SMA Inc. is a multi-national company based in the USA that designs, manufactures and sells capital equipment in the agriculture, construction and forestry market. The company is organised into three main divisions, each of which operates in a different segment of the market. The three divisions are: Agriculture and Turf, Construction and Forestry and Financial Services. The SMA Agriculture and Turf division designs, develops, manufactures and distributes a line of agricultural and turf equipment and related service parts. Many of its customers are individual farmers and major agricultural companies who farm on a large scale, but it also has deals with major governments to supply farming equipment under government schemes to support the farming industry in less developed countries. The SMA Construction and Forestry division designs, develops and manufactures construction, earthmoving, material handling and forestry equipment which includes a broad range of equipment used in preparation of land for construction such as landscape loaders, bull dozers, articulated dump trucks, and backhoe loaders, and forestry equipment such as log harvesters and log loaders including a full range of attachments. The Financial Services division primarily finances sales and leases by dealers of new and used agriculture and turf equipment and construction and forestry equipment. The dealers act as retailers of the SMA equipment but the Financial Services division will also provide services to customers that buy direct from the manufacturing divisions. However, the vast majority of sales are made via the dealer network.

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?