Veterinarians and pet owners have limited ability to assess pruritic behaviors in dogs. This pilot study assessed the capacity of the Vetrax® triaxial accelerometer to measure these behaviors in six dogs with pruritus likely due to environmental allergens. Dogs wore the activity monitor for two weeks while consuming their usual pet food (baseline), then for eight weeks while consuming a veterin...

Large-animal emergency and critical care has evolved as an emergency specialty in veterinary medicine over the last 10–15 yr, and many referral hospitals now employ clinicians with dual training in emergency/critical care and an allied specialty (medicine, surgery, or anesthesia). Practically speaking, it is the critical-care clinician’s job to synthesize advancements from the associated specia...

This is a real problem affecting the accompanying animals. Especially that the occurrence of the phenomenon of satisation (co-sensitization) and consequently cross-reactions to allergens has been described. Individuals with food allergies must receive food allergen-free and allergic to allergies. Hypoallergenic food for dogs with food allergy may be prepared or prepared at home. It is important...

How can one successfully combine working in the clinic with heading a research lab? I am a veterinarian but had lost interest in being a clinical practitioner. Instead, I started to work as a field epidemiologist to clarify the causative agents and routes of foodborne infectious diseases in Osaka City, Japan from 1985 to 1999. Consequently, my research targets always appeared through the invest...

Approach Data were gathered during direct observation of consultations at eight practices. Clinical examinations were categorised as full, focused or ‘none’. Abnormalities detected by the veterinarian on clinical examination were also recorded, as was whether the patient was weighed. Data were also gathered on patient signalment, type of consultation and the number of problems discussed per pat...

Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is a primary bacterial pathogen causing swine respiratory disease and has been described in most major swine-producing regions of the world. Preliminary diagnosis of A. pleuropneumoniae is based on clinical signs and gross pneumonic lesions. Isolating and identifying the causative bacteria confirms the diagnosis. Twelve serotypes of A. pleuropneumoniae and a numb...

The authors describe a method for assessing and characterizing effect heterogeneity related to a matching covariate in case-control studies, using an example from veterinary medicine. Data are from a case-control study conducted in Texas during 1997-1998 of 498 pairs of horses with colic and their controls. Horses were matched by veterinarian and by month of examination. The number of matched p...

Pharyngeal trauma in cattle can occur during the administration of oral medication using a balling gun. The number of cases of severe complications due to bolus application that have been referred to our hospital has increased from nil between 1996 and 2008 to three or four per year. In our experience, reports by bovine veterinarians of patients with severe and often fatal pharyngeal trauma, wh...