Spatial-temporal clustering of companion animal enteric syndrome: detection and investigation through the use of electronic medical records from participating private practices

SUMMARY There is interest in the potential of companion animal surveillance to provide data to improve pet health and to provide early warning of environmental hazards to people. We implemented a companion animal surveillance system in Calgary, Alberta and the surrounding communities. Informatics technologies automatically extracted electronic medical records from participating veterinary practices and identified cases of enteric syndrome in the warehoused records. The data were analysed using time-series analyses and a retrospective space-time permutation scan statistic. We identified a seasonal pattern of reports of occurrences of enteric syndromes in companion animals and four statistically significant clusters of enteric syndrome cases. The cases within each cluster were examined and information about the animals involved (species, age, sex), their vaccination history, possible exposure or risk behaviour history, information about disease severity, and the aetiological diagnosis was collected. We then assessed whether the cases within the cluster were unusual and if they represented an animal or public health threat. There was often insufficient information recorded in the medical record to characterize the clusters by aetiology or exposures. Space-time analysis of companion animal enteric syndrome cases found evidence of clustering. Collection of more epidemiologically relevant data would enhance the utility of practice-based companion animal surveillance.

Gar kein Standpunkt !!! : hier kann ich sagen stehe ich wirklich erhaben über allen Parteien, auf einem so vollkommen neutralen Standpunkte, dass ich fast sagen möchte es wäre gar kein Standpunkt ...

Bibliograph. Nachweis: Wolf, Sylvia: Politische Karikaturen in Deutschland 1848/49. Mittenwald 1982. – I.49 Nr. 14

Sēfer Śimḥat han-nefeš : hier findeṭ jeder ṭrosṭ ... divre musar ...

[Elchanan Haendel Kirchhahn]. Naie bearbeiṭung und miṭ hosafos yeqoros benannṭ Meśibbat han-nefeš ... mimmenî Yehûdā kōhēn Qrôys

Môdāʿā : als bi-šenas 579 di zogenannṭe Tefillā ʿal šabbat ... hier eršiene ...

... Jitzḥak B. ... Jaakov Bernaim

[Aufruf] : an die geehrten Mitglieder der Israel. Religionsgesellschaft hier

der Vorstand der Israel. Religionsgesellschaft

Die preußischen Provinzial-Stände im Angesicht der wilden und gezähmten Revolution in und seit den Märztagen : zur Begrüßung insbesondere der gegenwärtig hier versammelten Stände der Kurmark

Boberach: In sechs Aufsätzen werden die Entwicklung des preußischen und speziell des brandenburgischen Provinziallandtages und der Erste Vereinigte Landtag dargestellt, um zu beweisen, daß sie durch die Revolution und die Verfassung nicht beseitigt werden konnten

Characterization of Chelonus inanitus polydnavirus segments: sequences and analysis, excision site and demonstration of clustering

Polydnaviruses (genera Ichnovirus and Bracovirus) have a segmented genome of circular double-stranded DNA molecules, replicate in the ovary of parasitic wasps and are essential for successful parasitism of the host. Here we show the first detailed analysis of various segments of a bracovirus, the Chelonus inanitus virus (CiV). Four segments were sequenced and two of them, CiV12 and CiV14, were found to be closely related while CiV14.5 and CiV16.8 were unrelated. CiV12, CiV14.5 and CiV16.8 are unique while CiV14 occurs also nested in another larger segment. All four segments are predicted to contain genes and predictions could be substantiated in most cases. Comparison with databases revealed no significant similarities at either the nucleotide or amino acid level. Inverted repeats with identities between 77% and 92% and lengths between 26 bp and 100 bp were found on all segments outside of predicted genes. Hybridization experiments indicate that CiV12 and CiV14 are both flanked by other virus segments, suggesting that proviral CiV segments are clustered in the genome of the wasp. The integration/excision site of CiV14 was analysed and compared to that of CiV12. On both termini of proviral CiV12 and CiV14 as well as in the excised circular molecule and the rejoined DNA a very similar repeat of 14 bp was found. A model to illustrate where the terminal repeats might recombine to yield the circular molecule is presented. Excision of CiV12 and CiV14 is restricted to the female and sets in at a very specific time-point in pupal-adult development.

Tagsbefehl für die Nationalgarde am 25. März 1848: Da die hier garnisonirenden Truppen, sobald die eingetretene Ordnung ihren geregelten Dienstbetrieb gestattet ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Von der Nationalgarde benötigte militärische Ausbilder kann die reguläre Truppe wegen Personalmangels nicht stellen; diesem Mangel sollen Reservisten bzw. pensionierte Offiziere abhelfen

Extrablatt: Das Bombardement von Prag: Neueste Nachrichten aus Prag: Ein Reisender, der so eben aus Prag, wo sein Fortkommen mit der größten Lebensgefahr verbunden war, hier ankam ...

Welsch (Projektbearbeiter): Beschießung von Prag durch österreichische Truppen unter Windisch-Graetz; Ausrufung der Republik daselbst