Antimicrobial susceptibilities of in Canada, 2020.

Background: The Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme is a passive surveillance system that has monitored antimicrobial resistance in in Canada since the 1980s. This article summarizes the demographics, antimicrobial resistances and NG-MAST ( multiantigen sequence typing) for cultures collected in 2020.

Methods: The National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg received resistant cultures from provincial and territorial public health laboratories.

Disseminated Gonococcal Infections in Manitoba, Canada: 2013 to 2020.

Background: Gonorrhea, when left untreated, can enter the blood and cause disseminated gonococcal infections (DGIs). Disseminated gonococcal infections, which can include dermatitis, tenosynovitis, migratory polyarthralgia, and arthritis, have been increasing in Manitoba (MB), Canada, since 2013. Endocarditis, a rare DGI, was identified in 3 MB patients in 2018 and 2019.

Derived muscle arrangements and their shared innervation patterns of external and internal cheek pouches in rodents.

Cheek pouches have evolved from the oral cavity in rodents and act as temporary food storage repositories. There are two types of opening, internal and external. Details about the complex cutaneous muscles controlling the pouches have still not been fully elucidated.

Interactions of C( ) with rare gas atoms: incipient chemical interactions, potentials and transport coefficients.

Accurate interatomic potentials were calculated for the interaction of a singly charged carbon cation, C, with a single rare gas atom, RG (RG = Ne-Xe). The RCCSD(T) method and basis sets of quadruple-ζ and quintuple-ζ quality were employed; each interaction energy was counterpoise corrected and extrapolated to the basis set limit. The lowest C() electronic term of the carbon cation was considered, and the interatomic potentials calculated for the diatomic terms that arise from these: Π and Σ Additionally, the interatomic potentials for the respective spin-orbit levels were calculated, and the effect on the spectroscopic parameters was examined.