Application and Verification of Quantitative Objective Videofluoroscopic Swallowing Measures in a Pediatric Population with Dysphagia.

Objective: To investigate the feasibility of obtaining and utilizing objective measures of timing and displacement from videofluoroscopy performed in pediatrics.

Study Design: Children (n = 121; mean age 38 months, range 9 days-21 years, SD 4 years) referred for videofluoroscopy were recruited. All underwent a standardized protocol including a mid-feed 20-second loop recorded at 25 frames per second.

Detection and significance of the potentially pathogenic amoeboflagellate Naegleria italica in Australia.

Thermophilic amoeboflagellates in the genus Naegleria include both virulent and benign species. One of the less studied species, N. italica, has not been detected in the environment since the first reports from Italy in the 1980s; its virulence is known only from infection of laboratory mice.