QUALITY MICROBIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTICS AND ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING, AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL EFFORTS IN PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS

Problem: Emerging bacterial antimicrobial (antibiotic) resistance (AMR) is a global threat to human health.However, a majority of lower income countries do not have microbiological diagnostic testing for prompt, reliable confirmation of bloodstream infection and identification of AMR.Context: Clinicians in Pacific island nations are 1f2 paint incre

This paper is concerned with the approach to implementing the Penalty function method for imposing multi-freedom constraints in geometrically nonlinear analysis of imperfect trusses based on mixed finite element formulation.Using a finite element model based on displacement formulation, it is required to incorporate both the dependent boundary rela

Three bioagents (Trichoderma viride, T.harzianum and Gliocladium virens) pete cromer rainbow lorikeet and five biopesticides (Achook, Neemgold, Wannis, Spictaf and Neemazal) were evaluated under in vitro and in vivo conditions against Colletotrichum lindemuthianum.All the three antagonistic fungi caused significant inhibition of mycelial growth, ma

Network topology measurement is an important component in network research.Network tomography is able to accurately infer network topology by using end-to-end measurement without cooperation of internal routers.Unfortunately, traditional network tomography methods can not accurately estimate topology in the non-stationary network due to the variabi