Publications by authors named "E A Scicluna"
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- - This study highlights the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) as a promising laboratory model for developmental biology, showcasing its unique reproductive monitoring techniques and extensive embryonic development atlas.
- - Researchers tracked female dunnart reproductive cycles, confirmed pregnancies, and provided insightful observations on embryo development stages, especially noting accelerated growth in craniofacial and limb structures compared to other species.
- - The findings underscore the dunnart's potential for enhancing the understanding of marsupial development and offer valuable resources to support biodiversity conservation efforts and research within the scientific community.
Endangered animals in captivity may display reduced brain sizes due to captive conditions and limited genetic diversity. Captive diets, for example, may differ in nutrition and texture, altering cranial musculature and alleviating constraints on cranial shape development. Changes in brain size are associated with biological fitness, which may limit reintroduction success.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Despite the perception that meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is now under control in high-income countries, global prevalence remains high, even increasing in some regions. Universal admission screening and decolonization has been instituted in some hospitals to attempt control but the practice remains controversial.
Methods: In 2014, Mater Dei Hospital in Malta introduced a universal admission screening policy, utilizing a novel, centralized and customized approach to achieve high compliance and low cost.
The acceleration of the standardisation of care and the dominance of the quality approach, since the 1990s, have brought significant changes to nursing practices, the different therapeutic approaches and the 'place' of caregivers with regard to the patient. In this context of modern psychiatry which must comply with all kinds of recommendations, what is the situation of the patient suffering from psychosis, who would previously have been supported over the long term in a psychopathological process? The encounter, envisaged as an opening, is placed at the heart of the therapeutic relationship.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is evidence that meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia can be reduced with improved infection control and antibiotic stewardship.
Aim: To survey infection control and antibiotic stewardship practices within European hospitals and to identify initiatives that correlate with reduced MRSA prevalence.
Methods: Online questionnaires were sent to European hospitals about their surveillance, hand hygiene, intravenous device management, admission screening, isolation, antibiotic prescribing, hospital demographics and MRSA blood culture isolates during 2010.