BACKGROUND Dog bites in humans are a public health problem worldwide. The issues of increasing stray dog populations, rabies outbreaks, and the risk of dogs biting humans have been frequently reported by the media in Bhutan. This study aimed to estimate the bite incidence and identify the risk factors for dog bites in humans, and to estimate human deaths from rabies in rabies endemic south Bhut...

Abstract Rabies is an acute encephalitis caused by a lyssavirus . It primarily transmitted through bites of infected dogs which results in the worldwide death estimated 59000 humans every year. The disease preventable application post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) and its elimination has been demonstrated many countries applying multiple interventions simultaneously. Nonetheless, rabies still wide...

The domestic dog, Canis familiaris, is a valuable model for studying human diseases. The publication of the latest Canine genome build and annotation, CanFam3.1 provides an opportunity to enhance our understanding of gene regulation across tissues in the dog model system. In this study, we used the latest dog genome assembly and small RNA sequencing data from 9 different dog tissues to predict ...

Domestic dog rabies is an endemic disease in large parts of the developing world and also epidemic in previously free regions. For example, it continues to spread in eastern Indonesia and currently threatens adjacent rabies-free regions with high densities of free-roaming dogs, including remote northern Australia. Mathematical and simulation disease models are useful tools to provide insights o...

BACKGROUND Rabies imposes a substantial burden to about half of the world population. The World Health Organization (WHO), World Organization for Animal Health, and the Food and Agriculture Organization have set the goal of eliminating dog-mediated human rabies deaths by 2030. This could be achieved largely by massive administration of post-exposure prophylaxis-in perpetuity-, through eliminati...

A large sheep-dog population from the province of Alava (northern Spain) has been investigated in order to determine the prevalence of the cestode parasite Echinococcus granulosus. Worms were detected in 14.0% of 721 dog faecal supernatants by coproantigen ELISA, and in 9.1% of 754 dog serum samples by serum antibody ELISA. A weak but statistically significant correlation (Spearman's rho=0.103,...

A discrete-time reaction-diffusion model for black-footed ferret release, population growth, and dispersal is combined with ferret carrying capacity constraints based on prairie dog population management decisions to form a spatial optimization model. Spatial arrangement of active prairie dog colonies within a ferret reintroduction area is optimized over time for maximum expected adult ferret p...

trypanosoma are extra-erythrocytic, protozoan parasites of domestic and wild animals. it is transmitted by biting flies and a cause of fever, anemia, myocarditis and corneal opacity. in the present study, trypanosoma infection is reported in a male bull dog of two years age at lahore, pakistan. clinical signs and symptoms of infection are re­corded. confirmation of case was done by microscopic ...

concurrent disorders with diabetes mellitus is one of the most challenging subject. our knowledge of the most common concurrent disorders in diabetic dogs may be useful in diagnosis of these disorders and better treatment of diabetic dogs. in this study diabetes mellitus was diagnosed in a 7-year-old male german shepherd dog, based on clinical and laboratory findings. following the diagnosis of...