Nasal conveyance of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains among dental professionals with varying levels of clinical exposure: A comparative study.

Objective: Any control program for MRSA requires identifying the whole hospital reservoir. The likelihood of conveyance of MRSA may be higher in dental settings. Hence, the aim was to compare the nasal conveyance MRSA among dental professionals with varying levels of clinical exposure in a tertiary dental hospital in South India.

Belize It: Early Resident Experience in a Global Surgery Rotation.

A global surgical rotation program has been developed at La Loma Luz Adventist Hospital in San Ignacio, Belize, by the Department of Surgery at East Tennessee State University in 2014. It encompasses a one-month rotation for surgery residents to travel to Belize, accompanied by a senior surgical attending, to participate in direct patient care. Residents are able to operate under supervision and practice both perioperative and medical management.

Traumatic Adrenal Hemorrhage Masking as a Pseudotumor.

Several case reports have been filed regarding the latent presentation of hemorrhagic pheochromocytomas in the trauma setting; however, few patients have been found to exhibit these symptoms in the absence of a tumor. In this report, we discuss a patient who sustained blunt abdominal trauma leading to the development of an adrenal hemorrhage and his unexpected sequelae of symptoms. Discovery of the source of the patient's symptoms was delayed secondary to multiple comorbidities in the critical care setting and work-up for other sources such as infection and agitation.

Keeping up with Dental Literature: A Study on Continuing Professional Development among Dental Practitioners in Hubli-Dharwad, India.

Introduction: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. In India, very few studies have been documented to discover the patterns of information update by dental practitioners.

Aim: To discover the educational tools that dentists of Hubli - Dharwad, Karnataka, India, prefer for updating their knowledge on new therapeutic methods and to assess the perceived usefulness of these CPD activities.

Phylogenetics of the millipede genus Brachycybe Wood, 1864 (Diplopoda: Platydesmida: Andrognathidae): patterns of deep evolutionary history and recent speciation.

The genus Brachycybe Wood is a little known group of millipedes comprising eight nominal species distributed throughout North America, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. The group's species are relatively morphologically homogenous and have been described primarily on the basis of differences in somatic morphology largely ignoring the often-used characters in millipede taxonomy and systematics - male genitalia (the gonopods). The objectives of this study were to survey male gonopods with the aim of evaluating inter-specific variation, assess existing species boundaries and phylogeny using molecular characters, examine the historical biogeography of the genus, and estimate the timing of lineage divergence using a molecular clock.