Background: High Clostridium difficile colonization and infection rates among hospitalized patients had been noted in Taiwan.Nevertheless, the cognition about clinical diagnosis and management of CDI among infection control professionals in Taiwan is not clear.Material and methods: A 24-item survey questionnaire about the diagnosis, therapy, or inf
Phytophotodermatitis due to chinese herbal medicine decoction
A 24-year-old female presented to the clinic complaining of bizarre patterns and linear streaks of hyperpigmentation on her legs and bizarre alutaceous patches on the neck and upper breast of her son for Respiratory Care 7 days.Physical examination showed sharply demarcated hyperpigmented streaks on the extensor aspects of legs and bizarre brown ma
Interim three-dimensional printed overlay prosthesis for an adolescent patient with oligodontia
Oligodontia is a developmental anomaly which represents the congenital absence of more than six teeth in primary, permanent, or both dentitions and may or may not be associated with a syndrome.These patients suffer from occlusal PullOver disharmony, problems in speech and esthetic appearance.A multidisciplinary approach becomes mandatory to manage
Salivary human chorionic gonadotropin as a novel biomarker for early detection of pregnancy: A pilot study
Context: The role of saliva in detection of pregnancy has not received the due importance it deserves.Aims: The present paper aims at determining the role of saliva in detection of pregnancy using home-based pregnancy detection kits to provide an alternative biofluid that is more user friendly, acceptable, noninvasive, rapid, and easy for home use.
Vehicle Re-Identification Based on UAV Viewpoint: Dataset and Method
High-resolution remote sensing images bring a large amount of data as well as challenges to traditional vision tasks.Vehicle re-identification (ReID), as an essential vision task that can utilize remote sensing images, has been widely used in suspect vehicle searches, cross-border vehicle tracking, traffic behavior analysis, and automatic toll coll