Buchmann, Kurt Kania, Per Walter
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
Exotic and ornamental fish are highly popular companion animals resulting in a significant transcontinental trade of fish, invertebrates and aquatic plants. A major issue is the diseases associated with these organisms, as they have a major impact on health of the fish in both public and private household aquaria. A secondary issue is the trade wit...
Agerholm, Jørgen Steen Christoffersen, Mette Secher, Jan Boysen-Møller Normann, Annika Pedersen, Hanne Gervi
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
Professor Gerhard Sand (1861-1921) was the first professor of veterinary obstetrics at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark. He began teaching the theory and practice of obstetrics to veterinary students in 1887 and spent the following years until his death in 1921 developing the veterinary obstetrics teaching progr...
Bundgaard Kjellingbro, Kristine Naranjo Freixa, Carolina Hjorth Mikkelsen, Lauge Heegaard, Steffen
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
Nonpigmented malignant spindle cell tumours of the membrana nictitans are rare in dogs. In twenty-three years only three cases have been diagnosed in Scandinavia. This study describes the three cases of malignant tumours of the membrana nictitans recorded by the Eye Pathology Section, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with reference to the clinica...
Naeverdal, Terese Vatne Midtgård, Janne Eidissen Llarena, Ann-Katrin Ziener, Martine Lund
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
Urinary tract problems are a common complaint in small animal medicine and urolithiasis is considered to be an important cause of urinary tract disease in dogs. In this study the main aim was to investigate whether the occurrence of cystine urolithiasis increased during a five-year period. A second aim was to evaluate possible risk-factors as breed...
Reunanen, Vilma Liisa Jerosa Jokinen, Tarja Susanna Hytönen, Marjo Kristiina Junnila, Jouni Juho Tapio Lappalainen, Anu Katriina
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
Dachshunds have a high prevalence of intervertebral disc disease (IVDD) to which they are predisposed due to early intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration and calcification. Moreover, the recently found 12-FGF4 retrogene (RG) is associated with calcified discs visible on radiographs (CDVR) and IVDD. Earlier studies suggest that all IVDs of one-year-...
Smistad, Marit Bakka, Haakon Christopher Sølverød, Liv Jørgensen, Hannah Joan Wolff, Cecilia
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
Identification of aetiological agents of mastitis in dairy cattle is important for herd management of udder health. In Norway, results from mastitis diagnostics are systematically recorded in a central database, so that the dairy industry can follow trends in the recorded frequency of udder pathogens and antimicrobial resistance patterns at nationa...
Almqvist, Viktor Berg, Charlotte Kautto, Arja Helena Hultgren, Jan
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
Official meat inspections at small-scale slaughterhouses and game-handling establishments in geographically remote areas place a heavy burden on the meat-producing food business operators. By performing meat inspections remotely using live-streamed video, instead of on-site, the official control could meet the goals of sustainability, resilience an...
Tryland, Morten Cunha, Cristina Wetzel Fuchs, Boris Breines, Eva Marie Li, Hong Jokelainen, Pikka Laaksonen, Sauli
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
Reindeer herding and husbandry is a traditional and important livelihood in Fennoscandia, and about 200,000 semi-domesticated reindeer are herded in Finland. Climatic changes, leading to ice-locked winter pastures, and encroachment of pasture-land have led to changes in reindeer husbandry, increasing the extent of supplementary or full ration feedi...
Gmyterco, Vanessa Cunningham Jagielski, Tomasz Baldasso, Gustavo Bacher, Louise Helene Ribeiro, Márcio Garcia de Farias, Marconi Rodrigues
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
Protothecosis is a rare infectious disease caused by unicellular, achlorophyllous, microalgae of the genus Prototheca, ubiquitously distributed in nature. The algae are emerging pathogens, whose incidence is increasing in both human and animal populations and serious systemic infections related to this pathogen have been increasingly described in h...
Limmer, Stefanie Nerschbach, Verena Eberle, Nina Teske, Erik Simon Betz, Daniela
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Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
High-grade lymphoma in dogs is a chemotherapy-responsive neoplasia with remission rates exceeding 80% under combination chemotherapy protocols. Usually these protocols are intensive and 24 + weeks. The objective of the present study was to investigate if a shorter protocol combined with an oral lomustine maintenance treatment (3 × in 8 weeks) would...
