Bacteria detection, multiple

Cathodic protection with impressed current, aluminum or magnesium anodes does not lead to any promotion of germs in the water. There is also no multiplication of bacteria and fungi in the anode slime [32,33]. Unhygienic contamination of the water only arises if anaerobic conditions develop in the slurry deposits, giving rise to bacterial reduction of sulfate. If this is the case, HjS can be detected by smell in amounts which cannot be detected analytically or by taste. Remedial measures are dealt with in Section 20.4.2. 

A recombinant IFN-P, IFN-pia (Rebif Serono and Avonex Biogen) is produced for commercial use in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. A synthetic mutant produced in bacteria has a substitution of serine for cysteine at amino acid 17, yielding IFN-pib Betaseron Berlex). Both IFN-pia and IFN-pib are approved by the FDA for treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) and have shown comparable biological activity (see Section 7.3). In vivo IFN-a2 and IFN-alb show comparable biological activity as well as similar side effects [54,55]. However, IFN-P is eliminated faster, resulting in no detectable serum peak levels [56]. The clinical consequence of this is not known. Objective responses, whether partial or complete tumor regression, have been documented in patients with carcinoma of the breast, hairy-cell leukemia, and non-small-cell lung cancer [57,58]. 

Recently, multiple PCR systems have been published that use different pairs of primers to simultaneously detect lactic acid bacteria producers of histamine, tyra-mine and putrescine, the majority wine biogenic amines (Marcobal et al. 2005b Constantini et al. 2006). 

The term liver abscess describes a circumscribed, often encapsulated, purulent inflammation with necrosis of the local parenchyma caused by a multitude of pathogens (bacteria, protozoa, helminths) and fungi. Liver abscesses can be detected as a solitary or multiple occurrence. Microabscesses are also witnessed, diffusely affecting the entire liver, sometimes as the outcome of purulent, suppurative cholangitis. 

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