None of the hospital-based participants agreed to undergo NPS/OPS collection as part of their participation in the study. Among the 151/180 (83.90%) participants who refused the research swab ...

Specimen Collection and Broth Cultures. The specimens were collected by nurses according to Infection Control Committee protocols. Briefly each swab was carefully introduced in the anal sphincter ...

All tested strains were agglutinable. Forty three (69.3%) of 62 strains gave agglutination with the monovalent O6 serum. They were isolated from faeces (100%), urine (66.7%), bronchial washings (37.5% ...

For John Cooper, the winner of this year’s series of the BBC1 show Interior Design Masters, creating a homeware collection to be sold in John Lewis was very much not his normal day job. It was ...