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Freshwater fishes in the southwestern United States live in some of the most highly modified habitats in the country. As a result, the relatively small number of native fish species has been impacted in many ways, including the introduction of nonnative fishes and their parasites. Both Gila orcutti and Pimephales promelas have been introduced to the Santa Clara Drainage, the former is native to adjacent drainages in southern California, while the latter was introduced from the eastern United States. Two hundred and fourteen G. orcutti (arroyo chub) and 18 P. promelas (fathead minnow) were collected and necropsied in June through September 2017 and May through September 2018. Eight macroparasite taxa were collected from these fishes, including 6 native and 2 nonnative parasites. Four taxa of parasites were shared between G. orcutti and P. promelas: Schyzocotyle acheilognathi (Asian fish tapeworm), diplostomid metacercariae, larval acuariid cysts, and Lernaea cyprinacea (anchor worm). This study also reports the first host-association records of G. orcutti with Gyrodactylus sp., S. acheilognathi, diplostomid metacercariae, Rhabdochona sp., Contracaecum sp., and larval acuariid cysts in the Santa Clara River. Additionally, it provides the first host-association records of P. promelas with larval acuariid cysts in the Santa Clara River. This study identifies new host–parasite associations that may be useful for future conservation efforts.

This study reviewed 395 young adults, 18–35 year-old, admitted for COVID-19 to one of the eleven hospitals in New York City public health system. Demographics, comorbidities, clinical course, outcomes and characteristics linked to hospitalization were analyzed including temporal survival analysis. Fifty-seven percent of patients had a least one major comorbidity. Mortality without comorbidity was in 3.8% patients. Further investigation of admission features and medical history was conducted. Comorbidities associated with mortality were diabetes (n = 54 deceased/73 diagnosed,74% tested POS;98.2% with diabetic history deceased; Wilcoxon p ( Wp ) = .044), hypertension (14/44,32% POS, 25.5%; Wp = 0.030), renal (6/16, 37.5% POS,11%; Wp = 0.000), and cardiac (6/21, 28.6% POS,11%; Wp = 0.015). Kaplan survival plots were statistically significant for these four indicators. Data suggested glucose >215 or hemoglobin A1c >9.5 for young adults on admission was associated with increased mortality. Clinically documented respiratory distress on admission was statistically significant outcome related to mortality ( X 2 = 236.6842, df = 1, p < .0001). Overall, 28.9% required supportive oxygen beyond nasal cannula. Nasal cannula oxygen alone was required for 71.1%, who all lived. Non-invasive ventilation was required for 7.8%, and invasive mechanical ventilation 21.0% (in which 7.3% lived, 13.7% died). Temporal survival analysis demonstrated statistically significant response for Time to Death <10 days ( X 2 = 18.508, df = 1, p = .000); risk lessened considerably for 21 day cut off ( X 2 = 3.464, df = 1, p = .063), followed by 31 or more days of hospitalization ( X 2 = 2.212, df = 1, p = .137).

Gluteal compartment syndrome (GCS) is extremely rare, with a low index of suspicion among physicians, hence, it is highly overlooked. The underdiagnosis can lead to irreversible tissue ischemia and severe neurological deficits. GCS is a surgical emergency and requires immediate surgical intervention given its high morbidity and mortality. Based on the limited available literature, multiple etiologies have been postulated including traumatic and nontraumatic causes. This article presents a complex and unusual case of GCS after prolonged immobilization in an IV drug abuser who was subjected to initial missed diagnosis.

A much-loved small animal practitioner in Glasgow, he was a character and a real advocate for animals – it was he that brought contagious leukaemia in cats to the attention of researchers at the vet school.

Contingency and Necessity: A Musical OfferingAbstract This dissertation consists of the eight musical scores making up the respective work series of Georgic, Secundum Surdum, and Agnus. In addition, the score of Hlimman — Beneath the Earth, belonging to the work series Donnerwort, is included. Each of the works presented was composed between 2015 and 2021; cumulatively the nine pieces represent the six years of compositional work undertaken during my doctoral studies.Each of the work series approaches, from a particular compositional perspective, the historicity of musical languages, and the concomitant notions of discursive contingency and formal necessity. Central aesthetic concerns including iconicity, effability, and emulation are understood within the respective works to be the object of self-reflexive compositional address.Cumulatively the works open a poetic horizon on the broader socio-historical topics of individual autonomy, and the theater of language. Though committed to an assertive confrontation with these problematics, the project is born of a spirit of communicative urgency and is understood by its author to ethically affirm the tradition of critical discourse of which it itself is self-evidently a part.

A world-renowned investigative veterinary pathologist who made an outstanding contribution to education and research.

A vet whose journey took him from veterinary physiology, through pathology to sports science, a field in which he was world-renowned.A vet whose journey took him from veterinary physiology, through pathology to sports science, a field in which he was world-renowned.

A clinical pathologist whose outstanding contribution to the profession was to invent the first reliable clinical biochemistry analyser for use in practice.A clinical pathologist whose outstanding contribution to the profession was to invent the first reliable clinical biochemistry analyser for use in practice.

Dedicated to her profession, she did not spare her words when animals were mishandled.