In Mexico, Triatoma longipennis (Usinger), Triatoma picturata (Usinger), and Triatoma pallidipennis (Stal), primary Chagas disease vector species of the phyllosoma complex, were analyzed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD).Sixteen decametric primers resolved individual profiles not identical, but partially discriminative between species.An
Dana Shalmon,1 Joel L Cohen,2 Marina Landau,3 Ines Verner,4 Eli Sprecher,1,5 Ofir Artzi1 1Department of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2AboutSkin Dermatology and AboutSkin Research, Greenwood and Lone Tree, CO, USA; 3Private Practice, Herzliya, Israel; 4Verner Clinic Tel Aviv, University of Rome “Guglielmo Ma
To evaluate the ICU mortality rate of mechanically ventilated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients and to identify the factors that were associated with ICU mortality.The impact of surgical lung biopsy (SLB) in patients with unexplained pulmonary infiltrates was also evaluated.Methods: Forty-one mechanically ventilated HSCT rec