It seems I am fighting a two-front war, besieged by three superb scholars. Professors Robert Delahunty and John Yoo,1 and Professor Michael Ramsey2 have authored bracing and challenging responses to Unleashing the Dogs of War (Unleashing).3 Though I have learned from these essays, their authors might say that I have not learned enough because I continue to adhere to the categorical theory’s cla...

BACKGROUND Cystic hydatid disease (CHD) is a global parasitic zoonosis caused by the dog tapeworm, Echinococcus granulosus. The disease is hyperendemic in western China because of poor economic development; limited community knowledge of CHD; widespread, small-scale household animal production; home killing of livestock; and the feeding of dogs with uncooked offal. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDI...

In lieu of an abstract: Located in the Istanbul Research Institute Library archives, this original autographed document is a typewritten letter from Nazım Kıbrızlı, president Turkish Society for Protection Animals (Türkiye Hayvanları Koruma Cemiyeti) throughout 1940s.1 It reader’s directly addressed to Fikret Adil (1901–1973), prominent figure Istanbul’s cultural milieu early republican period ...

Hidenori Yamada, DDS, PhD (1), Ayako Okada, DDS, PhD (1), Takatoshi Murata, DDS, PhD (1), Kimiyuki Uetani, DDS (2), Mami Kotoh, DDS, PhD (2), Naoyuki Nishitsuji, DDS (2), Yoshihide Yabuki, DDS (2), Yoichi Fukuzawa, DDS, PhD (2), Hirokazu Yoshino, DDS (2), Koshi Kubo, DDS (2), Mitsuhiro Abe, DDS, PhD (2), Takatoshi One, DDS, PhD (2), Hiroaki Nagai, DDS, PhD (2), Masataka Yajima, DDS (2), Yoshiak...

the paper contains the first report on the biology of snail-killing flies (sciomyzidae) in khuzestan. it is based on field and laboratory studies conducted during november 1971 and april 1973, as well as field observations in may 1972, at the dezful medical research station. additional biological information obtained during studies is given for pherbellia fuscipes (macaquart), p.grisescens (mei...

Detection of borreliacidal antibodies is an accurate serodiagnostic test for confirmation of Lyme disease in humans. In this study, 13 pathogen-free beagles, 12 to 26 weeks old, were infected with Borrelia burgdorferi by tick challenge. Dogs were monitored for clinical signs and symptoms of Lyme disease along with borreliacidal antibody production against B. burgdorferi sensu stricto isolates 2...

In December 2000, an infectious disease spread through a captive breeding group of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Tanzania, killing 49 of 52 animals within 2 months. The causative agent was identified as Canine distemper virus (CDV) by means of histologic examination, virus isolation, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analysis, and nucleotide sequencing. This report emphasiz...