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  1. Recurrent colic and unexplained weight loss despite good appetite and adequate feeding and management practices are common conditions in the horse. However, little information has been published on the systema...

    Authors: Ritva Kaikkonen, Kati Niinistö, Benjamin Sykes, Marjukka Anttila, Satu Sankari and Marja Raekallio
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:35
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  4. Studies have reported that heparin may be unsuitable as an anticoagulant in human plasma samples when quantifying cytokines using multiplex bead array assays. For mouse samples, multiplex assays have been vali...

    Authors: Anne C Teilmann, Otto Kalliokoski, Kirsten R Jacobsen, Jann Hau and Klas SP Abelson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:33
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  5. Subarachnoid cysts are rare conditions in veterinary medicine, associated with spinal cord dysfunction. Most of the 100 cases of subarachnoid cysts described since the first report in 1968 were apparently not ...

    Authors: Camille Bismuth, François-Xavier Ferrand, Mathilde Millet, Philippe Buttin, Didier Fau, Thibaut Cachon, Eric Viguier, Catherine Escriou and Claude Carozzo
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:32
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  6. Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis is a zoonotic pathogen. Human infections are associated with contaminated eggs and egg products. In Japan, since 1989, the incidence of food-borne disease caused by S. Ente...

    Authors: Ayumi Kobayashi, Sayaka Takahashi, Masaaki Ono, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Masato Kishima, Masato Akiba and Ikuo Uchida
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:31
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  7. A number of studies have attempted to quantify the relative volumes of the endocranial volume and brain parenchyma in association with the pathogenesis of the Chiari-like malformation (CLM) in the Cavalier Kin...

    Authors: Martin J Schmidt, Kerstin H Amort, Klaus Failing, Melanie Klingler, Martin Kramer and Nele Ondreka
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:30
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  8. In 2008, an outbreak of ovine footrot occurred in Norway. Dichelobacter nodosus isolates collected between 2008 and 2011 have been characterised. Isolates defined as virulent by the gelatin gel test (GG-test) wer...

    Authors: Marianne Gilhuus, Bjørg Kvitle, Trine M L’Abée-Lund, Synnøve Vatn and Hannah J Jørgensen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:29
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  11. Housing sheep in insulated, warm buildings, which is common in Norway, involves high buildings costs, but has not been reported to improve health and performance. Few studies have dealt with the association be...

    Authors: Egil Simensen, Camilla Kielland, Frøydis Hardeng and Knut E Bøe
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:26
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  12. An eleven-year-old Chinese Crested Powder Puff dog presented with polydipsia/polyuria, inappetence, diarrhea and vomiting underwent an ultrasound-guided percutaneous liver biopsy. Two days post-biopsy the clin...

    Authors: Frida Westgren, Tove Hjorth, Margareta Uhlhorn, Pernille E Etterlin and Charles J Ley
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:25
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  13. A field trial was carried out with two Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae vaccines in order to investigate the benefit of vaccination under field conditions in modern Danish pig production facilities with pigs being positi...

    Authors: Charlotte S Kristensen, Jens Vinther, Birgitta Svensmark and Poul Bækbo
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:24
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  14. The moose (Alces alces) is an intensively managed keystone species in Fennoscandia. Several aspects of reproduction in moose have not been fully elucidated, including puberty, timing of mating and oestrus, and th...

    Authors: Jonas Malmsten, Lennart Söderquist, Carl-Gustaf Thulin, Dolores Gavier Widén, Lisa Yon, Michael R Hutchings and Anne-Marie Dalin
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:23
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  15. Intensive poultry production systems depend on chemoprophylaxis with anticoccidial drugs to combat infection. A floor-pen study was conducted to evaluate the anticoccidial effect of Artemisia annua and Foeniculum...

    Authors: Liviu Drăgan, Adriana Györke, Jorge F S Ferreira, Ioan A Pop, Ioan Dunca, Maria Drăgan, Viorica Mircean, Iosif Dan and Vasile Cozma
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:22
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  16. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα), a central regulator of fatty acid catabolism, has recently been shown to be a transcriptional regulator of the gene encoding the carnitine transporter nove...

    Authors: Xiaodan Zhou, Robert Ringseis, Gaiping Wen and Klaus Eder
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:21
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  17. Outcomes of colic treatment are of great interest to clinicians, horse owners and insurers. One commonly used criterion of success is the overall short-term survival rate. This is used as to compare treatments...

    Authors: Mogens T Christophersen, Nana Dupont, Kristina S Berg-Sørensen, Christel Konnerup, Tina H Pihl and Pia H Andersen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:20
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  18. Canine herpesvirus-1 (CHV1) causes a fatal hemorrhagic disease in neonatal puppies and is associated with infertility in female dogs. This study was conducted to assess the status of CHV1 infection in bitches ...

    Authors: Anette Krogenæs, Vibeke Rootwelt, Stig Larsen, Lena Renström, Wenche Farstad and Arve Lund
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:19
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  19. The aim of the present study was to report a novel developmental abnormality in a cloned dog. A fibroblast cell line was established from an 8-year-old male German shepherd dog. In vivo matured oocytes were retri...

    Authors: Min Jung Kim, Hyun Ju Oh, Geon A Kim, Young Kwang Jo, Jin Choi, Hye Jin Kim, Hee Yeon Choi, Hyun Wook Kim, Min Cheol Choi and Byeong Chun Lee
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:18
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  20. In male cattle, rupture of the urinary bladder is usually associated with urethral obstruction by uroliths. Less common causes include urethral compression or stricture. This case report describes the findings...

    Authors: Ueli Braun, Luzia Trösch and Titus Sydler
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:17
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  25. Sled dogs performing endurance races have been reported to have a high incidence of gastric erosions or ulcerations and an increased risk of gastro intestinal bleeding leading to death in some cases. In additi...

    Authors: Anne K H Krogh, Pernille Legind, Mads Kjelgaard-Hansen, Louise Bochsen and Annemarie T Kristensen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:11
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  26. Facing numerous challenges, such as illness, storms or human disturbance, some harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) pups lose contact to their dams and are found abandoned along the North Sea coast. In Schleswig-Holstein...

    Authors: Katharina A Witte, Jörg Driver, Tanja Rosenberger, Sven Adler and Ursula Siebert
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:10
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  27. Studies outside the Nordic countries have indicated that subclinical mastitis (measured by milk somatic cell count or the California Mastitis Test), intramammary infections (IMI), or blind quarters in beef cow...

    Authors: Karin Persson Waller, Ylva Persson, Ann-Kristin Nyman and Lena Stengärde
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:9
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  28. Although the majority of equine muscles have a mixed fibre type distribution indicative of diverse functional roles, the predominance of a fibre type can indicate the primary function of a muscle. The deep epa...

    Authors: Heli K Hyytiäinen, Anna K Mykkänen, Anna K Hielm-Björkman, Narelle C Stubbs and Catherine M McGowan
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:8
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  29. This study investigates Salmonella spp. isolated from privately kept reptiles and from environmental samples such as bedding materials or water from the floor of the enclosures (terraria). It also compares isolat...

    Authors: Veronica O Wikström, Lise-Lotte Fernström, Lennart Melin and Sofia Boqvist
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:7
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  30. Dirofilaria repens infection was diagnosed in a dog that had been imported to Norway from Hungary three years previously. The dog was a four-year-old castrated male mixed-breed dog and presented for examination o...

    Authors: Bente K Sævik, Einar Jörundsson, Teresa Stachurska-Hagen, Kristoffer Tysnes, Hege Brun-Hansen, Henriette C Wikström and Lucy J Robertson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:6
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  31. Rapid body fat mobilization, obesity, and an inadequate supply of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) have been suggested to play roles in the etiology of fatty liver in the American mink (Neovison vison). Thi...

    Authors: Morag F Dick, Jennifer Hurford, Sha Lei, Anne-Mari Mustonen, Petteri Nieminen and Kirsti Rouvinen-Watt
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:5
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  32. This paper describes the isolation and characterization of pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAG) from fetal cotyledonary tissue (FCT) and maternal caruncular tissue (MCT) collected from fallow deer (Dama dama)...

    Authors: Mathilde Bériot, Aline Flora Tchimbou, Olimpia Barbato, Jean-François Beckers and Noelita M de Sousa
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:4
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  33. Arthroscopy is widely used in various equine joints for diagnostic and surgical purposes. However, accuracy of defining the extent of cartilage lesions and reproducibility in grading of lesions are not optimal...

    Authors: Tytti Niemelä, Tuomas Virén, Jukka Liukkonen, David Argüelles, Nikae C R te Moller, Pia H Puhakka, Jukka S Jurvelin, Riitta-Mari Tulamo and Juha Töyräs
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:3
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  34. Staphylococcus aureus is an important cause of clinical mastitis in dairy cows worldwide. The cure rate after antimicrobial treatment of clinical S. aureus mastitis is very variable due to both cow and bacterial ...

    Authors: Åsa Lundberg, Anna Aspán, Ann Nyman, Helle Ericsson Unnerstad and Karin Persson Waller
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:2
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  35. Tumors of the skin and subcutaneous tissue are the largest group of canine neoplasms. Total excision is still the most effective method for treatment of these skin tumors. For its universal properties the carb...

    Authors: Joanna Paczuska, Zdzisław Kiełbowicz, Marcin Nowak, Agnieszka Antończyk, Rafał Ciaputa and Jakub Nicpoń
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2014 56:1
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  36. A cross-sectional study was carried out in four districts of the Afar region in Ethiopia to determine the prevalence of brucellosis in camels, and to identify risky practices that would facilitate the transmis...

    Authors: Wesinew Adugna Bekele, Tesfaye Sisay Tessema and Simenew Keskes Melaku
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:89
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  37. We describe coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) isolates collected from ducklings exhibiting tremor in South Korea over the period of 2010 to 2011. Screening of antimicrobial susceptibility and analysis of...

    Authors: Jee Eun Han, Sun Young Hwang, Ji Hyung Kim, Sang Phil Shin, Jin Woo Jun, Ji Young Chai, Yong Ho Park and Se Chang Park
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:88
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  38. Campylobacteriosis is a zoonotic disease, and animals such as poultry, pigs and cattle may act as reservoirs for Campylobacter spp. Cattle shed Campylobacter spp. into the environment and they can act as a reserv...

    Authors: Sigita Ramonaitė, Anita Rokaitytė, Eglė Tamulevičienė, Alvydas Malakauskas, Thomas Alter and Mindaugas Malakauskas
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:87
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  39. Aleutian disease in mink is caused by infection with Aleutian mink disease virus (AMDV). In Sweden, the infection most commonly causes classical Aleutian disease in which the immune system fails to neutralize ...

    Authors: Anna-Maria Andersson and Per Wallgren
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:86
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  40. It was recently shown that niacin supplementation counteracts the obesity-induced muscle fiber transition from oxidative type I to glycolytic type II and increases the number of type I fibers in skeletal muscl...

    Authors: Muckta Khan, Aline Couturier, Johanna F Kubens, Erika Most, Frank-Christoph Mooren, Karsten Krüger, Robert Ringseis and Klaus Eder
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:85
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  41. Avian influenza virus (AIV) subtypes H5 and H7 attracts particular attention because of the risk of their potential pathogenicity in poultry. The haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test is widely used as subtyp...

    Authors: Trine H Jensen, Gitte Ajjouri, Kurt J Handberg, Marek J Slomka, Vivien J Coward, Martine Cherbonnel, Véronique Jestin, Peter Lind and Poul H Jørgensen
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:84
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  42. Despite being the most commonly used mammal in biomedical research, problems with perinatal mortality in mice have received little attention and the causes of pup death are still poorly known. Females are ofte...

    Authors: Elin M Weber, Bo Algers, Jan Hultgren and I Anna S Olsson
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:83
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  43. This study was performed to demonstrate the widespread distribution and severity of selenium (Se) deficiency in sheep flocks and to evaluate the impact of influencing factors. In 150 flocks, ten serum samples ...

    Authors: Esther Humann-Ziehank, Philip C Tegtmeyer, Bjoern Seelig, Petra Roehrig and Martin Ganter
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:82
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  44. Osteoporosis and its main health outcome, fragility fractures, are large and escalating health problems. Skeletal damage may be the critical result of low-level prolonged exposure to several xenobiotics in the...

    Authors: Monika Martiniaková, Ivana Boboňová, Radoslav Omelka, Birgit Grosskopf, Hana Chovancová, Jana Španková and Róbert Toman
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:81
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  45. The aim was to identify risk factors associated with Coxiella burnetii antibody positivity in bulk tank milk (BTM) samples from 100 randomly selected Danish dairy cattle herds. Antibody levels were measured by an...

    Authors: Jens Frederik Agger, Suman Paul, Anna-Bodil Christoffersen and Jørgen Steen Agerholm
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:80
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  46. In recent years, the euthanasia of seals has been discussed internationally and concern has been raised regarding the use of rifles, the effect of different calibres, and which calibres are sufficient for huma...

    Authors: Torsten Mörner, Jonas Malmsten, Karin Bernodt and Sven-Gunnar Lunneryd
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:79
    Content type: Brief communication Published on:

  47. Streptococcus iniae is a Gram-positive bacterium and a severe pathogen of a wide range of farmed fish. S. iniae possesses a virulence-associated streptolysin S cluster composed of several components, one of which...

    Authors: Yun Sun, Li Sun, Ming-qing Xing, Chun-sheng Liu and Yong-hua Hu
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:78
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  48. In a stable of eight horses in Northern Iceland, six horses presented with clinical signs, such as ataxia and reduced appetite, leading to euthanasia of one severely affected horse. Serological investigations ...

    Authors: Sigríður Björnsdóttir, Elfa Agustsdóttir, Anne-Lie Blomström, Inga-Lena Örde Öström, Louise Treiberg Berndtsson, Vilhjálmur Svansson and Jonas Johansson Wensman
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:77
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  49. Sepsis caused by Staphylococcus aureus often leads to brain microabscesses in humans. Animal models of haematogenous brain abscesses would be useful to study this condition in detail. Recently, we developed a mod...

    Authors: Lærke B Astrup, Mette V Nielsen, Tine M Iburg, Páll S Leifsson, Henrik E Jensen, Ole L Nielsen and Jørgen S Agerholm
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:76
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  50. Tail biting is a common welfare problem in pig production and in addition to being a sign of underlying welfare problems, tail biting reduces welfare in itself. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect...

    Authors: Anna Valros, Camilla Munsterhjelm, Eero Puolanne, Marita Ruusunen, Mari Heinonen, Olli A T Peltoniemi and A Reeta Pösö
    Citation: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2013 55:75
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