Genitourinary infections by
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
are rare. Here, we describe eight
S. cerevisiae
vulvovaginitis episodes where molecular (Affirm VPIII) and conventional microbiological methods ...(culture and carbohydrate assimilation) have proven to be inadequate for diagnostic purposes. DNA sequencing allowed the correct identification of the pathogen. All isolates were susceptible to most antifungal agents, with two of them also found to be susceptible-dose-dependent to itraconazole.
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EMUNI, FIS, FZAB, GEOZS, GIS, IJS, IMTLJ, KILJ, KISLJ, MFDPS, NLZOH, NUK, OILJ, PNG, SAZU, SBCE, SBJE, SBMB, SBNM, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK, VKSCE, ZAGLJ
According to Dendle, these traits both lure and provide comfort to a generation imbued in a complex, incorporeal reality surrounded by unpredictable bursts of global violence ("Millennial" 175-86). ......viruses are not considered to be strictly living beings according to traditional science, for, unlike parasites and bacteria, they are acellular organisms that need to live off other living cells in order to replicate their genetic material, otherwise being inert or dead (Crawford 8). ...they need to self-replicate-the virus releasing its genetic material within the cell until it lyses and liberates new viruses, and the zombie reproducing itself like a plague, making endless copies of itself. ...they both transform their victims, the cells and the bodies, homogenizing differences between victim and attacker and ultimately following similar processes at microscopic and macroscopic levels.
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Recent cinema has been a reliable purveyor of dystopian tales that focus on the global spread of viruses. The anxiety and fascination over the end of the world and, in particular, over the invasion ...of infectious pathogens has turned these films into apt modes of expression of a post-9/11 context of pervasive fear that sociologists like Ulrich Beck have termed "world risk society." This article provides a close textual analysis of one of these films, Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men (2006), situating it at the forefront of this trend. Following Zygmunt Bauman's notion of liquid fear, this article aims to explore how the visual language of the long take and the continuous superposition of intertextual references help to construct a liquid space and time in which viral threats, like epidemics and immunological fear mongering discourses on terrorism and migration, easily proliferate. The infertility epidemic works as a suitable metaphor of this liquid environment, representing not only the barren malaise of our globalized times but also every invisible fear that spreads across borders, invades and segregates individuals into healthy Us and contaminated and dehumanized Others. El cine reciente ofrece numerosos ejemplos de distopías basadas en la propagación de epidemias. La ansiedad y fascinación que provocan la idea del fin del mundo y, en particular, la invasión de enfermedades infecciosas han convertido a estas películas en el modo de expresión preferido de un contexto post-IIS de miedo generalizado que sociólogos como Ulrich Beck han denominado “la sociedad global de riesgo.” Este artículo ofrece un análisis textual de una de estas películas, Children of Men (2006), situándola como representante destacada de esta tendencia. Siguiendo la noción de miedo líquido de Zygmunt Bauman, este artículo sostiene que el lenguaje visual de los abundantes planos secuencia y la continua acumulación de referencias intertextuales ayudan a construir un espacio y tiempo líquidos en los que proliferan amenazas globales como pandemias o discursos del miedo sobre el terrorismo y la inmigración. La epidemia de infertilidad funciona como vehículo metafórico de este ambiente líquido, representando todos aquellos miedos invisibles que se extienden más allá de las fronteras, invaden y segregan a los individuos en sanos e infectados.
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Circulating Chlamydia trachomatis genotypes that cause infection in our geographic area were studied with the aim of detecting possible epidemiological peculiarities.
A total of 177 strains obtained ...between 2006 and 2008 were genotyped using a PCR with primers targeting the ompA gene, and later sequenced.
The most frequent genotypes were: E (45.3%), D (15.3%), G (10.2%) and F (9.6%). Other genotypes found were: B, H, I, J, K and LGV II.
The molecular assay used had a high yield (89%).
This collective work provides an engaging and deeply respectful approach to Steven Spielberg, one of the most commercially successful and at the same time critically despised filmmakers of his time. ...As its editor David Roche acknowledges in his introduction, he himself was reluctant at first to deal with a filmmaker who is recognized for his emotional manipulation and popcorn blockbusters (11). This initial reticence, which is probably common to many other scholars, is soon dispelled by a tho...
•A rapid presumption diagnosis of botulism should be made based on key symptoms-signs.•Post exercise facilitation represents a simple and reliable diagnostic test.•Antitoxin may not be necessary in ...patients with late-presenting mild clinical picture.
Botulism is a life-threatening presynaptic disorder of the neuromuscular transmission produced by the neurotoxin elaborated by the botulinum neurotoxin-producing clostridia. We describe the management of a case series of 14 patients, members of 5 different families that were exposed to home-canned tuna and developed symptoms compatible with a mild clinical presentation of foodborne botulism. The electrophysiological study of the index case represented a reliable diagnostic test as it demonstrated a slight presynaptic dysfunction of the neuromuscular junction. Definite diagnosis was later confirmed by microbiological tests. Out of 14, only 3 patients presenting with a shorter period from symptom onset and with signs of multiple cranial neuropathies received botulinum antitoxin. All the patients remained stable and recovered progressively. Treatment with antitoxin may not be necessary in patients with late-presenting disease and mild and stable clinical picture.
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8.
Introduction Schmitt, Isabelle; Echeverria, Julia
Film journal,
07/2022
8
Journal Article
Introduction Schmitt, Isabelle; Echeverria, Julia
Film journal,
2022
Journal Article
Open access
Many borders to cross… some have already been outlined in issue 7 of the journal, actual geographical borders as well as historical, political, social and gender ones, and now time has come to ...examine virtual and metafictional ones. One could contend that, on film, all frontiers are virtual, as they and their possible (or impossible) crossings are but represented and abstracted from reality. Yet the objects of study here make a self-conscious attempt to depict the border-crossing dynamics exi...
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