Differentially Expressed Genes in Hepatopancreas of Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease Tolerant and Susceptible Shrimp (.

Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) is a lethal disease in marine shrimp that has caused large-scale mortalities in shrimp aquaculture in Asia and the Americas. The etiologic agent is a pathogenic sp. carrying binary toxin genes, A and B in plasmid DNA.

A comparative study of Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) challenge methods in Penaeus vannamei.

The microsporidium Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) is considered as an emerging pathogen threating the shrimp industry worldwide. It is an intracellular parasite that has been associated with retarded growth syndrome and white feces syndrome in shrimp. Although the impact of EHP to the shrimp industry is well known, many aspects of host-pathogen interactions are not well understood.

Influenza outbreak in a vaccinated population--USS Ardent, February 2014.

On February 10, 2014, the USS Ardent, a U.S. Navy minesweeper, was moored in San Diego, California, while conducting training.

Assessing the readiness of a school system to adopt food allergy management guidelines.

Importance: The prevalence of potentially fatal food allergies in school-aged children is rising. It is important for schools to have a food allergy management policy and an emergency action plan for each affected student.

Objective: To examine the current status of food allergy guideline and/or policy implementation and adoption in a large school system in southeastern Wisconsin.

Circulating neuregulin during the transition from stage A to stage B/C heart failure in a breast cancer cohort.

Background: Breast cancer (BC) treatments can cause heart failure (HF) in a subset of patients. ACC/AHA guidelines classify patients receiving cardiotoxic medications as stage A, a high-risk population for the development of HF. Circulating neuregulin (NRG) correlates with outcomes in stage C and D HF.

Common atrial fibrillation risk alleles at 4q25 predict recurrence after catheter-based atrial fibrillation ablation.

Background: Common single nucleotide polymorphisms at chromosome 4q25 (rs2200733, rs10033464) are associated with both lone and typical atrial fibrillation (AF). Risk alleles at 4q25 have recently been shown to predict recurrence of AF after ablation in a population of predominately lone AF, but lone AF represents only 5%-30% of AF cases.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that 4q25 AF risk alleles can predict response to AF ablation in the majority of AF cases.

Relation of morbid obesity and female gender to risk of procedural complications in patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation.

Obese patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are frequently treated with AF ablation. We sought to examine whether a body mass index (BMI) threshold exists beyond which the odds of experiencing a complication from AF ablation increases. All patients enrolled in the Vanderbilt AF Registry who underwent catheter-based AF ablation from May 1999 to February 2012 were included.

Provision and need of HIV/AIDS services in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, 2010.

Objectives: To determine the need for HIV/AIDS service provision in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM), especially in municipal areas.

Methods: The Foundation for Professional Development initiated the Compass Project. Using a questionnaire, data were collected during May - June 2010 from organisations providing HIV/AIDS services in the CTMM (organisational information and types of HIV/AIDS services).

Differential lowering by manganese treatment of activities of glycolytic and tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes investigated in neuroblastoma and astrocytoma cells is associated with manganese-induced cell death.

Manganese (Mn) is a trace metal required for normal growth and development. Manganese neurotoxicity is rare and usually associated with occupational exposures. However, the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Mn toxicity are still elusive.

Chronic hypoxia in development selectively alters the activities of key enzymes of glucose oxidative metabolism in brain regions.

The immature brain is more resistant to hypoxia/ischemia than the mature brain. Although chronic hypoxia can induce adaptive-changes on the developing brain, the mechanisms underlying such adaptive changes are poorly understood. To further elucidate some of the adaptive changes during postnatal hypoxia, we determined the activities of four enzymes of glucose oxidative metabolism in eight brain regions of hypoxic and normoxic rats.

Prevalence of influenza immunisation in Australia and suggestions for future targeting of campaigns.

Objectives: Reports on the results of a national survey conducted in Australia, in 2000. The objectives were to determine national estimates of influenza vaccination coverage for each state and territory of Australia, to obtain information related to attitudes towards and influences on immunisation decisions and explain the factors involved with failure to immunise.

Method: The survey was conducted using the Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) system.