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Strain- and Dose-Dependent Reduction of Toxoplasma gondii Burden in Pigs Is Associated with Interferon-Gamma Production by CD8(+) Lymphocytes in a Heterologous Challenge Model.
cellular immune responses, the presence of viable parasites and the parasite load in edible meat samples were evaluated. In homologous infection experiments the parasite persistence was clearly ...
Model-Based Classification for Digital PCR: Your Umbrella for Rain.
conditional on its observed fluorescence and the distributional shape in no-template control samples. This methodology acknowledges the inherent uncertainty of the classification and provides a natural measure ...
Discrimination of three genetically close Aspergillus species by using high resolution melting analysis applied to indoor air as case study.
sydowii, and 0.1 pg of gDNA for A. versicolor. The HRM analysis was also successfully tested on environmental samples. CONCLUSION: We reported the development of HRM tools for the discrimination of A. ...
Assessment of dietary intake of 10 intense sweeteners by the Italian population.
share data to identify the brands more representative of the market. A sample of 326 foods (table-top sweeteners included), beverages and food supplements containing intense sweeteners was collected and ...
An integrated strategy combining DNA walking and NGS to detect GMO
Second, the potential impacts of food processing were investigated using rice noodle samples. Finally, GMO mixtures and a real-life sample were analyzed to illustrate the applicability of the proposed ...
Neonatal thyroid-stimulating hormone concentration and psychomotor development at preschool age.
screened in 2008, 2009 and 2010 by the Brussels newborn screening centre. The sampling was stratified by gender and TSH range (0.45-15 mIU/L). Infants with congenital hypothyroidism (>15 mIU/L), low birth ...
Nicotine Dependence and Urinary Nicotine, Cotinine and Hydroxycotinine Levels in Daily Smokers.
cigarettes per day among biomarker concentrations and individual FTND items. METHODS: Urine samples and questionnaire data of 239 daily smokers were obtained. Nicotine, cotinine and hydroxycotinine urinary ...
Development of a Luminex xTAG® assay for cost-effective multiplex detection of β-lactamases in Gram-negative bacteria.
coli strains encoding both blaTEM-1 and blaTEM-52 genes. The turn-around time from single colony to result is 5 h and total consumable costs remained <€5 per sample. CONCLUSIONS: We designed and ...
Ecotoxicological potential of antibiotic pollution-industrial wastewater: bioavailability, biomarkers, and occurrence in Mytilus galloprovincialis.
ultimately to public health. In this work, we collected the wastewater sample from a pharmaceutical industry, which specializes in the antibiotics manufacture, during the years 2014-2015. Generally, this ...
Study of the possible migration risks of food contact materials for children under 3 years
samples. We have assessed the possible release of unknown chemicals from PP, PES, PA, Tritan™ and silicone baby bottles. The migration solutions from the baby bottles were extracted and analysed on GC-(EI) ...