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An unusual cause of abdominal distention in a dog
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PEER-REVIEWED
CHALLENGING CASES IN INTERNAL MEDICINE
Radiographic and ultrasonographic examinations provided the clues that led to the cause of this dog's enlarged abdomen.
A 6-YEAR-OLD, 96-lb (43.6-kg) neutered male wolf-hybrid dog prevented to the University of CaliforniaDavis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital for evaluation of progressive abdominal distention of two weeks' duration. Six days before presentation, the dog began exhibiting tachypnea, decreased activ...
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An unusual cause of abdominal distention in a dog
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; PEER-REVIEWED CHALLENGING CASES IN INTERNAL MEDICINE Radiographic and ultrasonographic examinations provided the clues that led to the cause of this dog's enlarged abdomen. A 6-YEAR-OLD, 96-lb (43.6-kg) neutered male wolf-hybrid dog prevented to the University of CaliforniaDavis Veterinary Medical
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Central venous catheter infection in a child: case report and review of Kluyvera infection in children. (Case Report).
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; Abstract Kluyvera is an opportunistic pathogen that can occur in immunosuppressed as well as immunocompetent hosts. We report a case of Kluyvera species infection involving a central venous catheter, and we review the literature on Kluyvera infections in children. Our case demonstrates that removal
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Quantitative Risk Assessment of Cryptosporidium Species Infection in Dairy Calves
Journal of Dairy Science
; ABSTRACT Cryptosporidium parvum is a zoonotic protozoan that infects many different mammals including cattle and humans. Cryptosporidiosis has become a concern for dairy producers because of the direct losses due to calves not performing well and the potential for environmental contamination with
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Business Insurance
; LONDON -- Genetically modified foods and animals, cross-species infection and the Internet are among potential sources of new liabilities for multinational risk managers and insurers, experts say. Many of these emerging risks are new and untested, and there is a great deal of uncertainty as to how
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Reconciling private benefit and public risk in biotechnology: xenotransplantation as a case study in consent.
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Flea-associated illnesses in cats
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The Press
; Animal-to-human transplantation -- xenotransplantation -- hit the news, with the launch of Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council's second report. Xenotransplantation has been advanced as a potential cure ...
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Portrait of the week
The Spectator
; The government published the report by Professor Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, which recommends the legalisation of the cloning of material taken from human embryos that will then be destroyed; MPs are to vote on the law later this year. The scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep are to
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TISSUE IMPLANTS.
Biomedical Materials
; Foetal brain cells from pigs may help slow down Parkinson's disease Over recent years, studies show that human foetal brain tissue transplanted into patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) can be effective in slowing progression of the disease in some patients. But moral objections along with the
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Ralstonia found in more Vapotherm devices, recall launched.(Pulmonary Medicine)
Family Practice News
; Vapotherm respiratory gas administration devices are being voluntarily recalled, following federal government reports that twenty-nine hospitals in 16 states found Ralstonia organisms colonizing the devices, and cultures from approximately 40 pediatric patients also yielded the bacteria. The
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