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This effect was anticipated to happen in the eld on the basis of the laboratory study (Fig blood pressure levels good cheap exforge amex. Also arteria costa rica order generic exforge on line, the unique microclimatic condi- tions within the coconut crown might have supported the survival blood pressure 60 0 buy discount exforge 80mg on line, development and initiation of disease by the fungus. While the temperature within the crown tends to be below the ground level temperature, the relative humidity tends to be higher inside the crown (Sreerama Kumar, unpublished observations). Fragmentation of mycelium through the use of polyethylene glycol in the production medium has been achieved (Sreerama Kumar et al. Multilocation trials are going on in six states and the nal results will be examined closely to arrive at a decision on the recommendation of mycelial application of H. Acknowledgements The Project Director, Project Directorate of Biological Control, kindly provided the research facilities. Entomophaga 20:229 240 Moore D, Alexander L (1987) Aspects of migration and colonization of the coconut palm by the coconut mite, Eriophyes guerreronis (Keifer) (Acari: Eriophyidae). Misc Publ Entomol Soc Am 10(3):19 76 Sreerama Kumar P (2002) Development of a biopesticide for the coconut mite in India. In: Proceedings of the British crop protection conference- pests and diseases, vol 1 & 2. Indian Coconut J 31(5):11 17 Sreerama Kumar P, Singh L, Tabassum H (2005) Potential use of polyethylene glycol in the mass pro- duction of nonsynnematous and synnematous strains of Hirsutella thompsonii Fisher in submerged culture. Ann Appl Biol 101:13 18 A tale of three acaropathogenic fungi in Israel: Hirsutella, Meira and Acaromyces U. Sztejnberg Originally published in the journal Experimental and Applied Acarology, Volume 46, Nos 1 4, 183 194. Hirsutella thompsonii Fisher was introduced twice, killed 80 90% of the exposed mites, but due to its requirements for near-saturation humidities was deemed unsuitable for local outdoors conditions. Mortality was not due to parasitization; extracts from the media in which the fungi had developed caused considerable mite death, suggesting that it was a result of fungal toxins. Neither in the laboratory nor in the Weld was any evidence ever obtained that this fungus damaged the plants, leading us to hypothesize that M. All three fungi suVered very little mortality after being exposed to various insecticides and acaricides that are in current local use (with the exception of sulfur). Keywords Acaropathogenic fungi Hirsutella Meira Acaromyces Citrus rust mite Introduction Mites (Acari) are major plant pests whose control is increasingly becoming more problem- atic. Acaricides are expensive from the economic as well as environmental point of view and the target mites rapidly develop resistance to new products. Recent examples include testing such fungi against the cassava green mite (Mononychellus tanajoa Bondar) (Hountondji et al. Many of these fungi (or strains thereof) also aVect insects, but a few appear to aVect only mites. Since then we have added three acaropathogenic species that appear to be indigenous to Israel. Here we review our past and on-going eVorts to control pestiferous mites with three spe- cies of Hirsutella, two species of Meira and with A. The eYcacy of the fungi was also tested against several other acarine citrus pests, such as the oriental spider mite, Eutetranychus orientalis (Klein) and the red citrus mite, Panonychus citri (McGregor). The application of this fungus against rust and bud mites, spider mites and the broad mite, Polyphagotarsonemus latus (Banks) was reviewed several times (Chandler et al. Aside from North America, the fungus has been isolated from diVerent parts of the world, including Poland (Midtkiewski et al. Its eVect on mites assignable to several acarine taxa (Table 1) was assayed by placing them for 1 2 h on sporulating fungal mats and then removing them to suitable substrates or leaving them in situ (Gerson et al. The two citrus pests, Eutetranychus orientalis and the carmine spider mite, Tetranychus cinnabari- nus (Boisduval), were transferred to citrus leaves maintained at 25 C and 100% relative humidity (r. The fungus infected and killed >80% of the citrus pests (all mortality values corrected accord- ing to Abbott 1925), whereas T. Mortality in the latter treatment came to 98%, but in experi- ment (a) it reached only 65%, and in (b) to 74%. In another experiment, intended to simulate summer greenhouse conditions, conducted like (a) but this time the mites were transferred from 25 C for 18 h at 50% r.

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Glioma of the Optic Nerve Pseudotumour (Idiopathic Orbital Inammatory Disease) This rare tumour causes progressive proptosis and optic atrophy but it can be slow growing. This is an inammatory swelling in the orbit of There is an association with Von Reckling- unknown cause, which can present with pain, hausen s disease (neurobromatosis type 1) proptosis and diplopia. A mass might be palpa- and the presence of pigmented patches in the ble in the orbit and biopsy reveals nonspecic skin should make one suspect this. In Vascular Capillary haemangioma severe cases, a course of systemic steroids Cavernous haemangioma and/or radiotherapy is usually effective. Lymphangioma Neural Optic nerve glioma Meningioma Exophthalmos and Proptosis Neurobromatoma Lacrimal gland Both these terms mean forward protrusion of Lymphoproliferative the eyes but traditionally exophthalmos refers Rhabdomyosarcoma to the bilateral globe protrusion in thyroid Histiocytosis disease. Proptosis refers to unilateral forward 128 Common Eye Diseases and their Management displacement of the globe from whatever cause. In practice, the terms tend to be used rather loosely and are now almost synonymous. An apparent bulging forward of the eye occurs if the eye is too big, as in unilateral high myopia, or if the other eye is sunken following a blow-out fracture of the maxilla (orbital oor). This can expand after In the clinic, proptosis is best assessed by stand- bending down or crying. A number of such instruments are on the market and they depend Mucocele of sinuses. These measure- blood count and sternal marrow puncture ments are not always accurate (especially for should be carried out. Sometimes, the eyelids might be and especially shuttle cocks have earned a bad so swollen that it is difcult to examine the reputation for inicting contusion injuries and, eyes and a serious perforating injury could be from the economic point of view, leading to loss obscured. As in the case of injuries to close the eyelids in time before the moment elsewhere, those to the eye demand urgent and of impact. If the lids have been closed, bruising immediate treatment, and neglect can result in and swelling of the eyelids is marked and the tragedy even though the problem might have at injury to the eye might be minimal. It is always possible to examine an eye, if necessary using an eye spec- Contusion ulum under general anaesthesia. In the primary care situation, one must be very careful not to The eye casualty ofcer comes to recognise a apply more than gentle pressure to the eyelids familiar pattern of contusion, the effect of in case the globe of the eye has been perforated squash ball injuries and blows from ying and when there is doubt, referral to the eye objects in industry or after criminal assault. The important clinical Injuries from industrial causes have now features of contusion injury are best considered become quite uncommon thanks to better by looking at the anatomical parts of the eye. As a result,sport- Cornea ing injuries have become more evident,although here increasing public concern has also led to The most common injury to the cornea is from some improvement. It is odd how this is so often caused by the edge of a newspaper, a comb or a child s ngernail. Abrasions from the leaves of plants or twigs need special attention because of the type of infection that can occur (fungal), but any abrasion can lead to the condition known as recurrent abrasion. Here, the patient experiences a sharp pain in the eye in the early morning usually on waking, sometimes many months after the initial injury. It is thought that the lid margin adheres to the area of weakened healed corneal epithelium during sleep. Hyphaema showing anterior chamber half filled forgotten about the original injury and if the with blood. This problem of recurrence temporal part of the eye and it is in this region is a reason to treat these abrasions with some of the iris that one is most likely to see periph- care and to provide the patient with a lubricat- eral iris tears ( iridodialysis ). Examination may be impossible Contusion can result not in a tear of the iris without rst instilling a drop of local anaes- root, but in a tangential splitting of the iris and thetic.

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At the present time consultant posts are aspiring eye surgeon can expect considerable often advertised as requiring some special competition. There are certain essential require- expertise, such as paediatric ophthalmology or ments. The three coats of the eye are as follows: Introduction (a) Outer brous layer: The eye is the primary organ of vision. Each one cornea of the two eyeballs is located in the orbit, where sclera it takes up about one-fth of the orbital volume lamina cribrosa. The eye is embryologically an extension of ciliary body consisting of the pars the central nervous system. It shares many plicata and pars plana common anatomical and physiological proper- choroids. Both are protected by bony (c) Inner nervous layer: walls, have rm brous coverings and a dual pigment epithelium of the retina blood supply to the essential nervous layer in retinal photoreceptors the retina. The three compartments of the eye are as optic nerve are outgrowths from the brain, it is follows: not surprising that similar disease processes (a) Anterior chamber the space between affect the eye and central nervous system. The three intraocular uids are as follows: Basic Structure of the Eye and (a) Aqueous humour a watery, optically clear solution of water and electrolytes Supporting Structures similar to tissue uids except that aqueous humour has a low protein The Globe content normally. The cornea is transparent, whereas the sclera, which is continuous within it, is white. Bowman s layer homogeneous sheet of of the blood within the eye is in the modied stroma. Stroma consists of approximately 90% resents the largest blood ow per unit of total corneal thickness. The degree of lamellae of collagen, cells and ground desaturation of efferent choroidal substance. Descemet s membrane the basement that the choroidal vasculature has membrane of the endothelium. Endothelium a single layer of cells lining might be that the choroid serves as a the inner surface of Descemet s membrane. Clinically, the eye can be considered to be Epithelium composed of two segments: Bowman s membrane 1. The Outer Layer of the Eye Descemet s membrane Endothelium The anterior one-sixth of the brous layer of the eye is formed by the cornea. Basic Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye 9 In the region of the limbus, the epithelium on of the triangle (mainly ciliary muscles) lies the outer surface of the cornea becomes con- against the sclera. The inner side is divided into tinuous with that of the conjunctiva, a thin, two zones: (1) the pars plicata forms the ant- loose transparent nonkeratinising mucous erior 2mm and is covered by ciliary processes membrane that covers the anterior part of the and (2) the pars plana constitutes the posterior sclera, from which it is separated by loose con- 4. Above and below, the conjunctiva The pars plana is continuous with the choroid is reected onto the inner surface of the upper and retina. This mucous membrane, there- The choroid consists of the following: fore, lines the posterior surface of the eyelids Bruch s membrane membrane on the and there is a mucocutaneous junction on the external surface of the retinal pigment lid margin. Between the two layers of The sclera consists of irregular lamellae of basement membrane are the elastic and collagen bres. Small localised thick- thirds of the sclera become continuous with the enings of Bruch s membrane (which dural sheath of the optic nerve, while the inner increase with age) are called drusen. The sclera is thickest Layer of larger choroidal blood vessels posteriorly and thinnest beneath the insertions external to the choriocapillaris. There is a layer of loose Pigmented cells scattered in the choroid connective tissue deep to the conjunctiva, over- external to the choriocapillaris. Inner Layer Middle Layer The inner layer of the eye, which lines the vas- The middle layer is highly vascular. The anterior part of the uvea retina, which is composed of an outer pigment forms the bulk of the iris body and hence epithelium and an inner sensory part, which inammation of the iris is called either anterior contains the rods and cones, bipolar cells and uveitis or iritis.

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Careful selection of isolates for narrow ecological host ranges can reduce impacts on non-target organisms pulse pressure narrow cheap exforge master card. Origin of isolate It is commonly assumed that an isolate is more pathogenic to the host from which it was isolated as compared to a new prehypertension 126 exforge 80mg buy with amex, unrelated host (Goettel et al blood pressure medication polygraph buy exforge 80 mg with visa. However, there are several instances where isolates derived from ticks have been found to be less pathogenic in comparison to isolates from non-tick hosts. Virulence 8 9 High concentrations of conidia (10 10 conidia/ml) used in laboratory bioassays produce signicant mortality in cattle ticks. However, pathogenicity often declines rapidly as concentrations are reduced (Frazzon et al. Considering the small size of tick development stages, and difculty in targeting them on the cattle surface, only few conidia are likely to attach to the target; thus there is a need to identify highly virulent isolates. However, minimum lethal doses for various developmental stages in ticks have not been calculated. Although mortality is desirable, sublethal effects can contribute signicantly to control efforts as they often affect reproduction and hence the future population size in the eld. Reported sublethal effects due to entomopathogenic fungi on ticks generally inuence reproductive parameters such as post engorgement weights, oviposition period, weight of egg mass, larval eclosion period and eclosion (Monteiro et al. In many instances, the geographic range of tick species of economic importance overlap (Olwoch et al. There are few studies which demonstrated the pathoge- nicity of isolates to more than one tick species. Developmental stage Not all stages of an insect s life cycle are equally susceptible to infection by entomo- pathogenic fungi (Butt and Goettel 2000); the same appears to be true for ticks. In several tick species, all development stages have been shown to be susceptible to entomopatho- genic fungi to varying degrees. The ability of fungi to kill both immature and mature stages of ticks is important as major tick-borne diseases are trans- mitted by the younger stages such as larvae and nymphs while engorging females cause blood loss and loss of productivity (Pegram and Oosterwijk 1990; Kettle 1995). Finally, in insects, moulting may result in the loss of inoculum on the exuviae (Butt and Goettel 2000). This phenomenon has not been investigated in ticks where it is also likely to limit infection in a similar manner, particularly in one-host ticks with short life cycles, such as R. Anatomy In theory, ticks should be good hosts for fungal pathogens particularly in the engorged state when the integument is stretched (Kalsbeek et al. The high degree of sclerotization in the integument of ixodid ticks (Evans 1992) may make fungal penetration and colonisation difcult in vivo. Additionally, water availability for the germination of conidia needs to be considered. Insects lose water through the spiracles during respiration and via faeces and saliva (Rourke and Gibbs 1999). In argasid ticks, excess water is eliminated via the coxal apparatus but no such structure exists in ixodid ticks (Kettle 1995). Little urine is secreted by the Malpighian tubules and excess uid is eliminated by salivation passed back into the host, and hence may not be available for germination of conidia. Life cycle Ticks have highly variable life cycles and feeding patterns (Kettle 1995). The majority of ixodid ticks are three-host ticks where the larvae, nymphs and adults fall off the host after feeding, while in one-host ticks (e. As such, one-host ticks are more likely to be effectively targeted by periodic topical application, resulting in more effective control compared to three-host ticks which may spend up to 90% of their time off the cattle host. Location on host The preferred feeding location of the ticks is also important in a myco-acaricide appli- cation strategy. However, immature Rhipicephalus evertsi Neumann occur deep inside the ear which makes targeting more difcult, although Kaaya et al. Targeting methods should also consider that after mo- ulting ticks move around, thus increasing the probability of coming into contact with conidia of an applied myco-acaricide.

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The Law Lords ruled that a girl under 16 could give valid consent for contraception if she were able to understand the proposed treatment and its implications arteriovenous malformation cheap exforge generic. This principle has come to be known as Fraser Ruling blood pressure yang normal generic 80mg exforge overnight delivery, and this principle of competence has now been extended into most areas of clinical practice blood pressure medication used for ptsd proven 80mg exforge. The Fraser Ruling provides guidance for healthcare workers working with young people under the age of 16 in that they can give valid consent for medical examination and treatment depending upon the nature and seriousness of the decision to be made, in conjunction with the child s mental and emotional maturity, intelligence and comprehension of the information they have been given. This requires a healthcare worker to make a judgement in each individual situation/ case. Operational aspects of Fraser ruling It is important that the healthcare worker makes a clinical judgement of the child s competence in each case. Certain criteria need to be met in order for a child to be deemed competent: The young person understands the potential risks and benefits of the treatment and the advice given The value of parental support is discussed. All healthcare workers are obliged to encourage the young person to inform their parents of the consultation. If s/he will not inform a parent, the healthcare worker must explore the reasons why. It is important that the young person seeking contraceptive advice is aware that although the healthcare worker is legally obliged to discuss the value of parental support, the healthcare worker will respect their confidentiality The young person s physical or mental health may suffer if s/he is not prescribed treatment / contraception 315 The young person s best interests require the provision of medication / contraception without parental consent It is good practice for the healthcare worker to record the factors taken into account in making the assessment of the young person s capacity to give valid consent. It is strongly recommended that s/he records what information has been given to the young person, including questions asked and the responses given. This is invaluable if the young person s ability to make decisions were to be questioned or where parents disagree with the decisions made. Any patient under 16 who does not meet the Fraser guidance also needs to be discussed with the consultant. If disclosure is necessary to protect the young person or a third party from significant harm, confidentiality may be broken. It is important absolute confidentiality of information is not stated All young people may be seen with a friend if they wish, at any point throughout the consultation and/or examination. Groups of young people may be seen together where this facilitates access to information on services and health promotion advice It is important the health adviser ensures that the young person understands the possible consequences of sexual activity and is aware of the law relating to underage 316 sex. Safer sex is discussed and condom use demonstrated to all under 16s who are sexually active or potentially sexually active It is advisable the health adviser document which school the young person attends, particularly if they are under 16. This also provides useful data for targeting health promotion It is important the healthcare worker is satisfied that the patient has sufficient understanding of what is involved in any investigations and treatment proposed to give valid consent. This is ideally a multi-disciplinary decision although as the prescriber, the doctor is legally responsible It is important the age of the young person s partner is documented in the notes It is good practice to offer a screen for sexually transmitted infections to all sexually active young people. Many will initially decline, but may agree to a screen at a later date when they have developed greater confidence in the clinic staff. Where urine tests or self-taken swabs are available, they can be offered to young people who decline a genital examination It is advisable the healthcare worker discuss and document follow-up arrangements It is important that any concerns about a young person are discussed with other staff involved in their care and further concerns discussed with the senior doctor or consultant. It is recommended health advisers work in their referral area with the relevant school nurses, practice nurses, young peoples services, and contraceptive services to facilitate access. Specific flyers for the service can therefore be used and suitable health promotion leaflets/ materials made available Consider developing a designated young person s service, where young people need not see other adult attenders. There can be appropriate music/ videos, leaflets and posters for younger patients to make a more welcoming environment. If the young person is 13 or over, make an assessment as to whether sexual intercourse was consensual or not. Discuss cases of possible abuse with a consultant Assess whether the young person is Fraser competent. It is important to recognise boys tend to learn what they know about sex from male friends. Learning from their peer group may be complicated as often it is not acceptable that boys show ignorance and stories with other boys are often through real or imagined performance stories. Boys may mask their vulnerabilities by behaving in a macho way or by joking or messing about in the clinic, but it is important to be aware of this and their likely vulnerability. It is important to provide a safe environment, for example by seeing them with friends. Attendance of younger boys/ men may be encouraged by getting young girls attending the clinic to bring their boyfriends and male peers to the clinic. When young men attend there needs to be appropriate literature and resources for boys to give the message they are welcome. Specific issues on working with young gay men and lesbians are covered in the relevant chapters.

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