Matthew Bates

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What proportion of untreated TB cases spontaneously recover?

Watching Valeria Sarmiento's The Black Book (a French period drama), I was surprised when a character who seemed to be an obvious case of 'consumption', actually recovered! Typically in such...

27 February 2019 1,325 1 View

Why don't Archea cause infectious diseases?

Plenty of Bacteria and Eukarya cause infectous diseases in humans and animals, so why not the Archea as well? Not really happy with any of the hyptheses I've found: 1) Evolution or...

15 January 2018 5,792 6 View

In proteomics or transcriptomics studies what is the probability of a signature of a given size being observed by chance?

In the attached study which seeks to identify immunological markers associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the authors use sera from 21 cases and 21 controls, and screen it with a 125,000...

22 March 2017 5,011 3 View

Is it permissible to perform regression analysis on weighted datasets?

When you have population data that enables you to weight your sample data to adjust for recruitment biases, I have noticed that if you run a multivariate regression analysis on the weighted data,...

16 April 2014 7,739 32 View

Could congenital transmission of cytomegalovirus infection early in pregnancy result in neonates who are CMV PCR and IgM negative at birth?

Currently we rule out congenital CMV if neonates are not PCR or IgM positive in the first 3 weeks postpartum

17 August 2013 5,938 3 View

How to extract viral DNA from Urine?

I've read in several places that the Qiagen RNA kit is the best one to use for extracting viral DNA from urine. Anyone had any experience of this or can explain why this is so?

05 December 2012 2,955 3 View