Our animal facility obtained 15 three-month-old New Zealand Red rabbits weighing between 3.0 and 3.5 kg from a commercial rabbit vendor. The animals were housed individually in a room that contained ...

Background. To study determinants and risks of Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage, adequate differentiation between the different S. aureus carrier states is obligatory. We set out to develop a ...

Like other countries in the world, Japan has witnessed a worrisome increase in the prevalence of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) over the last decade. An inflammatory disease that lasts at least 12 weeks ...