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Biological Agents of Bioremediation: A Concise Review [PDF]

, 2015
Due to intensive agriculture, rapid industrialization and anthropogenic activities have caused environmental pollution, land degradation and increased pressure on the natural resources and contributing to their adulteration.
Biswas, Karabi
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Nocardiose pulmonaire sur un terrain immunocompétent: à propos de 2 cas

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017
La nocardiose est une infection rare, mais sévère, causée par des bactéries du genre nocardia, qui appartiennent à l'ordre des actinomycétales. Si elles peuvent toucher l'adulte immunocompétent, les nocardioses restent des pathologies de l'individu ...
Yasmina Rhofir, Rachida Zahraoui, Nabil tiress, Hicham Naji-Amrani, Mouna Soualhi, Jamal Eddine Bourkadi   +5 more
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Amoeba plate test with Acanthamoeba castellanii as an innovative tool for Nocardia recovery from sputum samples: a proof-of-concept study

Microbiology Spectrum
Nocardia recovery from pulmonary samples is challenging due to the lack of a specific medium and the abundance of overgrown respiratory flora. This study aimed to compare the amoeba plate test (APT), an amoebic coculture with Acanthamoeba castellanii ...
Coralie Espinasse, Ghislaine Descours, Marine Ibranosyan, Laetitia Beraud, Christophe Ginevra, Joelle Chastang, Oana Dumitrescu, Frédéric Laurent, Verónica Rodriguez Nava, Sophie Jarraud, Camille Allam   +10 more
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Change in macular thickness in a case of refractory diabetic macular edema with dexamethasone intravitreal implant in comparison to intravitreal bevacizumab: A case report

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012
We report on the significant improvement of central macular thickness in a case of clinically significant macular edema after dexamethasone 0.7 mg sustained-release intravitreal implant (Ozurdex®; Allergan, Inc, Irvine, CA, USA).
Ashish Sharma, Rangasamy J Madhusudhan, Vidhya Nadahalli, Shreekant A Damgude, Selva K Sundaramoorthy   +4 more
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A Novel Sensitive Immunoassay Targeting the 5-Methylthio-d-Xylofuranose-Lipoarabinomannan Epitope Meets the WHO's Performance Target for Tuberculosis Diagnosis. [PDF]

, 2018
The only currently commercialized point-of-care assay for tuberculosis (TB) that measures lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in urine (Alere LF-LAM) has insufficient sensitivity.
Broger, Tobias, Choudhary, Alok, Denkinger, Claudia M, Honnen, William J, Katsuragi, Kiyonori, Kawasaki, Masanori, Li, Andra, Lowary, Todd L, Mathew, Anu, Nahid, Payam, Pinter, Abraham, Plisova, Tatiana, Shen, Ke, Sigal, George B, Tsionsky, Michael, Zheng, Ruixiang Blake   +15 more
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Genomic diversity of Nocardia cyriacigeorgica and Nocardia farcinica infections

Microbial Pathogenesis
The aim of this study was to investigate the genomic profiles of Nocardia. Three clinical Nocardia isolates were collected and conducted whole genome sequencing. Subsequently, 489 publicly available assemblies of Nocardia isolates were downloaded from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) public database and identified genetic ...
Lingfang Di, Aiping Xu, Yafei Li, Chunyan Gu, Hao Xu, Xiuli Xia   +5 more
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Discovery of Novel Diagnostic Biomarkers for Common Pathogenic Nocardia Through Pan-Genome and Comparative Genome Analysis, with Preliminary Validation

Pathogens
The aim of this study was to reveal diagnostic biomarkers of considerable importance for common pathogenic Nocardia, utilizing pan-genomic and comparative genome analysis to accurately characterize clinical Nocardia infections. In this study, complete or
Chaohong Wang, Xinmiao Jia, Ming Wei, Jun Yan, Qing Sun, Sibo Long, Maike Zheng, Yiheng Shi, Guanglu Jiang, Yan Zhao, Hairong Huang, Xinting Yang, Li Gu, Guirong Wang   +13 more
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Identification of Nocardia Species Isolated from Soil Samples of the City of Tehran, Iran, Using Phenotypic Tests

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2014
Background: Nocardia are Gram-positive, aerobic and partially acid-fast and cause dangerous infectious disease, nocardiosis, by entering the respiratory tract or damaged skin.
Masoumeh Rasouli-nasab, Shadi Habibnia, Parvin Heidarieh, Mehdi Fatahi-Bafghi, Mohammad Reza Pourmand, Seyyed Saeed Eshraghi   +5 more
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Expression of interleukin 2 receptors on activated human B cells. [PDF]

, 1984
Using anti-Tac, a monoclonal anti-interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptor antibody, we have explored the possibility that certain activated B cells display receptors for IL-2.
Bongiovanni, KF, Depper, JM, Goldman, CK, Greene, WC, Korsmeyer, SJ, Leonard, WJ, Robb, RJ, Sharrow, SO, Waldmann, TA   +8 more
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Primary sternal osteomyelitis caused by Nocardia nova: case report and literature review

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
A 51 year old woman without significant past medical history or risk factors for Nocardia infection developed primary Nocardia nova sternal osteomyelitis with mediastinal abscess, diagnosed with open biopsy.
Ioannis G. Baraboutis, Athena Argyropoulou, Vasilios Papastamopoulos, Zoi Psaroudaki, Olga Paniara, Athanasios T. Skoutelis   +5 more
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