Pak J Med Sci
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The objective of the current study was to find prevalence of relevant ESBL and carbapenemase producing genes in nosocomial E. coli and K. pneumoniae isolates and to check phenotypic susceptibility of all ESBL positive isolates to carbapenems. ⋯ The significant presence of both ESBL and carbapenemase producers and co-existence of ESBL and carbapenemases in the same isolates is worrisome.
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To explore the diagnostic effect of ultrasound imaging on the illness severity, and to analyze neurobehavioral development of neonates with Infectious Pneumonia (IPN), Self- Adaptation (SD), and Spatial Smoothing (SS) technologies were adopted to build SDSS. Then, the WFFSF algorithm based on Wiener Filtering (WF) and Feature Space Fusion (FSF) and the SNRP-FSF algorithm based on Signal-to-noise ratio post-filtering (SNRP) and FSF were introduced for comparison. ⋯ In contrast with traditional algorithms, the SDSS algorithm based on AD has a better reconstruction effect on neonatal IPN ultrasound images. The lung ultrasound score can clearly indicate the severity of the disease and neurobehavioral development of neonate IPN, and the lung ultrasound score is negatively correlated with the severity of the child's disease and the abnormality of neurobehavioral development.
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This study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic value of platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in vaginitis patients. ⋯ The present study demonstrated that NLR levels are elevated in bacterial vaginosis and NLR levels can be used as a reflection of systemic inflammatory response in vaginosis patients.
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To study the ability of aptamer-modified nano-gold rods and liquid carbon-targeted PLGA nanoparticles to target in vitro using compressed sensing reconstruction algorithm, and observe the phenomenon of mediating ultrasound / photoacoustic imaging. ⋯ The successfully prepared targeting nanoparticles have good targeting and specificity for breast cancer MCF-7 cells, and it has obvious effects on ultrasound / photoacoustic imaging, and has the potential to become a dual-mode ultrasound / photoacoustic targeted contrast agent. The various characteristics provide experimental basis for subsequent in vivo targeting experiments and are expected to become good target diagnostic molecular probes.
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To compare efficacy of intravitreal bevacizumab augmented with Panretinal photocoagulation versus Panretinal photocoagulation alone in high risk proliferative diabetic retinopathy. ⋯ Intravitreal Bevacizumab augmented with PRP is more effective in early regression of neovessels in high risk PDR patients.