Patient and community centered approaches to sepsis among birthing people.

Sepsis is the second leading cause of maternal death in the U.S. For racial and ethnic minoritized birthing people, especially those who are Black and living in underserved communities, labor and postpartum are particularly vulnerable risk periods.

Detection of in Air Samples by Quantitative PCR.

Detection and quantification of pathogen propagules in the air or other environmental samples is facilitated by culture-independent assays. We developed a quantitative PCR assay for the hop powdery mildew fungus, , for detection of the organism from air samples. The assay uses primers and a TaqMan probe designed to target species-specific sequences in the 28S large subunit of the nuclear ribosomal DNA.

The Role of Black Churches in Promoting Mental Health for Communities of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Black Americans.

Objective: Churches in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods serve as safe havens in many Black communities. Churches provide faith and charitable services but often have limited resources to address the mental health needs of their communities. This article reports on a collaborative effort, driven by members of a Black church, to understand mental health needs, coping strategies, and resilience factors in a community of socioeconomically disadvantaged Black Americans.

COVID-19: An opportunity to engage African Americans and women in research on cardiovascular disease.

Introduction: African Americans (AA) have been disproportionately affected with the COVID-19 disease experiencing 30%-60% of the deaths, while only making up 13% of the US population. Early data suggest that pregnant women and those with cardiovascular disease (CVD) may experience worse outcomes with severe coronavirus infection. There is an urgent need to incorporate AA and female perspectives into the design of research on the CVD complications related to COVID-19.

Direct and Indirect Effects of a Web-Based Educational and Communication Skills Intervention "Promotoras de Donación" to Increase Donor Designation in Latinx Communities: Evaluation Study.

Background: Latinx populations are severely underrepresented among organ donors compared with the non-Hispanic White population. The Promotoras de Donación e-learning module was developed to train Latinx lay health educators (ie, promotoras) to discuss deceased organ donation and promote donor designation within their communities.

Objective: This paper described the results of 2 studies designed to assess the direct and indirect effects of the module on promotoras' and mature Latinas' organ donation and donor designation knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.

Identification of quantitative trait loci associated with R1-mediated resistance to powdery mildew and sex determination in hop (Humulus lupulus L.).

Two QTL were identified using linkage mapping approaches, one on hop linkage group 3 (qHl_Chr3.PMR1) associated with powdery mildew resistance and a second on linkage group 10 (cqHl_ChrX.SDR1) associated with sex determination.

Understanding the factors that influence matriculation and persistence in Black medical students.

Purpose: The Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) Strategic Plan lists 10 action plans one of which is focused on understanding how systemic barriers, such as racism and access to quality education, may negatively impact diversity in academic medicine. Thus, the purpose of this study was to understand the factors that impact the matriculation and persistence of Black medical students.

Method: A qualitative phenomenological study using Tinto's Model of Institutional Departure as an organizing framework was used for this study.

Impact of Infection Timing and Autumnal Fungicide Applications on Perennation of and Severity of Hop Downy Mildew.

, causal agent of hop downy mildew, is known to survive winter as systemic mycelium in the crown and developing buds of hop (). Field studies were conducted over three growing seasons to quantify the association of infection timing to overwintering of and development of downy mildew. Cohorts of potted plants were inoculated sequentially from early summer to autumn, overwintered, and then evaluated for symptoms of systemic downy mildew in emerging shoots.