260 Ann Dermatol Received March 13, 2013, Revised April 11, 2013, Accepted for publication April 19, 2013 *These authors equally contributed as first authors. Corresponding author: Ken Igawa, Department of Dermatology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan. Tel: 81-6-6879-3031, Fax: 86-6879-3039, E-mail: [email protected] This...

__________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Saanen milk goats were crossed with South African Indigenous goats to evaluate productivity, milk production and disease incidence, and to assess their suitability for milk production by small-scale farmers and households in developing areas. Goat kids were separated from their mothers at one wee...

We describe a case of pustular dermatitis in a 15-year-old girl who had just returned from horseback riding camp. Based on gram staining, colony characteristics, biochemical reactions, and whole-cell fatty acid analysis, the causative agent was identified as Dermatophilus congolensis. The literature contains few reports of human infection with this organism.

The closer the countries of the world grow together, the more sharply do some national characteristics seem to be thrown into profile. Medicine has become internationalized more rapidly than has law; but on the medico-legal borderland we cling oh so firmly to, our particular concepts as to the standards we proclaim and the way in which we seek to maintain them, the mere European who finds himse...

This paper shows that in an open economy a banking system with close bank-firm relationships may be easily subject to contagious banking crises, because it is difficult to distinguish between “crony capitalism” and main bank relationships. There is cronyism if banks renew loans to insolvent projects and, as a consequence, accumulate losses. On the other hand, banks could be only temporarily ill...

Orf virus is the prototype parapoxvirus that causes the contagious skin disease orf. It encodes an orthologue of the cytokine interleukin (IL)-10. Recombinant orf viruses were constructed in which the viral interleukin-10 (vorfIL-10) was disabled (vorfIL-10ko) and reinserted (vorfrevIL-10) at the same locus and compared to wild-type virus for their ability to induce skin lesions in sheep. After...

Sheep and cattle parapoxviruses cause in human beings diseases of very similar aspect, named orf and milker’s nodules, respectively. These infections are generically called farmyard pox. In the present article, we show the epidemiological, clinical, and histopathological aspects, as well as the treatment of these two viral diseases that are very similar, being differentiated only by their epide...