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Arch Sex Behav ; 49(3): 1029-1038, 2020 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31897825

RESUMO

Young women's understanding of their own sexuality has increasingly been acknowledged as an important component of their sexual health. The Female Sexual Subjectivity Inventory (FSSI) was developed to measure five distinct factors of young women's experiences of sexual pleasure and empowerment. No studies have explicitly evaluated the association between FSSI scores and clinical sexual health outcomes. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of women to assess the association between FSSI factors and the occurrence of three clinical sexual health outcomes in the prior 12 months: acquisition of an STI, unwanted pregnancy, or taking emergency contraception (Plan B). We also assessed the association between FSSI scores and self-reported orgasm frequency during partnered sexual activity. We used multivariate logistic regression models to estimate associations. Finally, we used the FSSI scale in a novel way to identify a population of women who are discordant on their levels of entitlement to pleasure from a partner and self-efficacy in achieving sexual pleasure. We did not find any statistically significant associations between mean score on any of the FSSI factors and clinical sexual health outcomes of interest in the prior year. We found that all FSSI factors except Sexual Self-Reflection were positively associated with increased orgasm frequency. Our study underscores the validity of the FSSI as a measure to assess psychosocial constructs relevant to young women's ability to experience sexual pleasure with a partner and introduces a novel way to use the scale to assess the development of women's sexual subjectivity.


Assuntos
Orgasmo/fisiologia , Prazer/fisiologia , Comportamento Sexual/psicologia , Parceiros Sexuais/psicologia , Adulto , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Assunção de Riscos , Autoeficácia , Autorrelato , Adulto Jovem
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J Fish Dis ; 43(2): 153-175, 2020 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31742733

RESUMO

Wild Pacific salmonids (WPS) are economically and culturally important to the Pacific North region. Most recently, some populations of WPS have been in decline. Of hypothesized factors contributing to the decline, infectious agents have been postulated to increase the risk of mortality in Pacific salmon. We present a literature review of both published journal and unpublished data to describe the distribution of infectious agents reported in wild Pacific salmonid populations in British Columbia (BC), Canada. We targeted 10 infectious agents, considered to potentially cause severe economic losses in Atlantic salmon or be of conservation concern for wild salmon in BC. The findings indicated a low frequency of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus, piscine orthoreovirus, viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus, Aeromonas salmonicida, Renibacterium salmoninarum, Piscirickettsia salmonis and other Rickettsia-like organisms, Yersinia ruckeri, Tenacibaculum maritimum and Moritella viscosa. No positive results were reported for infestations with Paramoeba perurans in peer-reviewed papers and the DFO Fish Pathology Program database. This review synthesizes existing information, as well as gaps therein, that can support the design and implementation of a long-term surveillance programme of infectious agents in wild salmonids in BC.


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Doenças dos Peixes/epidemiologia , Salmonidae , Animais , Animais Selvagens , Aquicultura , Colúmbia Britânica/epidemiologia , Doenças dos Peixes/microbiologia , Doenças dos Peixes/virologia , Incidência , Prevalência , Salmo salar
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J Med Internet Res ; 21(7): e13220, 2019 07 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31293242

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Clinicians are expected to screen their adolescent patients for an increasing number of health behaviors and intervene when they uncover risky behaviors, yet, the clinic time allotted to screen, intervene, and provide resources is insufficient. Brief motivational interviewing (MI) offers succinct behavior change counseling; however, for implementation, clinicians need training, skill, and time. Computerized screening and counseling adjuvants may help clinicians increase their scope of behavioral screening, especially with sensitive topics such as sexual health, and provide risk-reduction interventions without consuming provider time during visits. OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to (1) understand the extent to which health care providers use brief MI for sexual health discussions with adolescent patients and (2) assess the acceptability of incorporating a brief MI-based intervention to reduce sexual risk behaviors into their clinical practice delivered by either themselves or a computer. METHODS: At a national medical conference, surveys were administered to clinicians who provide sexual health care to adolescents. They were asked about their current use of MI for sexual risk behavior discussions and their willingness to implement computerized sexual health screening and computerized sexual risk behavior interventions into their clinical practice. RESULTS: The large majority (87.6%, 170/194) of clinicians already used MI with their patients with less than half (72/148, 48.6%) reporting they had been formally trained in MI. Despite all (195/195, 100.0%) clinicians feeling very or completely comfortable discussing sexual risk behaviors with their patients, the large majority (160/195, 82.1%) reported it would be useful, very useful, or extremely useful for a computerized program to do it all: screen their patients, generate risk profiles, and provide the risk-reduction counseling rather than doing it themselves. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, most clinicians used some form of brief MI or client-centered counseling when discussing sexual risk behaviors with adolescents and are very comfortable doing so. However, the large majority would prefer to implement computerized sexual health screening, risk assessment, and sexual risk behavior interventions into their clinical care of adolescents.


Assuntos
Programas de Rastreamento/métodos , Entrevista Motivacional/métodos , Comportamento de Redução do Risco , Assunção de Riscos , Comportamento Sexual/psicologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Inquéritos e Questionários , Adulto Jovem
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PLoS One ; 14(1): e0209064, 2019.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30673710

RESUMO

INTRODUCTION: Interactive computer-based interventions (ICBI) are potentially scalable tools for use in real-world settings to promote sexual health and prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies. We developed and assessed the feasibility and acceptability of an ICBI for promoting adolescent and young adult sexual health, and the effectiveness of the intervention in reducing unprotected sex, STIs, and unintended pregnancy. METHODS: This pilot randomized controlled trial enrolled STI Clinic patients, in Seattle, Washington, who were 14-24 years old and reported unprotected vaginal sex during the last 2 months. Both the control and intervention group used a computerized survey to enter their sexual health and only the intervention group received the ICBI. The ICBI included personalized sexual health feedback from a physician avatar; instructive video modules advocating sexual health; and identification of one behavior to change. At 3-month follow-up, participants reported on interim sexual and pregnancy histories and underwent repeat STI testing. We assessed intervention impact on unprotected vaginal sex, number of sexual partners, incident STIs, and unintended pregnancy. RESULTS: Of 272 participants, 242 (89%) completed the study, of whom 65% were female. While these findings did not reach statistical significance, at 3-month follow-up, the intervention group reported a 33% lower rate of unprotected vaginal sex (no condom use) [IRR = 0.67, 95% CI: 0.44-1.02]; 29% fewer sex partners [IRR = 0.71, 95% CI: 0.50-1.03]; and 48% fewer STIs [IRR = 0.52, 95% CI: 0.25-1.08] when compared to the control group. Similarly, as compared to the control group, intervention females reported a lower rate of unprotected vaginal sex (no birth control) [IRR = 0.80, 95% CI: 0.47-1.35] and half as many unintended pregnancies (n = 5) versus control females (n = 10) [IRR = 0.51, 95% CI: 0.17-1.58]. In exploratory analyses, intervention females reported fewer partners [IRR = 0.71, 95% CI: 0.50-1.00] and a significantly lower rate of vaginal sex without condoms [IRR = 0.50, 95% CI: 0.30-0.85]. CONCLUSION: The intervention was acceptable to both males and females, and at 3-month follow-up, there were non-significant reductions in risk behavior for all outcomes. Among females, exploratory analysis showed a significant reduction in vaginal sex without condoms.


Assuntos
Sexo Seguro , Saúde Sexual/educação , Adolescente , Adulto , Preservativos/estatística & dados numéricos , Feminino , Infecções por HIV/prevenção & controle , Humanos , Masculino , Projetos Piloto , Assunção de Riscos , Comportamento Sexual/estatística & dados numéricos , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/prevenção & controle , Adulto Jovem
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J Fish Dis ; 42(2): 303-313, 2019 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30549278

RESUMO

Renibacterium salmoninarum infection causes bacterial kidney disease (BKD) in salmonid freshwater and saltwater life stages, with potentially severe financial loss for the aquaculture industry. Preventing vertical transmission, from infected broodstock to eggs, is key to disease management. As there is no perfect reference standard for detecting R. salmoninarum, we used Bayesian latent class analyses to compare real-time reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-rPCR, mRNA target) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA; p57 antigen target) diagnostic accuracy for detection in Atlantic salmon broodstock from British Columbia, Canada, and assessed ELISA repeatability. In 2016, 4,544 Atlantic salmon broodstock (no clinical signs of BKD or gross lesions) were sampled for ELISA testing of kidney tissue. Two groups of ELISA positives (n = 132) and two groups of a random sample of ELISA negatives (n = 137) were then tested with RT-rPCR, and ELISA testing was repeated. ELISA testing of broodstock provided the best diagnostic sensitivity (DSe; less chance of false-negative results). The use of joint RT-rPCR and ELISA testing improved DSe over that from each test alone, if a sample was considered positive when either test result was positive. Using these testing schemes in combination with management practices can decrease the likelihood of vertical transmission from subclinically infected broodstock.


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Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática/veterinária , Doenças dos Peixes/diagnóstico , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/veterinária , Micrococcaceae/isolamento & purificação , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase em Tempo Real/veterinária , Salmo salar , Animais , Antígenos de Bactérias , Aquicultura/métodos , Teorema de Bayes , Colúmbia Britânica , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática/métodos , Doenças dos Peixes/microbiologia , Infecções por Bactérias Gram-Positivas/microbiologia , Nefropatias/microbiologia , Nefropatias/veterinária , Análise de Classes Latentes , Micrococcaceae/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase em Tempo Real/métodos , Sensibilidade e Especificidade
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Mar Genomics ; 40: 45-57, 2018 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29673959

RESUMO

Antiparasitic drugs such as emamectin benzoate (EMB) are relied upon to reduce the parasite load, particularly of the sea louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis, on farmed salmon. The decline in EMB treatment efficacy for this purpose is an important issue for salmon producers around the world, and particularly for those in the Atlantic Ocean where widespread EMB tolerance in sea lice is recognized as a significant problem. Salmon farms in the Northeast Pacific Ocean have not historically experienced the same issues with treatment efficacy, possibly due to the relatively large population of endemic salmonid hosts that serve to both redistribute surviving lice and dilute populations potentially under selection by introducing naïve lice to farms. Frequent migration of lice among farmed and wild hosts should limit the effect of farm-specific selection pressures on changes to the overall allele frequencies of sea lice in the Pacific Ocean. A previous study using microsatellites examined L. salmonis oncorhynchi from 10 Pacific locations from wild and farmed hosts and found no population structure. Recently however, a farm population of sea lice was detected where EMB bioassay exposure tolerance was abnormally elevated. In response, we have developed a Pacific louse draft genome that complements the previously-released Atlantic louse sequence. These genomes were combined with whole-genome re-sequencing data to design a highly sensitive 201,279 marker SNP array applicable for both subspecies (90,827 validated Pacific loci; 153,569 validated Atlantic loci). Notably, kmer spectrum analysis of the re-sequenced samples indicated that Pacific lice exhibit a large within-individual heterozygosity rate (average of 1 in every 72 bases) that is markedly higher than that of Atlantic individuals (1 in every 173 bases). The SNP chip was used to produce a high-density map for Atlantic sea louse linkage group 5 that was previously shown to be associated with EMB tolerance in Atlantic lice. Additionally, 478 Pacific louse samples from farmed and wild hosts obtained between 2005 and 2014 were also genotyped on the array. Clustering analysis allowed us to detect the apparent emergence of an otherwise rare genotype at a high frequency among the lice collected from two farms in 2013 that had reported elevated EMB tolerance. This genotype was not observed in louse samples collected from the same farm in 2010, nor in any lice sampled from other locations prior to 2013. However, this genotype was detected at low frequencies in louse samples from farms in two locations reporting elevated EMB tolerance in 2014. These results suggest that a rare genotype present in Pacific lice may be locally expanded in farms after EMB treatment. Supporting this hypothesis, 437 SNPs associated with this genotype were found to be in a region of linkage group 5 that overlaps the region associated with EMB resistance in Atlantic lice. Finally, five of the top diagnostic SNPs within this region were used to screen lice that had been subjected to an EMB survival assay, revealing a significant association between these SNPs and EMB treatment outcome. To our knowledge this work is the first report to identify a genetic link to altered EMB efficacy in L. salmonis in the Pacific Ocean.


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Antiparasitários/farmacologia , Copépodes/efeitos dos fármacos , Copépodes/genética , Ivermectina/análogos & derivados , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Animais , Mapeamento Cromossômico , Análise por Conglomerados , Feminino , Doenças dos Peixes/tratamento farmacológico , Doenças dos Peixes/parasitologia , Ligação Genética , Loci Gênicos , Marcadores Genéticos , Genética Populacional , Genótipo , Ivermectina/farmacologia , Masculino , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Oceano Pacífico , Salmão/parasitologia
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J Prim Care Community Health ; 8(4): 332-337, 2017 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28929860

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Adolescents in the United States are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy. Adolescent-centered health services may reduce barriers to health care; yet, limited research has focused on adolescents' own perspectives on patient-provider communication during a sexual health visit. METHODS: Twenty-four adolescents (14-19 years old) seeking care in a public health clinic in Washington State participated in one-on-one qualitative interviews. Interviews explored participants' past experiences with medical providers and their preferences regarding provider characteristics and communication strategies. RESULTS: Interviews revealed that (1) individual patient dynamics and (2) patient-provider interaction dynamics shape the experience during a sexual health visit. Individual patient dynamics included evolving level of maturity, autonomy, and sexual experience. Patient-provider interaction dynamics were shaped by adolescents' perceptions of providers as sources of health information who distribute valued sexual health supplies like contraception and condoms. Participant concerns about provider judgment, power differential, and lack of confidentiality also emerged as important themes. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents demonstrate diverse and evolving needs for sexual health care and interactions with clinicians as they navigate sexual and emotional development.


Assuntos
Saúde do Adolescente , Atitude Frente a Saúde , Comunicação , Relações Médico-Paciente , Saúde Sexual , Adolescente , Confidencialidade , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Projetos Piloto , Pesquisa Qualitativa , Autoeficácia , Confiança , Estados Unidos , Washington , Adulto Jovem
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J Res Adolesc ; 27(3): 550-565, 2017 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28776838

RESUMO

This study investigated potential heterogeneity in development among offspring (age 17) of teen mothers and maternal life course as correlates of variation. Using latent class analysis, subgroups of developmental outcomes were identified. Maternal standing in two life course realms (i.e., socioeconomic and domestic) was considered as a potential explanation for heterogeneity in offspring's development. Offspring reported on measures assessing their psychological, academic, and behavioral development. Teen mothers reported on measures of life course realms. Three subgroups of developmental outcomes were identified: on track (52%), at risk (37%), and troubled (11%). Findings suggest that economic hardship and number of pregnancies among teen mothers distinguish developmental patterns among teenage offspring, whereas teen mothers' educational attainment and marital status do not.


Assuntos
Comportamento do Adolescente/psicologia , Desenvolvimento do Adolescente , Idade Materna , Mães/psicologia , Gravidez na Adolescência/psicologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Escolaridade , Feminino , Humanos , Análise de Classes Latentes , Estudos Longitudinais , Masculino , Mães/estatística & dados numéricos , Gravidez , Fatores Socioeconômicos
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Psychol Women Q ; 41(1): 100-113, 2017 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29720782

RESUMO

First-time sexual intercourse with a new male partner, relative to other sexual encounters, is associated with heightened risk to women for contracting sexually transmitted infections. Little is known, however, about women's condom-related decision-making processes during these first-time sexual encounters. In the present study, we surveyed a community sample of 179 women aged 18-30 about their alcohol consumption, desire to use a condom, perception of their partner's desire to use a condom, condom-insistence conflict, and condom-decision abdication and use during their most recent alcohol-involved first-time sexual encounter with a new partner. With structural equation modeling we tested a cognitive mediation model with various configurations of alcohol effects on abdication and condom use (direct, indirect, moderator). A moderated mediation model fit the data best. Women experienced elevated condom-insistence conflict when they wanted to use a condom and perceived their partner did not; conflict, in turn, was associated with higher likelihood of abdication and lower likelihood of condom use. Higher alcohol intoxication attenuated the associations of desire to use a condom, and perceived partner's desire to use a condom, with conflict. Results support an alcohol myopia-conflict inhibition-reduction model and emphasize the importance of sex education programs that teach young women not only about condom-related assertiveness and the effects of alcohol, but also prepare them to respond to experiences of conflict that arise during sexual encounters.

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Violence Against Women ; 23(1): 3-27, 2017 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26951305

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Data from an online community sample of young men were analyzed to test predictors of sexual assault perpetration. We used structural equation modeling to test the relative contributions of specific sub-types of childhood adversity to subsequent sexual aggression. Mediators included hostile masculinity, impersonal sexual behavior and attitudes, and substance use variables. Findings suggested that childhood sexual abuse had direct and mediated effects on sexual assault perpetration, but hostile masculinity was the only proximal factor significantly related to aggression. Childhood polytrauma was also associated with increased perpetration risk, suggesting that prevention efforts may be aided by increased attention to childhood maltreatment.


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Sobreviventes Adultos de Maus-Tratos Infantis/psicologia , Agressão/psicologia , Estupro/psicologia , Delitos Sexuais/psicologia , Adolescente , Feminino , Heterossexualidade , Humanos , Masculino , Masculinidade , Fatores de Risco , Inquéritos e Questionários , Adulto Jovem
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Perspect Sex Reprod Health ; 49(1): 37-43, 2017 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27802365

RESUMO

CONTEXT: Heterosexually active men who wish to prevent conception, but are not willing to use condoms consistently, need to discuss birth control with female partners. Improving the understanding of correlates of men's intention to have such discussions is one step toward supporting this health-facilitating behavior. METHODS: A sample of 372 heterosexually active men aged 18-25 were recruited and surveyed online between December 2010 and June 2011. Men answered questions on attitudes toward, norms regarding and self-efficacy about discussing birth control, and about endorsement of two sexual scripts. Multiple regression analyses tested these measures' associations with intention to discuss birth control, controlling for age and relationship status. RESULTS: Attitudes, norms and self-efficacy were each positively associated with men's intention to discuss birth control, accounting for 34% of variance. The more strongly men endorsed a traditional masculinity sexual script, the less likely they were to intend to discuss birth control (coefficient, -0.2). Endorsement of an alternative, gender-equitable "sex-positive woman" script, which emphasizes sexual pleasure and emotional connection as goals for both partners, had no association with intention. CONCLUSION: Strategies that merit further exploration as potential supports for men's intention to discuss birth control include improving men's self-efficacy and positive attitudes and norms pertaining to such discussions, and reducing belief in traditionally masculine sexual scripts or transforming them to include discussing birth control. Future research should work both experimentally and longitudinally to document each element of the process that ends with men's full participation in effective contraceptive use.


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Atitude Frente a Saúde , Comunicação , Anticoncepção , Intenção , Autoeficácia , Adolescente , Adulto , Humanos , Relações Interpessoais , Masculino , Teoria Psicológica , Análise de Regressão , Normas Sociais , Adulto Jovem
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Psychol Violence ; 6(2): 271-279, 2016 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27213101

RESUMO

OBJECTIVE: Women's alcohol consumption and vulnerability to sexual victimization (SV) are linked, but findings regarding the nature and direction of the association are mixed. Some studies have found support for the self-medication hypothesis (i.e., victimized women drink more to alleviate SV-related distress); others have supported routine activity theory (i.e., drinking increases SV vulnerability). In this study, we aimed to clarify the interplay between women's prior SV, typical drinking, and SV experiences prospectively over one year. METHOD: Participants (N = 530) completed a baseline survey and weekly follow-up surveys across Months 3, 6, 9, and 12. RESULTS: Latent class analysis (LCA) suggested that women could be classified as victimized or non-victimized at each assessment month; 28% of participants were classified as victimized at one or more assessment months. Latent transition analysis (LTA) revealed that childhood sexual abuse and adult SV history each predicted greater likelihood of being victimized during the year. Typical drinking during a given assessment month was associated with (1) greater likelihood of victimized status at that assessment month and (2) greater likelihood of having transitioned into (or remained in) the victimized status since the previous assessment month. Furthermore, victimized status at a given assessment month predicted a higher quantity of subsequent drinking. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate a reciprocal relationship between typical drinking and SV, supporting both the self-medication hypothesis and routine activity theory, and suggesting that hazardous drinking levels may be one important target for both SV vulnerability reduction and interventions for women who have been sexually victimized.

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Can Vet J ; 57(4): 343, 2016 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27041750
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Can Vet J ; 57(2): 113, 2016 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26834260
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PLoS One ; 11(1): e0146229, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26730591

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Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is a significant and often fatal disease of cultured Atlantic salmon in Norway. The consistent presence of Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) in HSMI diseased fish along with the correlation of viral load and antigen with development of lesions has supported the supposition that PRV is the etiologic agent of this condition; yet the absence of an in vitro culture system to demonstrate disease causation and the widespread prevalence of this virus in the absence of disease continues to obfuscate the etiological role of PRV with regard to HSMI. In this study, we explore the infectivity and disease causing potential of PRV from western North America-a region now considered endemic for PRV but without manifestation of HSMI-in challenge experiments modeled upon previous reports associating PRV with HSMI. We identified that western North American PRV is highly infective by intraperitoneal injection in Atlantic salmon as well as through cohabitation of both Atlantic and Sockeye salmon. High prevalence of viral RNA in peripheral blood of infected fish persisted for as long as 59 weeks post-challenge. Nevertheless, no microscopic lesions, disease, or mortality could be attributed to the presence of PRV, and only a minor transcriptional induction of the antiviral Mx gene occurred in blood and kidney samples during log-linear replication of viral RNA. Comparative analysis of the S1 segment of PRV identified high similarity between this North American sequence and previous sequences associated with HSMI, suggesting that factors such as viral co-infection, alternate PRV strains, host condition, or specific environmental circumstances may be required to cause this disease.


Assuntos
Doenças dos Peixes/virologia , Orthoreovirus/fisiologia , Infecções por Reoviridae/virologia , Salmo salar/virologia , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Cardiomiopatias/virologia , Doenças Endêmicas , Doenças dos Peixes/epidemiologia , Doenças dos Peixes/transmissão , Interações Hospedeiro-Patógeno , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Músculo Esquelético/patologia , Músculo Esquelético/virologia , Miosite/virologia , América do Norte/epidemiologia , Orthoreovirus/classificação , Orthoreovirus/genética , Filogenia , Prevalência , RNA Viral/sangue , RNA Viral/genética , RNA Viral/metabolismo , Infecções por Reoviridae/epidemiologia , Infecções por Reoviridae/transmissão , Salmo salar/sangue , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos , Fatores de Tempo
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J Sex Res ; 53(4-5): 601-13, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26421647

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In-the-moment ambivalence about having sex may influence sexual decisions but has rarely been examined. We investigated how ambivalence about sex might be related to intentions to abdicate sexual decisions to a male partner and to engage in unprotected sex in a community sample of young women. Predictors of abdication and unprotected sex intentions included partner type (new casual versus previous relationship), sexual double standard (SDS) endorsement, and two types of ambivalence. After completing a SDS endorsement measure, women (N = 360) projected themselves into a hypothetical sexual situation and completed dependent measures. In the new casual partner condition, SDS endorsement indirectly negatively predicted unprotected sex intentions through its associations with ambivalence and abdication. In both partner conditions SDS endorsement positively predicted abdication, which then positively predicted unprotected sex intentions. Ambivalence indirectly predicted unprotected sex intentions through its negative association with abdication intentions. Results suggest the importance of ambivalence for sexual decisions and the complexity of understanding the sexual decision making processes for women who endorse the SDS.


Assuntos
Tomada de Decisões , Comportamento Sexual/psicologia , Parceiros Sexuais/psicologia , Sexo sem Proteção/psicologia , Mulheres/psicologia , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Adulto Jovem
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Arch Sex Behav ; 45(5): 1039-50, 2016 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26496914

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Parallel bodies of research have described the diverse and complex ways that men understand and construct their masculine identities (often termed "masculinities") and, separately, how adherence to traditional notions of masculinity places men at risk for negative sexual and health outcomes. The goal of this analysis was to bring together these two streams of inquiry. Using data from a national, online sample of 555 heterosexually active young men, we employed latent class analysis (LCA) to detect patterns of masculine identities based on men's endorsement of behavioral and attitudinal indicators of "dominant" masculinity, including sexual attitudes and behaviors. LCA identified four conceptually distinct masculine identity profiles. Two groups, termed the Normative and Normative/Male Activities groups, respectively, constituted 88 % of the sample and were characterized by low levels of adherence to attitudes, sexual scripts, and behaviors consistent with "dominant" masculinity, but differed in their levels of engagement in male-oriented activities (e.g., sports teams). Only eight percent of the sample comprised a masculinity profile consistent with "traditional" ideas about masculinity; this group was labeled Misogynistic because of high levels of sexual assault and violence toward female partners. The remaining four percent constituted a Sex-Focused group, characterized by high numbers of sexual partners, but relatively low endorsement of other indicators of traditional masculinity. Follow-up analyses showed a small number of differences across groups on sexual and substance use health indicators. Findings have implications for sexual and behavioral health interventions and suggest that very few young men embody or endorse rigidly traditional forms of masculinity.


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Heterossexualidade/psicologia , Masculinidade , Homens/psicologia , Adulto , Feminino , Grupos Focais , Humanos , Masculino , Parceiros Sexuais , Violência , Adulto Jovem
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