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Global epidemiology of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus
No full textAbstract The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus has evolved as an important cause of opportunistic fungal diseases in humans worldwide. It is the most frequent filamentous fungus colonizing the airways of patients with cystic fibrosis and can affect immunocompetent as well as immunocompromised individuals. Aspergillus disease is commonly treated with azoles, which inhibit lanosterol 14α-demethylase, a key component of the ergosterol biosynthesis pathway, essential for membrane integrity and fluidity. Lanosterol 14α-demethylase is encoded by the CYP51A gene. Azole-resistant A. fumigatus isolates often show amino acid substitutions in Cyp51A. Most prevalent mutations have a tandem repeat (TR) in the promoter and point mutations in the gene (e.g. TR34/L98H and TR46/Y121F/T289A). In addition to TRs, isolates with single point mutations developed and are widespread around the world (e.g. M220I, G54R). To date, azole-resistant isolates have been found on every continent except Antarctica. This review will summarize the epidemiology and prevalence of Azole-resistant A. fumigatus worldwide including the history of different mutations found and highlights important gaps as data are missing in several parts of the world
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Epidemiology and mechanisms of resistance of Aspergillus fumigatus to triazole antifungal drugs : focus on patients with cystic fibrosis
No full textAspergillus fumigatus est un champignonfilamenteux opportuniste.Aspergillus fumigatus is an opportunistic filamentous fungus, causing various clinical manifestations. The first-line treatment of aspergillosis is triazole antifungal drugs. The emergence of the resistance of A. fumigatus to this class of antifungals is a worrying and monitored phenomenon. The most frequent resistance mechanism involves 14 - demethylase, the target enzyme of azoles (encoded by the cyp51A gene). Two origins of resistance have been proposed: the first related to the selection of resistant isolates during long-term antifungal treatment and the second, an environmental origin following the use of demethylation inhibitor fungicides in the environment. Our work highlighted, for the first time, the presence of TR46/Y121F/T289A isolates in France. Furthermore, the exploration of the genotypic link between clinical and environmental isolates carrying the TR46/Y121F/T289A alteration validated the hypothesis of the environmental origin of azole resistance. A prospective one-year study in cystic fibrosis patients confirmed a relatively high level prevalence of resistance together with the presence of wild-type cyp51A resistant isolates. The latter isolates were investigated for yet unidentified resistance mechanisms, initially analysing the sterol biosynthesis pathway. This work contributes to a better knowledge of the epidemiology and resistance mechanisms of A. fumigatus to azole drugs
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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