Managerial accounting The case describes AXA's corporate responsibility (CR) function. The company, a global leader in insurance and asset management, had distinguished itself in CR since formally establishing a CR unit in 2008. As the case opens, AXA's CR unit is being moved from the marketing function to the strategy group occasioning a thorough review as to how CR should fit into AXA's operations and strategy. Students are asked to identify CR issues of particular concern to the company, examine how addressing these issues would add value to the company, and then create metrics that would capture a business unit's success or failure in addressing the concerns..

1 Which haematogenous infections (bacterial, fungal and protozoal) can give rise to positive findings in the urine? What are the appropriate microbiological investigations for each infection?

2 Could you please explain the term 'zoonosis'.

3 What are soil transmitters?

4 Please explain the difference between bacteraemia and septicaemia. Can the presence of toxins, fungi or viruses in the blood also be called septicaemia?

5 I want to know about the safety of antibiotics used in pregnancy in different trimesters.

6 What are the uses and the side-effects of the antibiotic lincomycin?

7 I have a question that keeps troubling me. Is there any drug taken orally that prevents penicillin hypersensitivity reactions?

8 Is there any replacement intravenous antibiotic for those patients who have hypersensitivity to penicillin?

9 Is it correct to perform an intradermal skin sensitivity test before administering penicillin or a cephalosporin?

10 Why are antibiotics not allowed in the treatment of rotaviruses?