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Pests Involved in Mechanical Disease Transmission
Published in Jerome Goddard, Public Health Entomology, 2022
Cockroaches are well-known mechanical transmitters of disease agents. They are dorsoventrally flattened, fast-running insects that generally live in warm, moist, secluded areas. Cockroaches have prominent, multisegmented filiform antennae, cerci on the abdomen, and two pairs of wings. The front wings are typically hardened and translucent, whereas hind wings are membranous. In some species, wings are rudimentary or absent. Cockroaches are variously colored, with most domestic species being reddish brown, brown, or black, while the Cuban cockroach is bright green. Many species can fly, but the domestic U.S. species rarely do so; however, the imported Asian cockroach in the southeastern United States can fly and may come to lights.7 Adult German and brown-banded cockroaches are approximately 15 mm long (Figure 19.8), whereas the American and oriental cockroaches are 30–50 mm long (Figure 19.9).
Dermatotoxicology of Microneedles in Man
Published in Boris Stoeber, Raja K Sivamani, Howard I. Maibach, Microneedling in Clinical Practice, 2020
John Havens Cary, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach
Cercal Fucci-da-Costa and Reich Camasmie (2018) document a case of likely ICD due to skin rejuvenation MN therapy over the patient's dorsal hands. Following her MN therapy, the patient inadvertently applied arnica-based cream and developed yellowish papules compatible with MN perforation sites on an erythematous base 48 hours post-arnica cream application. The authors attributed the lesions to ICD from the arnica-based cream due to the sparing of MN-treated areas in which the cream was not applied and the patient's improvement 72 hours post–topical corticosteroid treatment.
Earwigs
Published in Gail Miriam Moraru, Jerome Goddard, The Goddard Guide to Arthropods of Medical Importance, Seventh Edition, 2019
Gail Miriam Moraru, Jerome Goddard
Earwigs are relatively harmless insects that are occasionally seen inside homes. They are included in this reference because of an old wives’ tale that these insects enter human ears, causing much torment (hence the name earwig). Earwigs do not enter human ears, or even bite, but some of the larger species may pinch human skin with their abdominal cerci (abdominal pincers).1 In addition, they have a frightful appearance, move rapidly around baseboards at ground level, and may emit a stinking, yellowish-brown liquid from their scent glands.
Radical Experiences of Portuguese Social Workers in the Vanguard of the 1974 Revolution
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2019
The process of professional demise we see in the students’ trajectory should not be understood as a result of the radical engagement per se, but, rather, of the conditions that accompanied the whole process of internship placement. As she recognizes, a feeling of certain disorientation marked her passage through the cooperative, aggravated by the absence of a clear methodological orientation and theoretical frame – a process thought to embrace structural change, though deprived of formal and functional content. In that case, unlike the SAAL experience and other structural interventions during that period,43See the case of the CERCI cooperatives, created to provide services for the disabled (Negreiros et al., 1992; Silva, 2016). the social movement itself became the centerpiece and hegemonic dictating instance of the social work students’ action, hardly intermediated or filtered by critical assessment and procedural devices. For this young student, the radical experience at the Torre Bela cooperative worked as a centrifugal force, pushing her away from a professional core that was, then, under critical scrutiny in the academy; at the same time, the social movement functioned as a centripetal force, pulling her to the heart of that communitarian project, by nature non-institutional and non-statutory.