This study analyses the amplitude of chirp-evoked ABRs recorded in infants below 48 month of age under clinical conditions and compares these results with literature data.

Methods: Chirp-evoked ABR recordings in 46 infants under chloral hydrate sedation or general anaesthesia were analysed retrospectively. The amplitude of the wave V was measured as a function of the stimulus intensity. To compare ABR amplitudes across infants with different hearing losses, the stimulus intensity was readjusted to the subjects’ individual physiological threshold in dB SL (sensation level). Individual wave

V amplitudes were plotted www.selleckchem.com/products/gsk3326595-epz015938.html against stimulus intensity and individual amplitude growth functions were calculated. To investigate the maturation of chirp-evoked ABR, data from infants below and

above 18 months of age were analysed separately.

Results: Chirp-evoked ABR amplitudes in both age groups were larger than the click-evoked click here ABR amplitudes in young infants from the literature. Amplitudes of chirp-evoked ABR in infants above 18 months of age were not substantially smaller than those reported for normal hearing adults. Amplitudes recorded in infants below 18 months were significantly smaller than those in infants above 18 months. A significant difference between chirp-evoked ABR amplitudes recorded in sedation or under general anaesthesia was not found.

Conclusions: The higher amplitudes of ABR elicited by a broadband chirp stimulus allow for

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“The present study had as objective to evaluate the genotypic diversity and biological characteristics, such as hemolysin, protease, elastase of 56 clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from 13 cystic fi brosis (CF) patients attending at the School Hospital of Campinas State University (UNICAMP), Brazil. Genotypic diversity has been determined buy RG-7388 by Ribotyping (RT) and the pattern of the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR (ERIC-PCR) of each strain. The production of elastase was signifi cantly different only among mucoid and nonmucoid isolates. Joint results obtained by (RT) and ERIC-PCR methods were able to discriminate all strains isolated from both the same and different patients. Additionally, we observed four strain clusters with low diversity. The most infective strains were located in just two clusters. These results suggest that either there is a strong selection towards a specifi c genotype or that specifi c isolates could be responsible for the initial and subsequent colonization processes. More studies are necessary to know if these conclusions can be generalized for the general CF population.