Geothermal Exploration and Assessment Technology Program (review), including a report of the Reservoir Engineering Technical Advisory Group

TAGSI is an acronym for The UK Technical Advisory Group on the Structural Integrity of High Integrity Plant. The purpose of TAGSI is to address and make recommendations on issues raised by its sponsoring organisations in discussion with independent advisors. Collectively, these sponsoring organisations operate, maintain, assess and regulate nuclear power producing and chemical plant. Against this background, an overview is presented of the recent work of TAGSI in terms of structural integrity issues addressed, symposia organised, and output appearing in the open literature. Other papers at this conference describe some of the technical work of TAGSI in more detail.

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Massachusetts Wind and Noise Technical Advisory Group—Status report

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ◽

10.1121/1.4877691 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 135 (4) ◽

pp. 2342-2342

Author(s):

Christopher W. Menge ◽

Robert D. ONeal

Keyword(s):

Status Report ◽

Advisory Group ◽

Group Status ◽

Technical Advisory Group

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Cumulative antibiogram and multidrug-resistant organisms in a regional equine referral hospital

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation ◽

10.1177/1040638720977478 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 149-155

Author(s):

Ka Y. Yuen ◽

Justine S. Gibson ◽

Sophia Hinrichsen ◽

Carlos E. Medina-Torres ◽

Francois-Rene Bertin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Clinical Utility ◽

Multidrug Resistant ◽

Referral Hospital ◽

Advisory Group ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Local Resistance ◽

Development Of Resistance ◽

Technical Advisory Group ◽

Resistance Patterns ◽

Culture Positive

Prudent use of antimicrobials is paramount to slow the development of resistance and for successful treatment. The use of cumulative antibiograms will allow evidence-based antimicrobial selection with consideration of local resistance patterns. We generated a “first-isolate-per-patient” cumulative antibiogram for a regional equine referral hospital. Bacterial organisms cultured from horses between 2011 and 2018, sample origin, antimicrobial susceptibilities, and multidrug-resistant (MDR) status were tabulated. Of 1,176 samples, 50% were culture positive. Overall, 93 of 374 (25%) were MDR. Of the MDR isolates, 11 (12%) were susceptible to high-importance antimicrobials only (as defined by the Australian Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on antimicrobial resistance). β-hemolytic streptococci were uniformly susceptible to penicillin (76 of 76); 17 of 20 (85%) non–β-hemolytic Streptococcus spp. were susceptible to penicillin. Despite veterinary-specific challenges in constructing an antibiogram, our study provides an exemplar of the clinical utility of regional-, farm-, or hospital-specific cumulative antibiograms for evidence-based empirical antimicrobial selection by veterinarians prior to susceptibility result availability.

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