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The author is senior lecture in International History at Royal Holloway College in the University of London and, over the past decade and more, has published extensively on the subject of Britain’s...

Although published by Cambridge University Press, the intellectual seat of this work is at the University of California, Berkeley, where Alexander Cook is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Hist...

Chien-peng Chung's study is part of the Australian Catholic University's series “Re-thinking Asia and International Relations”, intended in part to assess the impact of Asian States on the dynamics...

Confronted by a volume which has already been named as one of the books of the year for 2013 by all the newspapers that matter, a reviewer has a choice between attempting to outdo the others in pra...

Objective To assist correct decision-making about antimicrobial treatment of equine neonates with septicaemia. Design Retrospective study of microbial blood culture results obtained from foals less than 7 days of age. Methods Microbial blood culture results from foals less than 7 days of age admitted to an intensive care unit between July 1999 and December 2004 were reviewed. Antimicrobial sensitivity was assessed by the Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method. Antimicrobials were defined as an effective first-line choice antimicrobial if greater than 70% of isolates were susceptible. Multiple drug resistance (MDR) was defined as resistance to at least three antimicrobials in different chemical classes or with different mechanisms of resistance. Results Of the 427 Thoroughbred foals included in the study, a positive blood culture was obtained in 110 foals and 124 microorganisms were isolated. Gram-positive isolates, predominantly Streptococcus/Enterococcus spp, were obtained in 41% of foals. Gram-negative isolates were predominantly of the Enterobacteriaceae family, in particular Escherichia coli. The overall antimicrobial sensitivity of the isolates was low. The Gram-positive organisms had unpredictable sensitivity patterns. MDR was recorded in 32% of isolates. In total, 81% of foals were discharged from hospital and 74.5% of foals with a positive blood culture were discharged. Conclusion With the increasing prevalence of Gram-positive microorganisms and their unpredictable sensitivity patterns, blood cultures remain important in the diagnosis and treatment of equine neonatal septicaemia.

Tonio Andrade, professor of history at Emory University, has made the field of China’s global interaction with the West in its various guises almost his own. In this book, he examines these interac...

Julia Boyd. A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony. I. B. Tauris, London, 2012. pp. 263. Maps. Illust. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £18.99. ISBN 9 7817 8076 0520 Julia...

Edmund Backhouse (ed. Derek Sandhaus). Decadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse. Earnshaw Books, Hong Kong, 2011. pp. 297. Notes. Hb. £24.99. ISBN 9 7898 8194 4511 Wh...

Shiona Airlie. Thistle and Bamboo: The Life and Times of Sir James Stewart Lockhart . Foreword by Carole G. S. Tan. Hong Kong University Press, 2010. pp. xxii + 261. Illust. Notes. Bibliog. Index. ...

Stephen Platt. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War. Atlantic Books, London, 2012. pp. xxviii + 468. Maps. Illust. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. ...

Tim Luard. Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak's Christmas Day Dash, 1941. Hong Kong University Press, 2012. pp. xxvi + 323. Maps. Illust. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £29.95. ISBN 9 7898 8808 3...

Felicity Goodall. Exodus Burma: The British Escape through the Jungles of Death 1942. The History Press, Stroud, Gloucs, 2011. pp. 239. Maps. Illust. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Hb. £18.99. ISBN 9 7807 ...