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We aimed to determine the initial adherence of HIV cohort patients to ART (antiretroviral therapy), and reasons for non-adherence. Patients who received ART at the time of enrollment in the Korea HIV/AIDS Cohort were included in this study. Treatment adherence was determined at the baseline interview by self-reported questionnaire. Eight-hundred thirty two HIV-infected patients received ART. Of these, 253 (30.4%) patients skipped ART more than once a month. The most common reason of skipping medication was “simply forgot” (60.4%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a review of the family Lucanidae in Korea, which consists of 17 species belonging to 9 genera. One new species, Dorcus tenuihirsutus sp. nov., is described and the following taxonomical changes are proposed: Aegus laevicollis Saunders, 1854 is newly identified as Aegus laevicollis subnitidus Waterhouse, 1873; Macrodorcas striatipennis Motschulsky, 1861 is removed from the Korean fauna because this record is thought to have been based on the misinterpretation of locality and misidentification; Neolucanus saundersii Parry, 1864 is removed from the Korean fauna because this record is thought to have been based on misidentification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prevalence of aac(6′)-Ib-crand its associated genes and mobile elements was investigated in Serratia marcescenscollected from 12 hospitals in Korea in 2005 and 2006. A total of 215 isolates (from 166 and 149 isolates collected in 2005 and 2006, respectively) were included in the study. Aac(6′)-Ib-crwas detected in only two isolates collected in 2005 and in 12 isolates collected from three hospitals in 2006. All 12 isolates carried class 1 integron and coharbored blaCTX-Mand armA. BlaOXA-1and ISCR1were detected in 10 and 8 isolates, respectively. All 12 isolates carried IncL/M type plasmid and 6 of them also carried IncA/C type plasmid. Conjugal transfer was successful for 9 of 12 aac(6′)-Ib-cr, all 12 blaCTX-M, 8 of 12 armA, and 6 of 10 blaOXA-1. Of the 12 transconjugants, IncL/M type plasmid, IntI1,ISEcp1, and ISCR1were detected in 12, 9, 12, and 8, respectively. The transferability of aac(6′)-Ib-cr, armA,and blaOXA-1was 100% for isolates harboring ISCR1, against 25%, 0%, and 0%, respectively, for isolates not harboring ISCR1. Both clonal and horizontal transfer were demonstrated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and plasmid profile analysis, respectively. Stringent infection control practices and further investigation of association between mobile elements and resistance genes are warranted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]