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Suma Uday; Sunia Naseem; Jamie Large; Russell Denmeade; Philippa Goddard; Mary Anne Preece; Rachel Dunn; William Fraser; Jonathan C.Y. Tang; Wolfgang Högler
25-hydroxyergocalciferol; Asians; Blacks; Whites; birth weight; blood plasma; children at risk; congenital abnormalities; gestational age; health programs; hematologic tests; liquid chromatography; minorities (people); mothers; neonates; prenatal care; prenatal development; regression analysis; seasonal variation; summer; tandem mass spectrometry; vitamin D deficiency; vitamin supplements; winter; England
Abstract:
... To determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency on dried blood spots (DBS) obtained at newborn blood spot screening (NBS) and thereby test the efficacy of the UK national antenatal supplementation programme in an increasingly ethnically diverse English population. To evaluate the seasonal and ethnic variation in neonatal plasma 25 hydoxyvitamin D (25OHD) and its determinants.Three thousand ran ...
... BACKGROUND: Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is a midge borne virus of cattle and sheep. Infection is typically asymptomatic in adult sheep but fetal infection during pregnancy can result in abortion, stillbirth, neurological disorders and malformations of variable severity in newborn animals. It was first identified in Germany and the Netherlands in 2011 and then circulated throughout Europe in 2012 and ...
bitches; breeding; cats; heart rate; medicine; neonates; ovulation; parturition; pets; prediction; pregnancy; radiography; radiology; small animal practice; surgery; ultrasonography; England
Abstract:
... Accurate prediction of delivery date in canine and feline allows a better management of parturition, reducing the loss of neonates. This review evaluates the most common methods adopted to accurately predict the day of delivery: determination of ovulation and hormonal assays, first appearance of embryonic/foetal structures using ultrasound or radiography, echographic measurement of extra‐foetal an ...
... The emergence of wildlife reservoirs of Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle as well as increased inter-regional trade with associated spread of M. bovis has led to renewed interest in the use of vaccines for the control of bovine tuberculosis (TB). Field efficacy trials performed in the early 20th century demonstrated the partial effectiveness of bacilli Calmette–Guerin (BCG) for the control o ...
epidemiological studies; disease detection; antigen detection; histopathology; antibody formation; serodiagnosis; signs and symptoms (animals and humans); validity; pathogenesis; neonates; Porcine circovirus; weight loss; piglets; postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome; England
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... Our hypothesis was that pigs that develop post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) are detectable from an early age with signs of weight loss and other clinical and serological abnormalities. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the temporally varying and fixed events linked with the clinical incidence of PMWS by comparing affected and unaffected pigs in a cohort of ...
... A cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the prevalence and risk factors for Cryptosporidium infection in young calves. Forty-one farms in a discrete, densely farmed 100km² area of North West England were visited over a 3-week period and 215 faecal samples were collected from young calves. Farms were not selected on the basis of existing scour problems. At the time of sampling, several ...
... In conjunction with establishing colonies of deer mice in the UK, effects of transportation on reproduction in agouti (A) and nonagouti (a) deer mice were assessed. Adults were shipped via ground courier and air freight from Northampton, Massachusetts, USA to Sutton Bonington, Leicestershire, England in February and June. Deer mice were paired upon arrival in Sutton Bonington, whereas matched cont ...