Studies of heavy metal contents and microbial composition of rhizosphere of <i>Panicum maximum</i> within and around auto mechanic workshop in Benin City by O Osazuwa, I Beckley, UC Osayamen

“…Comparatively, bacterial counts  outnumbered fungal counts. Percentage hydrocarbon degrading fungi was 133.3% in samples collected from Oredo, compared to 31.82 in the control. …”
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Acoustic Emission Simulation on Coal Specimen Subjected to Cyclic Loading by Huiqiang Duan, Depeng Ma

“…With the increase in the confining pressure, the cumulative AE counts at the 1st cycle tend to increase but decrease at a cycle before failure; with the decrease in the valley stress, the cumulative AE counts per cycle increase in the relatively quiet phase. …”
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Pork Liver Freshness Evaluated through Spoilage Microbiota and a Consumer Test in Shelf Life Extension Experiment by Rita O. Silva, Margarida I. F. C. Rouxinol, Luís A. S. C. Patarata

“…The results indicate limited usefulness of microbial counts, once they were generally very similar between accepted and nonaccepted samples, with total viable count below 7 Log CFU/g. …”
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Pattern of Thrombocytopenia In Pregnancy At Teaching Hospital Of Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan by Muhammad Bilal Ghafoor, Faiza Sarwar, Tahira Afzal Durrani, Zainab Quratulain Azher, Saleha Jabeen, Muhammad Haris Ali Khan

“… Background:  Platelet count less than 150 × 109 / L is referred to as thrombocytopenia, which is the second common blood disorder in pregnancy after anemia. …”
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Impact of Hemoglobin, Leucocyte and Thrombocyte Levels at Diagnosis on the Survival Outcomes of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients by Taha Ulutan Kars, Atakan Tekinalp, Rafiye Ciftciler, Sinan Demircioğlu

“…Median hemoglobin level was 12.1 gr/dL (4.3-17.4), leucocyte count was 66.2 ×109 /L (7.5-520.2), and thrombocyte count was 362 ×109 /L (18-3.496) for all patients. …”
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Acoustic Emission and Fractal Precursory Characteristics of Coals with Different Bursting Liabilities in Loading Failure Process by Chao Wang, Yuefeng Li, Yong Li, Jianhui Xu, Chengliang Zhang

“…Our experimental results indicated that the AE count and energy of coal samples with different bursting liabilities showed a similar evolution law of “sharp increase-calm-sharp increase” before their main rupture. …”
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Mechanism by Which Laser Irradiation Combined with Spirulina platensis Enhances FeSO4-Induced Ferroptosis in Salmonella Typhimurium and Listeria monocytogenes by SUN Jinyue, PAN Jianeng, CHEN Yiying, LIU Rencheng, ZHOU Wenwen

“…The 4 mmol/L Fe + SP + L treatment reduced the counts of both ST and LM to less than 1.4 (lg(CFU/mL)). …”
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Effect of ration supplemented with zinc on some hematological parameters in angora goats by Nurcan Dönmez, Ercan Keskin

“…It was observed that the erythrocyte count, haemoglobin amount and haematocrit levels in control group tended to decrease as compared with the first month values of the same group. …”
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Allium Cepa (Onion) Extract Enhances and Protects Testicular Function and Architecture against Paraquat Induced Oxidative Damage. by Uzozie Chikere, Ofoego, Ejike, Daniel Eze

“…Paraquat administration caused significantly (P<0.05) reduced sperm count, motility, alteration in sperm morphology and induced cell death. …”
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Relapse of Visceral Leishmaniasis in an HIV-Infected Patient Successfully Treated with a Combination of Miltefosine and Amphotericin B by Shauna McQuarrie, Ken Kasper, Dana C Moffatt, Daniel Marko, Yoav Keynan

“…The present report documents a 49-year-old HIV-infected man receiving antiretroviral therapy with a suboptimal immune response and a CD4 count of 95 cells/mm3, despite virological suppression. …”
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Natural History and Factors Associated with Early and Delayed Mortality in HIV-Infected Patients Treated of Tuberculosis under Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course Strategy: A... by Gerardo Alvarez-Uria, Praveen Kumar Naik, Raghavakalyan Pakam, Lakshminaryana Bachu, Manoranjan Midde

“…The study included 1000 DOTS antituberculosis treatment (ATT) episodes and 840 person-years. CD4 lymphocyte count was below 200 cells/mm3 in 77% of the cases, and 21% were retreatments. …”
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Variation of Red Blood Cell Distribution Width and Mean Platelet Volume after Moderate Endurance Exercise by Giuseppe Lippi, Gian Luca Salvagno, Elisa Danese, Cantor Tarperi, Gian Cesare Guidi, Federico Schena

“…Blood samples were collected before the run, at the end, and 3 and 20 hours thereafter. The complete blood count was performed on Advia 2120 and included red blood cell (RBC), reticulocyte, and platelet counts; hemoglobin; mean corpuscular volume (MCV); mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH); reticulocyte haemoglobin content (Ret CHR); RBC distribution width (RDW), mean platelet volume (MPV). …”
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Clinical Features, Treatment, and Outcome of HIV-Associated Immune Thrombocytopenia in the HAART Era by Kimberley L. S. Ambler, Linda M. Vickars, Chantal S. Leger, Lynda M. Foltz, Julio S. G. Montaner, Marianne Harris, Viviane Dias Lima, Heather A. Leitch

“…We performed a review of patients with HIV-associated ITP and at least one platelet count <20 × 109/L since January 1996. Of 5290 patients in the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS database, 31 (0.6%) had an ITP diagnosis and platelet count <20 × 109/L. …”
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Anemia among HIV-Infected Patients Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa: Improvement in Hemoglobin regardless of Degree of Immunosuppression and the Initiating ART Re... by Simbarashe Takuva, Mhairi Maskew, Alana T. Brennan, Ian Sanne, A. Patrick MacPhail, Mathew P. Fox

“…Females, lower BMI, WHO stage III/IV, lower CD4 count, and zidovudine use were associated with increased risk of developing anemia during follow-up. …”
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Homologous In-Radiolabeled Platelet Survival and Sequestration Exploration for Refractory Immunologic Thrombocytopenic purpura in Children: A Strategy to Avoid Unnecessary Splenect... by Julien Dubois PharmD, Florentin Kucharczak PhD, Léa De Neef PharmD, Virginie Kouyoumdjian PharmD, Gilles Palenzuela MD, Virginie Tunez MD, Denis Mariano-Goulart MD, PhD, Aurélie Bourdon MD, Tom Paunet MD

“…Homologous IPS could help clinicians to choose splenectomy as a treatment option for ITP in children with a very low platelet count, and its use should be promoted after failed thrombopoietin receptor agonist (TPO-RA) treatment. …”
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Effects of Spirulina on Cyclophosphamide-Induced Ovarian Toxicity in Rats: Biochemical and Histomorphometric Evaluation of the Ovary by Nese Arzu Yener, Orhun Sinanoglu, Erdin Ilter, Aygen Celik, Gulbuz Sezgin, Ahmet Midi, Ugur Deveci, Fehime Aksungar

“…Normal and atretic primordial and primary follicle counts for all sections obtained for each ovary are calculated. …”
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Iron overload impact on peripheral blood cells, lymphocytes and karyotypes in newly diagnosed myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) patients: a single-center retrospective analysis by Lixiang Duan, Wenjun Yu, Xiaolin Jiao, Ying Sun, Yao Fang Ma, Le Li, Zeqiang Nie, Dan Zhao

“…We found that MDS patients with IOL had lower hemoglobin (Hb), lower reticulocyte (RET) counts, and lower absolute natural killer (NK) cell counts compared with NIOL group (p < 0.05). …”
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Determination of oral feeding skills in late preterm, early term, and full-term infants using the neonatal oral feeding monitor (NeoSAFE) by Ayse Ecevit, Balkar Erdogan, Deniz Anuk Ince, Meltem Aksu, Sezin Unal, Özden Turan, Ahmet Saracoglu, Aylin Tarcan

“…It was also found that the feeding volume has a positive correlation with total swallow count, swallow time, maximum rhythmic swallow and inspirium after swallow count. …”
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Some haematological parameters in partridges (allectoris gracea) bred in konya by Ercan Keskin, Ramazan Çöl, Tufan Keçeci, Hüdai İpek, Feyyaz Önder

“…Ihe red blood cell count of the chicks was higher amount when compared to the same values of young partridges. …”
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Rural-urban disparity in uptaking skilled antenatal care visits by pregnant women in Bangladesh: Zero and One Inflated Poisson regression model. by Lubana Tanvia, M Ershadul Haque, Wasimul Bari

“…This study provides the evidence of 17.2% extra zero counts and 1.1% extra one counts in the pooled dataset.…”
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