On-farm biosecurity practices have been promoted in many animal industries to protect animal populations from infections. Current approaches based on regression modelling techniques for assessing biosecurity perceptions and practices are limited for analysis of the interrelationships between multivariate data. A suitable approach, which does not require background knowledge of relationships, is...

Women face greater challenges than men in accessing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) resources to address their daily needs, and may respond to these challenges by adopting unsafe practices that increase the risk of reproductive tract infections (RTIs). WASH practices may change as women transition through socially-defined life stage experiences, like marriage and pregnancy. Thus, the rela...

introduction: nosocomial infections affect nearly 10% of hospitalized patients. the majority of nosocomial infections are transmitted by contact, primarily by hands of health care workers. the micro-organisms on the hand can be divided into transient, resident and infectious flora. transient flora is the main cause of nosocomial infection which acquired primarily by contact and loosely attached...

75-year-old man presented to the emergency department at ur tertiary teaching hospital on 11 April 2014 with a 3-day history f a rapidly enlarging, painful haemorrhagic blister on his right and. He had caught sea bream while fishing at a southern ydney beach 3 days earlier, but did not recall any hand trauma. is past medical history was significant only for hypertension amlodipine 10 mg daily),...

Puffy hand syndrome develops after long-term intravenous drug addiction. It is characterized by a nonpitting edema, affecting the dorsal side of fingers and hands with puffy aspect. Frequency and severity of the complications of this syndrome are rarely reported. Local infectious complications such as cellulitis can be severe and can enable the diagnosis. Herein, we report the case of a 41-year...

OBJECTIVE We present the case of a sushi chef with pain and swelling of his index finger and wrist for a year, unresponsive to antibiotics. METHODS Biopsy showed a xanthogranulomatous reaction and positive culture results for Mycobacterium marinum. RESULTS He was treated with minocycline, clarithromycin, and ethambutol. In addition, he underwent radical synovectomy of the lesion. CONCLUSI...

BACKGROUND This prospective observational study aimed to determine the infection rate of simple hand laceration (SHL), and to compare infection rates between patients who were prescribed antibiotics and those who were not. METHODS The study was performed at two urban hospitals enrolling 125 emergency department (ED) patients with SHL. Exclusion criteria included patients with lacerations for ...

maternal infection with toxoplasma gondii acquired during pregnancy may result in congenital infection of developing fetuses. up to now, decision on informed therapeutic abortion of fetuses suspected of having t. gondii infection in iran has been made based on serological findings in mothers. this might have led to unnecessary abortion of many uninfected children. we evaluated the polymerase ch...