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The "Epistolary Method" and the Rhetoric of Assimilation in Bacqueville de La Potherie's Histoire de l'Amérique Septentrionale

Cartmill, Constance (2003-09-30)

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Autopneumonectomy with Compensatory Lung Growth

Ciric, I; Meyers, MP; Mayba, J; Anthonisen, NR (2003-1-1)

A 23-year-old female immigrant from Ethiopia presented with a history of hemoptysis and an abnormal chest x-ray. A computed tomography scan showed that her left lung was greatly shrunken and her right lung was very large ...

Mycobacterium neoaurum Bacteremia in a Hemodialysis Patient

Becker, Marissa L; Suchak, Amar A; Wolfe, Joyce N; Zarychanski, Ryan; Kabani, Amin; Nicolle, Lindsay E (2003-1-1)

Bacteremia due to Mycobacterium neoaurum, a rapidly growing mycobacterium, is described in a diabetic woman on hemodialysis. This is the first reported case of M neoaurum bacteremia in Canada. The organism initially grew ...

The Role of the Insulin-Like Growth Factors and Their Binding Proteins in Glucose Homeostasis

Murphy, Liam J. (2003-1-1)

The insulin like growth factors (IGF-I and -II) are structurally and functionally related to insulin. While insulin is a key regulator of glucose homeostasis over the short term, emerging evidence suggests that the IGFs ...

Could Condoms Stop the AIDS Epidemic?

Moghadas, Seyed M.; Gumel, Abba B.; McLeod, Robert G.; Gordon, Richard (2003-1-1)

Although therapeutic treatment strategies appear promising for retarding the progression of HIV-related diseases, prevention remains the most effective strategy against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This paper focuses on the ...

Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function in Poultry Confinement Workers in Western Canada

Kirychuk, Shelley P; Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan; Dosman, James A; Juorio, Victor; Feddes, John JR; Willson, Philip; Classen, Henry; Reynolds, Stephen J; Guenter, Wilhelm; Hurst, Thomas S (2003-1-1)

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether poultry production methods impact respiratory health, and whether poultry farmers have more respiratory symptoms and lower lung function than comparison control groups.DESIGN: Cross-sectional ...

Epidemiological and Economic Burden of Pneumococcal Disease in Canadian Children

Petit, Geneviève; De Wals, Philippe; Law, Barbara; Tam, Theresa; Erickson, Lonny James; Guay, Maryse; Framarin, Alicia (2003-1-1)

BACKGROUND: With the arrival of a new conjugate pneumococcal vaccine, it is important to estimate the burden of pneumococcal diseases in Canadian children. The epidemiological data and the economic cost of these diseases ...

Contemporary Antiviral Drug Regimens for the Prevention and Treatment of Orolabial and Anogenital Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in the Normal Host: Four Approved Indications and 13 Off-Label Uses

Aoki, Fred Y (2003-1-1)

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) orolabial and anogenital infection causes substantial and recurring disease in healthy individuals due directly to infection of these sites and, indirectly, due to its complications. These ...

Mammographic density is related to stroma and stromal proteoglycan expression

Alowami, Salem; Troup, Sandra; Al-Haddad, Sahar; Kirkpatrick, Iain; Watson, Peter H (2003-07-23)

Abstract Background Mammographic density and certain histological changes in breast tissues are both risk factors for breast cancer. However, the relationship between these ...

Necrotizing Lung Infection Caused by the Protozoan Balantidium coli

Sharma, Sat; Harding, Godfrey (2003-1-1)

Balantidium coli, a ciliated protozoan, is well known to cause intestinal infection in humans. Extraintestinal spread to the peritoneal cavity and genitourinary tract has rarely been reported. There have also been a few ...