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Ebook "Mycobacteria protocols (Second edition)" updates and refines the methods of the well-received first edition while adding newly developed methods culled from the most cutting-edge research in the field. Ranging from the basics of sub-cellular fractionation to advanced methods using specialized growth conditions and whole genome, transcriptome and proteome analysis, the chapters conform to the Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, providing step-by-step laboratory protocols, lists of necessary materials and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

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The bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine protects against tuberculosis and heterologous infections but elicits high inter-individual variation in specific and nonspecific, or trained, immune responses. While the gut microbiome is increasingly recognized as an important modulator of vaccine responses and immunity in general, its potential role in BCG-induced protection is largely unknown.

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This paper investigates the health screening procedure of Burmese migrants in Thailand. Since ethnography is very useful for social research, the investigator of this study employed an ethnographic perceptive, in which the dual roles of the ethnographer are used to develop an understanding of what it is like to live in a particular setting: the investigator must both become a part of the lives of the participants of the study while also maintaining the role of an observer.

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Intravesical instillation of bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) as a treatment for superfcial bladder cancer rarely causes pulmonary complications. While published cases have been pathologically characterized by multiple granulomatous lesions due to disseminated infection, no case presenting as a solitary pulmonary nodule has been reported.

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While tuberculosis is considered a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a restrictive pattern of pulmonary impairment may actually be more common among tuberculosis survivors. We aimed to determine the nature of pulmonary impairment before and after treatment among people with HIV and tuberculosis and identify risk factors for long-term impairment.

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There is limited evidence to guide treatment for pediatric cervical spinal tuberculosis with kyphosis (PCSTK). This study retrospectively evaluates the safety, feasibility and efficacy of 360-degree arthrodesis combined with anterior debridement and decompression for treating PCSTK, while simultaneously emphasizing the role of posterior fixation for the correction and maintenance of the kyphosis angle.

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Infectious diseases have major adverse effects on livestock production, both in terms of economics and on animal welfare. 10-25 % loss in milk production efficiency has been reported in tuberculosis infected animals. Udder infections alone account for annual economic loss of Rs. 6053.21 crores incurred by dairy industry in India. Similarly 10-25 % loss in milk production efficiency has been reported in tuberculosis infected animals.

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On the ground, this might mean the chance to share the benefits and profits from a communal district heating system. At the strategic level, every decision must aim to improve quality of life while also reducing the levels of pollution, water and energy use, and waste. Local authorities already have legislative powers to promote the well-being of their citizens, and yet these remain overwhelmingly under-used. Given the nature and timescales of climate change, there is no alternative to making hard decisions.

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The First Five Year Plan (1955-60) document mentions a number of problems facing the livestock sector. 3 Livestock herds had been depleted when evacuees took livestock heads with them while the incoming refugees slaughtered livestock to meet their food needs. The imbalance between supply and demand worsened further because the proportion of meat eaters in the population increased. 4 The requirements for draft power in agriculture placed further demands on the meager livestock population.

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Treating comorbid depression could increase adherence to interventions for chronic medical illness Comorbid depression is the existence of a depressive disorder (i.e. major depression, dysthymia or adjustment disorder) along with a physical disease (infectious, cardiovascular diseases, neurological disorders, diabetes mellitus or cancer). It is neither a chance phenomenon nor a mere feeling of demoral- ization or sadness brought on by the hardships of a chronic illness.

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Residency programs must demonstrate substantial compliance with requirements established by the Review Committee for the specialty to be accredited. There are 27 Review Committees, each with specialty-specific program requirements, but all contain a subset of common program requirements (CPR) that all programs, regardless of specialty, must meet. The recently revised CPR reflect the transition from a process-oriented resident education to one of outcomes.

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Most programs can use their own records to obtain outcome information for at least some of their outcome indicators. For example, homeless shelters can track the number of overnight uses of their facilities. Food distribution programs can track the number of meals they provide or the number of different people they serve. And most programs should be able to use their records to track their response times from client request to service provision.

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There has been a considerable effort to tout the merits of fiscal austerity as a route to restoring growth. This argument has been put forward in direct opposition to arguments for increased stimulus for boosting the economy. While there may be a case that lower deficits can foster growth under some circumstances, the evidence presented in the Broadbent and Daly paper does not suggest that a movement toward lower deficits in the current economic situation in the United States would be expansionary.

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First, as the paper notes, expenditure adjustments are relatively rare. While the paper argues that expenditure adjustments are clearly preferable in the sense of producing better growth outcomes, it identifies almost three times as many tax adjustments as expenditure adjustments. With just 11 spending adjustments in more than 600 country/year observations, expenditure adjustments are clearly not very common.

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The share of income going to the wealthiest one percent of households more than doubled between 1979 and 2007, from 10 to 23.5 percent. The concentration is even greater when wealth and assets are included. In 2007, the top five percent of households controlled 37 percent of all income, but 60 percent of all net worth. Even after accounting for taxes and transfers, the incomes of the top one percent (adjusted for inflation) grew 275 percent between 1979 and 2007, while those of the middle class grew less than 40 percent. Partly a result of the very large tax cuts...

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Asia whose growing share in world output is also raising the oil demand of the world economy as a whole. Furthermore, a thin margin of spare oil production capacity is expected to continue into 2007 despite new supplies from both non-OPEC and OPEC countries, as existing production comes close to its short-term capacity while some existing fields, e.g. the North Sea, suffer from declining yields. Rising crude oil stocks, which are close to five- year highs, will do little to dampen the oil price given the lack of spare capacity in oil production.

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Based on the analysis, a number of conclusions emerge. The new member states stand to gain substantially from the adoption of the euro. The lower interest rate in the Euro Area will promote catch up growth, while financial stability will be enhanced due to the elimination of exchange rate risk to the euro. Being a member of the Euro Area will make the financing of the large current account deficits easier and less costly. Furthermore it will eliminate the risk of a currency crisis following sharp reversals of capital flows. ...

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The context in which the forecast is set includes the following features. The World economy is expected to continue growing strongly in 2006 and 2007, with growth rates of 4.7 per cent and 4.4 per cent forecast. All the major economies will contribute to this performance. For example, the United States is forecast to grow by 3 per cent in both 2006 and 2007, Japan is forecast to grow by 2.7 per cent in 2006 and 2.1 per cent 2007 while the corresponding figures for China are 9.2 per cent and 8.2 per cent. ...

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Data are rapidly accumulating from all over the world regarding the efficacy of standardized treatment regimens for drug-sensitive, drug-resistant TB and latent TB infection. While we are facing the menace of multi drug-resistant TB [MDR-TB], extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis [XDR­ TB] has emerged threatening to undermine global efforts at TB control. Hence we have included chapters to cover all aspects of the diagnosis and management of MDR TB. This book will cover all these developments in great detail....

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oracle has focused development around a single source code model since 1983. while each database implementation includes some operating system–specific source code at very low levels in order to better leverage specific platforms, the inter- faces that users, developers, and administrators deal with for each version are consis- tent.

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