Browsing by Subject "epidemiology"
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(2022-07-26)Introduction, the COVID-19 pandemic entering its third year highlights a need for further information on how SARS-CoV-2 impacts communities. This text establishes the burden of disease on different age groups and minorities, ...
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(2016-08-02)Observational epidemiologic studies are commonly encountered as a source of clinical evidence in equine veterinary medicine and offer many advantages over experimental studies. First, naturally-occurring cases of disease ...
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(2022-05-25)The documents contained in this collection are assignments, templates, and rubrics used for teaching the skills of evidence-based veterinary medicine in a 4-year veterinary professional program. They are grouped by unit ...
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(2011-10-21)Clostridium difficile has been recognized as one of the leading causes of nosocomial diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis in human hospitals and nursing homes since the 1970s; however, recent occurrences of community-acquired ...
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(2019-07-09)In the southern U.S., triatomine vectors maintain Trypanosoma cruzi- the protozoan parasite that causes Chagas disease in humans and animals- in sylvatic cycles. Infection with T. cruzi may be asymptomatic or lead to heart ...
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(2017-07-08)Trypanosoma cruzi, agent of Chagas disease, is a zoonotic vector-borne protozoan that infects mammalian hosts throughout the Americas. Spillover from sylvatic cycles occurs when triatomine vectors bridge the parasite from ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1986)
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(2009-05-15)For the second study, a web-based survey was developed and distributed to all members of four major health education organizations. A total of 1,925 HEs’ completed the survey and 1,607 responses were utilized in the final ...
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(2022-07-21)Landscapes vary across space and through time, impacting many biological processes. Landscape ecology provides an investigative framework through which landscapes themselves can be characterized, and complex organismal ...
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(2009-05-15)This study estimates the association between dietary factors and spontaneous pancreatitis in dogs. A case-control study was conducted using 198 dogs with a clinical diagnosis of pancreatitis and 187 control dogs with a ...
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(2019-11-13)Salmonella is a leading bacterial pathogen, causing a significant number of human infections and deaths every year in the United States. Recently, the increase in the prevalence of ceftriaxone and azithromycin resistance ...
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(2009-05-15)Paratuberculosis is an intestinal infection of ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP). Genetic associations with paratuberculosis have been described in Holstein cattle. The objectives were ...
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(2023-07-24)Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium spp. are zoonotic protozoal pathogens, spread by a fecal-oral route, which can infect a wide range of hosts including but not limited to dogs and humans. Giardia infections were ...
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Investigations on the diagnosis, colonization, and epidemiology of grapevines with Pierce's disease (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Pierces disease (PD) of grapevines, caused by Xylella fastidiosa, is devastating Texas vineyards. Two rapid diagnostic techniques, real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)The prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) phenotypes and genotypic characteristics (Class 1 integron and AMR gene cassettes) in commensal Escherichia coli (EC) and vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (EF) ...
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(2015)A scoping review was conducted to identify modifiable non-antimicrobial factors to reduce the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in cattle populations. Searches were developed to retrieve peer-reviewed published studies ...