An Over View of Feline Dermatophytosis

Feline dermatophytosis

Practical relevance: Dermatophytosis (ringworm) is the most important infectious and contagious skin disease of cats in shelters. Its importance relates to the fact that it can affect all cats, but tends to affect those which would otherwise have good chances for adoption. Although many diseases in shelters fit this description, dermatophytosis is of particular significance because of associate...

Treatment of Feline Dermatophytosis with an Inactivated Fungal Vaccine

The efficacy of an inactivated vaccine for the treatment of feline dermatophytosis was investigated in a placebo-controlled-double-blind multi-centre GCP study in Europe. Fifty-five client-owned cats with dermatophytosis caused by Trichophyton mentagrophytes or Microsporum canis, confirmed by fungal culture, were treated with either three intramuscular injections of vaccine or placebo. Treatmen...

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An Epidemiological Study of Human Dermatophytosis in Karaj (2001)

One of the problems of public health in Iran is mycotic inflection which its incidence is not known. The most important disease of them is dermatophytosis. In this regard, determination of various species of etiologic agent, infection source, the risk of contact to animals, and public training are necessary to perform epidemiologic studies. In this research 750 suspected samples (including 560 ...

An Apophatic View of God and Creation

The English Dominican Herbert McCabe highlighted some ideas of Thomas Aquinas on the knowability of God and on creation, which can usefully challenge some widespread commonplaces. The purposes of this article are two: to present McCabe’s sophisticated doctrine on the knowability of God and on creation in a systematic way, and to put this doctrine into its historical context. In the scattered an...