Modern processing techniques for turkey involve rapid chilling to slow microbial growth and early deboning of the economically important breast meat. This paper shows that these 2 processes lead to significantly tougher meat with higher cooking losses. The toughening appears to be due to less extensive proteolysis and shortening of the sarcomeres. Calpains I and II and their inhibitor, calpasta...

This pilot analysis was conducted with data from 52 conventional grow-out broiler flocks in a prospective field observational study in the southeastern United States during 2003-2006. Each flock was sampled for Salmonella 1 wk before the end of grow-out, upon arrival at the processing plant, and during processing (prior to and immediately after carcass chilling). The broiler litter was sampled ...

One consequence of rising spring temperatures is that the optimum timing of key life-history events may advance. Where this is the case, a population's fate may depend on the degree to which it is able to track a change in the optimum timing either via plasticity or via adaptation. Estimating the effect that temperature change will have on optimum timing using standard approaches is logisticall...

The effect of rapid air chilling of carcasses, compared to conventional air chilling, and effect of earlier deboning, after rapid air chilling, on colour of pork M semimembranosus was investigated. During and at the end of chilling, compared to conventional chill treatment, carcasses that were rapid chilled had significantly (P < 0.001) lower internal temperature in the deep leg. Rapid chilled ...

A 22-month-old African refugee male was referred to our emergency department by his pediatrician for prolonged fever. He was previously healthy and had just moved from Tanzania to Dallas, TX, 9 months before presentation. He had intermittent high fevers to 103°F, along with chills and night sweats for 7 days. Upper respiratory symptoms, including nasal congestion and cough, were noted for a few...

(Chest 1993; 104:1597-99) A 48-year-old man was transferred to our hospital because of persistent, massive bilateral pleural effusions and dyspnea. He had been in his usual state of good health until 2 weeks prior to admission, when he developed fever, chills, myalgias, and a sore throat. On admission to the other hospital, bilateral pleural effusions were noted. Despite multiple drainage proce...

Actinomycosis is a relatively rare infection caused by Gram-positive bacteria. We present the case of a 54-year-old, previously healthy, male patient with a history of severe penicillin allergy who developed severe pneumonia and empyema caused by Actinomyces meyeri. Presenting symptoms included productive cough, right upper quadrant pain, and chills and rigors. He required drainage of the empye...

We report the case of a 73-year-old American traveler who presented with 3 weeks of fatigue, fevers, chills, and pancytopenia. Clinical and laboratory findings were consistent with hemophagocytic lymphohystiocytosis (HLH) and bone marrow biopsy revealed amastigotes consistent with visceral leishmaniasis. The range of endemic visceral leishmaniasis transmission now extends into northern Spain an...

A 54-year-old female with a prosthetic mitral valve presented with a 3-day history of dizziness, subjective fever, and chills. Blood cultures were positive for a pleomorphic Gram-positive rod. Initial phenotypic testing could only support the identification of a Corynebacterium species. Nucleic acid sequencing (16S rRNA) and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectr...

A 39-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2-week history of mild abdominal pain, abdominal distention, and dyspnea. He had a nonproductive cough with sharp chest pain, chills, night sweats, anorexia, and early satiety. A 20-lb weight gain with bilateral lower extremity swelling was also reported. An outpatient course of doxycycline had failed to improve his symptoms. His me...