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A Multiplex Approach To Molecular Detection Of Brucella Abortus And/Or Mycobacterium Boris Infection In Cattle, Srinand Sreevatsan, Jack B. Bookout, Fidel Ringpis, Veera S. Perumaalla, Thomas A. Ficht, L. Garry Adams, Sue D. Hagius, Philip H. Elzer, Betsy J. Bricker, Girish K. Kumar, M. Rajasekhar, Srikrishna Isloor, Raj R. Barathur

Faculty Publications

A multiplex amplification and detection platform for the diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis and Brucella abortus infection simultaneously in bovine milk and nasal secretions was developed. This system (designated the bovine pathogen detection assay [BPDA]-PCR) consists of duplex amplification of species-specific targets (a region of the BCSP31K gene of B. abortus and a repeat-sequence region in the hsp65 gene of M. bovis, respectively). This is followed by a solid-phase probe capture hybridization of amplicons for detection. On the basis of spiking experiments with normal milk, the analytical sensitivity of the assay was 800 CFU equivalents/ml of milk for B. abortus and …

Balancing Public Health Against Individual Liberty: The Ethics Of Smoking Regulations, Thaddeus Mason Pope

Faculty Scholarship

Ten years ago, philosopher Robert E. Goodin published "No Smoking: The Ethical Issues." Goodin argued that the liberty of smokers can be justifiably limited for two reasons: to prevent harm to third persons and to prevent harm to smokers themselves under circumstances which make their decision to smoke substantially non-autonomous. In this article Thaddeus Pope reexamines the harm principle and the soft paternalism principle in light of more recent legal developments, gives them additional content, and carefully demarcates the justificatory scope of each. Pope also defines and defends a third liberty-limiting principle, hard paternalism, arguing that the liberty of smokers …

Unofficial Grapevine, January 2000, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Unofficial Grapevine

The January 2000 issue of the Unofficial Grapevine. Improperly labeled as Vol. 6, No. 12. This issue should be Vol. 7, No. 1.

Excellence In Clinical Practice [Complete Issue : Second Quarter 2000, Vol. 1, 2], Marlene Sarah Ruiz, Elaine Bloniasz, Teila Higgins, Jama Pryor, Jeanne M. Floyd, Sigma Theta Tau International

Sigma Past Publishing - Excellence Newsletters

Publishing History:Â Nursing Excellence published yearly in 1998 and 1999. The publication became Excellence in the first quarter 2000. It transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education, Excellence in Nursing Administration, and Excellence in Clinical Practice in the second quarter 2000 with volume 1, number 2. Excellence in Nursing Education transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education & Research in the first quarter 2002.

Publishing Frequency: Yearly 1998, 1999; Quarterly 2000 – 2004.

Format: Print 1999 – third quarter 2002; Online fourth quarter 2002 – first quarter 2004. Ceased publishing in 2004.

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Fixing the …

Excellence In Nursing Administration [Complete Issue : Second Quarter 2000, Vol. 1, 2], Pamela Klauer Triolo, Yasmin Kazzaz, Gwen D. Sherwood, Janet Haggerty Davis, Judy A. Coy, Teila Higgins, Jama Pryor, Jeanne M. Floyd, Sigma Theta Tau International

Sigma Past Publishing - Excellence Newsletters

Publishing History:Â Nursing Excellence published yearly in 1998 and 1999. The publication became Excellence in the first quarter 2000. It transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education, Excellence in Nursing Administration, and Excellence in Clinical Practice in the second quarter 2000 with volume 1, number 2. Excellence in Nursing Education transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education & Research in the first quarter 2002.

Publishing Frequency: Yearly 1998, 1999; Quarterly 2000 – 2004.

Format: Print 1999 – third quarter 2002; Online fourth quarter 2002 – first quarter 2004. Ceased publishing in 2004.

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Caring leadership: …

Review Of Laura Otis, Membranes: Metaphors Of Invasion In Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, And Politics., Peter Naccarato

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

Laura Otis, Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 210 pp. ISBN 8801859964.

Isolated Ventricular Myocytes From Copper-Deficient Rat Hearts Exhibit Enhanced Contractile Function, Loren E. Wold

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Is Malnutrition Declining? An Analysis Of Changes In Levels Of Childhood Malnutrition Since 1980, Mercedes De Onis, Edward A. Frongillo Jr., Monika Blo¨ Ssner

Faculty Publications

Nutritional status is the best global indicator of well-being in children. Although many surveys of children have been conducted since the 1970s, lack of comparability between them has made it difficult to monitor trends in child malnutrition.

Cross-sectional data from 241 nationally representative surveys were analysed in a standard way to produce comparable results of low height-for-age (stunting). Multilevel modelling was applied to estimate regional and global trends from 1980 to 2005.

The prevalence of stunting has fallen in developing countries from 47% in 1980 to 33% in 2000 (i.e. by 40 million), although progress has been uneven according to …

Challenges To Native American Health, Suzanne Grant

Physical Therapy Scholarly Projects

The purpose of this literature review is: to describe the historical context of Native American health, identify current challenges to Native American health and propose strategies to deal with the adverse effects of one of these challenges.

The historical context of Native American health discussed includes a history of Indian Health service and it's role as provider of American Indian health care since 1830. Challenges to the Indian Health Service population outlined include diabetes, cardiovascular disease and alcoholism. Strategies to deal with the adverse effects of diabetes and the high rate of lower extremity amputation, as it relates to Native …

Camphor: A Diminishing Industry Of Great Importance, Amanda Boyd

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

No abstract provided.

Farm & Home Research (Winter 2000), South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station

South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Annual Reports : 1960 - 2021

This issue of Farm and Home Research contains the 112th Agricultural Experiment Station Annual Report. People, projects and budget of the Agricultural Experiment Station for 1999

Risk Reduction In Office Workplace Encounters Between Newly-Disabled Employees And Management Of New York City Companies, Marta B. Varela

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article describes potential pitfalls for employers arising from the ADA protections afforded to employees with no prior record of disability returning to work after medical certification of a disability requiring accommodation. The Article describes Federal laws protecting disabled employees from unnecessary intrusion in their private lives (such as the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, and the Occupation Health and Safety Act of 1970) and sets out the requirements imposed on employers. The Article also describes New York City disability laws enforced by the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Finally, …

Whatever Happened To Anti-Semitism - How Social Science Theories Identify Discrimination And Promote Coalitions Between Different Minorities, Clark Freshman

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.

From The Bench, Gary S. Stein

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Washington University School Of Medicine Bulletin, 2000-2001

Washington University School of Medicine Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Hepatitis C Virus: Genome Organization, Viralproteins And Implications In Disease Pathogenesis, Çağla Eroğlu, Ergün Pinarbaşi

Turkish Journal of Biology

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Infection with HCV becomes chronic in more than 80% of cases and it accounts for 20% of all cases of acute hepatitis. The hepatitis C virus was first identified by the molecular cloning of the virus genome in 1989. It is an enveloped, positive strand RNA virus with a genome size of around 9.5 kilobases. The single-stranded RNA genome of the virus contains a large open reading frame that encodes a large polyprotein of 3,010 to 3,033 amino acids shown to be processed by a …

Scwds Briefs: Volume 15, Number 4 (January 2000)

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications

SCWDS BRIEFS
JANUARY 2000
Bovine tuberculosis (TB)
New Tick-borne Disease in the South
Dermacentor, Amblyomma, and Ixodes Dermacentor variabilis
Amblyomma americanum
Ixodes scapularis
"Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness"
Borrelia lonestari
Cowdria ruminantium
Amblyomma
A. cajennense, A. dissimile, and A. maculatum
Exotic Tortoise Ticks in Florida E. coli O157:H7 in Deer and Cattle
Kansas Bobwhites
Physaloptera.
Hemorrhagic Disease (HD) and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wild Cervidae
Wildlife Disease Association (WDA)
New USGS Field Manual: Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases: General Field Procedures and Diseases of Birds

Parental Care And Clutch Sizes In North And South American Birds, Thomas E. Martin, P. R. Martin, C. R. Olson, B. J. Heidinger, J. J. Fontaine

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

The evolutionary causes of small clutch sizes in tropical and Southern Hemisphere regions are poorly understood. Alexander Skutch proposed 50 years ago that higher nest predation in the south constrains the rate at which parent birds can deliver food to young and thereby constrains clutch size by limiting the number of young that parents can feed. This hypothesis for explaining differences in clutch size and parental behaviors between latitudes has remained untested. Here, a detailed study of bird species in Arizona and Argentina shows that Skutch's hypothesis explains clutch size variation within North and South America. However, neither Skutch's hypothesis …

2000 Annual Reports And Resolutions, American Dental Association

ADA Transactions

This item is part of the Annual Reports and Resolutions subtitle of the ADA Transactions, a serial publication of the annual activities of the ADA House of Delegates (HOD)/Board of Trustees (BOT) made up of three separate subtitles: Annual Reports and Resolutions, Supplements, and Transactions. Generally, the ADA Transactions are published in multiple volumes throughout the year. Older versions include reports from all departments as subsections, while more recent versions include only those of councils, commissions, and committees.

Synapsis: Philadelphia Campus (2000), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

All Yearbooks

This yearbook includes Physician Assistant Program, Biomedical Sciences Program, A Capella, American College Of Osteopathic Family Practitioners, ACOFP, American Holistic Medical Association, AHMA, Asian Medical Health Association, AMHA, American Medical Association Medical Student Society, AMA-MSS, Association Of Military Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, AMOPS, American Medical Women's Association, AMWA, Community of Italian American Osteopaths, CIAO, Christian Medical & Dental Society, CMDS, Daniel Wisely, DO Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Ethics Committee, Emanuel Fliegelman, DO Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ob/Gyn, Geriatrics, Jewish Physicians Network, Internal Medicine, Nutrition, Pathology, Physician Assistants, Phi Sigma Gamma, PhSG, (ΦΣΓ), Robert Berger, DO Pediatrics, Public Health, Roller Hockey, Runner's Club, …

Maternal-Infant Nurses' Knowledge Of Breast Feeding, Wendy S. Kershner

Masters Theses

This study explored the level of knowledge related to breastfeeding among maternal-infant nurses. It also explored whether there was a relationship between nurses' breastfeeding knowledge and level of education, type of clinical experience, years of experience and personal experience with breastfeeding.

A convenience sample of 67 maternal-infant nurses completed a modified version of Leadley's (1994) Breastfeeding Knowledge and Attitudes Survey.

Descriptive and correlational statistics were used to analyze the relationship between the variables and the nurse's breastfeeding knowledge. Data analysis revealed a mean score of 13.2 out of 20 questions on nurses' breastfeeding knowledge. There was no significant difference in …

Washington University Magazine, Winter 2000

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Multidrug-Resistant Strains Of Salmonella Enterica Serotype Typhi Are Genetically Homogenous And Coexist With Antibiotic-Sensitive Strains As Distinct, Independent Clones, Kwai Lin Thong, Z.A. Bhutta, T. Pang

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

Objective: The goal of this study was to report the molecular analysis of antibiotic-sensitive and multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of Salmonella typhi, using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), with a particular emphasis on the coexistence of these strains in a typhoid-endemic region of Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: One hundred isolates of S. typhi in humans (50 MDR and 50 antibiotic-sensitive isolates) from sporadic cases of typhoid fever were analyzed by Vi-phage typing, antibiograms and PFGE. Results: The MDR S. typhi strains were resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Analysis by PFGE showed that 50 MDR isolates of S. typhi had a single, homogenous …

Outbreaks Of Enterovirus 71 Infection, Sazaly Abubakar, Y.F. Chan, S.K. Lam, M. Ho, J.R. Wang, S.R. Shih

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

The outbreak of enterovirus 71 infection in Taiwan, reported by Ho et al. (Sept. 23 issue), 1 occurred almost a year after the outbreak in Malaysia. Though both outbreaks occurred in Asia and both involved large numbers of deaths, it was not known whether the two outbreaks were related. We studied the nucleotide sequence and secondary RNA structure of some of the isolates, using the sequence of the 5' untranslated region (UTR). Enterovirus 71 isolates from patients in Singapore (seven isolates), Taiwan (two isolates), and Japan (one isolate) were examined and compared with those previously reported in Malaysia 2,3 or …

The Early Local And Regional Immune Response To Recall Inoculations Of Mycobacterium Leprae In The Skin Of Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta)., Thomas Xavier D Lemarchand

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Epidemiological studies have failed to show any important impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and disease on leprosy, in contrast to the well documented increase in incidence and morbidity with other mycobacteria in these patients, notably Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The early events following exposure and repeated exposure to Mycobacterium leprae (ML) have not still been studied. Previous studies of first inoculations of ML in the skin of rhesus monkeys have indicated delayed recruitment of CD4+ cells and delayed interleukin (IL) 2 secretion in skin inoculation sites in simian immunodeficiency (SIV) positive animals. The development of the secondary immune response against …

Traumatic Life Events, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, And Health Outcomes In A Low -Income, Primary Care Population., Bradford West Applegate

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Research suggests that individuals with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have significant dysregulation in a number of physiological indices, especially the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Biological theories of PTSD propose that prolonged SNS and HPA axis dysregulation places individuals with PTSD at risk for development of medical morbidity and impairments in health status. The present study examined the following research questions: (a) what is the prevalence of traumatic life events and PTSD in a low-income primary care population? (b) does PTSD predict impairments in self-reported health status after controlling for age, alcohol abuse, tobacco use, and obesity? …

Pathogenesis Of Bartonella Henselae In The Domestic Cat: Use Of A Pcr-Based Assay For The Detection And Differentiation Of B. Henselae Genotype I And Genotype Ii In Chronically Infected Cats., Alma Faye Roy

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Bartonella henselae is a zoonotic agent in which the domestic cat serves as the natural reservoir, and humans acquire potentially serious infections associated with this microorganism. The purpose of this research is to contribute to the understanding of the pathogenesis of B. henselae in the domestic cat using a molecular approach. Using sequence differences in a portion of the I 6S rRNA gene between B. henselae genotype I, and B. henselae genotype II, a nested polymerase chain reaction (nPCR) was designed and used to investigate various phases of feline bartonellosis. The nPCR detected 3.2 organisms per milliliter of blood which …

Ricky Lee Sanders V. Michael O. Leavitt : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT, JUDGE HOMER F. WILKINSON

Cd40 -Targeted Adenoviral Vectors To Potentiate Dendritic Cells For Antigen-Specific Vaccination., Bryan Walter Tillman

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

The Redesignment Of An Acute Inpatient Dual Diagnosis Unit, Irene Harris Griggs

Theses

This project will focus on the study of mental illness and chemical abuse/dependence as it has progressed into the entity of dual diagnosis or what experts consider co-existing or co-occurring disorders.

Research has revealed the increase in the number of individuals suffering from co-occurring illnesses since the early 1980's. Because this condition has become the norm rather than the exception, it becomes necessary to focus more clearly on individuals that are diagnosed with this illness and on the most effective treatment in order to assist the individual in recovery.

Individuals have had co-existing or co-occurring disorders prior to the early …