that form in nonlymphoid tissues during chronic disease and cancer. By comparing different methods, the article highlights design principles for modeling TLSs or recapitulating specific TLS ...
Shaza Karaman, Mei ElGindi, Jeremy Teo
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of resistance and toxin genes in community-acquired and hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2020
Objective(s): Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the major health hazards and became of greater public health concern since the emergence of community-acquired MRSA.
Khaled El-Baghdady, Mervat El-Borhamy, Hisham Abd El-Ghafar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do ESG Leaders Achieve Higher Firm Financial Performance? The Influence of Women Directors and Controversial Industries

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure on companies to achieve high ESG performance while minimising ESG controversies, this study investigates how ESG performance and ESG controversies jointly affect firm financial performance (measured as ROA and ROE), considering the effect of the presence of women directors and of operating in controversial versus non‐
Alice Alosi, Emilia Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of mecA- and mecC-positive Staphylococcus aureus from raw milk and traditional artisanal dairy foods

International Journal of Food Properties, 2021
The recent emergence of LA-MRSA and their identification in people in contact with livestock has increased their importance for dairy sector and has led to the need to check MRSA presence in dairy foods.
Birce Mercanoglu Taban, Amin Hassankhani, S. Aykut Aytac   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antimicrobial Resistance Properties, Biofilm, and mecA Gene Presence in Staphylococcus Aureus Isolated from Raw Milk Sold in Van, Türkiye

Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2023
Staphylococcus aureus can cause foodborne poisoning and can form biofilms, reducing enterotoxin production and the penetration rate of antibiotics. Therefore, infections and poisonings caused by S. aureus can be difficult to treat.
Rabia Mehtap Tuncay, Yakup Can Sancak
doaj   +1 more source

Guidelines for Reporting Novel mecA Gene Homologues [PDF]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2012
Methicillin-resistant staphylococci are disseminated all over the world and are frequent causes of health care- and community-associated infections. Methicillin-resistant strains typically carry the acquired mecA gene that encodes a low-affinity penicillin-binding protein (PBP), designated PBP2a ...
Ito, T., Hiramatsu, K., Tomasz, A., de Lencastre, H., Perreten, V., Holden, M., Coleman, D., Goering, R., Giffard, P., Skov, R., Zhang, K., Westh, H., O'Brien, Frances, Tenover, F., Oliveira, D., Boyle-Vavra, S., Laurent, F., Kearns, A., Kreiswirth, B., Kwan, S., Grundmann, H., Sollid, J., John, J., Daum, R., Soderquist, B., Buist, G.   +25 more
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Green Talk, Costly Walk: The Financial Cost of Greenwashing

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined.
S. Taddeo, A. Regoli, O. Weber, R. Carè
wiley   +1 more source

Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolate from Healthcare Workers in Larestan, Iran

Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2018
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility and cassette chromosome typing in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated from healthcare workers.Methods: Two hundred thirty nasal swabs were ...
Mehdi Ebadi, Hossein Ashrafi
doaj   +1 more source

Global Energy Corporations and Climate Change: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions in Shaping Climate Change Risk Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines climate change risk disclosure in the global energy sector, where firms face intense stakeholder scrutiny and legitimacy pressures. We develop a novel domain‐specific textual analysis measure to capture climate change risk disclosures, improving on prior approaches based on generic environmental terminology.
Khaldoon Albitar, Ali Meftah Gerged
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of mecA promoter mutations on mecA expression and β-lactam resistance levels

International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2008
The reason for the extremely low-level oxacillin resistance in a so-called 'drug clone', a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus circulating among injection drug users in Zurich, Switzerland, could be traced back to the mecA promoter sequence and particularly to the strain's genetic background.
Ender, M D, McCallum, N, Berger-Bächi, B   +2 more
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