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Salmonellosis in lambing ewes with associated human infection
Veterinary Record Case Reports, EarlyView.Abstract Salmonellosis in sheep is an infrequent diagnosis, but outbreaks do occur with abortion, diarrhoea and death possible sequelae. In this case, affecting a flock of 4000 ewes, Salmonella typhimurium definitive phage type 104 was isolated from clinical cases and a variety of environmental samples taken from the farm.
Joseph W. Angell +2 more
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A community based cross sectional study on feasibility of lay interviewers in ascertaining causes of adult deaths by using verbal autopsy in rural Wardha [PDF]
, 2009 Background & objectives: 1) To study the causes of adult (15 years and above) deaths using verbal autopsy (VA) and its socio-demographic characteristics.
Deshmukh, PR +3 more
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Veterinary Record Case Reports, EarlyView.Abstract This report describes a case of refractory ionised hypercalcaemia, of 12 months duration, in an 11‐year‐old, male, neutered beagle diagnosed with metastatic histiocytic sarcoma at postmortem examination. In this case, the parathyroid hormone levels were at the lower end of the reference interval, the parathyroid hormone‐related peptide was ...
Kerry E. Rolph +5 more
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A comparative study of machine learning methods for verbal autopsy text classification [PDF]
, 2013 A Verbal Autopsy is the record of an interview about the circumstances of an uncertified death. In developing countries, if a death occurs away from health facilities, a field-worker interviews a relative of the deceased about the circumstances of the ...
Atwell, ES, Danso, SO, Johnson, O
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Cultural imperatives and the ethics of verbal autopsies in rural Ghana
Global Health Action, 2013 Due to a paucity of statistics from vital registration systems in developing countries, the verbal autopsy (VA) approach has been used to obtain cause-specific mortality data by interviewing lay respondents on the signs and symptoms experienced by the deceased prior to death. In societies where the culture of mourning is adhered to, the use of VA could
Raymond Akawire Aborigo +4 more
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Microbiology and Immunology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) causes Enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL) in approximately 1%–5% of infected cattle after a long latent period. Few biomarkers effectively distinguish non‐EBL from EBL cattle. Given the rapid turnover of tumor cells, we hypothesized that cell‐free DNA (cfDNA) in plasma could serve as a more effective biomarker for EBL ...
M. Ishrat Jahan +11 more
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Brief report. Validation study of a verbal autopsy method for causes of childhood mortality in Namibia [PDF]
, 1996 C. Mobley
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Computer-based analysis of verbal autopsies: revolution or evolution? [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2011 Scientific revolution and the clinico-pathological paradigm In this edition of Population Health Metrics, a series of papers describes new, automated methods for analyzing verbal autopsy questionnaires. Are we witnessing a revolution in the computer-based analysis of verbal autopsies?
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Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence: Sidelined or strengthened?
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates reforms to the Public Services Commission (PSC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since independence in 1975. It looks at the original role of the PSC and then the various reforms it has been subject to: in 1986, 2003, and 2013, by constitutional and legislative change, and in 2019, by court ruling.
Nematullah Bizhan, Stephen Howes
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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