keyword
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37764006/evaluation-of-three-serological-tests-for-diagnosis-of-canine-brucellosis
#21
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fabrizia Perletta, Chiara Di Pancrazio, Diamante Rodomonti, Tiziana Di Febo, Mirella Luciani, Ivanka Marinova Krasteva, Marta Maggetti, Francesca Profeta, Romolo Salini, Fabrizio De Massis, Flavio Sacchini, Manuela Tittarelli
Canine brucellosis caused by Brucella canis , is an infectious disease affecting dogs and wild Canidae. Clinical diagnosis is challenging, and laboratory testing is crucial for a definitive diagnosis. Various serological methods have been described, but their accuracy is uncertain due to limited validation studies. The present study aimed to evaluate the performances of three serological tests for the diagnosis of B. canis in comparison with bacterial isolation (gold standard), in order to establish a protocol for the serological diagnosis of canine brucellosis...
August 26, 2023: Microorganisms
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37682053/elevated-blood-pressure-accelerates-white-matter-brain-aging-among-late-middle-aged-women-a-mendelian-randomization-study-in-the-uk-biobank
#22
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Li Feng, Zhenyao Ye, Chen Mo, Jingtao Wang, Song Liu, Si Gao, Hongjie Ke, Travis A Canida, Yezhi Pan, Marleen M J van Greevenbroek, Alfons J H M Houben, Kai Wang, Kathryn S Hatch, Yizhou Ma, David K Y Lei, Chixiang Chen, Braxton D Mitchell, L Elliot Hong, Peter Kochunov, Shuo Chen, Tianzhou Ma
BACKGROUND: Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a modifiable risk factor associated with cognitive impairment and cerebrovascular diseases. However, the causal effect of BP on white matter brain aging remains unclear. METHODS: In this study, we focused on N = 228 473 individuals of European ancestry who had genotype data and clinical BP measurements available (103 929 men and 124 544 women, mean age = 56.49, including 16 901 participants with neuroimaging data available) collected from UK Biobank (UKB)...
September 6, 2023: Journal of Hypertension
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37652628/exposure-to-trypanosoma-cruzi-and-leishmania-parasites-in-dogs-from-a-rural-locality-of-yucatan-mexico-a-serological-survey
#23
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Enrique Reyes-Novelo, Carlos Sauri-Arceo, Alonso Panti-May, Denisse Marín, Elsy B Canché-Pool, Daniel E Chan-Espinoza, Clotilde Marín, Manuel Bolio-González, Roger I Rodríguez-Vivas, Marco Torres-Castro, Francisco J Escobedo-Ortegón
Trypanosoma cruzi, the causal agent of American trypanosomiasis, and Leishmania spp., the causal agents of Leishmaniasis, are prevalent in more than 20 American countries, including Mexico. Dogs have been reported as incidental hosts for both parasites and may be helpful as transmission sentinels. We surveyed the dog population in a rural locality of the Merida municipality in Yucatan, Mexico, to evaluate the seroreactivity against T. cruzi and Leishmania spp. using two antigens, parasite homogenate (H) and iron superoxide dismutase extract (FeSODe), with two serological techniques (ELISA and Western Blot)...
September 2023: Veterinary Parasitology (Amsterdam)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37570312/hybridization-in-canids-a-case-study-of-pampas-fox-lycalopex-gymnocercus-and-domestic-dog-canis-lupus-familiaris-hybrid
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bruna Elenara Szynwelski, Rafael Kretschmer, Cristina Araujo Matzenbacher, Flávia Ferrari, Marcelo Meller Alievi, Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas
Hybridization between species with different evolutionary trajectories can be a powerful threat to wildlife conservation. Anthropogenic activities, such as agriculture and livestock, have led to the degradation and loss of natural habitats for wildlife. Consequently, the incidence of interspecific hybridization between wild and domestic species has increased, although cases involving species of different genera are rare. In Vacaria, a Southern city in Brazil, a female canid with a strange phenotype, which had characteristics between the phenotype of the domestic dog ( Canis familiaris ) and that of the pampas fox ( Lycalopex gymnocercus ), was found...
August 3, 2023: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37570246/prevalence-and-characterization-of-dental-and-skull-bone-pathologies-of-the-raccoon-dog-nyctereutes-procyonoides-in-lithuania
#25
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eugenijus Jurgelėnas, Indrė Jasinevičiūtė, Linas Daugnora
The present investigation endeavours to discern dental and non-dental pathologies affecting cranial structures of raccoon dogs, while focusing on cases of periodontitis. Furthermore, the study aims to conduct a comparative analysis based on sex and the nature of the pathologies encountered. The number of investigated skulls amounted to 126, including 76 males and 50 females. The predominant pathology identified was hypodontia, which accounted for 26.7% of males and 20% of females. Notably, the majority of hypodontia cases involved the absence of the mandibular third molar...
July 27, 2023: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37516241/sample-size-determination-for-food-sampling
#26
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shizhen S Wang, Travis A Canida, John D Ihrie, Stuart J Chirtel
Industry and public health agencies sample and test food products for various purposes related to food safety and quality. Methods of sample selection and sample size determination are important in designing an optimal sampling plan. The appropriate sample size of a sampling plan depends on the objective. We examine the methods of sample size calculation for the following four objectives commonly associated with food sampling: (1) estimate prevalence (e.g., of contaminated products), (2) detect presence (e...
July 27, 2023: Journal of Food Protection
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37436967/subchondral-defects-resembling-osteochondrosis-dissecans-in-joint-surfaces-of-the-extinct-saber-toothed-cat-smilodon-fatalis-and-dire-wolf-aenocyon-dirus
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hugo Schmökel, Aisling Farrell, Mairin F Balisi
Skeletal disease may hamper the behavior of large predators both living and extinct. We investigated the prevalence of osteochondrosis dissecans (OCD), a developmental bone disease affecting the joints, in two Ice Age predators: the saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis and dire wolf Aenocyon dirus. As published cases in modern Felidae and wild Canidae are rare, we predicted that subchondral defects resembling OCD would be rare in the extinct predators. We examined limb joints in juvenile and adult S. fatalis: 88 proximal humeri (shoulder), 834 distal femora (stifle), and 214 proximal tibiae...
2023: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37330925/deciphering-the-causal-relationship-between-blood-pressure-and-regional-white-matter-integrity-a-two-sample-mendelian-randomization-study
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zhenyao Ye, Chen Mo, Song Liu, Si Gao, Li Feng, Boao Zhao, Travis Canida, Yu-Chia Wu, Kathryn S Hatch, Yizhou Ma, Braxton D Mitchell, L Elliot Hong, Peter Kochunov, Chixiang Chen, Bingxin Zhao, Shuo Chen, Tianzhou Ma
Elevated arterial blood pressure (BP) is a common risk factor for cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, but no causal relationship has been established between BP and cerebral white matter (WM) integrity. In this study, we performed a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis with individual-level data by defining two nonoverlapping sets of European ancestry individuals (genetics-exposure set: N = 203,111; mean age = 56.71 years, genetics-outcome set: N = 16,156; mean age = 54...
June 18, 2023: Journal of Neuroscience Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37262940/endotheliochorial-placental-glycosylation-reflects-evolutionary-divergence-between-felidae-species-felis-catus-and-panthera-leo-and-canidae-canisfamiliaris
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Carolyn J P Jones, John D Aplin
Endotheliochorial cat (Felis catus) and lion (Panthera leo) term placentae and one 6 week placenta (term 60-63 days) from a dog (Canis familiaris) were stained with a panel of 24 lectins to compare glycosylation at the feto-maternal interface. Glycan expression in lion and cat placentae was very similar apart from the occurrence of terminal α-galactose in the lion trophoblast. The dog differed in several respects, particularly in the trophoblast, consistent with species-specific glycotypes differing according to the degree of their evolutionary divergence...
May 26, 2023: Placenta
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37252648/the-evolutionary-dynamics-history-of-canine-distemper-virus-through-analysis-of-the-hemagglutinin-gene-during-1930-2020
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Haoning Wang, Hong Guo, Van Gils Hein, Yanchun Xu, Shaopeng Yu, Xiaolong Wang
UNLABELLED: Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a lethal viral disease of carnivores which is considered to be a serious threat to domestic and wild species. Despite the widespread use of vaccines, CDV still occurs in vaccinated animals and current vaccines does not guarantee complete protection. In this study, a total of 286 hemagglutinin (H) gene sequences of the virus isolated in 25 countries during 90 years (1930-2020) were analyzed by Bayesian maximum likelihood analysis to estimate the population dynamics...
2023: European Journal of Wildlife Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37250442/development-of-short-target-primers-for-species-identification-in-biological-studies-of-carnivora
#31
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Huiwen Liu, Dan Wang, Chenglin Zhang, Tianchun Pu, Lijuan Xiong, Fuwen Wei, Yibo Hu
Noninvasive genetic sampling greatly facilitates studies on the genetics, ecology, and conservation of threatened species. Species identification is often a prerequisite for noninvasive sampling-based biological studies. Due to the low quantity and quality of genomic DNA from noninvasive samples, high-performance short-target PCR primers are necessary for DNA barcoding applications. The order Carnivora is characterized by an elusive habit and threatened status. In this study, we developed three pairs of short-target primers for identifying Carnivora species...
May 2023: Ecology and Evolution
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37234165/comparative-genomics-of-the-leukocyte-receptor-complex-in-carnivores
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
April L Jelinek, Jan Futas, Pamela A Burger, Petr Horin
BACKGROUND: The mammalian Leukocyte Receptor Complex (LRC) chromosomal region may contain gene families for the killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) and/or leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor (LILR) collections as well as various framing genes. This complex region is well described in humans, mice, and some domestic animals. Although single KIR genes are known in some Carnivora, their complements of LILR genes remain largely unknown due to obstacles in the assembly of regions of high homology in short-read based genomes...
2023: Frontiers in Immunology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37160458/the-brain-of-the-silver-fox-vulpes-vulpes-a-neuroanatomical-reference-of-cell-stained-histological-and-mri-images
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christina N Rogers Flattery, Munawwar Abdulla, Sophie A Barton, Jenny M Michlich, Lyudmila N Trut, Anna V Kukekova, Erin E Hecht
Although the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) has been largely overlooked by neuroscientists, it has the potential to serve as a powerful model for the investigation of brain-behavior relationships. The silver fox is a melanistic variant of the red fox. Within this species, the long-running Russian farm-fox experiment has resulted in different strains bred to show divergent behavior. Strains bred for tameness, aggression, or without selection on behavior present an excellent opportunity to investigate neuroanatomical changes underlying behavioral characteristics...
May 9, 2023: Brain Structure & Function
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37106348/heartworm-dirofilaria-immitis-in-carnivores-kept-in-zoos-in-texas-usa-risk-perception-practices-and-antigen-detection
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kaitlyn E Upton, Christine M Budke, Guilherme G Verocai
BACKGROUND: Dirofilaria immitis is the causative agent of heartworm disease in wild and domestic canids, felids, and mustelids. Recent studies demonstrate that additional families in the order Carnivora are also susceptible to infection. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to (1) better understand current practices surrounding heartworm prevention and diagnostics in zoological facilities located in the state of Texas, USA, and (2) assess archival serum samples of carnivores kept in these facilities for the presence D...
April 28, 2023: Parasites & Vectors
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37073249/main-mites-associated-with-dermatopathies-present-in-dogs-and-other-members-of-the-canidae-family
#35
REVIEW
Pamela Thomson, Nicole Carreño, Andrea Núñez
Dermatological diseases of parasitic origin are one of the most frequent in the clinical practice of dogs and cats. Mites such as Sarcoptes scabiei, Otodectes cynotis, Demodex canis , and Cheyletiella spp., commonly affect domestic dogs. However, the impact generated by these mites on populations of wildlife animals and the mechanisms involved in their epidemiological dynamics are still not clear. In recent decades, the migration of populations and their interaction with domestic environments and vice versa have generated a worrying threat due to the transmission of some of these ectoparasites...
February 2023: Open Veterinary Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37071557/development-of-an-in-vitro-pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic-model-in-the-presence-of-serum-for-studying-micafungin-activity-against-candida-albicans-a-need-for-revision-of-clsi-susceptibility-breakpoints
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maria-Ioanna Beredaki, Maiken C Arendrup, David Andes, Joseph Meletiadis
BACKGROUND: The CLSI breakpoint for micafungin and Candida albicans is 0.25 mg/L, higher than the CLSI epidemiological cut-off value (0.03 mg/L) whereas the EUCAST values are identical (0.016 mg/L). We developed a novel in vitro dialysis-diffusion pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) model, confirmed correlation to in vivo outcome and studied micafungin pharmacodynamics against Canida albicans. METHODS: Four C. albicans isolates, including a weak (F641L) and a strong (R647G) fks1 mutants, were studied using a 104 cfu/mL inoculum and RPMI medium with and without 10% pooled human serum...
June 1, 2023: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36980812/history-of-polish-canidae-carnivora-mammalia-and-their-biochronological-implications-on-the-eurasian-background
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Adrian Marciszak, Aleksandra Kropczyk, Wiktoria Gornig, Małgorzata Kot, Adam Nadachowski, Grzegorz Lipecki
The remains of 12 canid species that date back ca. 4.9 myr have been found at 116 paleontological localities. Among these localities, eight are dated to the Pliocene age, 12 are dated to the Early Pleistocene age, 12 are from the Middle Pleistocene age, while the most numerous group includes 84 sites from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene age. Some, especially older forms such as Eucyon odessanus and Nyctereutes donnezani , have only been found at single sites, while the remains of species from the genus Lycaon , Canis and Vulpes have been recorded at numerous sites from the last 2 myr...
February 21, 2023: Genes
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36934171/qpcr-detection-of-viable-bacillus-cereus-group-cells-in-cosmetic-products
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nadine Yossa, Sonny Huang, Travis Canida, Rachel Binet, Dumitru Macarisin, Rebecca Bell, Sandra Tallent, Eric Brown, Thomas Hammack
Reference methods for microbiological safety assessments of cosmetics rely on culture methods that reveal colonies of live microorganisms on growth media. Rapid molecular technologies, such as qPCR, detects the presence of target DNA in samples from dead and viable cells. DNA intercalating dyes, such as propidium monoazide (PMAxx), are capable of restricting PCR amplification to viable microbial cells. Here we developed singleplex and multiplex real time (qPCR) assays for the detection of Bacillus cereus (B...
March 18, 2023: Scientific Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36922800/canine-distemper-virus-n-protein-induces-autophagy-to-facilitate-viral-replication
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fei Chen, Zijing Guo, Rui Zhang, Zhixiong Zhang, Bo Hu, Ling Bai, Shuaiyang Zhao, Yongshu Wu, Zhidong Zhang, Yanmin Li
BACKGROUND: Canine distemper virus (CDV) is one of the most contagious and lethal viruses known to the Canidae, with a very broad and expanding host range. Autophagy serves as a fundamental stabilizing response against pathogens, but some viruses have been able to evade or exploit it for their replication. However, the effect of autophagy mechanisms on CDV infection is still unclear. RESULTS: In the present study, autophagy was induced in CDV-infected Vero cells as demonstrated by elevated LC3-II levels and aggregation of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-LC3 spots...
March 15, 2023: BMC Veterinary Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36727524/evolutionary-radiation-in-canids-following-continental-colonizations
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lucas M V Porto, Rampal S Etienne, Renan Maestri
Colonization of a new environment may trigger an evolutionary radiation, defined as an accelerated accumulation of species in a short period of time. However, how often colonization events trigger such radiations is still an open question. We studied the worldwide dispersal of Caninae to investigate whether the invasion of new continents resulted in elevated species diversification. We used a combination of ancestral range estimation and phylogenetic analyses to estimate the ancestral ranges of 56 extant and extinct species of Caninae, as well as variation in speciation and extinction rates through time and across clades...
February 2, 2023: Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution
keyword
keyword
18048
2
3
Fetch more papers »
Fetching more papers... Fetching...
Remove bar
Read by QxMD icon Read
×

Save your favorite articles in one place with a free QxMD account.

×

Search Tips

Use Boolean operators: AND/OR

diabetic AND foot
diabetes OR diabetic

Exclude a word using the 'minus' sign

Virchow -triad

Use Parentheses

water AND (cup OR glass)

Add an asterisk (*) at end of a word to include word stems

Neuro* will search for Neurology, Neuroscientist, Neurological, and so on

Use quotes to search for an exact phrase

"primary prevention of cancer"
(heart or cardiac or cardio*) AND arrest -"American Heart Association"

We want to hear from doctors like you!

Take a second to answer a survey question.