BACKGROUND: Skin testing (ST) is the most common screening method for allergy evaluation. Measurement of serum specific IgE is also commonly used, but less so by allergists than by other practitioners. The sensitivity and specificity of these testing methods may vary by type of causative allergen and type of allergic manifestation. We compared ST reactivity with serum specific IgE antibodies to...

Cats and dogs have been associated with man for many centuries, and in modern society they probably represent the two most popular companion animals. In 1992 there were approximately forty million cats and thirty-eight million dogs in Europe, representing 18 and 21% of households respectively. Despite their popularity, the nutritional requirements of both species have only been studied in detai...

AIM The main objective was to compare older male and female cat, dog, and non-owners with regard to demographic and health-related characteristics. METHOD Data in the present cross-sectional population study were drawn from HUNT-3 in Norway. A total of 12,297 persons (5631 men; 6666 women) between the ages of 65 and 101 years were included, of whom 2358 were pet owners. RESULTS The main fin...

As domestic animals such as cat, horse, and dog increasingly become the clinical targets for drug discovery programs, the need to understand how these animals metabolize xenobiotics becomes more important. In the present study, substrates and inhibitors that were reported to be selective for particular P450 isozymes were used as probes to study in vitro metabolism in horse, dog, cat, and human ...

"Deformable Part Model" (DPM) based on "Histograms of Oriented Gradients" (HOG) is known as a robust shape detection algorithm, especially for human body detection. For cat face detection, HOG has been applied since they are quite uniform regardless of the bleed. However, in general, dog faces show larger variation than cat faces. Therefore, we assumed that DPM may work well to the dog face var...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to identify the allergens associated with asthma among schoolchildren in an area of the United States where dust mite growth is expected to be poor. Los Alamos, N.M., was chosen because it has low rainfall and is at high altitude (7200 feet) making it very dry. One hundred eleven children (12 to 14 years old) from the middle school who had been previously classified...

CONTEXT Childhood asthma is strongly associated with allergic sensitization. Studies have suggested that animal exposure during infancy reduces subsequent allergic sensitization. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between dog and cat exposure in the first year of life and allergic sensitization at 6 to 7 years of age. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS Prospective birth cohort study of healt...

In the last 15 years only few cases of Pasteurella multocida (P. multocida) total knee arthroplasty infection have been published, mostly related to cat or dog bites or scratches. We report a case of P. multocida total knee arthroplasty infection in a 64-year- old patient, 10 days after being scratched and bitten by his cat. The patient was successfully treated with debridement and tibial inter...