Nosocomial pneumonia (NP) is the third most common hospital-acquired infection and the 527 leading cause of death due to hospital-acquired infection in the US.During pneumonia and non-pneumonia severe illness, respiratory tract secretions become enriched with the serine protease neutrophil elastase (NE).Several NE activities promote onset and sever

Adenotonsillectomy remains one of the most common surgical procedures carried out in children.Though a commonly performed procedure, it poses a great challenge to the surgeon as well as the anaesthesiologist and is associated with a substantially increased risk Artificial Flora of morbidity and mortality.In the post-operative period, it poses threa

The metal-anal feeding habits of sand smelt, Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810 in the mouth of the Mala Neretva River were studied by examining the stomach contents of 1236 fishes collected from March 2001 to February 2002.Thirteen different food categories were identified.The greatest diversity was recorded in winter, especially in January, when 11 cate