Inhibiting Amikacin Resistance in Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria with Cadmium and Pyrithione.

The ongoing antibiotic resistance crisis is one of the most pressing public health challenges. Multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens are reaching the point where some are becoming untreatable. Consequently, besides discovering novel antibiotics, alternative strategies must be explored to manage the problem.

Corrosion of a Fassier-Duval Telescopic Nail Causing Pain and Osteolysis: A Case Report.

Case: A 15-year-old girl known with osteogenesis imperfecta presented with left femoral pain. She had been treated with multiple Fassier-Duval intramedullary nails, which were still in situ. Radiographic imaging demonstrated focal osteolysis and periosteal reaction at the telescopic junction of the rod in the distal femur.

Inhibition of Enzymatic Acetylation-Mediated Resistance to Plazomicin by Silver Ions.

Plazomicin is a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved semisynthetic aminoglycoside.

The slow light and dark oscillation of the clinical electro-oculogram.

Background: The standing potential of the eye exhibits a slow damped oscillation under light and dark conditions that continues for at least 80 minutes. However, our understanding of the relationship between the slow dark and light oscillation has not been previously studied. The aim of this study was to explore through regression analysis a model of these oscillations in order to establish if they may have the same underlying cellular generators.

A meta-analysis of clinical electro-oculography values.

Background: The aim of the meta-analysis was to derive a range of mean normal clinical electrooculogram (EOG) values from a systematic review of published EOG studies that followed the guidelines of the ISCEV standard for clinical electro-oculography.

Methods: A systematic literature review was performed using four relevant databases limited to peer-reviewed articles in English between 1967 and February 2017. Studies reporting clinical EOG or FO normal values were included when the report used a standard 30° horizontal saccade, a retinal luminance of between 100 and 250 cd m, and had > 10 subjects in their normative values.

Tourniquet application only during cement fixation in total knee arthroplasty: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial.

Background:   The functional benefits of tourniquet application for short periods compared with standard duration applications during total knee arthroplasty surgery have not been well explored. We aimed to compare functional outcomes between tourniquet application of short duration (during cement fixation only) and tourniquet application of longer duration (from skin incision to just after cement fixation).

Methods:   We planned to randomize 230 patients to short and long duration groups.

Random multispace quantization as an analytic mechanism for BioHashing of biometric and random identity inputs.

Biometric analysis for identity verification is becoming a widespread reality. Such implementations necessitate large-scale capture and storage of biometric data, which raises serious issues in terms of data privacy and (if such data is compromised) identity theft. These problems stem from the essential permanence of biometric data, which (unlike secret passwords or physical tokens) cannot be refreshed or reissued if compromised.