OBJECTIVE To describe signalment, clinical findings, diagnostic tests, and results of treatment of dogs and cats with ovarian remnant syndrome (ORS). DESIGN Retrospective case series. ANIMALS 19 dogs and 2 cats with ORS. PROCEDURES Medical records for animals examined between June 2000 and October 2007 were reviewed for signalment, clinical signs, age at time of ovariohysterectomy (OHE), ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of successful treatment for Bartonella spp, Mycoplasma hemofelis or Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum infection of cats on results of diagnostic test results commonly available to veterinary practitioners through commercial diagnostic laboratories. Evidence of infection or exposure to Bartonella spp, M hemofelis or Candidatus M. haemominutum...

Fifty-six cats with naturally occurring Babesia felis infection were studied. No breed or sex predilection could be identified, but there was an apparent predilection for young adult cats less than 3 years of age. Macrocytic, hypochromic, regenerative anaemia was present in 57% of the cats and in-saline agglutination tests were positive in 16%. No characteristic changes were observed in total o...

A low-carbohydrate, high-protein (LCHP) diet is often recommended for the prevention and management of diabetes in cats; however, the effect of macronutrient composition on insulin sensitivity and energetic efficiency for weight gain is not known. The present study compared the effect in adult cats (n 32) of feeding a LCHP (23 and 47 % metabolisable energy (ME)) and a high-carbohydrate, low-pro...

DOCUMENT RESUME TM 028 873 Glas, Cees A. W.; Meijer, Rob R.; van Krimpen-Stoop, Edith M. L. A. Statistical Tests for Person Misfit in Computerized Adaptive Testing. Research Report 98-01. Twente Univ., Enschede (Netherlands). Faculty of Educational Science and Technology. 1998-00-00 28p. Faculty of Educational Science and Technology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Net...

AIM The aims of the study were to: (1) build new item banks for a revised version of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) with four content domains: daily activities, mobility, social/cognitive, and responsibility; and (2) use post-hoc simulations based on the combined normative and disability calibration samples to assess the accuracy and precision of the PEDI computer-adapt...

Item banks are typically constructed from responses to items that are presented in one fixed order; therefore, order effects between subsequent items may violate the independence assumption. We investigated the effect of item order on item bank construction, item calibration, and ability estimation. 15 polytomous items similar to items used in a pilot version of a computer adaptive test for anx...

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic parasite causing infection in humans and a wide range of mammals, with cats being the final and only host that excrete T. gondii-resistant oocysts to the environment. This study was designed to investigate the seroprevalence of antibodies to T. gondii in cats sold at Live Animal Markets (LAMs) in Ibadan, Osogbo and Offa, Southwestern Nigeria. Blood samples were r...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the bacterial species recovered from 61 cats with lower urinary tract infection (LUTI), and their susceptibility to cefovecin in vitro. RESULTS The clinical signs and final clinical diagnosis for cats with confirmed LUTI were also reported. After physical examination of the cats, urine samples including ≥5-6 leucocytes in microscopic evaluatio...

Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) are retroviruses with global impact on the health of domestic cats. The two viruses differ in their potential to cause disease. FeLV is more pathogenic, and was long considered to be responsible for more clinical syndromes than any other agent in cats. FeLV can cause tumors (mainly lymphoma), bone marrow suppression syndromes ...