Do enterococcus spp on fomites and hands indicate increased risk of respiratory illness in child care centers?
The findings imply that hand contamination as measured using Enterococcus spp is a risk factor for onset of respiratory illness and highlight the utility of fecal indicator bacteria as a metric for hand and fomite contamination.
Our findings provide the first evidence that CCN1 suppresses ADAMTS-4 activity and that CCN1 overexpression is directly correlated with chondrocyte cloning in OA cartilage. Our results suggest that the TGFβ/CCN1 axis plays a role in chondrocyte cluster formation through inhibition of ADAMTS-4.