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Symptomatic Capillaria plica infection in a young European cat
No full textAn 8-month-old owned European cat showing abdominal pain, fever, distended painful bladder and urinary blockage was presented. Intravenous fluids were immediately administered and, after sedation, a urinary catheter was applied. Blood and urine analysis revealed cystitis and a moderate-to-severe degree of renal failure. About 20 thread-like nematodes, identified as Capillaria plica larvae and fragments of adult stages, were found in the urine sediment. After treatment with an oral formulation of fenbendazole at 25 mg/kg q 12 h for 10 days, urinary signs and bladder worms disappeared. Cases of Capillaria species bladder worms in cats are rarely reported and most infected cats show no clinical signs, presumably because of a low parasite burden. In the present study, feline capillariosis was associated to urethral obstruction, severe difficulties in urination, cystitis and renal failures. (C) 2011 ISFM and AAFP. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Fluoroquinolones and metronidazole association in the treatment of canine leishmaniasis: preliminary Study
No full textAlterazioni elettrocardiografiche in corso di terapia con antimoniato
No full textIn the present study 20 dogs different for sex, breed and age affected by Leishmaniasis were examined. All the subjects underwent an electrocardiographic examination (ECG) before the beginning of the specific leishmaniasis treatment (basal ECG, GO), and after the administration of antimony in a dose of 70-100 mg/kg/SID for 30 days (post therapy ECG, G32). Heart rate (HR) and QT interval length were calculated. The HR was evaluated as the results obtained in the present study do not allow us to exclude possible cardiotoxic effects of the antimony in dogs, also according to the fact that the basal ECG in the examinated subjects did not point out abnormality of the QT interval. Further studies are needed to evaluate the cardiotoxic potential of antimony in dogs with inborn cardiac pathologies and alterations of the ECG before therapy
Valutazione dell'efficacia dell'associazione ibafloxacin-metronidazolo nella terapia della leishmaniosi canina: studio preliminare
No full textPreliminary results on prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in free ranging red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in the province of Pisa (Italy): a serological and molecular approach
No full textIsolation and characterization of Malassezia spp. in healthy swine of different breeds
No full textMalassezia spp. genus is represented by several lipophilic yeasts, normally present on the skin of many warm-blooded vertebrates, including man. Swine are one of the less investigated animal species. The aim of the present work was to study the occurrence of Malassezia spp. in the external ear canal of 408 healthy swine of different breeds, under different breeding conditions. For this purpose N. 185 free-ranging wild boars, N. 107 large size pigs and 116 Cinta Senese breed were selected. Animals were of both genders, with age ranging from 8 months to 4 years. The subjects were culturally and molecularly checked for Malassezia spp. Ninety-two out of 408 animals scored positive for Malassezia yeasts (22.5%). Malassezia pachydermatis, Malassezia sympodialis and Malassezia furfur were recognized. M. pachydermatis was the sole species isolated from wild boars (12.9%), Cinta Senese (20.7%) and juvenile large size pigs (13.6%); 88% of large size breeds adult subjects scored positive for M. sympodialis (63.6%) and M. furfur (22.7%), respectively. The study focus on scarcely investigated epidemiological aspects of Malassezia spp. in this animal species. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Treatment of canine leishmaniasis: a 24-monts parasitological and clinical follow up in dogs treated with miltefosine and allopurinol
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