Coping with stigmatization and discrimination related to blindness and low vision.

Purpose/objective: Research suggests that effective coping with stress related to stigmatization and discrimination might protect the stigmatized persons against poor mental health outcomes associated with experiencing stress. Despite this, research specifically on coping with social stigma among people who are blind or have low vision has received less attention. We addressed this gap in the literature, by exploring the lived experiences of people who are blind or have low vision with regard to their perceptions of stigma and their coping responses.

Postpartum maternal distress: a multidimensional illness requiring a multilevel, multidiscipline response.

Australia's federal, state, territory and local governments all have responsibilities, often overlapping, for policy and delivery of primary mental health care to postpartum women. Identification and treatment of postpartum distress is carried out by a broad range of professionals from diverse disciplines. Although there is evidence to show that anxiety and stress are important aspects of postpartum distress, substantially greater emphasis has been given to identification and treatment of depression.

Microbiological Survey of Packaged Ready-to-Eat Red Meats at Retail in New Zealand.

A microbiological survey was undertaken on packaged ready-to-eat red meats available at retail in New Zealand. A total of 1,485 samples (297 lots of five samples each) were collected according to a sampling plan based on market share and regulatory regimes (Animal Products Act 1999 and Food Act 1981) and were tested against the microbiological limits specified in Food Standards Code (FSC) 1.6.

Advisory workgroup recommendations on the use of clinical simulation in respiratory therapy education.

Clinical simulation has become established as a commonly used educational approach in respiratory therapy, though questions remain with regards to the evidence basis for its use in some contexts. In conjunction with the development of a new iteration of the National Competency Framework (NCF), the National Alliance of Respiratory Therapy Regulatory Bodies (NARTRB) reaffirmed its desire to continue to recognize the use of simulation as an educational tool. Given the expressed uncertainty as to best practices in the use of clinical simulation in entry-to-practice respiratory therapy education programs, the NARTRB requested the creation of an expert workgroup to develop a list of recommendations from which an implementation plan could be developed for the next iteration of the NCF.

Pathology of oak-wisteria powdery mildew.

The relationship between oak and wisteria powdery mildew, the reason artificial infection of Wisteria sinensis was difficult, and the identity of the pathogen were investigated. Inoculations of detached leaves of Quercus robur with Erysiphe alphitoides from either W. sinensis or Q.

A retrospective study of Babesia macropus associated with morbidity and mortality in eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) and agile wallabies (Macropus agilis).

This is a retrospective study of 38 cases of infection by Babesia macropus, associated with a syndrome of anaemia and debility in hand-reared or free-ranging juvenile eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) from coastal New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland between 1995 and 2013. Infection with B. macropus is recorded for the first time in agile wallabies (Macropus agilis) from far north Queensland.

Australian perspectives on surrogacy: the influence of cognitions, psychological and demographic characteristics.

Background: The aim of the present study was to explore current Australian support levels for surrogacy treatments and also whether this support differed between traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy. The focus was also on understanding the underlying influences on surrogacy attitudes. It was hypothesized that cognitions, psychological and demographic characteristics would all predict attitudes to surrogacy and that cognitive concerns about surrogacy would be the strongest predictor.

Experimental infections of the porcine foetus with Bungowannah virus, a novel pestivirus.

In 2003 an outbreak of sudden deaths occurred in 2-3-week-old pigs on a piggery in New South Wales, Australia. There was a marked increase in the birth of stillborn pigs and preweaning losses associated with a multifocal non-suppurative myocarditis with myonecrosis. The aim of this study was to amplify any infectious agents present in field material to aid the detection and identification of the causative agent of the porcine myocarditis syndrome (PMC).

Caudal epidural blood patch.

This report describes the use of a single shot, through the needle caudal approach to epidural blood patch (EBP) in a patient with persistent leakage of cerebrospinal fluid following lumbosacral laminectomy. A previous report of caudal EBP in an adult patient with an epidural catheter suggested that the success of the procedure could be comparable without the use of a catheter. This case report documents the success of through the needle caudal EBP in an adult patient.

Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157:H7 and E. coli biotype 1 in a pilot survey of imported and New Zealand pig meats.

A pilot survey for the pathogens Salmonella and Escherichia coli O157:H7, and E. coli biotype 1 was conducted on 100 New Zealand-produced (domestic) pig carcasses and 110 imported pig meat samples over an 8-month period to assess the likelihood of introduction of novel pathogen strains into New Zealand (NZ), and as a guide for development of a domestic pork National Microbiological Database programme. Salmonella was not isolated from domestic pig carcasses or from pig meat imported from Canada and the USA.

Salmonella in uncooked retail meats in New Zealand.

A national quantitative survey of Salmonella in five types of uncooked retail meats in New Zealand was undertaken from August 2003 to May 2005 to establish baseline proportionality data. The overall prevalence of Salmonella in 1,108 meat samples was 1.1% (95% confidence interval, 0.

Prevalence, numbers, and subtypes of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in uncooked retail meat samples.

A national quantitative survey of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli in 1,011 uncooked retail meat samples (beef, unweaned veal, chicken, lamb and mutton, and pork) was undertaken from August 2003 to June 2004 to establish baseline proportionality data. The presence, number, and type of Campylobacter present in each sample was assessed. Prevalences of C.

Efficacy of a peroxyacetic acid formulation as an antimicrobial intervention to reduce levels of inoculated Escherichia coli O157:H7 on external carcass surfaces of hot-boned beef and veal.

The efficacy of a peroxyacetic acid formulation (POAA) at reducing Escherichia coli O157:H7 contamination on external carcass surfaces of hot-boned beef and veal with a commercial spray apparatus was determined. Hot-boned external carcass surfaces were inoculated with either a high dose (10(6) CFU/cm2) in fresh bovine feces or with a low dose (10(3) CFU/cm2) in diluent of laboratory-cultured E. coli O157:H7.

A missense mutation (c.184C>T) in ovine CLN6 causes neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis in Merino sheep whereas affected South Hampshire sheep have reduced levels of CLN6 mRNA.

The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs, Batten disease) are a group of fatal recessively inherited neurodegenerative diseases of humans and animals characterised by common clinical signs and pathology. These include blindness, ataxia, dementia, behavioural changes, seizures, brain and retinal atrophy and accumulation of fluorescent lysosome derived organelles in most cells. A number of different variants have been suggested and seven different causative genes identified in humans (CLN1, CLN2, CLN3, CLN5, CLN6, CLN8 and CTSD).

Morphological and phylogenetic comparisons amongst powdery mildews on Catalpa in the UK.

Three species of powdery mildew, Erysiphe elevata, E. catalpae, and Neoerysiphe galeopsidis were identified on Catalpa species in England in 2004. A new disease record, N.

In situ hybridization and immunolabelling study of the early replication of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVmacJ5) in vivo.

The distribution of virus-infected cells in cynomolgus macaques was determined at 4, 7, 14 and 28 days following intravenous challenge with 1000 TCID(50) of the wild-type simian immunodeficiency virus SIVmacJ5 (stock J5C). At each time-point, pairs of macaques were killed humanely and the presence of SIV was determined and quantified in blood, spleen, peripheral and mesenteric lymph nodes, thymus, lung and ileum by virus co-cultivation with C8166 cells, by quantitative DNA PCR or by in situ hybridization (ISH). At day 4 post-infection (p.