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The feline immunodeficiency virus infection: Seroepidemiological and clinical survey in Bologna (Italy)
No full textFeline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a retrovirus that causes a significant disease in cats. FIV has been isolated from cats through the world. The virus is spread primarily through cat bites, and treatment is at present limited. This paper reports a general description of the disease as well as a serological survey of FIV infection. One hundred and eighty-one feline serum samples from cats with different pathologic conditions in Bologna (Italy) were tested for antibodies to FIV and for antigen of Feline Leukemia Virus with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The prevalence of FIV infection in this population was 15.46%. Among the male cats the seropositive proportion (21.31%) was greater than among the female ones (3.7%). The peak of FIV infection appeared in cats between 6 and 10 years old. The most frequent clinical signs were stomatitis and gastroenteric disorders (42.85%)
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
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