While Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has come to prominence as major epidemics have
occurred in North America and Europe over the recent decade, awareness and surveillance …

This literature review aims to identify potential alternatives to the use of organophosphorus
pesticides for the control of mite pests in stored commodities. Substances including insect …

Trends in extreme daily temperature and rainfall have been analysed from 1961 to 1998 for
Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. This 38‐year period was chosen to optimize data …

The long-term protective effect of stronger back muscles on the spine was determined in 50
healthy white postmenopausal women, aged 58–75 years, 8 years after they had completed …

Clostridium difficile ribotype (RT) 017 is an important toxigenic C. difficile RT which, due to a
deletion in the repetitive region of the tcdA gene, only produces functional toxin B. Strains …

West-central African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) harbor strains of simian
immunodeficiency virus (SIVcpz) that are closely related to all three groups of human …

This paper describes a robust and efficient method for solving the equations corresponding
to an equation-of-state (EOS) compositional model. The method is developed for an adaptive…

COMPETITIVE interaction between females of the same social group is characteristic of most
primate species 1–3 . In Old World monkeys, females of high social rank maintain priority of …

Several studies have examined trends in Australian mean temperatures. Torok and Nicholls
(1996) used a set of high-quality, non-urban temperature records to show that both annual …

Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype (RT) 014 is well-established in both human and porcine
populations in Australia, raising the possibility that C. difficile infection (CDI) may have a …