DEATH FROM BONGKREKIC ACID TOXICITY: FIRST REPORT IN NORTH AMERICA

Death from bongkrekic acid toxicity: first report in North America

Background Bongkrekic acid (BA) is a mitochondrial toxin, produced by the bacteria Burkholderia gladioli pv.cocovenenans during fermentation.Outbreaks of BA poisoning have been reported in China, Indonesia, and Mozambique, but have not been previously Teddy Bear observed in North America.Case discussion A 67-year-old male with a past medical histor

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Predictive Power Estimation Algorithm (PPEA)--a new algorithm to reduce overfitting for genomic biomarker discovery.

Toxicogenomics promises to aid in predicting adverse effects, understanding the mechanisms of drug action or toxicity, and uncovering unexpected or secondary pharmacology.However, modeling adverse effects using high dimensional and high noise genomic data is prone to over-fitting.Models constructed from such data sets often consist of a large numbe

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