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(3(1):16-21)Studies on the Medical Treatment of Roundworm in Pigs No.4
No full textSoldium flouride was first adopted in America, then making an improvement in Japan and Taiwan with the Anti-Pigworm powder as its excellent result. By the preceding test, it not only has an extraordinary effects but also convenient and economic.
(1) Dose
For pigs, conceived or suckled, it is 0.05 gm. pf soldiut flouride per kg. of its own weight, or one tablet of anti-pigworm-powder per 3 kgs. of its own weight in equivalence. As for young pigs, it is 0.0975-gm. per or one tablet per 1.54 kgs.
(2) Administration
Take a little thicker portion from the soluble feed, mixing with a certain dose as stated above. for feed, then furnish the remainder. After four times successive administrations, it gains a hundred percent effect in expelling the worms.
(3) Reaction
No evidence of reactions except a slight diarrhea which does not effect the health condition and causes no damage. This slight diarrhea is more beneficial to the expelling of wormeggs.
(4) Summary
(a) Highly careful should be required for f he administration to the conceived r suckled pigs, and their infants can no longer be injected.
(b) Pigs should be fed as usual before administration and requires no purgative after administration.
(c) it is more convenient and economic in comparison with santonin
Altered expression profile of superoxide dismutase isoforms in nasal polyps from nonallergic patients
No full textHypothesis-test-based landcover change detection using multi-temporal satellite images – A comparative study
No full textPlain language summary of the himalaya study: tremelimumab and durvalumab for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer)
Full text linkAbou-Alfa G.K., Lau G., Kudo M., Chan S.L., Kelley R.K., Furuse J., Sukeepaisarnjaroen W., Kang Y.K., Van Dao T., De Toni E.N., Rimassa L., Breder V., Vasilyev A., Heurgué A., Tam V.C., Mody K., Thungappa S.C., Ostapenko Y., Yau T., Azevedo S., Varela M., Cheng A.-L., Qin S., Galle P.R., Ali S., Gupta C., Makowsky M., Kurland J.F., Negro A., Sangro B
A systematic review of epidemiological studies on the prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by paediatric cancer patients. Presented at ECIM 2008.
No full textBackground: paediatric cancer patients are likely to use complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) alongside more conventional interventions. A number of individual studies have been carried out to examine prevalence rates of CAM use amongst paediatric cancer patients. These studies have varied findings and are of mixed quality. This meta-analytic review therefore aimed to assess the quality of this literature and to determine what is known about the prevalence of the CAM use in paediatric cancer. Secondary research questions focused on the types of CAM used, trends in CAM use over time, reasons for CAM use, and demographic characteristics associated with CAM use.Method: electronic and manual searches for relevant studies identified 26 English language journal articles of primary research studies investigating the prevalence of CAM usage among paediatric cancer patients in peer-reviewed journals. A quality assessment checklist was rigorously developed based on the strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement in collaboration with Dr. Erik von Elm (lead author of the STROBE statement). Data were extracted and validated by more than one author and analysed using meta-analytic techniques.Results: the prevalence of CAM use by paediatric cancer patients ranged from 40% to 53%. The quality of the studies was mixed and did not correlate with the estimated prevalence of CAM use. ‘Herbals’ was the most popular CAM modality. Paediatric cancer patients use CAM for various reasons. Higher level of education and income were associated with CAM use in North America; the opposite was true for CAM use in Mexico and Turkey.Conclusion: a substantial proportion of paediatric cancer patients use CAM. There is a need to use standardised definitions of the CAM in future studies to generate comparable data. The quality assessment checklist has potential to be a useful quality assessment instrument for other reviews of similar epidemiological studie
Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito 1967
No full text168. Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito, 1967. Palearctic: 1) China (north), 2) Japan (except the Ryukyu Islands), 3) South Korea, 4) Russia (Filippova 1977, Takada et al. 1998, Robbins 2005, Kolonin 2009, Kim et al. 2011a, Tsapko 2020, Seo et al. 2021). Yamaguti et al. (1971) cautioned that Ixodes nipponensis can be confused with Ixodes persulcatus and Ixodes ricinus. Takada et al. (1998) found Ixodes nipponensis in the Palearctic portion of China (Liaoning Province), but this was not recognized by Kolonin (2009), Chen et al. (2010) and Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019). However, Cheng et al. (2018), Zhang, G. et al. (2019) and Zhao et al. (2021) accepted Liaoning Province as being within the range of Ixodes nipponensis, and northern China is therefore included here. . Robbins (2005) stated that the presence of Ixodes nipponensis in Taiwan might be due to introduced specimens, while Kuo et al. (2017) collected this tick on migratory birds in Taiwan. Nevertheless, Chen et al. (2010), Zhang, G. et al. (2019), Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019) and Zhao et al. (2021) included Taiwan within the range of Ixodes nipponensis. Cheng et al. (2018) reported this tick in southern China (Oriental), but its presence there was not recognized by Zhang, G. et al. (2019), Zhang, Y.K. et al. (2019) and Zhao et al. (2021). Taiwan and China (south) are here provisionally excluded from the range of Ixodes nipponensis.Published as part of Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, pp. 1-274 in Zootaxa 5251 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5251.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/770419
Tobacco Streak Virus Infecting Buxus Sempervirens
No full textBox-tree (Buxus sempervirens) is an evergreen ornamental plant, appreciated for its small, dark-green glossy leaves attractive in all seasons, and mostly used as borders in the gardens. In the fall of 2001, three pot plants of box-tree coming from Tuscany region (central Italy) were sent to DiSTA-Plant Pathology of the Bologna University to be examined for virus presence. These plants showed in fact affected severe virus-like symptoms such as yellow mosaic and chlorotic stripes on the leaves; in addition, the symptomatic box-trees looked less vigorous and severely stunted.
In initial experiments a small number of test plants were inoculated with sap from the symptomatic leaves. Only Vigna sinensis L. “Black eye” and Nicotiana benthamiana L. developed symptoms, in particular: the first plant showed local red-necrotic rings; the second one, necrotic local rings and systemic chlorotic mosaic. This strong reaction in only two of the tested species employed was possibly due to a low concentration of the pathogen in the box-tree. The local lesions of V. sinesins and the local and systemic symptoms of N. benthamiana were used as starting material for virus identification.
In host range tests, plants of 26 species (belonging to 10 botanical families) were inoculated and 11 of these resulted infected. In particular, Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae showed symptoms reminiscent of those described for the type strain of tobacco streak virus (TSV) (1, 2). Cucumis sativus L “Marketer” showed local necrotic rings; Nicotiana glutinosa L., N. tabacum L. “Samsun” and “White Burley”, displayed local whitish necrotic ringspots, line-patterns and oak-leaf patterns.
The observations of ‘leaf-dip’ preparations from inoculated host plants and original box-tree material, carried out with a Philips CM 10 electron microscope, did not reveal the presence of elongated virus-like particles.
Immuno-electron microscopy tests (ISEM) were applied to crude sap from infected herbaceous plants, by using the antisera to several bacilliform and spherical viruses, including that to TSV (PVAS-276) (from American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA) and TSV-Gladiolus sp. (from the collection in Bologna). The use of these antisera revealed the presence of strongly decorated virus particles; no other viruses were found. In 2003, some symptomless box-trees (provided by a commercial grower and previously tested negative for TSV presence) were grafted with shoots from box-tree showing yellow mosaic on the leaves and maintained in a greenhouse under aphid proof-cage, to verify the aetiology of the disease observed. To our knowledge, this is the first report of TSV in box-tree
Phytoplasma infection in Asclepias physocarpa
No full textAsclepias physocarpa (sin. Gomphocarpus physocarpus; Asclepiadaceae) is a perennial ornamental mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical areas of the world, grown also for cut production and employed as flower in dry arrangements. In Italy the plant produced from seeds obtained in situ, is mainly cultivated in Liguria where it is maintained for three years. A. physocarpa is reported to be infected by a few viruses such as TSV and TSWV, but no reports of phytoplasma presence are available.
In August 2002 in fields of plants of one and two years a severe stunting, associated with rosette-like symptoms were observed; in other plants symptoms of yellows and vein yellowing were also present. Mechanical inoculations on test plants as well as leaf dip preparations performed in order to verify virus presence, gave negative results. PAS-ELISA tests for INSV and TSWV also gave negative results. Molecular analyses (PCR/RFLP) were performed on nucleic acid extracted from 1 g of phloem tissue collected from symptomatic and asymptomatic plants in November and provided evidence for phytoplasma presence in symptomatic samples (stunting and yellows). RFLP on 16S ribosomal gene indicated that 16SrXII-A (stolbur) and 16SrI-B (aster yellows) phytoplasmas, sometimes in mixed infection, were present.
The disease is seriously affecting A. physocarpa cultivations since high percentages of infection were observed in many fields (up to 30-40%). It is likely that the plants become infected during cultivation cycles since leafhopper presence was quite spread in all the fields examined. It was not possible to attribute a certain phytoplasma or mixture of phytoplasmas to the different symptoms observed; it is possible that the type of symptoms could be influenced by the plant stage at the moment of infection: i.e. plants infected while are young show stunting and rosetting while plants infected at older stages (2 years) only react with yellows to the presence of the same pathogen/s
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