Isolation of Clostridium limosum from an outbreak of metritis in farmed mink

BACKGROUND: An outbreak of sudden death of pregnant farmed mink in Finland occurred during the busiest whelping period in the spring of 2013. The affected farms were all located in western Finland in a rather narrow geographic area, Ostrobothnia. Dead mink from 22 farms were submitted for laboratory diagnostics to the Finnish Food Safety Authority (Evira). The carcasses were necropsied and tissue specimens were prepared for histology. Samples of internal organs and peritoneal fluid were cultured bacteriologically. RESULTS: Major pathological findings included hemorrhagic vaginal discharge, severely inflamed uteri with luminal hemorrhagic exudate and dead fetuses. Dead fetuses were present in the peritoneal cavity and associated severe peritonitis occurring as sequela of uterine rupture were found in most minks. Histological findings included hemorrhages, neutrophil infiltrations, degenerative inflammatory cells, edema, fibrin and rod-shaped bacteria on all layers of the uterine wall. In most samples abundant and pure anaerobic bacterial growth of Clostridium limosum was found. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report of C. limosum associated metritis in farmed mink. Disease was only observed in pregnant females and the uterus was the primary site of infection. The source of infection and the route of transmission remained unclear, but feed borne transmission was suspected

Algebras of Real Analytic-Functions ; Homomorphisms and Bounding-Sets

This article deals with bounding sets in real Banach spaces E with respect to the functions in A(E), the algebra of real analytic functions on E, as well as to various subalgebras of A(E). These bounding sets are shown to be relatively weakly compact and the question whether they are always relatively compact in the norm topology is reduced to the study of the action on the set of unit vectors in l(infinity) of the corresponding functions in A(l(infinity)). These results are achieved by studying the homomorphisms on the function algebras in question, an idea that is also reversed in order to obtain new results for the set of homomorphisms on these algebras

Sympatric occurrence of three leaf beetle species of Macroplea Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae) in Finland with a key to species in Northern Europe

Macroplea Samouelle, 1819 is the only known fully aquatic leaf beetle genus with three European species that have earlier been classified by their assumed water salinity preferences. We studied the inter- and intraspecific variation of the specimens living in Northern Europe using both molecular (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, COI) and morphological evidence. The variation in the COI sequences between M. mutica (Fabricius, 1792) and M. pubipennis (Reuter, 1875) was 8.4%-9%, M. mutica and M. appendiculata (Panzer, 1794)-3.9%-4.9%, and M. appendiculata and M. pubipennis-8.8%-9.2%. All three species were sampled together in the Bothnian Sea on the same water plants, showing that neither salinity nor plant species bear a decisive importance in their occurrence in the region. Phylogenetic results suggest the existence of two currently unknown Macroplea species that are evolutionarily close to M. appendiculata. A key to the Nordic species is provided.Peer reviewe

FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN MOTIVASI KELUARGA DALAM MERAWAT PASIEN GANGGUANJIWA DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS TANJUNG GADANG KABUPATEN SIJUNJUNG

PROGRAM STUDI S1 KEPERAWATAN FAKULTAS KEPERAWATAN UNIVERSITAS KEPERAWATAN JANUARI 2019 Nama : Yosi Novita No BP : 1711316007 Faktor yang Berhubungan dengan Motivasi Keluarga Dalam Merawat PasienGangguan Jiwa Di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas TanjungGadang ABSTRAK Gangguan jiwa masih menjadi masalah serius pada kesehatan mental. Meningkatnya penderita gangguan jiwa di wilayah Tanjung Gadang perlu mendapatkan perhatian lebih untuk mengurangi dampak dari masalah gangguan jiwa, terutama peran serta dari keluarga dalam merawat anggota keluarga yang mengalami gangguan jiwa. Rendahnya peran serta keluarga dalam merawat pasien yang mengalami gangguan jiwa dipicu oleh rendahnya motivasi. Motivasirendahmenyebabkan pemberian asuhan keperawatan pada keluarga tidak terlaksana dengan baik.Motivasi ini berhubungan dengan umur, pendidikan, pengalaman, spritual, dukungan keluarga dan sosial ekonomi. Tujuan penelitianuntuk mengetahui faktor yang berhubungan dengan motivasi keluarga dalam merawat pasien gangguan jiwa. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif analitik dengan desaincrosssectionalstudy, dilaksanakan dari Oktober sampai Januari 2019.Sampel pada penelitian ini berjumlah 96 keluarga (caregiver) dengan menggunakan teknik pengambilan sampel purposive samplingdengan analisa data menggunakan uji chi square. Hasil uji statistik menunjukkan adanya hubungan antara motivasi dengan pengalaman (p=0,025), spritual (p=0,000), dukungan keluarga (p=0,008), dan sosial ekonomi (p=0,012). Tidak terdapat hubungan antara motivasi dengan umur (p=0,197), dan tingkat pendidikan (p=0,911) dalam merawat pasien gangguan jiwa. Diharapkan kepada perawat komunitas untuklebih meningkatkan sarana informasi guna menambah wawasan keluarga perihal penanganan pasien gangguan jiwa yang dapat meningkatkan motivasikeluarga dalam merawat anggota keluarga yang mengalami gangguan jiwa. Kata Kunci : faktor motivasi, perawatan keluarga, gangguan jiwa Daftar Pustaka : 102 (2001-2018

Algebras of real analytic functions; Homomorphisms and bounding sets

In this paper weare interested in subsets of a real Banach space on which different classes of functions are bounded