BACKGROUND Ovomucoid is the dominant allergen in hen's egg. Although several studies evaluated the utility of ovomucoid specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) levels in predicting baked (e.g., muffin or cupcake) or raw egg food challenge outcomes, studies that evaluated ovomucoid sIgE as a predictor of cooked egg (e.g., scrambled or hard boiled) challenge outcomes are limited. OBJECTIVE To determin...

A survey of eggs in the Fraser Valley area of British Columbia was conducted to determine the level of bacterial contamination on washed and unwashed shell eggs and the incidence of Salmonella infection in shell eggs. Samples of eggs were taken from 15 grading stations. Determinations of eggs from 87 shipments showed that a higher proportion of eggs was heavily contaminated (>5-million organism...

poultry nutrition or inappropriate treatments by antibiotics can lead to production of eggs with antibiotic residues. the aim of the present study is to assess the prevalence of drug residues in eggs presented in kermanshah, iran. for this purpose, 120 eggs with the average weight of 60 grams were collected randomly from the supermarkets in kermanshah and later were tested for antibiotic residu...

Some parasite cuckoo species lay eggs that, to the human eye, appear to mimic the appearance of the eggs of their favourite hosts, which hinders discrimination and removal of their eggs by host species. Hitherto, perception of cuckoo-host egg mimicry has been estimated based on human vision or spectrophotometry, which does not account for what the receivers' eye (i.e. hosts) actually discrimina...

Asian carp eggs are semi-buoyant and must remain suspended in the water to survive, supported by the turbulence of the flow, until they hatch and develop the ability to swim. Analysis of the transport and dispersal patterns of Asian carp eggs will facilitate the development and implementation of control strategies to target the early life stages. Experimenting with Asian carp eggs is complicate...

OBJECTIVE Stripe marks, which occasionally occur on the shell, do not cause breakage to the shell and shell membranes of eggs. This study investigated the quality of intact eggs (IEs), minor stripe-marked eggs (MEs), severe stripe-marked eggs (SEs), and cracked eggs (CEs) during 3-week storage at 25°C. METHODS Shell eggs were collected the day after being laid and were washed. Among them, egg...

Studies were undertaken to determine the ovicidal efficacy of 5,5'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridyl (abametapir) against eggs of both human head and body lice. Head lice eggs of different ages (0-2, 3-5, and 6-8-d-old eggs) were exposed to varying concentrations of abametapir in isopropanol and concentration-dependent response relationships established based on egg hatch. One hundred percent of all abam...

JAXA studies the new locomotion concept using tethers for the requests of unmanned support system for astronauts and the robot demonstration on the orbit will be planned in 2012, called Robot Experiment on JEM/ISS (REX-J). This paper introduces the details of REX-J project and explains the proposal locomotion method called the tether based locomotion. The tether based locomotion is defined as a...

Hen eggs injected with either sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) or diphacinone are being used by the Department of Conservation for the control of stoats (Mustela erminea ). The eggs remain attractive to stoats for at least 1 month. This study investigates the persistence of the toxins in eggs incubated at two temperatures of 1080 in eggs incubated at both temperatures and the amount of diphacino...