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  1. The most widely cultivated cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L., AD-genome) is derived from tetraploidization between A- and D-genome species. G. arboreum L. (A-genome) and G. raimondii Ulbr. (D-genome) are two of close...

    Authors: Xueying Guan, Gyoungju Nah, Qingxin Song, Joshua A Udall, David M Stelly and Z Jeffrey Chen
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:493
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Vasopressin administration has been tested in cardiac arrest. However it has not been tested when cardiac arrest occurs in certain circumstances, as in sepsis, where it may have a major role. The aim of the st...

    Authors: Thomas Loukas, Ioannis Vasileiadis, Helen Anastasiou, Eleftherios Karatzanos, Vasiliki Gerovasili, Emmeleia Nana, Giorgos Tzanis and Serafim Nanas
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:492
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  3. Turner syndrome is characterized by complete or partial X-chromosome monosomy and has various clinical features, including horseshoe kidney. Leiomyosarcoma is an extremely rare tumor that accounts for only 0.1...

    Authors: Toshikazu Tanaka, Takuya Koie, Ikuya Iwabuchi, Masaru Ogasawara, Toshiaki Kawaguchi and Chikara Ohyama
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:491
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  4. In 2009, a retrospective study reported the detection of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) in clinical isolates derived from individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomy...

    Authors: David M Irlbeck, Suzanne D Vernon, K Kimberly McCleary, Lucinda Bateman, Nancy G Klimas, Charles W Lapp, Daniel L Peterson, James R Brown, Katja S Remlinger, David A Wilfret and Peter Gerondelis
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:461
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  5. Syntrichia caninervis is a desiccation-tolerant moss and the dominant bryophyte of the Biological Soil Crusts (BSCs) found in the Mojave and Gurbantunggut deserts. Next generation high throughput sequencing techn...

    Authors: Bei Gao, Daoyuan Zhang, Xiaoshuang Li, Honglan Yang and Andrew J Wood
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:490
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are the two autoimmune spectrum of thyroid disease. Cases of conversion from hyperthyroidism to hypothyroidism have been reported but conversion from hypothyroidism ...

    Authors: Saira Furqan, Naeem-ul Haque and Najmul Islam
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:489
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  7. The sequencing, de novo assembly and annotation of transcriptome datasets generated with next generation sequencing (NGS) has enabled biologists to answer genomic questions in non-model species with unprecedented...

    Authors: Shorash Amin, Peter J Prentis, Edward K Gilding and Ana Pavasovic
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:488
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  8. Central core disease is a congenital myopathy, characterized by presence of central core-like areas in muscle fibers. Patients have mild or moderate weakness, hypotonia and motor developmental delay. The disea...

    Authors: Thais Cuperman, Stephanie A Fernandes, Naila CV Lourenço, Lydia U Yamamoto, Helga CA Silva, Rita CM Pavanello, Guilherme L Yamamoto, Mayana Zatz, Acary SB Oliveira and Mariz Vainzof
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:487
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  9. Our group conducted a cluster-randomised trial in 100 villages of Orissa, India to measure the impact of a rural sanitation intervention implemented under the government of India's Total Sanitation Campaign, o...

    Authors: Sophie Boisson, Peppin Sosai, Shubajyoti Ray, Parimita Routray, Belen Torondel, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Bishakha Bhanja and Thomas Clasen
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:486
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. The widespread use of pesticides in public health protection and agricultural pest control has caused severe environmental pollution and health hazards, especially in developing countries, including cases of s...

    Authors: Narjis Badrane, Majda Askour, Kamal Berechid, Khalid Abidi, Tarek Dendane and Amine Ali Zeggwagh
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:485
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  11. De novo genome assembly can be challenging due to inherent properties of the reads, even when using current state-of-the-art assembly tools based on de Bruijn graphs. Often users are not bio-informaticians and, i...

    Authors: Basil Britto Xavier, Julia Sabirova, Moons Pieter, Jean-Pierre Hernalsteens, Henri de Greve, Herman Goossens and Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:484
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  13. Snake bite is a common problem in the North Central province of Sri Lanka. Common krait (Bungarus careuleus), Ceylon krait (Bungarus ceylonicus), Cobra (Naja naja), Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii), Saw-scaled v...

    Authors: Roshini Kilanthi Karunanayake, Dissanayake Mohottalage Randima Dissanayake and Aranjan Lionel Karunanayake
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:482
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Untreated bacteriuria during pregnancy has been shown to be associated with low birth-weight and premature delivery. Therefore, routine screening for bacteriuria is advocated. The decision about how to screen ...

    Authors: Tazebew Demilie, Getenet Beyene, Selabat Melaku and Wondewosen Tsegaye
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:481
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  17. Oral health problems can generate considerable negative effects on the quality of life of individuals living with HIV. The aim of this study was investigate the oral health status and its impact on the quality...

    Authors: Natália Spillere Rovaris, Dayani Galato, Fabiana Schuelter-Trevisol, Jane da Silva, Leandro da Silva Linhar, Daniela Alba Nickel and Jefferson Traebert
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:478
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  18. Members of the Orthomyxoviridae family, which contains an important fish pathogen called the infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV), have a genome consisting of eight segments of single-stranded RNA that encode di...

    Authors: Álvaro Díaz, Katherine García, Andrea Navarrete, Gastón Higuera and Jaime Romero
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:477
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  19. Necrotizing fasciitis is an infectious process characterized by rapidly progressing necrosis of superficial fascia and subcutaneous tissue with subsequent necrosis of overlying skin.

    Authors: John Magala, Patson Makobore, Timothy Makumbi, Sam Kaggwa, Edris Kalanzi and Moses Galukande
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:476
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  20. The burden of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States has increased dramatically over the past 30 years with almost 613,000 patients receiving renal replacement therapy in 2011. That same year, mor...

    Authors: Jenni Yoon, Sritika Thapa, Robert Dobbin Chow and Bernard G Jaar
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:475
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  22. Dengue virus infection (DVI) is very common infection. There is scarcity of data on factor associated with increased hospital stay and mortality in dengue virus infection (DVI). This study was done to know abo...

    Authors: Muhammad Abdul Mabood Khalil, Jackson Tan, Muhammd Ashhad Ullah Khalil, Safia Awan and Manickam Rangasami
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:473
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  23. Demographic development is accompanied by an increasingly aging society. Concerning medical education, the treatment of older people as well as the scientific research and exploration of ageing aspects in the ...

    Authors: Christoph HR Wiese, Kirstin Fragemann, Peter C Keil, Anika C Bundscherer, Nicole Lindenberg, Christoph L Lassen, Klara Markowski, Bernhard M Graf and Benedikt Trabold
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:472
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. Perineal trauma involving the anal sphincter is an important complication of vaginal delivery. Prediction of anal sphincter injuries may improve the prevention of anal sphincter injuries. Our aim was to constr...

    Authors: Karl C McPherson, Andrew D Beggs, Abdul H Sultan and Ranee Thakar
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:471
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Extranodal presentation of lymphoma is a rare occurrence. It has been postulated that chronic antigen stimulation may predispose a patient to the development of lymphoma.

    Authors: James McCammon, Randy Mascarenhas, Michael J Monument, Abdul Elyousfi and Brad Pilkey
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:470
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  26. Earlier software versions of the Zeus® (Lübeck, Dräger, Germany) failed to provide true closed circuit anesthesia (CCA) conditions. We examined whether the latest software (SW 4.03 MK 04672–00) achieves this g...

    Authors: Sofie De Cooman, Jan FA Hendrickx, Philip John Peyton, Jean-Luc Demeere and Andre M De Wolf
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:469
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. As high throughput sequencing continues to grow more commonplace, the need to disseminate the resulting data via web applications continues to grow. Particularly, there is a need to disseminate multiple versio...

    Authors: Daniel Jaschob, Trisha N Davis and Michael Riffle
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:468
    Content type: Technical Note Published on:

  28. Condyloma acuminata caused by human papilloma viruses, (HPV) is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) appearing most frequently as soft, pink cauliflower like growths in moist areas, such as the genitalia, mout...

    Authors: Ana Clélia Cânovas Percinoto, Marcelle Danelon, Marcelo Macedo Crivelini, Robson Frederico Cunha and Célio Percinoto
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:467
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  29. Large DNA sequence data sets require special bioinformatics tools to search and compare them. Such tools should be easy to use so that the data can be easily accessed by a wide array of researchers. In the pas...

    Authors: David Minkley, Michael J Whitney, Song-Han Lin, Marina G Barsky, Chris Kelly and Chris Upton
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:466
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. Owing to the number of genetic mutations that contribute to malformations of cortical development, identification of causative mutations in candidate genes is challenging. To overcome these challenges, we perf...

    Authors: Keiko Shimojima, Aya Narita, Yoshihiro Maegaki, Akira Saito, Toru Furukawa and Toshiyuki Yamamoto
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:465
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  31. Teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) is currently the preferred choice of the timber trade for fabrication of woody products due to its extraordinary qualities and is widely grown around the world. Gene expression studies...

    Authors: Esteban Galeano, Tarcísio Sales Vasconcelos, Daniel Alves Ramiro, Valentina de Fátima De Martin and Helaine Carrer
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:464
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. The need for carers to manage medication-related problems for people with dementia living in the community raises dilemmas, which can be identified by carers and people with dementia as key issues for developi...

    Authors: Fiona Poland, Sarah Mapes, Hilary Pinnock, Cornelius Katona, Susanne Sorensen, Chris Fox and Ian D Maidment
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:463
    Content type: Project Note Published on:

  33. Venous anomalies of the thorax can occur in isolation or in association with complex congenital heart disease. The incidence of an absent right superior vena cava in the setting of a persistent left superior v...

    Authors: Jacques Rizkallah, John Burgess and Vikas Kuriachan
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:462
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  34. Very few studies have been carried out so far aiming at modulating cellular immune responses in dogs. In this study, we evaluated the ability of recombinant canine IL-2 (rcaIL-2) and IL-12, in the form of a si...

    Authors: Andrea Mendes Pereira, Cristiane Garboggini Melo de Pinheiro, Lenita Ramires dos Santos, Naiara Carvalho Teixeira, Yung-Fu Chang, Lain Carlos Pontes-de-Carvalho and Geraldo Gileno de Sá Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:460
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. This post hoc analysis assessed the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of long-term treatment with aripiprazole adjunctive to either bupropion or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)/serotonin–n...

    Authors: Anita H Clayton, Ross A Baker, John J Sheehan, Zachary J Cain, Robert A Forbes, Sabrina Vogel Marler, Ronald Marcus, Robert M Berman and Michael E Thase
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:459
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  36. Procalcitonin is useful for the diagnosis of sepsis but its prognostic value regarding mortality is unclear. This prospective observational study was designed to study the prognostic value of procalcitonin in ...

    Authors: Saransh Jain, Sanjeev Sinha, Surendra K Sharma, J C Samantaray, Praveen Aggrawal, Naval Kishore Vikram, Ashutosh Biswas, Seema Sood, Manish Goel, Madhuchhanda Das, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla and Nawaid Khan
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:458
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  37. Microbial biofilms have been associated with the development of chronic human infections and represent a clinical challenge given their increased antimicrobial tolerance. Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pa...

    Authors: Anthony P Cardile, Carlos J Sanchez Jr., Meghan E Samberg, Desiree R Romano, Sharanda K Hardy, Joseph C Wenke, Clinton K Murray and Kevin S Akers
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:457
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. The aim of this study was to evaluate e-learning strategy in teaching Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) to undergraduate and graduate students. The sample comprised 76 participants—38 dental students and ...

    Authors: Lucila Basto Camargo, Daniela Prócida Raggio, Carlos Felipe Bonacina, Chao Lung Wen, Fausto Medeiros Mendes, Marcelo José Strazzeri Bönecker and Ana Estela Haddad
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:456
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  39. To ensure optimal patient care, physicians must establish effective patient-physician relationships and thoughtfully incorporate their patients’ perspectives into their counseling. Historically, these skills a...

    Authors: Omar Maurice Young and Kristiina Parviainen
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:455
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  40. Increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most serious problems in current medicine. An important factor contributing to the growing prevalence of multiresistant bacteria is application of a...

    Authors: Miroslava Htoutou Sedláková, Karel Urbánek, Vladimíra Vojtová, Hana Suchánková, Peter Imwensi and Milan Kolář
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:454
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have been shown to reduce costs associated with survey implementation and digitisation, and to improve data quality when compared to traditional paper based data collection. ...

    Authors: Duleeka W Knipe, Melissa Pearson, Rasmus Borgstrøm, Ravi Pieris, Manjula Weerasinghe, Chamil Priyadarshana, Michael Eddleston, David Gunnell, Chris Metcalfe and Flemming Konradsen
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:452
    Content type: Project Note Published on:

  43. Quantitative PCR is rapidly becoming the standard method for analyzing gene expression in a wide variety of biological samples however it can suffer from significant error if stably expressed reference genes a...

    Authors: Evan C Crawford, Ameet Singh, Devon Metcalf, Thomas WG Gibson and Scott J Weese
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:451
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  45. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently augmented risk-based hepatitis C (HCV) screening guidelines with a recommendation to ...

    Authors: Emily J Cartwright, Christopher Rentsch and David Rimland
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:449
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. The equine influenza (EI) is an infectious and contagious disease of the upper respiratory tract of horses. Two outbreaks were notified in Morocco during 1997 and 2004 respectively in Nador and Essaouira. The ...

    Authors: Mohamed Boukharta, Fathiah Zakham, Nadia Touil, Mehdi Elharrak and Moulay Mustapha Ennaji
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:448
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Ovine epididymitis is predominantly associated with Brucella ovis infection. Molecular characterization of Brucella spp. achieved by multi-locus variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) analyses (MLVA) have prove...

    Authors: Elaine MS Dorneles, Guilherme N Freire, Maurício G Dasso, Fernando P Poester and Andrey P Lage
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:447
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  48. SG2NA is a member of the striatin sub-family of WD-40 repeat proteins. Striatin family members have been associated with diverse physiological functions. SG2NA has also been shown to have roles in cell cycle p...

    Authors: Sangeeta Soni, Chetna Tyagi, Abhinav Grover and Shyamal K Goswami
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:446
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. The AS04-adjuvanted bivalent L1 virus-like-particle (VLP) vaccine (Cervarix™) against infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16/18 holds great promise to prevent HPV16/18 infections and associated neo...

    Authors: Proscovia B Namujju, Emma Pajunen, Aline Simen-Kapeu, Lea Hedman, Marko Merikukka, Helja-Marja Surcel, Reinhard Kirnbauer, Dan Apter, Jorma Paavonen, Klaus Hedman and Matti Lehtinen
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:445
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Custom foot orthoses are currently recognized as the gold standard for treatment of foot and lower limb pathology. While foam and plaster casting methods are most widely used in clinical practice, technology h...

    Authors: Colin E Dombroski, Megan ER Balsdon and Adam Froats
    Citation: BMC Research Notes 2014 7:443
    Content type: Short Report Published on:
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