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Trichinella murrelli in scavenging mammals from south-central Wisconsin, USA.

Tissues and serum from 59 raccoons (Procyon lotor), 42 coyotes (Canis latrans), and seven Striped Skunks (Mephitis mephitis) collected in Dane and Iowa Counties, Wisconsin, USA, between October 2005 and March 2006 were microscopically and serologically examined for the presence of Trichinella spp. Encapsulated larvae were found on compression slides prepared from tongue tissues from a few anima...

Nitrate Loading and Impacts on Central Wisconsin Groundwater Basins

Nitrate is Wisconsin’s most common groundwater pollutant. Agriculture is the largest nitrate source, accounting for about 90% of that which leaches to groundwater (Shaw, 1994). Only recently have the university and state agencies put together sufficient pieces of the nitrate puzzle to realize the extent of nitrate pollution (e.g., Central Wisconsin Groundwater Center, 1994; LeMasters and Baldoc...

WISCONSIN MEDICAL JOURNAL central Pontine Myelinolysis: case Series and review

Doctor Musana is a general internal medicine resident and Doctor Yale is a general internal medicine physician with Marshfield Clinic, and Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wis. Please address correspondence to: Steven H Yale, MD, General Internal Medicine, Marshfield Clinic, 1000 N Oak Ave, Marshfield, WI 54449; phone 715.387.9110; fax 715.389.3808; e-mail yale.steven@mcrf. mf...

Wisconsin Environmental Health Network--a new resource for Wisconsin physicians.

A descriptive analysis of health care coverage and concerns in West Central Wisconsin.

This study examines the level of health care coverage and health care concerns among a sample of 222 West Central Wisconsin residents. More than 68% of respondents felt that Wisconsin health care has at least major problems, and only 2.7% felt that there were no problems. Approximately 60% were extremely or very worried about not being able to afford health care services, whereas more than 70% ...