Clinical scoring systems have been proposed for respiratory disease diagnosis in calves, including the Wisconsin (WI) system (McGuirk in 2008) which uses five clinical signs, each partitioned into four levels of severity. Recently, we developed the California (CA) bovine respiratory disease (BRD) scoring system requiring less calf handling and consisting of six clinical signs, each classified a...

background: to reduce the mortality and morbidity rates of cystic fibrosis (cf) patients, and to have an effective clinical management, it is important to monitor the progression of the disease. the aim of this study was to evaluate the progression of lung disease in cf patients by means of assessing the correlation of the ct scoring system with clinical status and pulmonary function test at th...

backgrounds and aims: the tehran province was subject to the second highest incidence of fatalities due to traffic accidents in 1390. most studies in this field examine rural traffic accidents, but this study is based on the use of logit models and artificial neural networks to evaluate the factors that affect the severity of accidents within the city of tehran. materials and methods: among the...

charcoal rot diseases of melon caused by macrophomina phaseolina is one of the most important diseases of melon occurring in regions with variable climate. reduction of yield of melon by this disease has been reported up to 100% in some of garmsar field. salinity which can cause the important trouble in plant metabolism and nutrition is present in semnan and garmsar areas. melon is susceptible ...

Background: To reduce the mortality and morbidity rates of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, and to have an effective clinical management, it is important to monitor the progression of the disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the progression of lung disease in CF patients by means of assessing the correlation of the CT scoring system with clinical status and pulmonary function test at th...

A spectrum of disease severity has been observed in patients with Lyme disease, with approximately 60% of untreated individuals developing arthritis. The murine model of Lyme disease has provided strong evidence that the genetic composition of the host influences the severity of arthritis following infection with Borrelia burgdorferi: infected C3H mice develop severe arthritis while infected C5...

Objective: Sepsis animal models commonly fail to predict clinical efficacy of novel therapeutics in humans because most animals are more resistant to pathogens and sepsis is not measured or evaluated in the same manner. We modified the third international consensus clinical criteria for sepsis and septic shock (Sepsis-3) to evaluate and diagnose two swine models of sepsis, as pigs are similar t...

OBJECTIVE Inflammation plays a key role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. This study aimed to assess the relationship of serum inflammatory marker high sensitivity C Reactive protein (hsCRP), with the presence and severity of angiographically evaluated coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS This study was conducted at departments of physiology and cardiology, College of Medicine & King ...