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Comparative Evaluation of Susceptibility Results from the Liofilchem Antifungal Multodiscs and the VITEK® 2 Susceptibility Tests for Candida Species Causing Bloodstream Infections at the University Hospital of the West Indies

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Introduction: Determination of local Candida species susceptibility profiles is imperative in establishing empiric guidelines for candidemia, given the associated high mortality rates. Whilst broth dilution methods (eg. microdilution) are considered the “
Mrs Rochelle Charvis, Dr Glendee Reynolds Campbell, Dr Neil McKnight, Mrs. Alrica Bruce-Mowatt   +3 more
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A healthy patient with positive mantoux test but negative quantiferon Gold assay and no evidence of risk factors – to treat or not to treat?

IDCases, 2019
A 56-year-old woman who vaccinated as a child with the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), now tests positive to the tuberculin skin test (TST) but test negative to the Quantiferon Gold assay.
Lazara Karelia Montane Jaime, Patrick E. Akpaka, Sehlule Vuma, Angel A Justiz-Vaillant   +3 more
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Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Rickettsia africae in the West Indies

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Rickettsia africae is the agent of African tick-bite fever, a mild but common disease of local persons and tourists in Africa. The major vector of this spotted fever group rickettsia is most likely Amblyomma variegatum, the tropical bont tick, which has ...
Patrick J. Kelly
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Castles in the Air: Sectarian Puritanism, the Revolutionary Caribbean and the Forgotten Colony of New Warwick, Trinidad

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines an overlooked attempt to colonize the island of Trinidad during the English Revolution of the 1640s. This project was engineered by a consortium of radical puritans, seeking to create a protected enclave in the New World for separatists, anabaptists and other sectaries.
DAVID R. COMO
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Assessing online learning readiness and perceived stress among first year medical students during COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country study

Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2021
Md Anwarul Azim Majumder, Damian Cohall, Nkemcho Ojeh, Mike Campbell, Oswald Peter Adams, Bidyadhar Sa, Katija Khan, Russell Pierre, Helen Trotman-Edwards   +8 more
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Cardio-Vascular Disease and Cancer

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2015
Objective: To report the level of utilization of clinical preventive services by older adults in Jamaica and to identify independent factors associated with utilization.
K. Mitchell-Fearon DrPh, D. Willie-Tyndale MSc, N. Waldron MPH, D. Holder-Nevins PhD, K. James MPH, H. Laws MPH, D. Eldemire-Shearer PhD   +6 more
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Oligochaeta, Naididae of the West Indies and adjacent regions

Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2002
A very large collection of Naididae of the West Indies (153 localities), Suriname (15), Venezuela (2) and Florida (1) is studied. Five new species Nais barua, Dero scalariformis, D. tuna, Aulophorus kalina, A. barbatus are described.
Gilberto Righi, Viviane Hamoui
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The ‘Great Frost’ of 1708–9 in Britain and the Condescensions of Posterity

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the ‘great frost’ of 1709 and its impact on economic life in Britain, challenging a popular view that, based on gross domestic product (GDP) estimates, it was catastrophic. It shows that the annual GDP figures for the period have such wide error margins that they cannot establish the scale of the disruption; that the ...
Julian Hoppit
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