A survey of vaccine history in German cats and owners’ attitudes to vaccination

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Claire Gehrig ◽  
Katrin Hartmann ◽  
Felix Günther ◽  
André Klima ◽  
Gabriele Habacher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Vaccination Status ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vaccination Recommendations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Current Guidelines

Objectives Vaccination is the most important measure for prevention of feline infectious diseases. Cat owner compliance with vaccination recommendations has been investigated in the UK but not in other European countries. The aim of the present study was to determine cat owners’ attitudes towards vaccination in cats in Germany, to identify factors that are associated with the vaccination status of their cats and to compare the results with those of the UK survey. Methods The survey was conducted using an online questionnaire and was aimed at respondents throughout Germany. Respondents under 16 years of age, cats that were less than 9 weeks old and veterinarians were excluded. A total of 920 questionnaires were evaluated, and information about cats and respondents was assessed with respect to the current vaccination status of the cats using a linear logistic regression model. Results The majority of cats (77.9%; n = 717) were vaccinated according to current guidelines; only 5.4% (n = 50; 95% confidence interval [CI] 5.00–9.00) of cats had never received a vaccine. Having visited a cattery, a cat show or travelled abroad in the past 12 months (n = 96/773; odds ratio [OR] 6.95; 95% CI 1.65–52.19) had the highest positive impact on the vaccination status of cats. In addition, detailed veterinary advice about vaccination had a positive impact (n = 275/773; OR 2.09; 95% CI 0.67–6.25) on the attitude of owners towards vaccinating their cats. Conclusions and relevance A history of travelling abroad or visiting cat shows or a cattery, and thus regulatory requirements, had the greatest positive impact on the current vaccination status of the cats. Veterinary consultation on preventive measures, including vaccination, is crucial for protecting the cat population against infectious diseases.

scholarly journals Dermoscopy revealing a case of Tinea Nigra*

2013 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Ricardo Criado ◽  
Lívia Delgado ◽  
Gustavo Alonso Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Glabrous Skin ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Brown Patch ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tinea Nigra ◽  
Skin Conditions

Dermoscopy has being used over the past twenty years as a noninvasive aid in the diagnosis of innumerable skin conditions, including infectious diseases and infestations (Entodermoscopy).Tinea nigra is a superficial phaeohyfomycosis that affects mainly the glabrous skin of palms and soles. We describe a 14 year-old girl with a three-month history of an enlarging brown patch of her hand diagnosed as Tinea Nigra following clinical and dermoscopy examination.These images emphasize the importance of dermoscopy as a diagnostic tool in the daily routine of dermatologists.

scholarly journals Psychocapital and Shangri-Las: How happiness became both a means and end to governmentality

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Mckay
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
The Past ◽  
Means And Ends ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Politics Of Happiness

In this paper a paradox is revealed in the politics of well-being over the means and ends of happiness. That paradox, in brief, is that although happiness is argued to be the ultimate end of all governmentality, in order to serve as that end, it first needs to be translated into a means for bolstering the economy, for only that way can a teleology of happiness gain a foothold in a world which prioritizes economic growth as an end in itself. To show this the paper gives a history of subjective well-being (SWB) research, and contrasts it with the politics of happiness in the UK, where SWB has in the past decade been translated into a discourse around the psychological wealth of the nation via the concepts of mental capital (MC) and mental well-being (MWB).

scholarly journals Does consultancy research have a future?

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (100) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
David Streatfield
Keyword(s):  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Diagnostic Skills ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

This article reviews the history of consultancy research in the UK over the past thirty years, identifying rapid growth in the number of participants and a shift towards policy-driven commissioning. Some likely changes in LIS policy and practice and in the concomitant consultancy research are identified. These changes in turn suggest some evolution in consultancy research, which is likely to become more complex and strategic, with increased organisational divergence and convergence in different areas, more flexible research contracts, more international, focus, and addressing more difficult research issues. These changes are likely to call for better inter-personal and diagnostic skills, more expertise and constant updating in a range of disciplines, stronger social science research skills, training and professional development skills and expertise and enhanced impact evaluation skills and expertise. There appears to be little future for small independent consultancies but scope for collaboration with other researcher groups.

scholarly journals Innovative Approach to Solving Theoretical Issues of the Ecological and Epidemiological Concept of Sapronoses

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
A. B. Belov
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theoretical Issues

The history of the study of infections attributed by the microbiologist and epidemiologist V.I. Tersky in 1958 as the class of human infectious diseases – «Sapronoses» is presented. Over the past 60 years in the world and especially in Russian science the knowledge that allows us to complete the development of an ecological and epidemiological theory of sapronoses infections was accumulated. This knowledge should be extended to the whole complex of biomedical sciences associated with the population pathology of biota. To solve the controversial and complex issues of the theory, terminology and classifications of population infectology, it is necessary to integrate the knowledge of specialists in various fields of research and practice in the medicine, veterinary medicine, parasitology, phytopathology and other disciplines. The ways and prospects of improving the general theory of infectology in the light of new approaches to understanding the essence of sapronoses are discussed. 

scholarly journals Research Subjects about the Comparison of British and Japanese Scholarship of Islam

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Alimu Tuoheti
Keyword(s):  
Practical Significance ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Current Standard ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

All around the world, how we interpret the Islamic world objectively and accurately is an important topic for concerned scholars all over the world. Britain has a history of Islamic Studies for more than 400 years, and the current standard and research paradigm of Islamic Studies in the UK deserves our attention. It is of great practical significance for us to thoroughly and systematically understand the contemporary Islamic world in this special historical stage of great turbulence, great differentiation, and great change, and then comprehensively grasp the regional issues of Islam and build a discourse system of Islamic research with modern characteristics. In the past 30 years, Japanese academic circles have not been able to keep abreast of the development of Islamic Studies in the UK, let alone go deep into the frontier field of cultural communication. Based on this, through literature analysis and field visits, this Project intends to overview of the current situation of Islamic Studies in Britain and Japan, focusing on the two main paradigms of its cultural studies, and then to explore the how these academic efforts can benefit and impact the discourse construction of Islamic Studies in Japan and UK.

scholarly journals Psychiatry past and present: do we need history?

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
Claire Hilton
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Clinical History ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Methodology ◽  
Service Policy ◽  
The Uk

Historical evidence can be useful to inform debate about current dilemmas in health service policy. However, concepts of historical analysis may be problematic for doctors, for whom a model of ‘history’ is often based on clinical history-taking: a clinical history aims to explain the present, whereas a historical analysis aims to elucidate the past. This article discusses and illustrates these concepts, and highlights potential pitfalls of poor historical methodology. It also provides pointers about researching the history of psychiatry in the UK and how to contribute historical evidence to health service policy debates today.Declaration of interestNone.

Scapa Flow and the protection and management of Scotland's historic military shipwrecks

Antiquity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (293) ◽  
pp. 862-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Oxley
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Shipping Traffic ◽  
Archaeological Areas ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
The Uk

IntroductionIn the past Britain has been a global naval, mercantile and industrial power and, as an island which has benefited from successive waves of settlement, its history is inextricably linked to its surrounding seas (Lavery 2001). High volumes of shipping traffic and a long history of seafaring and warfare have contributed to a density of shipwreck remains in UK territorial waters which is likely to be amongst the highest in the world.Recently warship wrecks have been given a significantly higher degree of attention in the UK and world-wide, and the recent ‘scheduling’ of the German High Seas Fleet wrecks under the terms of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 2979 (AMAA 1979) has led to new challenges in heritage management. At the same time as we are becoming aware of the value of these resources, the administrative, legislative, environmental and social frameworks in which they have to be managed are changing rapidly.

scholarly journals Precision Medicine and Precision Public Health in the Era of Pathogen Next-Generation Sequencing

2019 ◽  
Vol 221 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. S289-S291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Leguia ◽  
Anton Vila-Sanjurjo ◽  
Patrick S G Chain ◽  
Irina Maljkovic Berry ◽  
Richard G Jarman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Next Generation Sequencing ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Infectious Disease Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Next Generation Sequencing Ngs ◽  
Generation Sequencing ◽  
Health Applications

Abstract This brief report serves as an introduction to a supplement of the Journal of Infectious Diseases entitled “Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technologies to Advance Global Infectious Disease Research.” We briefly discuss the history of NGS technologies and describe how the techniques developed during the past 40 years have impacted our understanding of infectious diseases. Our focus is on the application of NGS in the context of pathogen genomics. Beyond obvious clinical and public health applications, we also discuss the challenges that still remain within this rapidly evolving field.

scholarly journals Prevalence of postural musculoskeletal symptoms among dental students in United Arab Emirates. 

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghad Hashim ◽  
Afraa Salah ◽  
Fatemeh Mayahi ◽  
Saeedeh Haidary
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Musculoskeletal Symptoms ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Body Site ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

Abstract BackgroundThe main purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of neck, shoulder, and low-back pains and to explore factors associated with musculoskeletal pain (MSP) among dental students at Ajman University and Ras Al Khaimah College of Dental Sciences in United Arab Emirates (UAE). Method This cross-sectional study was conducted among dental students using an online questionnaire; which was a modified version of the Standardized Nordic questionnaire, focused on neck, shoulder and low-back pain in the past week and the past year. Results Two hundred and two students responded to the questionnaire out of 368. The prevalence of MSP in at least one body site in the past week, and in the past year was 48.5% and 68.3% respectively. Factors significantly associated with MSP in at least one body site at any time were having history of trauma (P = 0.009), lack of exercise (P = 0.001), being in the clinic for longer time (P = 0.000), and higher BMI (P = 0.010). Conclusion MSP among dental students in the UAE is high. Careful attention is required by the dental colleges to increase students’ awareness towards this problem. This study contributed to better understanding of MSP among dental professionals.

scholarly journals COVID-19: One year together

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
A. N. Lukashev
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Respiratory Infection ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
One Year

The pandemic of COVID-19, a novel respiratory infection, has become one of the most significant events in the history of infectious diseases over the past 100 years. The article reviews the main stages in the development of a pandemic and the fight against it, the most appealing issued faced by medical science, the successes and mistakes of healthcare systems and researchers, the current state of the problem and the nearest prospects.

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