Utilizing instructor practice experience to promote critical thinking for program proposals in an undergraduate public health course.

To encourage the inclusion of research practice in instruction. The choice to bring existing research into a classroom to enhance student engagement and learning does not have to rest with one's own practice; however, those whose primary responsibility is to teach may be required to connect their research to teaching. This article describes one instructor's use of research to introduce evaluation concepts to undergraduate program planning students and suggests the value of sharing field experiences.

School-based, blacklight handwashing program can improve handwashing quality and knowledge among pre-school aged children.

In the United States, lack of proper handwashing is associated with respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses. Interventions to improve handwashing practices have led to an increase in handwashing knowledge and behavior, and decreases in gastrointestinal illnesses. Most studies have evaluated their interventions in the context of reported handwashing rates by observation, reduction of illnesses, as well as reduced absences, however none of these studies examined handwashing quality or knowledge as outcome measures.

Functional characterization of the uracil transporter from honeybee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae.

The genome of the Honeybee bacterial pathogen, Paenibacillus larvae, encodes for protein a with substantial amino acid sequence similarity to the canonical Escherichia coli uracil transporter UraA. P. larvae expresses the uracil permease (PlUP) locus, and is sensitive to the presence of the toxic uracil analog 5-fluorouracil under vegetative growth conditions.

The solute transport and binding profile of a novel nucleobase cation symporter 2 from the honeybee pathogen .

Here, we report that a novel nucleobase cation symporter 2 encoded in the genome of the honeybee bacterial pathogen reveals high levels of amino acid sequence similarity to the and uric acid and xanthine transporters. This transporter is named uric acid permease-like protein (PlUacP). Even though PlUacP displays overall amino acid sequence similarities, has common secondary structures, and shares functional motifs and functionally important amino acids with xanthine and uric acid transporters, these commonalities are insufficient to assign transport function to PlUacP.

Complete Genome Sequences of Paenibacillus larvae Phages BN12, Dragolir, Kiel007, Leyra, Likha, Pagassa, PBL1c, and Tadhana.

We present here the complete genomes of eight phages that infect , the causative agent of American foulbrood in honeybees. Phage PBL1c was originally isolated in 1984 from a lysogen, while the remaining phages were isolated in 2014 from bee debris, honeycomb, and lysogens from three states in the USA.