Demonstrating the importance of local culture and susceptibility data: antibiograms from dogs at a veterinary tertiary care center.

Objective: To create antibiograms for commonly cultured organisms in a small animal tertiary care hospital following Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines and to compare these local resistance patterns to published first-tier antimicrobial recommendations.

Sample: Urine (n = 429), respiratory (41), and skin (75) isolates cultured from dogs between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020, at the Tufts University Foster Hospital for Small Animals.

Procedures: MIC and susceptibility interpretations were recorded for multiple sites for 2 years.

Quantification of total mercury in liver and heart tissue of Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) from Alaska USA.

This study quantified the Hg levels in the liver (n=98) and heart (n=43) tissues of Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) (n=102) harvested from Prince William Sound and Kodiak Island Alaska. Mercury tissue dry weight (dw) concentrations in the liver ranged from 1.7 to 393 ppm dw, and in the heart from 0.