Colonization by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may be persistent in people and is horizontally transmissible. The scientific literature suggests that domestic pets may also participate in cross-transmission of MRSA within households. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of and risk factors for MRSA carriage by pets residing in households with an MRSA-...

The authors examined the interactive effect of smoking and pets at home on the incidence of asthma and the difference between sexes. The longitudinal data from the first two cycles of the National Population Health Survey, conducted in Canada, were used. A total of 12,636 subjects who reported no asthma at baseline were included in the analysis. The 2-yr cumulative incidence of asthma was highe...

Probability Estimation Trees (PETs) [9] try to estimate the probability with which an instance belongs to a certain class, rather than just predicting its most likely class. Several approaches for learning PETs have been proposed, mainly in a propositional context. Since we are interested in applying PETs in a relational context, we make some simple modifications to the first-order tree learner...

AIM We investigated the attitude of pets or livestock owning households in a university community to animal health care services and assessed the knowledge and awareness level of the residents on zoonoses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Structured questionnaire was used to obtain information on demography, pet or livestock ownership, animal health care seeking behavior, awareness and knowledge of zoon...

BACKGROUND Despite evidence that connecting people to relevant wellbeing-related resources brings therapeutic benefit, there is limited understanding, in the context of mental health recovery, of the potential value and contribution of pet ownership to personal support networks for self-management. This study aimed to explore the role of pets in the support and management activities in the pers...

BACKGROUND Removing allergen from the indoor environment should be a primary strategy for the management and treatment of allergic disease. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to characterize the distribution of dog, cat, and mite allergen on hard surfaces in homes with and without pets and to evaluate the efficiency of removing allergen from hard surfaces by wiping with a dry dust cloth an...

This is the third in a series of papers describing a study of physical abuse in dogs and cats that is, abuse by deliberate physical injury (so-called non-accidental injury [NAI] or ‘battered pets’ by analogy with the well documented ‘battered-child syndrome’ [Kempe and others 19621). The study was based on the experiences of a sample of small animal practitioners in the UK. The first paper publ...

Supplementary Methods Paired end ditags (PETs) Gene identification signature (GIS) analysis is a sequencing and mapping strategy that allows for the high-throughput demarcation of gene transcription boundaries, i.e. the 5’ and 3’ gene termini (Ng, et al., 2005). The GIS analysis procedure that produced the data we analyzed started with the isolation of polyA+ RNA from cells lines subject to dif...

The assessment of the maturity of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) is a complex and challenging task, which can only be performed by experts in the eld. However, at the same time, the need for precise technology readiness and quality de nitions for PETs emerges rapidly. In order to overcome this gap, standardised means to assess, discuss, and compare PET maturity levels are necessary. In t...