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The influence of alkaline copper quaternary (ACQ) preservative was studied relative to the bonding strength of Masson pine joints and the penetration of the adhesive into wood. Masson pine specimens treated with ACQ of three concentrations (0.1%, 0.5%, 1.0%) were bonded with aqueous polymer isocyanate (API) adhesive, and the shear strength, wood failure percentage, bondline thickness, average penetration depth (AP), and effective penetration depth (EP) of the wood joints were evaluated. The shear strength (6.34 to 6.85 MPa) and the wood failure percentage (87.0% to 87.8%) of the three series of treated joints were significantly lower than that of the untreated samples, while the treated specimens showed significantly larger bondline thickness (43.3 to 47.2 mu m), smaller AP (30.6 to 35.8 mu m), and smaller EP (24.7 to 25.7 mu m) than the untreated specimens. The increase of ACQ concentration from 0.1% to 1.0% had no significant impact on the bonding strength and adhesive penetration parameters. The correlation between shear strength and penetration depths of treated joints was significant at the 0.01 level based on Pearson correlation analysis, while the coefficient of determination (R-2) of the shear strength resulted from least squares regression analysis was 0.250 and 0.143 for AP and EP, respectively.

Moraxella osloensis has been reported in the literature as a rare cause of sepsis, central nervous system infection, chest infection, and endophthalmitis. In the present case, the organism was isolated from the blood of an 8-year-old immunocompetent boy. It could not be identified with VITEK-2 and API-20NE (bioMerieux SA, Marcy-l'Etoile, France). Latex-based bacterial antigen test (BD Directigen Meningitis Combo Test; Becton, Dickinson and Company, Sparks, Maryland, United States) was positive for Neisseria meningitidis A/Y. It was identified as M. osloensis using matrix-associated laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) (Vitek MS, bioMerieux, Marcy-l'Etoile) (confidence level 99.9%) and 16S rRNA gene sequencing (99% sequence identity). The child responded well to ampicillin, and was discharged home after 4 days, on oral amoxicillin-clavulanic acid for the next 7 days. M. osloensis is a rare cause of bacteremia. It may masquerade as N. meningitidis in the routine tests performed in the routine microbiology laboratories. It is imperative to confirm the identification with MALDI-TOF or a molecular method to remove the false positive diagnosis of N. meningitidis , and to avoid the unnecessary use of prophylaxis with rifampicin or ciprofloxacin.