Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in veterinarians in Finland: Older age,living in the countryside,tasting beef during cooking and not doing small animal practice associated with seropositivity     

Anne‐Marika Siponen  Paula M. Kinnunen  Joanna Koort  Hannimari Kallio‐Kokko  Olli Vapalahti  Anna‐Maija Virtala  Pikka Jokelainen 《Zoonoses and public health》2019,66(2):207-215

Practising veterinary medicine has an inherent risk of exposure to zoonotic agents, including the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. We screened sera of veterinarians authorized to work in Finland for the presence of specific immunoglobulin G antibodies against T. gondii with an enzyme‐linked fluorescent assay, and evaluated potential risk factors for T. gondii seropositivity from extensive questionnaire data with almost 1,300 quantitative variables. We used a causal diagram approach to address the complexity of the life cycle of the parasite and its numerous possible transmission routes, and built a multivariable binomial logistic regression model to identify risk factors that are particularly relevant for veterinarians. The samples and questionnaire data were collected in 2009. Altogether, 294 veterinarians, almost 15% of the Finnish veterinary profession, were included in the study. The median age was 39 years, and the majority, 86%, were women. Altogether, 43 (14.6%; 95% confidence interval: 10.9–19.0) of the 294 veterinarians tested seropositive for T. gondii. According to the final model, veterinarians who were at least 40 years old had 2.4 times higher odds to be seropositive than younger veterinarians; veterinarians who lived in the countryside had 4.0 times higher odds to be seropositive than veterinarians who lived in towns; female veterinarians who tasted beef during cooking had 2.6 times higher odds to be seropositive than male veterinarians who did not taste beef during cooking; and veterinarians who did not do small animal practice had 2.3 times higher odds to be seropositive than those who did. The results illustrate the numerous transmission routes of T. gondii.  相似文献   

Acute echocardiographic effects of sotalol on ventricular systolic function in dogs with ventricular arrhythmias          下载免费PDF全文

Lance C. Visser  Joanna L. Kaplan  Satoko Nishimura  Catherine T. Gunther‐Harrington  Catherine Bélanger  Maureen S. Oldach  Joshua A. Stern  Mikaela S. Mueller 《Journal of veterinary internal medicine / American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine》2018,32(4):1299-1307

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Corrigendum to ‘Dexmedetomidine or fentanyl? Cardiovascular stability and analgesia during propofolketamine total intravenous anaesthesia in experimental pigs [Vet Anaesth Analg 45 (2018) 295–308]     

Andreas Lervik  Joanna Raszplewicz  Birgit Ranheim  Susanna Solbak  Simen F. Toverud  Henning A. Haga 《Veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia》2018,45(5):717-718

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CALCIUM EDTA (EDETATE CALCIUM DISODIUM)     

Joanna K. Webb 《Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine》2018,27(3):54-57

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Comparison of temperature shock timing to induced artificial mitotic gynogenesis and androgenesis in common tench     

Joanna Nowosad  Dariusz Kucharczyk  Tomasz Liszewski  Katarzyna Targońska  Roman Kujawa 《Aquaculture International》2015,23(1):45-53

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BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Oncology     

Joanna S. Morris 《The Journal of small animal practice》2011,52(9):502-502

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Xie's Chinese veterinary herbology     

Joanna Milan 《Australian veterinary journal》2012,90(5):193-193

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Changes in European eel ovary development and body and ovary chemistry during stimulated maturation under controlled conditions: preliminary data     

Joanna Nowosad  Dariusz Kucharczyk  Joanna Łuczyńska  Katarzyna Targońska  Tomasz Kajetan Czarkowski  Maria Biłas  Sławomir Krejszeff  László Horváth  Tamás Müller 《Aquaculture International》2015,23(1):13-27

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The detection of Mycoplasma (formerly Eperythrozoon) wenyonii by 16S rDNA PCR and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis     

McAuliffe L  Lawes J  Bell S  Barlow A  Ayling R  Nicholas R 《Veterinary microbiology》2006,117(2-4):292-296

Although the role of Mycoplasma wenyonii in disease is still subject to some debate, infections have been reported to result in parasitaemia, anaemia, scrotal and hind limb oedema, tachycardia, pyrexia, infertility, swollen teats, prefemoral lymphadenopathy and decreased milk production. Previously, diagnosis of M. wenyonii has been based on blood smears but is not specific for M. wenyonii and can be difficult to interpret. We have previously described the use of PCR and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) for the detection and differentiation of Mycoplasma species. DGGE enables the rapid and specific identification of Mycoplasma species and is ideally suited to detecting both mixed infections and new and unusual species. In this study, we have used DGGE with universal primers to detect M. wenyonii DNA from blood samples. DGGE can be used on blood samples as a rapid and specific test for M. wenyonii and can also be used as a screening test for other blood borne pathogens.  相似文献   

Food-caching western scrub-jays keep track of who was watching when   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Dally JM  Emery NJ  Clayton NS 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2006,312(5780):1662-1665

Western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica) hide food caches for future consumption, steal others' caches, and engage in tactics to minimize the chance that their own caches will be stolen. We show that scrub-jays remember which individual watched them during particular caching events and alter their recaching behavior accordingly. We found no evidence to suggest that a storer's use of cache protection tactics is cued by the observer's behavior.  相似文献