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Contact with dogs is associated with improved survival in cancer patients [PDF]

Scientific Reports
For cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and asthma, the positive effects of dog ownership are shown. Cancer is a leading cause of death, but the influence of dogs on cancer incidence and survival is not well examined.
Robert Preissner, Zhengjie Yang, Saskia Preissner, Christa Thöne-Reineke   +3 more
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VETERINARY PSYCHOLOGY: DOG BEHAVIORAL DISEASES

Environmental Smoke, 2023
Animal behavior is closely linked to the process of evolution of nervous tissues that move towards the cephalic region, promoting the creation of a central nervous system with greater proximity to the sense organs, providing an increasing increase in ...
Gil Dutra Furtado, Felipe Eduardo da Silva Sobral   +1 more
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The Design Challenges for Dog Ownership and Dog Walking in Dense Urban Areas: The Case of Japan

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
There has been growing interest in the role of pet ownership, particularly dog ownership, in managing noncommunicable diseases. The built environment can act as a facilitator or barrier to owning a dog or dog walking.
Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Akitomo Yasunaga, Akitomo Yasunaga, Gavin R. McCormack, Gavin R. McCormack, Gavin R. McCormack, Gavin R. McCormack, Tomoki Nakaya, Yukari Nagai, Koichiro Oka   +9 more
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A Patient with Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS) Infected from a Sick Dog with SFTS Virus Infection.

Japanese journal of infectious diseases (Print), 2022
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) caused by Dabie bandavirus (formerly SFTS virus, SFTSV), which belongs to the Bandavirus genus (formerly Phlebovirus genus) of the Phenuiviridae family (formerly Bunyaviridae family) is a tick-borne ...
Hiroaki Oshima, Hironobu Okumura, Ken Maeda, Keita Ishijima, T. Yoshikawa, T. Kurosu, S. Fukushi, M. Shimojima, M. Saijo   +8 more
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High incidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infections in dogs directly detected through longitudinal tracking at 10 multi-dog kennels, Texas, USA

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Canine Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is increasingly recognized as a health concern for dogs in the USA, and infected dogs may signal geographic regions of risk for human disease.
RE Busselman, Alyssa C. Meyers, Italo B Zecca, L. Auckland, Andres H Castro, Rebecca E Dowd, R. Curtis-Robles, CL Hodo, A. Saunders, S. Hamer   +9 more
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Eliminating dog-mediated rabies: challenges and strategies

Animal Diseases, 2021
Rabies is an acute encephalitis caused by a lyssavirus. It is primarily transmitted through bites of infected dogs which results in the worldwide death of an estimated 59000 humans every year.
H. Tiwari, J. Gogoi-Tiwari, I. Robertson
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First inter-laboratory comparison of Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato diagnosis in Latin America

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2019
Objective. To compare the performance of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests for diagnosing Echinococcus granulosus in dog feces among national reference laboratories in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay.
María Isabel Jercic, Graciela Santillan, Susana Elola, William Quispe Paredes, Lidia B. Conza Blanco, Noelia Morel, Rodrigo Villegas, Baldomero Molina Flores, Cesar M. Gavidia, Marta Cabrera, Alexandre Guerra dos Santos, Manuel J. Sanchez-Vazquez, Melody J. Maxwell, Marco A. Vigilato, Edmundo Larrieu, Víctor J. Del Rio Vilas   +15 more
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Possible Human-to-Dog Transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Italy, 2020

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021
We detected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in an otherwise healthy poodle living with 4 family members who had coronavirus disease. We observed antibodies in serum samples taken from the dog, indicating seroconversion. Full-length genome
N. Decaro, G. Vaccari, A. Lorusso, E. Lorusso, L. De Sabato, Edward I. Patterson, I. Di Bartolo, G. Hughes, L. Teodori, C. Desario, Barbara Colitti, Dominga Ricci, D. Buonavoglia, S. Rosati, V. Martella, C. Cammà, U. Agrimi, G. Elia   +17 more
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Imobilização interna da coluna vertebral lombar com placas de cloreto de polivinila, em cães - parte II: resultados anatomopatológicos Internal immobilization of the lumbar canine spine using polyvinylchloride plates - part II: anatomopatological results

Ciência Rural, 1997
Utilizando-se 20 cães, com o segmento lombar da coluna vertebral cirurgicamente desestabilizado na junção das vértebras L2-L3, foram estudadas a toxicidade e o aceite de placas ortopédicas de cloreto de polivinila (PVC) Tigre®, fixadas com parafusos nos ...
Eduardo Alberto Tudury, Cleuza Maria de Faria Rezende, Vera Alvarenga Nunes, Leonardo Maciel Andrade   +3 more
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Dog Models of Aging

Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2021
As the most phenotypically diverse mammalian species that shares human environments and access to sophisticated healthcare, domestic dogs have unique potential to inform our understanding of the determinants of aging.
A. Ruple, E. MacLean, N. Snyder‐Mackler, Kate E. Creevy, D. Promislow   +4 more
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