Respiratory specimens constituted the most frequent source of A. baumannii (56.3%) and P. aeruginosa (43.6%); urine samples were the most frequent source of K. pneumoniae (28.8%).
A total of 339 patients (25%) of 1,333 eligible pregnant women approached for recruitment accepted to participate between August 2006 and December 2008, and 248 mother-infant pairs (73% patients) with complete data on all studied biomarkers in maternal and cord blood specimens constituted the final study cohort.
The comparative analysis of the liver and plasma proteomes generated from human and mouse specimens, constitutes a novel and powerful strategy for HCC biomarker discovery.
Thus, the isolation of P. aeruginosa from blood cultures, as well as respiratory specimens, constitutes strong evidence of true Pseudomonas pneumonia.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance NMRR) was used to measure moisture profiles during drying of mono-material plaster specimens and of specimens constituted by the same plasters applied on fired-clay brick.
The Weibull size effect, consisting of an increase in fracture strength with decreasing specimen size, constitutes the basis of the probabilistic design of brittle structures.
Both convex and concave configurations with a diverse curvature are considered for the specimens, constituted by four Portuguese bricks bonded by three joints of conventional mortar.
But as herbarium specimens constitute an invaluable resource for the study of genetic diversity of plants, algae and fungi, several comparative studies have addressed the problem of extracting DNA from herbarium specimens.
The 1802 variant specimens constitute 234 distinct types of genetic variants (i.e., with a distinct ompA mutational pattern that may be shared by several strains), for which no insertion/deletion or any trace of recombination event was found in ompA.
Three dysplastic specimens, constituted by FCD type IIa, had the BRAF V600E mutation: all these three cases were associated with a BRAF V600E mutated tumor (one GG and two PXA) (see Fig. 1A and B).
