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Music - Hand Drum/
Another week and another chance for us to get our kids into music. This time I have included a drum. I find that out of all the instruments kids love, drums are at the top. This drum is great because I think it will take kids a few attempts to really get the rhythm of it. When things present a little challenge to kids they like it more once they have overcome it. It comes from being proud and feeling accomplished.
So this week I have included another video below of music being played, this band got a lot of attention in the 90's after featuring in a big film? comment below or on social media if you know what film they were in. I love this video and the song they are playing, it shows a big range of instruments being played, they do it very well and creatively.
Why Explore Music with Children?
There are so many reasons to get children into music, either just exploring it for fun, the history of it, geography or actually learning an instrument. I thought I would take the time to actually prepare some notes on why I like sharing and exploring music with my daughter.
I like to think that "If Mathematics is the language of the Cosmos, then music is the language of humanity"
At this point in time we are the only creatures in the universe that actually create music through handmade instruments played in synchronisation.
People are naturally attracted to music. In fact, music brings people together regardless of age and where they are from. Children, too, start early and actually begin to respond to sound when they are in their mother's womb. Music plays a big role in a child's early life and development. We use lullabies to rock our babies to sleep, dance to rhythmic tunes with them, and even use songs to teach basic concepts such as the alphabet.
1. Music helps develop language, literacy and communications skills.
Music stimulates the various senses and helps children in learning and improving language skills. Music also develops listening, reading and writing skills, improving fluency of speech, and communication. Through singing songs, kids can learn new words in a fun way and of course learn how to pronounce them. A 2016 study at the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute found that musical experiences in childhood can actually accelerate brain development, particularly in the areas of language acquisition and reading skills. According to the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation (NAMM Foundation), learning to play an instrument can improve mathematical learning and even increase SAT scores.
2. Music enhances physical development.
Through playing easy instruments such as drums and other percussion instruments, kids learn crucial coordination skills. Hand-eye coordination is improved when they continually practice beating the drum and bringing cymbals together.
Exploring musical instruments also improves gross motor skills when partnered with moving about, like marching in a pretend band. On the other hand, simply dancing to different rhythms also allows kids to develop whole body coordination.
3. Music helps develop cognitive skills.
Singing along to favourite songs and listening to different genre's of music stimulate different patterns of brain development. Children's memory power, concentration, spatial intelligence, and thinking skills improve through exposure and active participation in musical experiences. For example, when kids are asked to jump backwards, they learn where their bodies are in relation to space, which is an important developmental skill.
4. Music enhances individual development.
Through music-making, kids develop social-emotional skills, such as better self-control, higher self-esteem and confidence. By simply playing music in groups and working in teams, kids learn to give and take, wait for their turn, and encourage those who are struggling to keep up with the group. All of these experiences help in school readiness.
5. Music encourages early brain development.
Three great games to help children explore a whole world of music. Make learning about different instruments fun with our I Spy Game. Find and listen to music from around the world, learn geography and about genre's of music with the A3 sized world map included.
The early years of childhood is a period of rapid development. Researchers believe that the earlier a child is exposed to music, the more effectively his brain responds to stimulation. In addition, music aptitude can and should be influenced in the younger years. Music training (through playing and listening to music) before the age of seven has significant effect on parts of the brain related to planning and motor skills.
These are the five points I could easily argue in favour of exploring music with children but academic achievement isn't the only benefit of music education and exposure. Music ignites all areas of child development and skills for school readiness, including intellectual, social-emotional, motor, language, and overall literacy. It helps the body and the mind work together. Exposing children to music during early development helps them learn the sounds and meanings of words. Dancing to music helps children build motor skills while allowing them to practice self-expression. For children and adults, music helps strengthen memory skills.
Put simply there are no downsides to introducing music to your child as early as possible
Dance games
Last we I gave you the invisible dancer game, this week we have two more great dance party options. The final instalment of our Music series will see us giving loads of great ideas for a Music Festival themed kids birthday party, so make sure you check out the whole series of blog posts so that you can put all the games and ideas shared into one awesome Music festival to remember.
This is a classic and most kids will know how this works already. You can either use a long piece of Dowling wood bought from a local D.I.Y shop, maybe paint it to make it look more attractive or you can purchase a Limbo set like one of the sets I have found online. You then just hold the limbo stick still.
You can use any music that you like, the kids form a line in front of the limbo stick, one at a time they pass under the limbo stick without touching it or knowing it off. If they are able to pass through it they re-join the line and get ready to go again. If someone touches it they are out and can become judges.
Every time you get round to the starting player you lower the limbo stick, now its up to you how much to lower it, adjusting by one notch a time can make the game go on a little long so make it tougher by sliding down two or three notches a time.
Dancing Word
I love this game, you need a bowl and lots of words written on small pieces of paper. This can either be prepared by you in advance or the kids can write some words down. The kids will take it in turns to pull out a piece of paper, read it aloud and then they need to come up with a dance move to match the word. So something like the word Sprinkler, someone would now need to dance like a sprinkler, maybe by throwing their hands in the air and moving round like a sprinkler. Everyone will need to copy it and the person chosen now gets to pick the next person to come up.
Some ideas to get you started:-
Easy ideas are things like Fortnight, Breakdance, Tap
Try these too:-
Karate Chop
Shopping Trolley
Running Man
Decorate A Guitar
A great activity for kids to get on with whilst people are arriving for a party or just great for fun. We ahem a free guitar template you can click on below to download. Use that to cut out Guitars from a thick card stock. The kids can now decorate with paints/pens or with a selection of crafty bits to glue on.
Hand Drum
This oriental hand drum is probably the toughest of all the instruments I have given instructions for, you need the more things to make one of these but it's also one of the most fun. So take your time make sure you have everything you need below:
What you need to make a hand drum:
A pringles canister, or similar round container.
Craft Knife
A wooden dowel
Decorative tape (such as washi or glitter tape.)
Decorative duct tape, preferably narrow.
Two balloons. This might be hit-and-miss depending on your container size so I highly recommend you have a few sizes to experiment with. If you want to create this in bulk or with a group, test one and then make more according to the size that worked.
Ribbon or string
Large wooden Beads (make sure the ribbon is a good size to go through the beads and then tie a secure knot)
Hot Glue Gun
The big challenge in this craft was fitting the balloon over the ring. I could have used a larger balloon, but I wanted it to be pulled taut. One side worked in the end and the other didn't. I ended up using a bit of duct tape to hold it in place and it went on easily. Let's go -
1. Cut your can about an inch to an inch and a half from the top. It doesn't need to be perfect
2. Cover the ugly with tape. If your tape is too wide, snip it at intervals and fold into the ring.
3. Trim your dowel to size. I did this by breaking it – classy!
4. Make a hole halfway into your ring. You'll could use a strong hole punch for this. But I used a craft knife by making an x with your craft knife in that spot, the size of the dowel head.
5. Stick your dowel in. Important: secure it in place with glue and allow it to dry! I used a hot glue gun.
6. Cut off the neck of your balloon.
7. This is the tricky part… pull your balloon over the opening on one side of your ring. It needs to be pulled completely flat – no bunching in the middle, no gaps around the edges, or it won't hold. Tip: if you're having trouble, secure a small spot in place with duct tape and pull the rest around. You probably won't be able to get the tape off afterward, so do this in a spot you'll be covering.
8. Secure it in place with a strip of pretty tape. I used decorative duck tape and cut it in half width-wise.
9. Poke a hole in each side using your knife. Poke a piece of ribbon or string through (you might need help form a "poker" such as a pin.) Secure it with a knot on the inside and the outside.
10. Add your bead(s,) knot them to secure, and trim, making sure that the ribbon reaches easily to the middle of the drum/balloon.
11. Repeat on the other side.
12. Seal the open side of your ring with another balloon, the same way you did with the first.


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25 Apr 2016
FCA releases warning on four new clone firms
A number of warnings have been issued from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regarding firms that it believes are providing financial services without authorisation.
The firms named by the FCA include RBS Bourse, Capital Trust Ventures, Andersen Consulting (UK) and Beckett & Cromwell. They have been targeting consumers in the UK without being authorised by the FCA.
The FCA warnings included contact details for each of the firms included and stressed that almost all companies who offer, promote or sell financial services or products in the UK have to be authorised by the regulator.
It stated that some firms act without authorisation and some knowingly run scams like share fraud.
FCA say that share scams are often run from 'boiler rooms' where fraudsters cold-call investors and offer them worthless and over-priced shares, with some of them not existing at all. These types of scams declare consumers will receive high returns but those who invest usually end up losing their money.
In order to avoid such scams, the FCA has advised people to only deal with firms that are authorised by them and to check the Financial Services Register to ensure that the company they plan to deal with are.
The Financial Services Register includes information on firms and individuals that are currently regulated by them or have been in the past.
The warnings issued provided advice in that consumers should be aware that if they give money to unauthorised firms, they will not be covered by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) or Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
One particular scam that has been of priority for the regulator in 2016 is pension scams. In 2015, the watchdog launched a campaign titled 'Scamsmart', which is aimed at preventing crime on those who are in or approaching retirement.
The flexibility that was provided by the pension freedoms has given fresh impetus to the scammers looking to operate to this audience.
To tackle the problem, a new phase of 'Scamsmart' is running across 2016/17. The phase will include an interactive tool called the 'Warning List', which will help people to avoid potential scams.

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Helen's experience so far
"Over many years I had struggled to get my weight and feeling of general wellbeing to a level that I felt happy with. Recently, being diagnosed as pre-diabetic, I felt overwhelmed with how to achieve the doctor's directive to lose weight, and in particular, to reduce my waist size. Ben was willing to mentor me, and with his guidance, I have achieved a reduction in weight and size that I'm really happy with… Most importantly, I now feel empowered to maintain this new healthy lifestyle without any sense of stress to do so."
— Helen (58 yrs)
Hi - i'm Ben
I'll be your coach.
If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch.
Q&A: Why is there such importance placed on physical activity, and the foods I eat?
Movement is essential to your health, so we have to do something.
The first piece to the movement puzzle is resistance, or strength training. This means using your musculature regularly - that's how you maintain it! Resistance training causes the body to produce anti-aging hormones, like Human Growth Hormone, which helps you to avoid things like Sarcopenia (muscle wasting), and Osteoporosis (fragile bones).
In other words, it's what keeps you young.
You don't actually need anything to start building a stronger, fitter, more mobile and flexible body. Simple calisthenics / gymnastics strength training is the most efficient way to do it. And it's the safest.
It uses leverage, instead of compression. We build up slow and steady. That means less wear and tear. And less risk of injury. And consistency guarantees success. It's like compound interest.
And then mostly what you need is lots of walking or general movement, like gardening, but we'll talk about that later. Oh, and to find a form of play!
In terms of nutrition, first of all, let me interest you with the following:
I don't like fad diets - I just ask people to eat real food ~80% of the time. The foundation of our diet should be ancestral foods. All this means is food that comes from the land or ocean, not a factory. Meat, dairy, seafood, fruits, vegetables, nuts, roots, tubers etc. Minimally processed.
And if you can stick to it 80% of the time, you'll be groovy.
Yep, nibbles and wine can still be on the cards, folks!


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One Person Killed In Hemet Car Accident Involving DUI Driver On Florida Avenue
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California Highway Patrol are saying that a Jetta was traveling around 100 mph before the crash. The 25-year-old driver was arrested at the time of the accident.
The Jetta apparently rear ended a Honda Civic that was slowing down for a red light. One of the people in the Honda was killed and another person was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries.
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Old Gold: Pre-emptive Strike Apology Letter
Original publication date: February 2005. Still valid today.
New Year's has come and passed and Thanksgiving and Christmas are way behind us. Gone is the time of giving thanks. Now is the point in our year when we should say "I'm sorry." As the winter days get even more brutally cold, and the light grows flatter, and you get more plump and disheveled looking, you may find yourself drinking more and remembering less. Like where did I sleep last night? Who is this person in bed with me? What did I do last night that might get me arrested? Why is my entire body painted bright orange? I find that letters to myself are an effective way of fighting confusion and remorse. I have applied the Bush Doctrine to my own life and have found that I can pre-emptively strike at guilt and shame with a quick drunken note. As an example of what I mean, I've included a little epistle to myself which I should have composed before blacking out completely last Tuesday night:
Dear Self,
I know you're disappointed. Honestly; you should be. We did some pretty stupid things tonight and I thought I should write to you before I passed out to say I'm sorry and in case your memory blanks out, fill you in on a few things: First, you might not want to go outside for a few days (at least till the police stop looking for you). 2nd, about that bar on Lexington: you want to stay away from that place for a good month or so. The bouncer was pretty upset and it's going to take a long time to get those stains out.
Now, you'll probably be waking up with a fat girl. She looked better last night, I assure you. I'd love to help you out with her name, but I never caught it. You did use protection and you promised to drop her off at school this morning–in time for home room.
Additionally, you are the proud owner of a tattoo. I won't ruin the surprise by telling you where it is or what is says, but it's totally sweet, don't be upset. Be stoked.
Finally, a trip to the doctor to get that Bostich stapler out of your rectum, not a bad idea. Probably want to get on that ASAP. That's going to be a little hard to explain, but they are professionals, I'm sure they see that all the time.
In conclusion, I'd like to say that it is always a pleasure getting drunk with me, regardless of the consequences. So don't feel bad. In fact I salute us. We are most awesome.
Yours truly,


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The Great San Francisco e-cigarette Ban
Anything like the Great Train Robbery? Before it's all said and done, everyday vapers in San Francisco may decide so. It seems that their city government is hurtling toward initiating a ban on sales of e-cigarettes there. The impetus for the new law is legitimate – a desire to discourage and protect underage users – and nobody can argue that, in some locales (though I wouldn't say that San Francisco is one necessarily) and even more in online sales portals, these products are heavily peddled to minors (at this point I have to concede that, if I had a minor, I would rather see that minor pick up an e-cigarette than shake a cigarette from a pack – any day).
There needs to be final approval for the bill to become law (and as I understand it there will be a seven-month grace period from the date of the mayor's signature before the law takes effect) – but San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes in all stores in the city (and for good measure to stop e-cigarette deliveries to San Francisco addresses). This surely will put some underage users out of action – but just as quickly they'll figure a method around it (I was a kid once myself). Vaping giant, Juul, headquartered in San Francisco, is vehemently opposed to the action and already working to reverse this legislation. Good luck. The San Francisco Board of Directors voted to pass it 11-0. Sounds like it's got plenty of support.
Does that make it good policy? The new law is going to appeal to most parents (has there ever been a time when parents wanted their kids to start smoking) – smoking is one of the things (in a group of sins alongside drug use, drinking, and underage sex, gang relations in some places) you're destined to worry about as a parent – so I've been told often). The statistics concerning the number of middle-schoolers and high-schoolers who have taken to using tobacco (includes vaping) will get your attention. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), that number has risen from 3.6 million in 2017 (a number that itself will get your attention) to just under 5 million now (vapers account for a huge percentage of that increase –rising from 2.1 million in 2017 to over 3.5 million today).
There is a firm movement, opposed by the Juuls of the world (and Juul currently owns 75% of the U.S. vaping market) to curb not just the access to tobacco products but the marketing efforts that companies (like Juul) have engineered specifically for the consumption of teens. It's proven science that nicotine has a negative effect on the developing (young adult) brain – and it's also accurate to say that teens who take up tobacco products are likelier to still be using those products in adulthood than their peers who didn't experiment (in fact I've seen this in my own small circle of friends). But those types of warnings have been around and directed at teens for generations. It's not just vaping. Adults will blithely lecture that tobacco in any form at all is damaging. They'll assure you when you're that age that pot (marijuana I mean) is damaging (and vaping can be used to ingest THC – the primary ingredient in pot – too). You'll hear or read that, for young adults at least, antidepressants are damaging. You'll discover that just about any prescription drug or med can be damaging. Plenty of over-the-counter meds are damaging if misused – if the wrong dose is taken or an allergic reaction occurs. At some point those warnings, due to their number and perhaps diminishing ferocity, become hackneyed and stale and repetitive, easy as hell for a kid to write off as parent-speak.
Contrast the reaction to vaping of San Francisco's politicians with the reaction to it of government officials in the UK. Britain's government has undertaken a campaign encouraging users of traditional tobacco products to adopt vaping instead – as a means to improve health and perhaps ultimately to help the individual tobacco user give it up completely. If it's a question of the lesser of two evils, the British have taken the position that an e-cigarette is ninety-five percent safer for the body to use than a traditional cigarette. They also claim that as many as seventy percent of those attempting to quit tobacco have been able to quit it successfully with vaping as a means to wean them off. Competent studies have shown that e-cigarettes are superior to traditional tobacco goods in many respects (such as these):
*They provide ten times less exposure to destructive particles than traditional tobacco products
*Their produced organic carcinogens (these are the normally-occurring substances in our everyday environments which have been shown to cause cancer – things like arsenic) almost zero; organic carcinogens are plentiful byproducts of traditional tobacco
*Lower amounts of harmful lead and zinc than are found in traditional tobacco smoke
On the other hand, e-cigarettes:
**Give off chromium (missing from the smoke of ordinary cigarettes)
**Contain significantly higher levels of nickel than ordinary cigarettes (here's an interesting factoid – nickel is responsible for more exposure-related allergy attacks than all other metals combined – meaning that it can have a particularly devastating effect on some members of the population – and you probably won't know you're one of them in advance).
If you've spent any time at all around vapers (especially if you've been in an indoor setting where a steady amount of vaping occurs), you've probably witnessed yourself that the smoke created by those devices doesn't dangle in the air the way that ordinary tobacco smoke will, you won't look aloft to find it curling through the upper corners of the room, or creating a blue fog that can almost require a machete to get through.
Well here's my conclusion: I think that if you examine it from every angle, all things considered, San Francisco's citywide ban on e-cigarettes and related vaping materials demonstrates that the hearts of its city planners are in the right place – but maybe it doesn't say so much about their heads.


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The Year of the "Girl Boss"
A Wedding Planner, a Media Buyer, an ER Nurse, a Project Coordinator, and a Corporate Event Planner walk into a Mexican restaurant for dinner...
If you think this is the start of a bad joke, you're wrong. This is a typical girls night out for myself and several of my friends. One Thursday night back in April, the five us out cleared out our calendars and FINALLY had dinner. Although our group text game is strong, we're usually only able to all get together about twice a year. Between the five of us we have seven children, husbands, ex husbands, school, careers, and an abundance of extra curriculars...so girl time doesn't come easily.
As we began inhaling massive amounts of chips and salsa and flushing them down with margaritas that were easily 80% tequila, conversation started naturally just as it always does. We caught each other up on our lives, pulled out our phones for a little bit of social media gossip, and eventually told stories so foul, the dirtiest of men would blush.
Imagine "Sex and the City" meets 18 year old college frat boys. That's us when we're together.
As dinner progressed and the margarita pitchers diminished, we began digging deeper into our goals, thoughts, and dreams.
My friends obviously know that I am a business owner, hell I actually coordinated one of their weddings last year. They are supportive and they understand that my biggest goal is to retire from corporate America and become a full time entrepreneur. They know that becoming a full time "Girl Boss" is IT for me and I will not stop until I get there.
As conversation evolved, I listened to them talk about their careers. The nurse who works long thankless hours in the ER. (I seriously couldn't stomach half of what she deals with on a weekly basis.) The project coordinator who works for a construction company ANNNND is in school working towards a degree so that she is able to move up in a field that is dominated mostly by men. The corporate event planner who works for one of the biggest vodka companies in the world, while raising three beautiful kids under the age of 4. And lastly, my sweet friend who left the same corporate job that I have to chase her passion in the advertising world.
Listening to them speak about their careers and their goals, flipped a switch in me. THESE WOMEN ARE THE DEFINITION OF GIRL BOSSES. Every time I hear that term, I usually associate it with women who work for themselves, but what is more BOSS than women who are not only dominating their careers but who also genuinely LOVE what they are doing?
In this new age of social media enthusiasts, bloggers, MLMers, it's easy to associate these women with the stigma that's built around the term "Girl Boss". But what about the other women who are rising to the top and enjoying every moment of their ride? The doctors. The teachers. The bankers. The women working the 9-5's and killing it'. Without them who would teach our children? Who would heal us when we're sick? Who would guide us financially?
And then how about this, what about the women whose "dream job" is to stay home and raise her kids. I think we can all agree that being home with children all day every day, is no walk in the park. I did it for four months and just about lost my mind. I tapped out and took my ass back to work just four weeks after giving birth to my second son.
I often think of my boss at my corporate job. She doesn't own the company. She doesn't work her own hours. She's just a corporate America slave, right? Wrong. She is amazing at what she does, so full of knowledge, and without her my team would sink. And more important than knowing her craft inside and out, she is an excellent leader. I've always been blessed with great bosses but this one, she takes the cake. Intelligent, witty, caring, stern when she needs to be... #GIRLBOSSAF
When I started this blog, I wanted to be able to use this space as a platform to discuss things that may often be considered an unpopular opinion. With that I say this, if the corporate 9-5 is not for you, THAT IS OKAY. If you have a desk job that you find fulfilling, YASSS HUNNY! And if you are a stay at home mom and you are living your "American Dream", BEAUTIFUL.
BUT, if you are in a situation and you feel under stimulated, you're lacking passion, or if you just feel like you are meant to do more or different than what you are currently doing....change. You are the author of your story and your life....edit often.
Life is entirely too short to wake up every day tired and uninspired. Figure out what is that lights your soul on fire and find a way to profit (whether it be financially or mentally). YOU CAN DO IT.
And lastly....this..
Girl Boss: A woman who is in consistent pursuit of growth and knowledge, and who is unapologetically passionate about the life that she lives.


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Rumor has it that Google would be announcing there 'gPhone' soon, probably sometime after September 3rd and the most authoritative source seems to be rizzn.com. What it will be is still a mystery. There are rumors that Google may just provide a platform for phone manufacturers, based on linux. But no one has yet ruled out an actual hardware from Google. Since I don't have an inside contact in Google, I don't have any first hand or groundbreaking information. But I have been poking around and I believe that Google will be entering into the cell space. Those who have checked Google Maps would have noticed that a lot of updates have gone into it. As far as India is concerned many major cities have been updated with street names, hospitals, schools and places of interest. Some streets are marked as one-way. Obviously Google is going to provide GPS in …Read More »
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Bad Starbucks – No Donut for you!
Bad Customer service – Burning BrewIt was too good to last. Starbucks burns its customer with a cup of coffee. Doesn't help him with the burn, don't pay his medical bill, and claims safety procedures are company confidential.Read More »
Customer service at its best – another one
Above And Beyond: Point And Click Appliance Repair Refunds Part Of Your Shipping Fee Because You Live Nearby – Consumerist:Looks as if the world is not such a bad place after all. Here is another example of good customer service where the company gave a discount on shipping because the guy lived nearby.Read More »
Customer service at its best – Go Google!!!
Official Google Blog: An update on Google Video feedback Here is the link to the official Google blog regarding refund on Google Video. They made a mistake that made a lot of people see red. But Google came back saying sorry, and they have won my heart for the best Customer Care of the year, no, make it the decade. I wish other companies would take a few lessons from Google.Read More »
Happy 25th Birthday, compact disc!
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In developed countries, pregnancy-related listeriosis accounts for 20–43% of total invasive listeriosis. This work describes the first pregnancy-related listeriosis survey in Italy based on two data sources, that is, mandatory notification system and regional laboratory-based network. Out of 610 listeriosis cases reported over a 10-year period, 40 were pregnancy-related (6.6%). Among these, 29 pregnancy-related isolates were available and have been analysed with serotyping, Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis, and Multi-Virulence-Locus Sequence Typing. No maternal fatality was recorded, but 11 (29.7%) pregnancies resulted in a foetal death, a miscarriage, or a birth of a foetus dying immediately after birth. The average incidence of pregnancy-related listeriosis was 4.3 cases per 100000 births, and the proportion of pregnancy-associated listeriosis among ethnic minorities was significantly higher compared to the general population (30.0% versus 3.5%, ). L. monocytogenes isolates belonged to serotypes 1/2a, 1/2b, and 4b, with the latter significantly more prevalent among pregnancy-related isolates. Twenty different pulsotypes were distinguished and 16 out of the 29 isolates were classified into seven clusters. A total of 16 virulence types (VTs) were identified. Five VTs accounted for 45% of the total cases and coincided with those of previously described Epidemic Clones (ECs) of L. monocytogenes.
1. Introduction
Listeria monocytogenes is a causal agent of invasive infections mostly of foodborne origin. Ready-to-eat foods, in particular, are unanimously considered high-risk sources of L. monocytogenes [1–4]. WHO estimated that worldwide in 2010 listeriosis resulted in 23150 illnesses, 5463 deaths, and 172823 disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) [5]. In the European Union (EU) 1676 confirmed cases were reported in 2012, with an overall case rate of 0.39 per 100000 population and a predominance of cases among subjects over 65 years [6]. Notification of invasive listeriosis has been mandatory in Italy since 1990 and in 2012 the national rate (0.15 per 100000 population) was lower than most countries in the EU [6]. In the same year, however, the northern Italian region of Lombardy with approximately 10 million inhabitants showed a higher annual notification rate of 0.46 cases per 100000 inhabitants [7].
Invasive listeriosis mainly affects immunocompromised subjects, the elderly, pregnant women, and newborns [8]. Pregnant women are a critical target subpopulation for L. monocytogenes infection. Indeed, pregnancy has been associated with an 18-fold increased risk of developing disease than the nonpregnant female population [3, 9, 10]. Pregnancy-associated cases have also been more commonly detected among ethnic minorities [11]. Pregnant women may experience fever, miscarriage, premature delivery, or stillbirth but are frequently asymptomatic [3]. Consequently, it is likely that pregnancy-associated cases of listeriosis could go underdiagnosed, especially when infection occurs during the first trimester of pregnancy or the infection ends in an early abortion. Although women with comorbidities are at higher risk, most cases occur in otherwise healthy pregnant women [9, 12].
In recent years, epidemiology of pregnancy-related listeriosis has been investigated in several developed countries, such as England and Wales [13], France [14], United States [3], Netherlands [15], and Israel [16]. A proportion between 20.7% [5] and 43% [17] of L. monocytogenes invasive infections are related to pregnancy. A previous study on invasive listeriosis in Lombardy reported that about 11.0% of the confirmed cases were pregnancy-related [18]. The main indicator used to describe the annual incidence of pregnancy-related listeriosis is the rate of number of cases per number of live births. Between 1984 and 2011 this indicator in France fell from 60 to 5 cases per 100000 live births, which is a decline by a factor of 12 [14]. Conversely, in the years 1998–2007 the yearly incidence of pregnancy-associated listeriosis in Israel ranged from 5.5 to 25.2 cases per 100000 births [16]. In USA, application of preventive measures ("zero tolerance") since 1985 resulted in a 44% reduction of perinatal listeriosis, from 17.4/100000 to 8.6/100000 live births [8].
Molecular subtyping has widely contributed to knowledge about epidemiology of L. monocytogenes, by characterizing isolates and tracking sources and transmission pathways, and has also helped in the establishment of more efficient prevention strategies. The gold-standard technique has traditionally been Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) [19]. However, in recent years some complementary subtyping methods, such as Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) and Multi-Virulence-Locus Sequence Typing (MVLST), are being applied for epidemiological purposes [20–22]. In particular, MVLST allows the identification of Epidemic Clones (ECs), which are genetically related and presumably of a common ancestor isolates, which have been implicated in geographically and temporally unrelated outbreaks [23–25]. Only a few studies have approached the molecular characterization of L. monocytogenes isolates from pregnancy-related infection cases. The results of those studies suggest that pregnancy-related cases are not correlated with specific molecular types [16].
The present study was undertaken to describe the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the pregnancy-associated cases recorded between 2005 and 2014 in Lombardy and the molecular features and virulence genes patterns of L. monocytogenes isolates.
2. Methods
2.1. Data Sources and Case Definition
Pregnancy-associated listeriosis cases from 2005 to 2014 were extracted from (i) the regional mandatory notification web-based infectious disease system (MAINF) [7] and (ii) the regional network for laboratory-based surveillance of L. monocytogenes infections (LabSS). MAINF collects all available information regarding pregnancy and nonpregnancy listeriosis cases (i.e., age, clinical symptoms, underlying disease, and outcome) in a database. LabSS is based on voluntary referral of clinical isolates to the Regional Reference Laboratory at the Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan. L. monocytogenes isolates from hospitalized clinical cases are collected and a standardized report form is used to collect demographic, clinical, and microbiological data.
Pregnancy-related listeriosis cases were defined according to notification criteria, namely, the presence of compatible clinical symptoms and isolation of L. monocytogenes from a clinical sample of pregnant woman or foetus, stillborn, and newborn aged < 28 days (MAINF). Additionally, a case was also defined based on the isolation of L. monocytogenes from a clinical sample of pregnant woman or foetus, stillborn, and newborn aged < 28 days (LabSS).
Confirmed cases with isolation of L. monocytogenes from both mother and infant were counted as single cases.
2.2. Characterization of L. monocytogenes Isolates
L. monocytogenes from listeriosis cases was isolated on selective media and confirmed by biochemical tests kit (API Listeria, bioMérieux) by the hospital laboratories participating in the surveillance network and subsequently referred to the Regional Reference Laboratory.
2.2.1. Serotyping
Serotyping was performed on both pregnancy-related and non-pregnancy-related isolates at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome, Italy). A multiplex-PCR (MUX-PCR) assay was performed to separate L. monocytogenes strains into four different serogroups: 1/2a and 3a; 1/2c and 3c; 1/2b and 3b; and 4b, 4d, and 4e [27]. Subsequently, conventional serotyping was then used to confirm the specific serotype within the serogroups, using Listeria antisera (Denka Seiken Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan), according to manufacturer's instructions. For the purpose of the study isolates serotyped as serotype 4b/4e by seroagglutination were assumed to be as serotype 4b as the latter is the disease causing serotype.
2.2.2. Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE)
PFGE was carried out on both pregnancy-related and non-pregnancy-related isolates according to the PulseNet protocol [19]. Briefly, DNA samples were first restricted using AscI enzyme and then separated in a 1% agarose gel electrophoresis, using a PFGE CHEF-MAPPER® System (Bio-Rad). ApaI enzyme was used where the AscI profiles were indistinguishable. Clustering analysis was performed with BioNumerics 6.6 software (Applied Maths, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium) by using the unweighted pair group-matching algorithm (UPGMA) and the Dice correlation coefficient with a tolerance of 1.5%. In this study, isolates were considered to belong to the same cluster when they had a similarity value ≥ 90%. Clusters were identified with a consecutive number as in the previous study [18].
2.2.3. Multi-Virulence Locus Sequence Typing (MVLST)
MVSLT was carried out on all pregnancy-related isolates as previously described [23]. Intragenic regions of six virulence genes (clpP, dal, inlB, inlC, lisR, and prfA) were amplified and sequenced by IGA Technology Services (Udine, Italy), using ABI 3730XL DNA analyser. Multiple sequence alignments were performed using the Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis software MEGA 6 [26] and then compared with sequences of previously typed L. monocytogenes available from the MVLST database [28]. New allelic sequences, that is, with at least one nucleotide difference, were attributed with arbitrary virulence types (VTs). A neighbor-joining tree was constructed using the neighbor-joining method in MEGA 6 [26] based upon the number of nucleotide differences.
2.3. Statistical Analysis
Either the -square test or the Fisher exact test (Epi-Info 6.04 software, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, US) was used to assess associations between categorical variables. Differences were considered statistically significant when was <0.05.
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Clinical and Epidemiological Data
Over the ten-year period under study (2005–2014), 610 cases of invasive listeriosis were recorded in Lombardy by integrating data from the two surveillance regional systems (MAINF and LabSS). Forty out of them (6.6%) were pregnancy-related. The median age of mothers was 35 years (range 17–45). The survival outcome was known in 37 cases (Table 1); among these, no maternal fatality was recorded, while 11 pregnancies (29.7%) resulted in foetal death, miscarriage or stillbirth. In 32 cases (80%), symptoms developed in women after the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy. Regarding foetal and neonatal cases, 21 cases occurred after the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy. All five cases occurring between the 13th and 24th week were fatal. In one fatal case the week of pregnancy was unknown.
The average incidence of pregnancy-related listeriosis in the ten-year period was 4.3 cases per 100000 births (ranging from 1.0 case per 100000 births in 2009 to 8.7 cases per 100000 births in 2012), as estimated based on population data from the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) [29]. In the years 2010, 2011, and 2012, in particular, the incidence was almost doubled compared to the average incidence for the whole period (>8/100000) (Figure 1). Cases were observed in eight out of the 12 provinces of the Lombardy region, with the highest observed incidence in Bergamo followed by Cremona and Milan (9.7, 6.9, and 5.7 per 100000 births, resp.). In contrast, no listeriosis cases were recorded in the provinces of Como, Mantua, Pavia, and Sondrio (Figure 2). The proportion of pregnancy-related listeriosis among ethnic minorities (including immigrants from Ecuador, Peru, Albania, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Morocco and Saudi Arabia), was about ten times as higher as that of the general population (30.0% versus 3.5%) ().
3.2. Microbiological and Molecular Typing
The results from microbiological and molecular typing are shown in Table 2. A total of 304 L. monocytogenes isolates were collected; among these, 29 were pregnancy-related. The latter were serotyped as 1/2a (, 51.7%), 4b (, 44.8%), and 1/2b (, 3.5%). The 4b serotype was significantly more prevalent among pregnancy-related isolates (44.8% in pregnancy-related isolates versus 18.1% () nonpregnancy isolates, ). Twenty different AscI pulsotypes were recognized. ApaI profiles of AscI indistinguishable profiles did not confirm 100% similarity but highlighted a close correlation with a similarity percentage higher than 70%. Sixteen out of the 29 isolates were classified into seven clusters (Figure 3). When considering both pregnancy-related and non-pregnancy-related isolates, only cluster 6 showed a clear prevalence of pregnancy-related isolates (4/5; Table 2).
A total of 16 VTs were identified, 10 were unique, and 6 had more than one isolate, identified among the 29 L. monocytogenes isolates. MVLST confirmed the relationship between the isolates belonging to clusters 3, 5, and 13, while the other clusters included isolates associated with different VTs. Overall, 48% () of L. monocytogenes isolates showed VTs that had been previously associated with ECs.
The neighbor-joining tree revealed two main groups that clearly separated according to serotype (Figure 4). The obtained gene sequences were deposited in the GenBank database [30] with the accession numbers: KP789770–KP789944.
A national Italian estimate of the proportion of pregnancy-related listeriosis cases at the national scale is unavailable. This study showed that 6.6% of the identified listeriosis cases in Lombardy were pregnancy-related and such frequency is lower compared with the rates in other countries (UK 12%; USA 16.9%; France 18%; Spain 32.5%; Israel 35%) [3, 11, 14, 16, 31] and the meta-analysis performed by Maertens de Noordhout et al. [5] (20.7%). It is not immediately clear whether this lower proportion is real or it is possibly due to underdiagnosis or underreporting issues. Underdiagnosis could be more likely, considering that most cases are diagnosed during the third semester, while earlier stages miscarriage may be seldom investigated. In fact, in this study no cases were reported in the first trimester and only five cases were reported during the second one. However, the percentage of pregnancy-related cases over the 10-year period increased to 10% of all listeriosis cases when only data from LabSS were considered. This value is similar to what was observed by Mammina et al., 2013 [18], and suggests a higher sensitivity of LabSS compared to MAINF in detecting pregnancy-related cases.
The age of the mother did not appear to be a risk factor for infection by L. monocytogenes. On the other hand, the correlation of infection with the presence of underlying conditions could not be precisely evaluated given the limited number of cases and the unavailability of some clinical information.
It is noteworthy that the proportion of pregnancy-related listeriosis among ethnic minorities was higher than the general population. Ethnicity-related variations in the risk of acquiring listeriosis are well documented and related to differences in diet or food consumption habits [32]. Moreover, incidence of pregnancy-associated listeriosis has been correlated with socioeconomic features (e.g., neighborhood deprivation) and food consumption behaviours (e.g., purchasing foods from convenience or local stores) both more frequent among ethnic minorities [11, 13].
In this study serotype 4b was significantly more prevalent among pregnancy-related cases compared to those non-pregnancy-related cases. This did not apparently impact the pregnancy outcome. Similar findings have been reported in other countries (Austria, 1997–2000; Israel, 1998–2007), with serotype 4b and specific PFGE types being associated with pregnancy-related listeriosis without any correlation between lineage and pregnancy outcome [16, 33]. In 1992 a large listeriosis outbreak in France was reported, which was attributed to serotype 4b and characterized by a high number of pregnancy-related cases (33%, 92 out of 279 total cases) [14].
Twenty-two out of the 29 isolates belong to eight clusters previously observed in a larger study on L. monocytogenes isolates from human clinical cases in Lombardy [18] (Table 2). The finding of clusters including both isolates from pregnancy-related cases and isolates from listeriosis cases not associated with pregnancy prompted the local health authorities to carry out an epidemiological investigation in order to possibly identify a food source for the pregnancy-related cases. No correlation with putative food sources was detected.
Clustering by PFGE and MVLST yielded a good concordance, with some exceptions. Using MVLST, different VTs were assigned to all the isolates grouped in cluster 2 and cluster 6. Interestingly, 13 isolates were assigned to five different ECs [23, 25]. A "predilection" of L. monocytogenes ECIV for pregnancy has been observed by a previous study [16], but this study does not seem to confirm that finding. In fact, 16 out of 29 isolates did not belong to any of the currently recognized ECs.
To guarantee a continuum with the previous study [18] the same parameters for the comparison analysis were applied. This led to discrepancies between profiles visibly not 100% similar and the software analysis (e.g., isolates 248 and 225; Figure 3) and is a limitation to the study. The interpretation of PFGE results is not always straightforward; therefore, sequence-based methods such as MVLST are advantageous because interpreting the results and sharing the data between laboratories are more reliable and accurate compared to band-based methods [23].
4. Conclusions
Although the study has been conducted only in Lombardy, this region of 10 million inhabitants accounts for 17% of the whole Italian population. However, because of major differences in migration patterns and food habits compared with other geographical areas, the results of this study can be generalized only for Northern Italy. Moreover, the regional surveillance systems are not harmonized and their organization varies widely between different regions and, in many cases, do not provide information about molecular subtyping of isolates.
Overall, the results of this study confirm that a "type" of L. monocytogenes specifically associated with pregnancy-related infections is not identifiable. In conclusion, this study highlights the public health importance of pregnancy-related listeriosis and the complexity of its epidemiological behaviour, as shown by the molecular analysis of isolates. The implementation of prevention strategies targeted at the ethnic minorities, with a special attention to food habits of pregnant women, is strongly advised.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
Authors' Contributions
Virginia Filipello and Ettore Amato contributed equally to this work.
The authors would like to acknowledge Professor Caterina Mammina, which left them too soon. She was an exceptional person not only for her scientific culture and professional expertise (she greatly contributed to the introduction of molecular technologies for the study and surveillance of infective diseases in Italy) but also for her simple and open nature and friendly attitude. Thanks also are due to M. Gianfranceschi and A. Gattuso at Microbiological Foodborne Hazard Unit Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, in Rome for routine serotyping and M. Gramegna and A. Piatti at Directorate General of Welfare of Lombardy Region for their help in epidemiologic investigations.
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