Attitudes of cardiothoracic surgeons in the UK to human immunodeficiency virus.
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Biomedical subjects
J S Bailey
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The role of surgery in the management of pulmonary metastasis.
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Humans↗
Gentle teaching: trying to win friends and influence people with euphemism, metaphor, smoke, and mirrors.
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Aggression↗
Influence of coccidiosis on Salmonella colonization in broiler chickens under floor-pen conditions.
The influence of coccidiosis on colonization of Salmonella typhimurium in broiler chickens under floor pen conditions was studied by semiquantitative methods. Chickens of two groups, unmedicated and medicated with nicarbazin (125 ppm via the feed), were exposed to three species of Eimeria (Eimeria tenella, Eimeria maxima, and Eimeria acervulina) at 2, 3, and 4 wk of age and given S. typhimurium in the feed 2 days later. Salmonella typhimurium was isolated most often (100%) from ceca of chickens exposed at 3 wk of age. Birds in the unmedicated group were positive for S. typhimurium at a higher rate than those in the medicated group. Salmonella typhimurium was detected in livers only in a few unmedicated birds.
Animals↗
Research note: in ovo administration of a competitive exclusion culture treatment to broiler embryos.
Exposure of chicks to salmonellae in the hatchery and hatchery environment limits the effectiveness of a competitive exclusion (CE) culture treatment. Therefore, in an attempt to apply treatment before chicks are exposed to salmonellae, the CE culture was introduced in ovo to unhatched embryos. An undefined, anaerobically grown CE culture, derived from cecal contents of healthy adult chickens, was diluted 1:1,000 or 1:1,000,000 and inoculated either into the air cell or beneath the inner air cell membrane of 17-day-old incubating hatching eggs. The treated chicks were more resistant than untreated chicks to varying challenge levels of Salmonella typhimurium, indicating that it may be possible to initiate protection of chicks to salmonellae challenge prior to hatching into a contaminated environment.
Animals↗
Extent of salmonellae contamination in breeder hatcheries.
Egg fragments, paper pads from chick boxes, and fluff samples were obtained from six commercial broiler breeder hatcheries and analyzed for the presence and level of salmonellae. Overall, 42 of 380 samples (11.1%) from those hatcheries were contaminated with salmonellae. Salmonellae organisms were detected in 22 of 145 (15.2%), 5 of 100 (4.6%), and 15 of 125 (12%) samples of egg fragments, fluff, and paper pads, respectively. The percentage salmonellae-positive samples from each of the six hatcheries were 1.3, 5.0, 22.5, 11.4, 36.0, and 4.3% respectively. Of the 140 samples randomly selected for enumeration, salmonellae were found in 11 samples. Four of these 11 samples had greater than 10(3) salmonellae per sample, 3 others had greater than 10(2) but less than 10(3), and the remaining 4 had less than 10(2). Salmonella serotypes isolated were S. berta, S. california, S. give, S. hadar, S. mbandaka, S. senftenberg, and S. typhimurium, all of which have previously been isolated from poultry. The incidence and extent of salmonellae-positive samples found in the breeder hatcheries were much less than that previously found in broiler hatcheries. Many factors contribute to the lower incidence and level of salmonellae found in the breeder hatcheries; however both the breeder and broiler hatcheries present critical control points in the prevention of salmonellae contamination during commercial poultry production. The cycle of salmonellae contamination will not likely be broken until contamination at these critical points is eliminated.
Animals↗
Simultaneous colonization of Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella typhimurium in day-old chicks.
Day-old chicks were challenged with Campylobacter jejuni or Salmonella typhimurium or both to assess the influence of these two bacteria upon the colonization of one another. Median colonization dose (CD50), a measure indicating the number of organisms required to colonize one-half of the challenged chickens, was used to assess the influence of these organisms upon the colonization of one another. Chicks were gavaged with serial dilutions of 1) C. jejuni, 2) S. typhimurium, 3) dilutions of C. jejuni and a fixed level of S. typhimurium, or 4) dilutions of S. typhimurium and a fixed level of C. jejuni. Six days postchallenge, cecal contents were quantitatively assayed for the challenge organisms. Birds challenged with only C. jejuni or birds challenged with both C. jejuni and S. typhimurium had a CD50 of 120 C. jejuni cells. The CD50 values for S. typhimurium alone (48 cells) and S. typhimurium simultaneously colonized with C. jejuni (180 cells) were not significantly different (P less than .05). The colonization levels of either organism were generally correlated with the challenge dose and ranged up to 63 million cells per gram. It was concluded that the CD50 for both C. jejuni and S. typhimurium in 24-h-old chicks were similar, and the presence of one of these particular co-colonizers does not influence the CD50 of the other.
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Methods for inoculation and recovery of Salmonella from chicken eggs.
Various methods of applying inoculum and recovering low numbers of artificially inoculated Salmonella typhimurium on eggs were evaluated. Inoculation methods tested were suspending cells in 1) .85% saline; 2) 1% peptone; 3) sterile chicken fecal paste; or 4) a 1:10 dilution of chicken feces in .85% saline. Sampling methods tested were 1) shell and membrane massage; and 2) mortar and pestle grinding of shells and membranes. The method that yielded the best recovery of low numbers of Salmonella was as follows: 1) apply cell suspension in 1% peptone to egg; 2) sample egg by a hand crush and massage of shell and membranes in 50 mL of buffered peptone; 3) incubate shell and membranes in buffered peptone overnight and then plate onto selective agar. Methods that did not improve sensitivity of recovery included varying the inoculum drying time, addition of FeSO4 or Cleland's reagent to the recovery medium, and varying the temperature of the inoculum to affect penetration.
Animals↗
Effect of fructooligosaccharide on Salmonella colonization of the chicken intestine.
The influence of fructooligosaccharide (FOS) on the ability of Salmonella typhimurium to grow and colonize the gut of chickens was investigated. In vitro studies showed that Salmonella did not grow when FOS was the sole carbon source. When FOS was fed to chicks at the .375% level, little influence on Salmonella colonization was observed. At the .75% level, 12% fewer FOS-fed birds were colonized with Salmonella compared with control birds. When chicks given a partially protective competitive exclusion (CE) culture were fed diets supplemented with .75% FOS, only 4 of 21 (19%) chickens challenged with 10(9) Salmonella cells on Day 7 became colonized as compared with 14 of 23 (61%) chickens given CE alone. When chickens were stressed by feed and water deprivation on Day 13 and challenged with 10(9) Salmonella on Day 14, 33 of 36 (92%) chickens fed a control diet were colonized compared with only 9 of 36 (25%) chickens fed a .75% FOS diet. Chickens treated with FOS had a fourfold reduction in the level of Salmonella present in the ceca. Feeding FOS in the diet of chickens may lead to a shift in the intestinal gut microflora, and under some circumstances may result in reduced susceptibility to Salmonella colonization.
Animal Feed↗
Unique tissue distribution of two distinct cellular retinoic acid binding proteins in neonatal and adult rat.
Two different species of cellular retinoic acid binding proteins, CRABP-I and CRABP-II, have been found in neonatal rat pups (Bailey, J. S. and Siu, C.-H. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 9326-9332). In this report, we describe a sensitive radio-ligand binding assay for CRABP in crude tissue extracts. The assay makes use of anion-exchange high-pressure liquid chromatography which effectively separates CRABP-II from CRABP-I, thus permitting the simultaneous quantitation of these two proteins. The distribution CRABP-I and CRABP-II in various neonatal and adult tissues of the rat has been examined. CRABP-I is the predominant species of CRABP and is present in high levels in the brain, skin and testis. CRABP-II is apparently unique to the skin of neonatal animals and it becomes undetectable in adult skin. Interestingly, CRABP-II is detected at a significant level only in the adrenals of adult animals, while neonatal adrenals express only CRABP-I and not CRABP-II. CRABP-I is present in higher levels in most organs at the neonatal stage than in the adult.
Adrenal Glands↗
Purification of cellular retinoic acid-binding proteins types I and II from neonatal rat pups.
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Reducing disruptive behaviors of elementary physical education students with sit and watch.
This study reduced the disruptive behaviors of students in two elementary physical education classes: a regular fourth-grade class comprised of 30 students and an alternative education class containing 14 fourth- and fifth-grade boys with severe behavior problems. Using a multiple baseline design, we introduced a modified time-out procedure called "Sit and Watch." The procedure reduced the frequency of disruptive behaviors by 95%. Sit and Watch proved to be socially acceptable to parents, school personnel, and the physical education teacher.
Aggression↗
Listeria monocytogenes colonization of broiler chickens.
In three trials, a total of 108 broiler chickens were unchallenged or challenged orally with either 10(2) or 10(6) cells of Listeria monocytogenes at 1, 14, or 35 days of age. The birds were kept in separate wire-floored brooders and growout batteries, fed unmedicated broiler-starter rations ad libitum, and killed 7 days postchallenge. The ceca, duodenum, spleen, liver (including gall bladder), and a cloacal swab were sampled from each bird and were analyzed for the presence of L. monocytogenes. In Trial 1, L. monocytogenes was recovered on all sampling days, but most frequently from birds challenged when 1 day old. In Trials 2 and 3, recovery was only from birds challenged at 1 day of age. The L. monocytogenes organism was not recovered from any uninoculated control birds. There was a dose-related colonization response (10(6) greater than 10(2]; and more recoveries were obtained from the ceca, spleen, and cloacal swabs than from the duodenum and liver.
Animals↗
The presence of Yersinia enterocolitica and other Yersinia species on the carcasses of market broilers.
Sixty ready-to-cook broiler carcasses obtained from several local supermarkets were tested for the presence of Yersinia enterocolitica and other Yersinia species. In the present study, the authors used two enrichment broths, yeast-extract/rosebengal-bile oxalate sorbose (YER-BOS) and phosphate-buffered saline with a postenrichment KOH treatment (PBS-KOH), and two plating media, cefsulodin-irgasan-novobiocin (CIN) and pectin agar. Yersinia organisms were found on 34 of 60 carcasses (56.7%) and Y. enterocolitica, on 16 of 60 carcasses (26.7%). There was no significant difference between CIN and pectin agar; however, PBS-KOH yielded a significantly higher (P less than or equal to .05) detection rate than YER-BOS, regardless of the plating media used. In addition to Y. enterocolitica, Y. frederiksenii and Y. intermedia were also isolated from the market broilers. None of the Y. enterocolitica isolates were found to be presumptively virulent.
Animals↗
Comparison of enrichment and plating media for isolation of Yersinia.
Yersinia enterocolitica (Serotypes 0:3 or 0:8), Yersinia frederiksenii, Yersinia kristensenii, or Yersinia intermedia along with 10(8) cells of each of three extraneous organisms (Escherichia coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Pseudomonas fragi), all commonly found on market poultry, were inoculated into five enrichment media followed by streaking onto 11 plating media to determine the most-efficacious combinations for future surveys or assessment studies. For Yersinia enterocolitica (0:8), infrequent recoveries were made using yeast extract-rosebengal-bile oxalate sorbose broth and phosphate-buffered saline (4 C) followed by plating onto pectin, DNase-Tween 80 (polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate)-sorbitol, MacConkey-Tween 80, or cefsulodin-irgasan-novobiocin (CIN) agars. With Y. enterocolitica (0:3), recoveries were most frequently made using phosphate-buffered saline, sorbitol bile (incubated for 17 days) and yeast extract-rosebengal-bile oxalate sorbose broth followed by plating onto pectin, CIN, bismuth sulfite (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, MI), or modified Rimler-Shotts agar. For Y. frederiksenii, Y. kristensenii, and Y. intermedia, incubation in sorbitol bile for 17 days or in yeast extract-rosebengal-bile oxalate sorbose broth, followed by plating onto CIN, pectin, DNase-Tween/80-sorbitol, cellobiose-arginine-lysine agar, or MacConkey-Tween 80 agar yielded the most-frequent recoveries. Overall, the CIN and pectin agars performed best for the recovery of the Yersinia bacterium; the modified selenite broth and the bismuth-sulfite plating agars were unsatisfactory in the present study.
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Presence and impact of Salmonella contamination in commercial broiler hatcheries.
Egg fragments from hatching trays, swabs of belting material, and paper pads from three broiler hatcheries were sampled for the presence and level of salmonellae. Salmonella serotypes were recovered from 71, 80, and 74% of the egg fragments, belting material, and paper pads, respectively. Overall, salmonellae were found in 75, 91, and 67% of the samples taken at Hatchery 1,2, and 3, respectively. Thirty-eight of 40 randomly selected samples contained greater than 10(3) salmonellae cells per sample. All of the Salmonella serotypes encountered in the present study had previously been isolated from poultry. The presence and persistence of salmonellae contamination in the hatchery suggests that the vulnerable day-of-hatch chick may be at a greater colonization risk in the hatchery than during grow-out. Contamination and penetration of the shell of hatching eggs may constitute the most important link (or critical control point) in the transmission of salmonellae to young birds and eventually the consumer. An effective intervention method may have to be employed at this point to break the transmission link and significantly impact the overall problem of Salmonella colonization in poultry.
Animal Husbandry↗
Fifty percent colonization dose for Salmonella typhimurium administered orally and intracloacally to young broiler chicks.
One and 3-day-old chicks were challenged with varying levels of Salmonella typhimurium by gavage or intracloacal administration. Chicks were killed 5 days postchallenge, and ceca were analyzed for the presence of S. typhimurium. About 100-fold fewer S. typhimurium cells were required to colonize young chicks by the intracloacal route than by gavage. It was hypothesized that the low pH of the upper gastrointestinal tract contributes to the higher levels of Salmonella required to colonize young chicks via the oral route. The pH measurements in the gizzard of freshly killed chicks were variable, but most were low enough to be bactericidal. Presence of salmonellae in the hatchery environment and the low level of cells (2 cfu) required to colonize young chicks via cloacal challenge suggest that day-of-hatch chicks may be at a high colonization risk from salmonellae in the hatchery.
Administration, Oral↗
Promoting safety belt use with traffic signs and prompters.
Two studies were conducted examining the stimulus-control effects of conventional traffic signs as prompts for motor vehicle driver safety belt use. Following pilot research which suggested that a traffic sign reading "Fasten Safety Belt" posted at a parking lot exit was effective in producing small increases in safety belt use, Study I demonstrated the superiority of having human prompters display such signs compared to simply posting the signs. Study II replicated the findings of Study I and found that posted signs became more effective in prompting safety belt use if simple posting was preceded by a period involving human prompters who displayed the signs. The results bear upon the development of more effective use of traffic signs in promoting safety belt use and in viewing such use as an instance of rule-governed behavior.
Accidents, Traffic↗