Incidence and risk factors for limb fracture in greyhound racing in Western Australia.

Identification of risk factors for race day injury can improve greyhound welfare. Race day fractures are the most significant injury event and have the greatest negative impact on dog welfare and the industry's social license to operate. This study aimed to describe the incidence and risk factors for race-related fractures in greyhounds racing in Western Australia.

Toothbrushing for critically ill mechanically ventilated patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials evaluating ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Background: Oral care may decrease ventilator-associated pneumonia in the ICU. The objective of this review was to summarize and critically appraise randomized trials in mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU testing the effect of oral care strategies involving toothbrushing on ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Search Methods: We searched EMBASE, MEDLINE, and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register and Database of Systematic Reviews from 1980 until March 2012, independently and in duplicate, as well as personal files and reference lists.

Impact of perioperative pain intensity, pain qualities, and opioid use on chronic pain after surgery: a prospective cohort study.

Background And Objectives: A better understanding of the pathogenesis of chronic postsurgical pain is needed in order to develop effective prevention and treatment interventions. The objective of this study was to evaluate the incidence and risk factors for chronic postsurgical pain in women undergoing gynecologic surgery.

Methods: Pain characteristics, opioid consumption, and psychologic factors were captured before and 6 months after surgery.

Measuring men's opinions of prostate needle biopsy.

Background: Needle biopsy of the prostate is an important, common, invasive procedure. Little is known about men's perceptions of it. The present study was designed to assess men's experience of prostate biopsy, to determine the feasibility of a randomized trial of interventions to alleviate distress during prostate biopsy, and to develop a pragmatic outcome measure for such a trial.

Detection of known and novel genes encoding aromatic ring-hydroxylating dioxygenases in soils and in aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria.

Primers were designed and successfully used to screen aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria for the presence of class II aromatic ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase (RHD) genes and to amplify novel RHD genes from DNA extracted from soil using the polymerase chain reaction. Two previously undiscovered groups of genes encoding putative class II RHDs, designated the S and T clusters, were found in RHD different soil samples. Only one of 70 RHD gene fragments amplified from these soil samples could be assigned to a cluster of previously reported RHD genes.

The arabinose kinase, ARA1, gene of Arabidopsis is a novel member of the galactose kinase gene family.

The arabinose-sensitive ara1-1 mutant of Arabidopsis is deficient in arabinose kinase activity. A candidate for the ARA1 gene. ISA1, has been previously identified through the Arabidopsis genome sequencing initiative.

Construction of a shuttle vector for use between Pasteurella multocida and Escherichia coli.

The isolation of a small plasmid from Pasteurella multocida has enabled the construction of a shuttle vector for use between P. multocida and Escherichia coli. The vector pBAC64 contains the origin of replication from P.