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Causal categorization of animal diseases’ English terminological system
Studia Humanitatis, 2021 The article describes the study of the causal categorization in the English terminological system of animal diseases. The studied category is widely represented in veterinary terminology, since it is one of the basic categories that classify animal ...
Rozhkov Yuriy Hryhorevych
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Dealing with highly contagious animal diseases under neoliberal governmentality in Mongolia
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2018 In Mongolia, since the collapse of communism in 1990, the government has implemented a centralized system of veterinary care inherited from the Communist period that suffers from inadequate infrastructures.
Sandrine Ruhlmann
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Viruses, 2023 Vaccinia virus (VACV) is the causative agent of an emerging viral zoonosis called bovine vaccinia (BV). Several studies have documented characteristics of VACV infections in Brazil; however, the manner in which this virus is maintained in wildlife ...
Iago J. S. Domingos +8 more
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Molecular dynamics studies on the NMR structures of rabbit prion protein wild-type and mutants: surface electrostatic charge distributions [PDF]
J Biomol Struct Dyn 33(6) 1326-35 (2015), 2014 Prion is a misfolded protein found in mammals that causes infectious diseases of the nervous system in humans and animals. Prion diseases are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases that affect a wide variety of mammalian species such as sheep and goats, cattle, deer, elk and humans etc.
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Critical Behavior in a Cellular Automata Animal Disease Transmission Model [PDF]
, 2003 Using a cellular automata model, we simulate the British Government Policy (BGP) in the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic in Great Britain. When clinical symptoms of the disease appeared on a farm, there is mandatory slaughter (culling) of all livestock on an infected premise (IP).
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Robust detection of exotic infectious diseases in animal herds: A comparative study of three decision methodologies under severe uncertainty [PDF]
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 53 (2012) 1271-1281, 2011 When animals are transported and pass through customs, some of them may have dangerous infectious diseases. Typically, due to the cost of testing, not all animals are tested: a reasonable selection must be made. How to test effectively whilst avoiding costly disease outbreaks?
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Animal Models of Cardiovascular Diseases [PDF]
BioMed Research International, 2011 Cardiovascular diseases are the first leading cause of death and morbidity in developed countries. The use of animal models have contributed to increase our knowledge, providing new approaches focused to improve the diagnostic and the treatment of these pathologies.
Zaragoza, Carlos +9 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 A >600% increase in monkeypox cases occurred in the Bokungu Health Zone of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the second half of 2013; this increase prompted an outbreak investigation. A total of 104 possible cases were reported from this health
Leisha Diane Nolen +23 more
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Animal Models of Parkinson's Disease [PDF]
Parkinson's Disease, 2011 Parkinson's disease (PD) is considered a multifactorial disorder, which is neuropathologically characterized by age-dependent neurodegeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. Different neurotoxins including synthetic compounds, heavy metals, and dopamine itself have been proposed to be environmental risk factors of PD.
Katerina Venderova +4 more
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