Temporal progress and spatial patterns of quiescent diseases in guava influenced by sanitation practices

ABSTRACT: Postharvest diseases are a major problem in guava crops as the symptoms normally appear during fruit ripening. This study aimed to detect and characterize the temporal dynamics and spatial patterns of the most important guava diseases in orchards with and without removal of crop residues as a sanitation practice. The experiment was conducted in an orchard of ‘Pedro Sato’ guavas, over two consecutive seasons, and data were collected from the flowering to the fruit ripening stage. In immature guavas treated with paraquat and ethrel, Colletotrichum spp. was detected from the 5th day of incubation. Anthracnose was detected in flowers at incidences higher than 50 % and black spot in fruit larger than 5.5 cm in length. The monomolecular and the exponential models provided the best fit to anthracnose and black spot incidence progress curve data, respectively. Both diseases showed a predominantly random spatial pattern in the orchard. The removal of crop residues reduced the rate of disease progress in at least one season, and was effective in reducing the areas under the quiescent disease progress curves (AUDPC) of anthracnose. Anthracnose incidence increased from 57 to 96 % and black spot from 1 to 48 %, respectively, at fruit maturation levels 1 and 3. A negative correlation was found between disease incidence and the color of the fruit skin (°h). Fruit harvested during the later maturation stages showed higher incidence of the diseases. Due to the wide distribution and early infection of quiescent diseases, starting at flowering, preventive management should consider disease monitoring and removal of crop residues

Alterações hemodinâmicas e intracranianas em cães com hemorragia aguda, anestesiados com isofluorano Hemodynamic and intracranial alterations in dogs with acute hemorrhage anesthetized with isoflurane

Estudaram-se possíveis alterações hemodinâmicas e intracranianas em cães submetidos à hemorragia aguda e anestesiados pelo isofluorano. Verificou-se também a influência do anestésico no mecanismo de auto-regulação cerebral. Utilizaram-se 20 cães adultos que foram induzidos à anestesia geral com isofluorano por máscara naso-oral a 3,5V% (volume %). Após a intubação orotraqueal, reajustou-se o vaporizador para 2,1V%. Induziu-se a hipovolemia retirando-se volume total de 35ml/kg de sangue. Avaliaram-se pressão intracraniana (PIC), temperaturas intracraniana (TIC) e corpórea (T), pressão de perfusão cerebral (PPC), pressões arteriais sistólica (PAS), diastólica (PAD) e média (PAM), freqüências cardíaca (FC) e respiratória (FR), índices cardíaco (IC) e sistólico (IS), pressão venosa central (PVC), pressão da artéria pulmonar (PAP), concentração de dióxido de carbono ao final da expiração (ETCO2) e saturação de oxihemoglobina (SpO2). Imediatamente após a hipovolemia, houve redução significativa da PIC, PPC, PAS, PAD, PAM, IC, IS e PAP. Após 10 minutos, houve aumento gradativo das médias, permanecendo neste patamar até o final do período experimental. Concluiu-se que a hemorragia aguda promoveu redução das variáveis hemodinâmicas, sendo possível verificar a ativação de mecanismos compensatórios. Além disso, houve redução da perfusão sangüínea e ativação do mecanismo de auto-regulação cerebral, conseqüentes à hipovolemia associada à anestesia com isofluorano.<br>Intracranial and hemodynamic alterations in 20 adult dogs anesthetized with isoflurane and submitted to acute hemorrhage were studied. Anesthetic influence on cerebral auto-regulation mechanism was also observed. General anesthesia was induced with at 3.5V% (volume %) isoflurane. Thereafter, orotracheal intubation was performed and vaporizer was calibrated to 2.1V%. To induce hypovolemia, a total amount of 35 ml/kg-1 of blood was taken from each dog. Intracranial pressure (ICP); intracranial (ICT) and body temperatures (BT); cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP); systolic (SAP), diastolic (DAP) and mean arterial pressures (MAP); heart (HR) and respiratory rates (RR); cardiac (CI) and stroke indexes (SI); central venous pressure (CVP); pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP); end tidal dioxide carbon (ETCO2); and oxyhemoglobin saturation (SpO2) were evaluated. Immediately after hypovolemia, there was significative reduction of ICP, CPP, SAP, DAP, MAP, CI, SI, and PAP. Ten minutes after, the values increased gradually until the end of the experimental period. Indeed, acute hemorrhage caused reduction of hemodynamic variables and activation of the compensatory mechanisms. Cerebral blood perfusion was reduced and cerebral auto-regulation mechanism was activated due to hypovolemia associated to isoflurane anesthesia