Sputum-LAM had good sensitivity (86%) but poor specificity (15%) likely due to test cross-reactivity with several mouth-residing organisms including actinomycetes and nocardia species.
We determined that this was probably due to cross-reactivity with LAM-like microbial carbohydrate surface molecules in the cell walls of several mouth-residing organisms such as Candida, and many species of Actinobacteria.
Thus, invasiveness of a particular introduced species is determined not only by features of the introduced species, but emerges as the combination of traits of the introduced organism, identity and diversity of the organisms residing in the potentially invaded system as well as physico-chemical properties of this system.
Moreover, differences in ER expression in cultured osteoblasts and osteoblasts residing in living organisms make the results difficult to extrapolate to the living organism.
Snow and ice reduce the amount of solar radiation available for organisms residing in the ice and water.
This paper reports on the Canterbury UV developed at the University of Canterbury, which targets to inspect and clean sea chests of ships to eliminate bio-security risks caused by small organisms residing in the sea chests.
Most bacteria enter the lungs via small aspirations of organisms residing in the throat or nose.
The elevation at any location on the landscape represents the fitness level available to organisms residing at that location.
Regardless, the pathways represented by the P. carinii transcripts provide us with the first insights of the metabolism of these fungal organisms residing in the host lung.
Pseudogenes are known to accumulate in endosymbiotic organisms residing in a sheltered environment with low exposure to genetic parasites, such as horizontally transferred DNA, bacteriophages and transposons, since the benefits of genomic deletions are removed [9].
In addition to efficacy, it is desirable for an insecticide to have a high selectivity for its target pests in order to minimize environmental impact, and to conserve biological control services provided by other organisms residing in the treated area.
