1,281 research outputs found
Sanitizing Product Contact Surfaces for Fresh Produce Production
No full textDiscussion of how to properly sanitize product contact surfaces in a farm environment
Preparing Produce Growers for Compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act
No full textThe Rutgers On-Farm Food Safety Team received national recognition as an Extension Risk Management Education (ERME) Success Story for its grant funded work in 2015-2016 educating New Jersey farmers about the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule
Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle discusses the ideas present in Oscar Ameringer's theories of agrarian socialism and its place in Oklahoma society. H. L. Meredith explores his impact as a leader of the Socialist Party in Oklahoma, organizer, and author of socialist literature
Prenatal care advice to see a dentist: results from a population-based study
No full textMeredith L. Vandermeer (Department of Public Health, Oregon State University), Kenneth D. Rosenberg (Office of Family Health, Oregon Department of Human Services), Alfredo P. Sandoval (Oregon Health & Science University).Title from PDF caption (viewed on August 14, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in burrowing bettongs (Bettongia lesueur): a comparison of cat-free and cat-exposed populations
No full textToxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous protozoan transmitted by felids and infection, morbidity, and mortality occur in numerous marsupial species. This study explores the relationship between cat exposure and Toxoplasma in burrowing bettongs (Bettongia lesueur) in the Arid Recovery Reserve (ARR), South Australia. We estimated seroprevalence, using a modified agglutination test for T. gondii-specific immunoglobulins, in cat-free and cat-exposed bettong populations. Tissue samples collected opportunistically from bettong carcasses and from cats within and around the reserve were screened for T. gondii DNA using multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction (M-qPCR). Two cats trapped inside the ARR tested positive (50.0%; 95% CI: 15.0–85.0%). All bettongs tested from the cat-free (n = 48) and cat-exposed (n = 19) exclosures were seronegative (95% CI: 0–7.41% and 0–16.82% respectively). We found no evidence of fatal toxoplasmosis, with all bettong carcasses negative on M-qPCR (n = 11). We propose that T. gondii was not detected in bettongs coexisting with cats primarily due to low exposure of bettongs at the time of sampling, possibly due to poor oocyst viability in arid conditions or low shedding by cats. Ongoing screening throughout high and low rainfall years should be conducted to better establish the risk of Toxoplasma to bettongs in the ARR
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
No full textEmily Orlando is co-editor and a contributing author (with Meredith L. Goldsmith), Introduction: Edith Wharton, A Citizen of the World, p.1-15.
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and including her art historical discoveries, her political writings, and her travel writing, the essays in this volume explore Wharton\u27s diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision.-- Publisher\u27s description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/1067/thumbnail.jp
Neurological diseases of rabbits and rodents
No full textClinical signs of neurological disease, such as head tilt, hind limb paresis or paralysis, seizures, and muscle weakness, are commonly encountered in pet rabbits, and in the authors׳ experience, less often in rodent species. Moreover, localisation of neurological lesions and establishment of a definitive diagnosis can be challenging for any of the exotic small mammal species. In many rabbit and rodent cases, distinguishing neurological disease from musculoskeletal disease is difficult. The parasitic disease encephalitozoonosis is commonly diagnosed in pet rabbits; in both rabbits and rodents, bacterial infections are also a common underlying cause of neurological disease. Other causes of neurological diseases that adversely affect pet rabbits and rodents include toxins, trauma, metabolic and degenerative disorders, viral infections, neoplasia, and hereditary abnormalities
Leprosy in squirrels: an ancient disease in an endangered wildlife host
No full textLeprosy is an ancient human disease that was thought to have been eradicated from the British Isles. The last case of autochthonous human infection was documented in the 1950’s. Natural infection with leprosy bacilli in species other than humans was first described in ninebanded armadillos in the 1970s in the United States of America. Recently, both bacterial species causing leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis, were isolated from Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris, ERS) across the British Isles. ERS are endangered in this part of their range, and efforts are made for their protection.
This thesis offers insight into important aspects (clinical presentation, pathology, epidemiology) of the basic description of leprosy in live ERS, based on data from two wild British island ERS populations naturally infected with leprosy bacilli. The populations, one in Scotland and one in England, were studied for 18 and 24 months respectively, with live sampling taking place every six months. Additionally, samples from ERS, Eastern grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis, GS) and Pallas’s squirrels (Callosciurus erythraeus, PS) were obtained from Britain (ERS, GS), Germany (ERS, PS) and Italy (ERS, GS, PS) and screened for the presence of leprosy bacilli to provide new epidemiological surveillance information on squirrel leprosy.
Established, adapted, and novel tests were used to diagnose leprosy in squirrels. Accurate clinical diagnosis is important to identify populations affected by the disease. Serological methods were useful to confirm the clinical diagnosis. Molecular methods were the only way to identify leprosy bacilli in squirrels without clinical signs of disease. A diagnostic decision tree is proposed to allow optimised, consistent use of the methods now available depending on the situation in which a diagnosis is sought.
ERS that are infected with M. leprae and develop clinical leprosy usually showed a multibacillary, lepromatous or borderline lepromatous form of the disease. Lepromatous leprosy is characterised by an inability of the host immune response to control bacterial replication and dissemination. Leprosy in ERS progressed slowly, and the intensity of lesions could easily be separated into four categories from mild to severe based on lesion size, structural characteristics and the presence or absence of ulceration. Several months passed between the time when the bacteria first became detectable in an ERS tissues and the onset of clinical disease. Clinical disease then progressed on varying timescales in different individuals, but usually allowed the individuals to thrive for long time frames (months – years). The maximum time period a clinically diseased ERS was followed in this study was 18 months. Prevalence and morbidity differed in individual ERS populations. In one population the total apparent two-year prevalence of leprosy was 36% with a morbidity rate of 22% for the same population and timeframe. In the other the apparent two-year prevalence was only 4% and no clinical cases of leprosy were observed. The presence of leprosy did not have a negative effect on individual ERS or whole populations that could be measured using health indicators such as body condition, weight, general health and ectoparasite burdens. As part of this study, M. leprae was identified in ERS in two new locations within the UK, but not in British GS or any squirrel species in Germany or Italy.
The results indicate that leprosy alone is unlikely to be a major factor contributing to ERS mortalities and thus may not be of great conservation concern in this species. Continued research into ERS leprosy in natural systems could provide valuable insight into disease dynamics that may benefit humans and other hosts in a One Health and conservation medicine framework
Supplemental material for Clinical and genetic associations with prostacyclin response in pulmonary arterial hypertension
No full textSupplemental material for Clinical and genetic associations with prostacyclin response in pulmonary arterial hypertension by Stephen J. Halliday, Meng Xu, Timothy E. Thayer, Jonathan D. Mosley, Quanhu Sheng, Fei Ye, Eric H. Farber-Eger, Meredith E. Pugh, Ivan R. Robbins, Tufik R. Assad, James D. West, Evan L. Brittain and Anna R. Hemnes in Pulmonary Circulation</p
Lepra-Erreger in britischen Eichhörnchen
No full textAuf den Britischen Inseln wurden bei Eichhörnchen mit Haut- und Fellveränderungen zwei Erreger der Lepra (Mycobacterium leprae und M. lepromatosis) als Ursache nachgewiesen. M. lepromatosis wurde erstmals 2008 beim Menschen und 2014 erstmals bei einem Tier überhaupt in einem schottischen Eichhörnchen entdeckt. Vermutlich kursieren die Erreger in manchen Gebieten schon seit Jahrzehnten unter den Eichhörnchen, wobei unklar ist, wie die Erreger in die Eichhörnchen gelangten. Aktuelle Forschung soll die Verbreitung und einen möglichen Einfluss auf die ohnehin bedrohten britischen Bestände klären
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