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Delayed neutrons emitted from cooling water at a high energy proton accelerator facility	1993	Suzuki, T., National Lab. High Energy Physics, Radiation Safety Control Centre, Tsukuba 305, Japan	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Radiation Protection Dosimetry Periodical, Abbrev. RADIAT.PROT.DOSIM. Pub Date Free Form 1993/ Volume 46 Issue 2 Start Page 111 Other Pages 114 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0144-8420 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract At a high energy proton accelerator facility, cooling water passing through magnets along a primary proton beam line is exposed to high energy secondary particles and becomes activated. The radiation levels on the surface of the water pipe carrying the activated water may be quite high due to annihilation gamma rays of positron emitters. It is also probable that radionuclides (RNs) emitting delayed neutrons are produced in cooling water. Delayed neutrons released from cooling water have been successfully measured and 17N (T(1/2) = 4.17 s) was identified as the RN responsible for the delayed neutrons by measuring the half-life. Descriptors cooling water, article, controlled study, fast proton radiation, neutron radiation Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Suzuki,T., Oki,Y., Nimajiri,M., Miura,T., Kondo,K. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Regional groundwater monitoring and examples of acidification trends in the province of Goteborg and Bohus, southwestern Sweden	1995	Swedberg, S., Prov. Government of Goteborg/Bohus, Department of Environment, Natural Resources, S-403 40 Goteborg, Sweden	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Water, air, and soil pollution Periodical, Abbrev. Water Air Soil Pollut. Pub Date Free Form 1995/12 Volume 85 Issue 3 Start Page 1843 Other Pages 1848 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0049-6979 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Acidification is the most serious threat to the groundwater quality in the province, causing both corrosion on water pipe systems and increased leaching of metals from the ground. The regional groundwater monitoring programme focuses on parameters as pH, alkalinity, sulphate and total aluminium. Sampling is done regularly in 1) natural groundwater springs in the countryside, 2) public water supplies, 3) observation wells in the countryside and 4) observation wells in urban areas. For most of the sites, analysing has been carried out during a time period that is shorter than five years. These sites give valuable information about the general relationship between groundwater acidity and the hydrogeological conditions in the recharge areas. Results from regular sampling of public water supplies have been used for studies of time series. The trends indicate that the hydrogeological conditions are of great importance for how the groundwater responds to acid input. In general, surficial groundwater in Quaternary deposits is more sensitive to acidification than groundwater in crystalline bedrock. One example of progressing groundwater acidification since the early 1970's origins from the water supply at Backamo, 20 km south of Uddevalla. The well is situated at the slope of a delta deposit and water is taken from a depth of 2,5 meters below ground level. During the time period 1970-1994 pH has decreased about 0,2 units and alkalinity about 9 mg HCO3 L-1. The ratio total hardness/alkalinity increased with time. During 1995 the regional groundwater monitoring programme is being reviewed. Descriptors aluminum, ground water, sulfate, acid rain, acidification, alkalinity, conference paper, environmental monitoring, pH, Sweden Links Book Title Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Swedberg,S. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Characteristics of long-term cannabis users in Sydney, Australia	1998	Swift, W., National Drug Alcohol Research Ctr., University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full European addiction research Periodical, Abbrev. Eur.Addict.Res. Pub Date Free Form / Volume 4 Issue 4 Start Page 190 Other Pages 197 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 1022-6877 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Two hundred long-term cannabis users (58% male) were interviewed on their characteristics and experience of use. Respondents had been regularly using cannabis for an average of 11 years and more than half used daily (56%). The most common route of administration was in a waterpipe, and nearly all (93%) smoked the flowering heads or the plant. One in 5 (21%) had a cannabis-related conviction. The benefits of use were perceived to be its relaxing, mood-enhancing effects, and its ability to alter consciousness. The most commonly cited negative aspects of use were cost, negative psychological effects and legal status. Polydrug use was common, with alcohol and tobacco almost universally used on a regular basis. More than half the drinkers in the sample were consuming alcohol at hazardous or harmful levels. Descriptors alcohol, cannabis, addiction, adult, alcohol consumption, article, Australia, consciousness, controlled study, crime, female, human, interview, major clinical study, male, mood, multiple drug abuse, priority journal, tobacco Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Swift,W., Hall,W., Copeland,J. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Legionella species: A review	2000		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Farmaceutisch Tijdschrift voor Belgie Periodical, Abbrev. Farm.Tijdschr.Belg. Pub Date Free Form 2000/06 Volume 77 Issue 2 Start Page 8 Other Pages 13 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0771-2367 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Legionella species is a contamination of surface waters, ponds, warm water pipes and reservoirs. Infection always happens through the environment by means of aerosols and the breathing of contaminated water of whirlpools, forceful showers, humidifiers, fountains, respiratory therapy equipment, evaporative cooling towers, etc.. Legionella spp. are Gram-negative, mobile bars, that need, for their growth on the culture medium, special additives, such as alpha-ketoglutarate, L-cysteine, ferri-pyrophosphate and activated charcoal. The culture medium can be made selective by adding vancomycine, polymixine-B and cycloheximide. This way, also strongly polluted samples, like surface waters, can be examined. Legionella spp. will become visible on an agar-base after 2 till 5 days under the form of light-blue or blue-grey, concave colonies. After a longer incubation time, they will become smooth and white-grey. Legionella spp. are gelatinase-positive, weakly oxidase positive and catalysase positive. They are not sacharolytic. Clinically seen, legionella- infections can be subdivided in 4 groups, which can intersect each other partly: 1. The pneumonia (like in Philadelphia), 2. the extra- pulmonary inflamations, like the septicaemia ..., 3. the epidemic, non pneumonic forms and 4. the sub-clinical infections. Descriptors 2 oxoglutaric acid, activated carbon, cycloheximide, cysteine, polymyxin B, pyrophosphate, vancomycin, aerosol, bacterial virulence, bacterium culture, culture medium, immunofluorescence test, laboratory test, Legionella, Legionella pneumophila, legionnaire disease, nonhuman, radioimmunoassay, review, septicemia, water contamination Links Book Title Legionella species: Een overzicht Database Embase Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Swinnen,J., Moors,A. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Epidemiology and laboratory diagnostics of legionellae	2001	SzÃ©nÃ¡si, Z., Szegedi TudomÃ¡nyegyetem, Szent-GyÃ¶rgyi Albert Orvos- Ã©s GyÃ³gyszerÃ©sztudomÃ¡nyi Centrum, AltalÃ¡nos OrvostudomÃ¡nyi Kar, Klinikai MikrobiolÃ³giai Diagnosztikai IntÃ©zet.	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Orvosi hetilap Periodical, Abbrev. Orv.Hetil. Pub Date Free Form / Volume 142 Issue 20 Start Page 1035 Other Pages 1043 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0030-6002 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract The severe pulmonary disease caused by the inhalation of the different Legionella species is called Legionella pneumonia, while the name of the pulmonary disease caused by the most common Legionella (L. pneumophila) is Legionnaires' disease. Another type of disease caused by legionellae is Pontiac fever with influenza-like symptoms. Legionella spp. are facultative intracellular parasites. They survive within both monocytes in the human organism and amebae in the environment. To prevent and control the occurrence of legionelloses, legionellae should be surveyed and detected in the environmental (water pipes, air-conditioning systems, cooling towers, respiratory equipments, etc.) and clinical (blood, bronchoalveolar lavage, sputum, abscess, etc.) samples. Laboratory diagnosis is complicated by the limitations of the available assays. Thus, it is proposed that the microbiological laboratory diagnosis should be based on the simultaneous application of at least three methods (culturing [on BCYE medium], followed by biochemical assays, serology, molecular biologic methods, such as polymerase chain reaction [PCR], direct demonstration [immunofluorescence microscopy], antigen determination are the most important ones) and on the simultaneous demonstration from three different samples (e.g. lower respiratory tract secretions, sputum, urine, blood culture, serum, moreover, water samples from all potential infectious sources, sediment of hot water tanks, as well as swab samples of faucets and shower heads). The advantage of PCR is that is gives reliable results in one day, in contrast to conventional culturing. However, its sensitivity can not be improved by increasing the sample volume, and neither can it give quantitative results nor can it produce strains for epidemiologic studies, contrary to the method of culturing. It is concluded that PCR and culturing do complement, but do not substitute each other. Descriptors bacterial antigen, bacterial DNA, cell culture, diagnostic procedure, genetics, human, immunology, isolation and purification, Legionella, Legionella pneumophila, legionnaire disease, microbiology, polymerase chain reaction, review, standard Links Book Title A legionellÃ¡k epidemiolÃ³giÃ¡ja Ã©s laboratÃ³riumi diagnosztikÃ¡ja. Database MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors SzÃ©nÃ¡si,Z., Endo,T., Yagita,K., VerÃ©b,I., Nagy,E. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Early invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in a leukemia patient linked to aspergillus contaminated marijuana smoking	2001	Lahav, M., Medicine E Sapir Medical Center, Meir Hospital, Tel-Aviv University, Kfar Saba, Israel	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Leukemia and Lymphoma Periodical, Abbrev. Leuk.Lymphoma Pub Date Free Form 2001/ Volume 42 Issue 6 Start Page 1433 Other Pages 1437 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 1042-8194 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract 46-year-old patient with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) whose disease manifested as fever, chills and dry cough is reported here. Despite broad antibiotic coverage he remained acutely ill with spiking fever, shaking chills, and hypoxemia. His initial chest radiograph was normal but chest computed tomography (CT) scan disclosed bilateral focal infiltrates. Hypoxemia and severe thrombocytopenia precluded invasive diagnostic procedures. A thorough epidemiological investigation revealed that before becoming acutely ill the patient smoked daily tobacco mixed with marijuana from a "hookah bottle". While waiting for tobacco and "hookah water" cultures, we started antifungal therapy. Resolution of fever and hypoxemia ensued after 72 hours. Tobacco cultures yielded heavy growth of Aspergillus species. We suggest that habitual smoking of Aspergillus-infested tobacco and marijuana caused airway colonization with Aspergillus. Leukemia rendered the patient immunocompromised, and allowed Aspergillus to infest the lung parenchyma with early occurrence of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Physicians should be aware of this potentially lethal complication of "hookah" and marijuana smoking in immunocompromised hosts. Descriptors amphotericin B, antibiotic agent, antifungal agent, cytarabine, etoposide, idarubicin, acute disease, acute myeloblastic leukemia, adult, antibiotic therapy, article, Aspergillus, cannabis addiction, case report, chill, computer assisted tomography, coughing, diagnostic procedure, disease severity, drug megadose, fever, fungal contamination, fungus culture, human, hypoxemia, immune deficiency, lung aspergillosis, lung infiltrate, lung parenchyma, male, priority journal, respiratory tract infection, smoking, thorax radiography, thrombocytopenia, tobacco, treatment failure Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Szyper-Kravitz,M., Lang,R., Manor,Y., Lahav,M. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Hookah (narghile) smoking: a new emerging cause of secondary polycythemia	2011		Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Am J Hematol Periodical, Abbrev. Am.J.Hematol. Pub Date Free Form Volume 86 Issue 8 Start Page 719 Other Pages 20 Notes ID: 21761441 Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN Accession Number Language en SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Descriptors Polycythemia/etiology, Smoking/adverse effects, Anoxia/etiology, Anoxia/physiopathology, Carboxyhemoglobin/analysis, Humans, Male, Polycythemia/blood, Substance-Related Disorders/diagnosis, Substance-Related Disorders/physiopathology Links http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajh.22064 Book Title Database MEDLINE; http://www.globalhealthlibrary.net/ Publisher Data Source Authors Tadmor,Tamar, Mishchenko,Elena, Polliack,Aaron, Attias,Dina Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
On-line monitoring of biofilm formation in a brewery water pipeline system with a fibre optical device	2003	Tamachkiarow, A., Institute for Interfacial Biotechnol, University of Duisburg, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Generic Periodical, Full Water Science and Technology Periodical, Abbrev. Water Sci. Technol. Pub Date Free Form 2003/ Volume 47 Issue 5 Start Page 19 Other Pages 24 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0273-1223 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Any advanced anti-fouling strategy must be based on early warning systems which allow for timely, precisely directed and optimized countermeasures. Such systems must be able to detect biofilm growth on representative surfaces. In order to meet this requirement, a fibre optical device (FOS) has been developed. It is based on light which is scattered by objects deposited on the tip of an optical fibre. A receiving fibre collects the signal and forwards it to a detection and quantification unit. Both the sending and the receiving fibre are mounted in a measuring head which is integrated evenly on the inner surface of a water pipeline at representative sites. This device was applied to a water system of a brewery in order to put its reliability to test under practical conditions. The FOS detected the build-up of a deposit which was identified independently as consisting of microorganisms, i.e., a biofilm. A stable, well detectable and reproducible signal could be obtained above a colonization of 105 cells cm-2. Adjustment of the sensitivity of the amplifier allowed for detection of biofilms up to 1010 cells cm-2. Cleaning countermeasures could be detected clearly by a decrease of backscattered light intensity. The system proved to be suitable for on-line, non-destructive, real-time and automatic monitoring for a period of almost two years, and thus, provides an important constituent for an advanced anti-fouling strategy. Descriptors amplifier, bacterial colonization, biofilm, cleaning, conference paper, fiber optic biosensor, light intensity, light scattering, microorganism detection, nonhuman, online monitoring, pipeline, reliability, reproducibility, sensitivity and specificity, signal processing Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Tamachkiarow,A., Flemming,H. -C Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
Cigarette and nargileh smoking practices among school students in Beirut, Lebanon	2007	Tamim, H., School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Ont., Canada	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full American Journal of Health Behavior Periodical, Abbrev. Am.J.Health Behav. Pub Date Free Form / Volume 31 Issue 1 Start Page 56 Other Pages 63 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 1087-3244 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract Objectives: To determine the prevalence and predictors of smoking nargileh and/or cigarettes among school students in Greater Beirut, Lebanon. Methods: A proportionate random sample of 2443 students from 13 public and private schools was selected and asked to complete self-administered anonymous questionnaires. Results: The prevalence of smoking cigarettes only, nargileh only, and both was 2.5%, 25.6%, and 6.3%, respectively. Stepwise regression analyses revealed that the predictors of smoking for either type are different, whereby nargileh smoking is more culturally accepted than cigarette smoking. Conclusions: Design interventions to increase awareness towards the hazards of the misconceived harmless effects of nargileh smoking. Descriptors adolescent, article, comparative study, cross-sectional study, cultural factor, ethnology, female, health behavior, health survey, human, Lebanon, lifestyle, male, questionnaire, smoking, social behavior, social psychology, statistics, student, tobacco dependence Links Book Title Database MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Tamim,H., Al-Sahab,B., Akkary,G., Ghanem,M., Tamim,N., El Roueiheb,Z., Kanj,M., Afifi,R. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors
A recent outbreak of cholera due to Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa in & around Chandigarh, North India	2003	Sharma, M., Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgrad. Inst. of Med. Educ./Res., Chandigarh 160012, India	Read more...
Source Type Print(0) Ref Type Journal Article Periodical, Full Indian Journal of Medical Research Periodical, Abbrev. Indian J.Med.Res. Pub Date Free Form / Volume 117 Issue JUNE Start Page 243 Other Pages 246 Notes Place of Publication ISSN/ISBN 0971-5916 Accession Number Language SubFile DOI Output Language Unknown(0) PMID Abstract An outbreak of cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa occurred in and around Chandigarh during July 22-31, 2002. Of the 303 patients admitted to two hospitals, 82 were confirmed by culture. Two rehabilitation colonies located at the periphery of Chandigarh were mainly affected. The isolates were biotyped as Eltor and were susceptible to many antibiotics. Thirty one (35.2%) of 88 water samples showed evidence of faecal contamination. The survey of the area revealed sewage contamination of the drinking water supply. The outbreak was controlled by providing safe drinking water to the people and correcting the defects in the sewage and water pipelines. Descriptors amoxicillin, antibiotic agent, cefalexin, cefotaxime, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, cotrimoxazole, doxycycline, furazolidone, gentamicin, nalidixic acid, tetracycline, adolescent, adult, antibiotic resistance, antibiotic sensitivity, article, bacterial strain, bacterium colony, bacterium contamination, bacterium culture, bacterium isolate, child, cholera, controlled study, dehydration, diarrhea, epidemic, feces culture, female, hospital admission, human, in vitro study, India, major clinical study, male, nonhuman, oral rehydration therapy, pipeline, safety, sewage disposal, Vibrio cholerae, vomiting, water supply Links Book Title Database Embase; MEDLINE Publisher Data Source Embase Authors Taneja,N., Kaur,J., Sharma,K., Singh,M., Kalra,J. K., Sharma,N. M., Sharma,M. Original/Translated Title URL Date of Electronic PMCID Editors

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