Context.—Breast cancer mortality is higher among African American women than among
white women in the United States, but the reasons for the racial difference are not known.…

Protein antigenic determinants have been classified as continuous or discontinuous 1,2 .
The continuous determinants are composed of residues which are local in the polypeptide …

Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to estimate the population-based prevalence
of renovascular disease (RVD), defined as ≥60% diameter-reducing renal artery stenosis …

… Dr Edwards reported serving as consultant for and receiving grants from Novartis Vaccines.
Dr Healy reported conducting trials with grants from Sanofi Pasteur and Novartis and serving …

Elderly adults account for >40% of persons with invasive group B streptococcal (GBS)
disease and for >50% of GBS-associated deaths in the United States. The prevalence of …

Objective To determine the factors associated with false-negative results on sentinel node
biopsy and sentinel node localization (identification rate) in patients with breast cancer …

… As we argue in the concluding chapter of this volume (Edwards & Greenberg, Chapter 12),
the development of new constructs and sub-types of the forms of voice and silence proposed …

MR and clinical data on 31 patients with posterior fossa CSF collections were analyzed. A
clear separation of these patients into classical categories was not possible because of new …

… Lancefield’s original method required acid treatment of large volumes of broth-grown cells
to extract the group B antigen from the cell wall [21]. Supernatants were brought to neutral pH …

… B streptococcal vaccine strain M732, which was originally isolated from a neonate with
early-onset meningitis, was determined with use of the opsonophagocytic assay of Edwards et al. …