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Empirical antimicrobial guidelines are constantly evolving in response to laboratory susceptibility data. Broad spectrum agents exert a selection pressure gradually increasing antimicrobial resistance over time. In the level 3 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the majority of blood culture isolates are coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS),…

Cephalexin is a first generation cephalosporin widely used in rabbits. Its spectrum includes Pasteurella multocida and Staphylococcus aureus. These bacteria, together with Bordetella bronchiseptica, are the main cause of respiratory infections. Although many textbooks on rabbit therapeutics report the use of cephalexin, including administration schedules,…

Immunotherapy with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is widely used for treatment of non-muscle invasive urothelial cancer. Complications associated with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin treatment are common and sometime serious. An unusual case of a tuberculousbalanitis associated with intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy and a review of the literature is presented.…

Objective: To report a rare case of lipogranuloma of the head & neck. Case Report: We present a 33-year old female patient with a 2-month history of left neck mass refractory to antibiotic therapy.  Laboratory workup and fine needle aspiration biopsy was non-diagnostic.  Excisional biopsy revealed…

Background: Hepatitis B is an inflammatory disease of liver due to double stranded DNA virus of the hepadnaviridae, transmitted through contact with the blood or other body fluids of an infected person. Hepatitis B poses a major health concern and is the world’s most common…

The objective of this work was to isolate and characterize Bacillus bearing multiple plant growth-promoting traits from diseased roots of soybean and to further assess its inoculation effect on soil rhizosphere properties and nutrition in soybean. The isolate was putatively identified as Bacillus on the…

As the learners have their own preference in learning, trainers should customise their training programmes and training methods to maximize the outcome of the training. This paper analyses the major theories on learning styles and applies one of them to the students in Dubai to…

A heuristic load management (H-LMA) algorithm is presented for coordination of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) in distribution networks to minimize system losses and regulate bus voltages. The impacts of optimization period T (varied from 15 minutes to 24 hours) and optimization time interval   (varied 15…

One major undertaking that hospitals often must consider is outsourcing.  However, before senior leadership can give outsourcing a green light, they must consider (a) reasons why to outsource, (b) obstacles to outsourcing, (c) best practices of outsourcing, and (d) implications to hospital management.  There are…

The paper aims at identifying the strategic commitment in the relationship between strategic role and the effectiveness of strategy implementation from middle manager’s view of Islamic Banking in Indonesia. Although numerous deliberations highlight the strategic commitment of middle managers in the strategy implementation, it seems…