Summary: Polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs), the most abundant white blood cells, are recruited rapidly to sites of infection to exert potent anti-microbial activity.Information regarding their role in infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is limited.Here we report that addition of PMNs to HIV-infected cultures of human tonsil tissue
Infectious diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract are rare, but certain bacteria including Treponema pallidum and Mycobacterium tuberculosis may infect the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum even in an immunocompetent individual.Gastric syphilis is difficult to diagnose because it presents with non-specific symptoms and diverse endoscopic findi
Identification of risk factors in patients with a particular disease can be analyzed in clinical data sets by using feature selection procedures of pattern recognition and data mining methods.The applicability of the relaxed linear separability (RLS) method of feature Foot Warmer subset selection was checked for high-dimensional and mixed type (gen
Mycotoxins, such as aflatoxins, fumonisins, trichothecenes, and zearalenone, are increasing in visibility as a public health threat through both acute and chronic exposure in food.USAID through its Feed the Future program has sponsored research in Nepal on mycotoxin contamination and the correlated high levels of stunting in children under age five