Publications by authors named "Patricia Parrott"
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- In free-range and organic production systems, hens have the freedom to make choices, which aligns with animal welfare, but these systems also face health and behavioral challenges.
- The article reviews welfare issues in the EU's poultry production and suggests global solutions such as enhanced biosecurity, nutritional improvements, and alternative treatments like phytotherapy and probiotics.
- It highlights that providing environmental enrichment and managing flock sizes can help improve hens' range use and reduce problems like feather pecking, but notes that many hens tend to stay close to their houses despite having outdoor access.
Background: The resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in the 1980s and early 1990s in the United States was also accompanied by numerous hospital outbreaks of TB and nosocomial transmission to health care workers.
Objective: To determine whether a dedicated airborne infection isolation (AII) unit improves efficiency in "ruling-out" patients suspected of having pulmonary TB. This is important because, to prevent nosocomial transmission of TB, the number and ratio of patients isolated who are subsequently found to have TB is much higher than those "ruled out" and have TB excluded.
A prospective observational cohort study to assess rates of and risk factors for tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion among health care workers (HCWs) was conducted at an urban hospital located in a high tuberculosis-incidence area in 1994-1998. All hospital employees undergoing required testing every 6 months were included. A total of 69 (1.
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