Establishment of reference values for novel urinary biomarkers for renal damage in the healthy population: are age and gender an issue?
In conclusion, age and gender had different effects on KIM-1, NGAL, NAG, and cystatin C. Based on this knowledge, age- and gender-specific reference values for KIM-1, NGAL, NAG, and cystatin C were established.
The HIV patients had a high rate of S. aureus nasal colonization. The most common characteristic of colonization was simple persistent colonization showing the same genomic profile.