Publications by authors named "E Fidelma Boyd"

Background: Impaired fetal and accelerated postnatal growth are associated with cardiometabolic disease. Few studies investigated how recovery from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is associated with childhood cardiometabolic risk.

Objective: We evaluated cardiometabolic risk in SAM children treated through community-based management, relative to controls, 5-year post-recovery.

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Vibrio diabolicus 3098 is a marine halophile, a member of the . The draft whole-genome sequence is 5.17 Mb and has 4,829 predicted coding sequences divided into two chromosomes and a plasmid.

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Increased cases of Salmonella Dublin, a bacterial pathogen that primarily affects dairy cattle, have been noted in British Columbia (BC), Canada since 2015. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to 1) understand the prevalence and distribution of S. Dublin in BC dairy farms based on bulk tank milk (BTM) serology, 2) to investigate the degree of variability within percent positivity (%PP) in negative and positive farms, and 3) investigate risk factors associated with positivity.

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Undergraduate research has been identified as a high-impact educational practice. However, despite the body of evidence on the outcomes of undergraduate research, few studies have focused on the influences students face regarding participation. Developed using Science Capital and Social Cognitive Career Theory, a survey comprised of potential influences to undergraduate science research participation was disseminated to science majors at four R1 institutions in the Southeastern United States.

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