Disseminated Salmonella enterica infections represent a severe form of non-typhoidal salmonellosis increasingly complicated by antimicrobial resistance. We describe a case of disseminated non-typhoidal Salmonella in a man presenting with septic shock concerning for a thoracoabdominal endovascular graft infection with involvement of the urinary and respiratory tracts and thoracic skeleton. Hybrid whole-genome sequencing identif...

Harmful algal blooms caused by the paralytic shellfish toxin‐producing species Alexandrium pacificum have increased in recent years in one of the most important aquaculture regions of New Zealand, the Marlborough Sounds. Reoccurring blooms have created large cysts beds in the sediments throughout the sounds. In this region, large populations of the sea cucumber Australostichopus mollis can also be found. These deposit feeders...

Holothuroids are conspicuous members of megabenthic assemblages, particularly in the deep sea. Some are capable of swimming and while this behaviour was once considered uncommon, deep-sea exploration and technological advances have increased the number of such observations. Swimming or drifting is now regarded to be a potentially common adaptation to deep-sea life that enables long distance dispersal at a low energetic cost an...

Capillary malformation (CM) is a congenital vascular anomaly that affects the skin, mucosa, eye, and brain. A major obstacle to mechanistic and drug screening studies for CM has been the lack of preclinical models. In this study, we established vascular organoids (VOs) generated through the self-assembly of vascular lineages of endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells differentiated from CM-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS...

Molecular‐based approaches for harmful algal bloom species, which can be difficult to identify by light microscopy, are important tools for detecting and predicting the blooms. In this study, 84 samples from Aotearoa/New Zealand coastal waters that contained Azadinium ‐like cells were analysed using an Amphidomataceae real‐time PCR assay. Nineteen samples were positive, and 24 Azadinium ‐like clonal isolates were established f...