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Placing Children in Residential Care: A Scoping Review of Decision‐Making and Matching Criteria

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Placement decisions in residential care (RC) represent one of the most challenging aspects of child protection services. While often framed as a last‐resort solution, RC aims to serve children whose needs are not met through family‐based interventions and is used differently across countries.
Chiara Monti
wiley   +1 more source

Helminth infections: do they affect the productive efficiency of speacialised dairy farms? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Subclinical infections with gastrointestinal (GI) nematodes and liver fluke are an important cause of production losses in grazing dairy ...
Charlier, Johannes   +5 more
core  

Significant Considerations When Matching Foster Families and Children With Migrant Backgrounds: Reflections of Social Workers in Norway and Sweden

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child welfare services in Norway and Sweden proclaim the importance of considering continuity in the child's upbringing and ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic background when placed in foster care. Drawing on seven vignette‐based focus group discussions with social workers in Norway (12 participants) and Sweden (14 participants), this ...
Elin Hultman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liver Fluke Control in Beef Cattle

open access: yesEDIS, 2008
Revised! VM-120, a 5-page illustrated fact sheet by M.B. Irsik, Charles Courtney III, and Ed Richey, describes the control of Fasciola hepatica, one of the most damaging parasites in Florida cattle — its life cycle, damage to the animal and industry ...
Max B. Irsik   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Participatory Epidemiology of Endemic Diseases in West African Cattle – Ethnoveterinary and Bioveterinary Knowledge in Fulani Disease Control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Fulani pastoralists in Nigeria lack adequate access to good quality veterinary services and often resort to treating their animals themselves. There are several negative aspects to this, including poor treatment outcomes, misuse of veterinary drugs and ...
Adriansen   +73 more
core   +4 more sources

Association between Liver Fluke Infection and Hepatobiliary Pathological Changes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
ObjectiveTo provide information about the role of liver fluke infection as a risk factor for hepatobiliary pathological changes and promote awareness among the people living in endemic areas, a systematic review and meta-analysis based on published ...
Jing Xia, Shi-chen Jiang, Hong-Juan Peng
doaj   +1 more source

Discovery of Serotransferrin Glycoforms: Novel Markers for Diagnosis of Liver Periductal Fibrosis and Prediction of Cholangiocarcinoma. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) caused by chronic liver fluke infection is a major public health problem in Northeast Thailand. Identification of CCA risk groups is urgently needed for the control of CCA in this region.
Barboza, Mariana   +10 more
core   +2 more sources

The liver fluke Opisthorchis felineus as a group III or group I carcinogen

open access: yes4open, 2019
Opisthorchiasis caused by the liver fluke Opisthorchis felineus is one of the most common helminthic infections in the Russian Federation. The largest area affected by opisthorchiasis felinea occupies almost the entire territory of Western Siberia and ...
M. Pakharukova   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sustainable control of cyathostomin infections in practice

open access: yesEquine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.
Summary Cyathostomins are the most prevalent helminths in horses and are found in nearly all grazing groups. These parasites have been shown to exhibit widespread anthelmintic resistance and can cause clinical disease, so they are a growing concern.
J. B. Matthews, T. S. Mair
wiley   +1 more source

Mismatch repair deficiency is a rare but putative therapeutically relevant finding in non-liver fluke associated cholangiocarcinoma

open access: yesBritish Journal of Cancer, 2018
A major molecular pathway of genetic instability in cancer is DNA mismatch repair deficiency. High-level microsatellite instability (MSI-H) is currently the best predictor of responsiveness towards immune checkpoint blockade. Data about the prevalence of
B. Goeppert   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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