CLINICAL AND BIOELECTRIC CHARACTERISTICS DETERMINED BY BIOIMPEDANCE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

Clinical and bioelectric characteristics determined by bioimpedance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 99 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was carried out.They were assisted in the Pneumology Service "Dr.Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" TeachingGeneralHospitalin Santiago de Cuba, from February 1st to 15th, 2015 aimed at determining some compartments of body composition, according to the pattern

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Unusual Metabolism and Hypervariation in the Genome of a Gracilibacterium (BD1-5) from an Oil-Degrading Community

ABSTRACT The candidate phyla radiation (CPR) comprises a large monophyletic group of bacterial lineages known almost exclusively based on genomes obtained using cultivation-independent methods.Within the CPR, Gracilibacteria (BD1-5) are particularly poorly understood due to undersampling and the inherent fragmented nature of available genomes.Here,

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