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2011

ALISPORIVIR – A HOST-TARGETING ANTIVIRAL, PROVIDES LOW VIRAL BREAKTHROUGH RATE AND HIGH BARRIER TO RESISTANCE IN HCV GENOTYPE 1 TREATMENT-NAiVE PATIENTS IN THE PHASE IIB ESSENTIAL STUDY.

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Organizational Challenges and Barriers to Implementing IT Governance in a Hospital.

This paper describes the challenges and barriers to the introduction of “IT Governance” into a Hospital environment. It further addresses the relationship between corporate governance (hospital strategy and organization) and the role of IT Governance in managing new services deployment.
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Rotavirus stimulates release of serotonin (5-HT) from human enterochromaffin cells and activates brain structures involved in nausea and vomiting.

Rotavirus (RV) is the major cause of severe gastroenteritis in young children. A virus-encoded enterotoxin, NSP4 is proposed to play a major role in causing RV diarrhoea but how RV can induce emesis, a hallmark of the illness, remains unresolved.
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Prevalence and genetic diversity of Babesia and Anaplasma species in cattle in Sudan

Disease prevalence studies are one of the most valuable tools to demonstrate the risk or impact of certain infections in local and global economies. The data obtained in these studies contribute to develop strategies for disease control.
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PACES: a National leadership program in support of Primary-Care Reform in Portugal.

Purpose
– This paper aims to describe the training strategy developed to provide the leadership of a new coordination structure of health centers in Portugal, with managerial competencies adapted to the requirements of their function, in support of primary care reform.
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Inhibition of efflux pumps in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecalis resistant strains by triterpenoids from Momordica balsamina.

Six cucurbitane-type triterpenoids (1-6) isolated from the aerial parts of Momordica balsamina were evaluated for their ability to inhibit the activity of bacterial efflux pumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) COL(OXA), Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212, Salmonella enterica subsp.
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Do nurses have a different physical health profile? A systematic review of experimental and observational studies on nurses’ physical health.

AIM:
To review the evidence on nurses’ health systematically.
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Karavilagenin C derivatives as antimalarials.

Karavilagenin C (1), a cucurbitane-type triterpenoid, previously isolated from the aerial parts of Momordica balsamina, was acylated with different alkanoyl, aroyl and cinnamoyl chlorides/anydrides, yielding ten new mono or diesters, karavoates F (7) and H-P (8-16).
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Trypanosoma brucei: Immunisation with plasmid DNA encoding invariant surface glycoprotein gene is able to induce partial protection in experimental African trypanosomiasis.

Trypanosoma brucei is the etiological agent responsible for African trypanosomiasis, an infectious pathology which represents a serious problem of public health and economic losses in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Effective therapy with the neuroleptic thioridazine as an adjunct to second line of defence drugs, and the potential that thioridazine offers for new patents that cover a variety of “new uses”.

New and active infections of tuberculosis continue to increase globally. Although antibiotic susceptible infections can be readily cured with isoniazide and rifampicin, infections resistant to these two antibiotics, named Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR TB), are problematic for therapy, extol high costs in terms of human suffering and finances, and when these MDR infections progress to Extensive Drug Resistant TB (XDR TB) status, they are not only difficult to treat, they produce high levels of mortality regardless of therapeutic modality employed.
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