BACKGROUND Depot antipsychotics are widely used in clinical practice. Long-acting formulations of second-generation antipsychotics are now being developed and introduced. AIMS To review the pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and adverse effect profiles of currently available antipsychotic long-acting injections (LAIs). METHOD The psychopharmacological properties of first- and second-generation ...

BACKGROUND Enteric outbreaks associated with child care centres (CCC) have been well documented internationally and in Canada. The current literature focuses on identifying potential risk factors for introduction and transmission of enteric disease, but does not examine why these risk factors happen, how the risk is understood and managed by the staff of CCCs, or what challenges they experience...

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Diminazene remains one of South Africa's most commonly used antiprotozoal agents for the management of babesiosis in dogs. Although the drug has been on the market for over 40 years, its intravenous pharmacokinetics are poorly known. To better understand the pharmacokinetics of the drug Berenil, it was reconstituted in sterile water and administered intravenously to 6 adult German shepherd dogs...

BACKGROUND Beneficial effects of probiotics have never been analyzed in an animal shelter. HYPOTHESIS Dogs and cats housed in an animal shelter and administered a probiotic are less likely to have diarrhea of ≥2 days duration than untreated controls. ANIMALS Two hundred and seventeen cats and 182 dogs. METHODS Double blinded and placebo controlled. Shelter dogs and cats were housed in 2 s...

This paper describes an evaluation of process modelling where the same distributed conference organizing process was modelled in three different process centred environments (PCEs) Endeavors, ProcessWeb, and our own CAGIS PCE. Endeavors is an activity based, flexible workflow system, ProcessWeb is a rolebased workflow system with a web-interface, whereas the CAGIS PCE combines an activity based...