| rabies surveillance in the united states during 2009. | during 2009, 49 states and puerto rico reported 6,690 rabid animals and 4 human rabies cases to the cdc, representing a 2.2% decrease from the 6,841 rabid animals and 2 human cases reported in 2008. approximately 92% of reported rabid animals were wildlife. relative contributions by the major animal groups were as follows: 2,327 (34.8%) raccoons, 1,625 (24.3%) bats, 1,603 (24.0%) skunks, 504 (75%) foxes, 300 (4.5%) cats, 81 (1.2%) dogs, and 74 (1.1%) cattle. compared with 2008, numbers of rabid ... | 2010 | 20839985 |
| evaluation of a postexposure rabies prophylaxis protocol for domestic animals in texas: 2000-2009. | to determine whether postexposure rabies prophylaxis (pep) in domestic animals, as mandated in texas, has continued to be effective and to evaluate preexposure or postexposure vaccination failures from 2000 through 2009. | 2010 | 21155679 |
| teaching evidence-based practice at the university of texas health science center at san antonio dental school. | the overarching goal of the evidence-based practice program at san antonio is to provide our graduates with life-long learning skills that will enable them to keep up-to-date and equip them with the best possible patient care skills during their 30-40 years of practice. students are taught to (1) ask focused clinical questions, (2) search the biomedical research literature (pubmed) for the most recent and highest level of evidence, (3) critically evaluate the evidence, and (4) make clinical judg ... | 2011 | 21473246 |
| rabies vaccination compliance following introduction of the triennial vaccination interval - the texas experience. | in 2003 the texas board of health approved a modification to the texas administrative code that permitted pet owners to have their dogs (canis familiaris) and cats (felis catus) vaccinated against rabies every 3 years, provided a triennial vaccine was used. the change had been opposed by hundreds in the veterinary community, some concerned that its implementation would be followed by a decrease in rabies vaccination rates. to determine if this decrease had occurred, rabies vaccination rates for ... | 2011 | 21561550 |
| genetic variability of cloned cytauxzoon felis ribosomal rna its1 and its2 genomic regions from domestic cats with varied clinical outcomes from five states. | cytauxzoon felis is a tick-borne hemoparasite that causes cytauxzoonosis in domestic cats in the united states. historically, feline cytauxzoonosis was reported to be nearly always fatal. however, increasing evidence of cats surviving acute infection and/or harboring a chronic, subclinical infection has suggested the existence of different c. felis strains that may vary in pathogenicity. in this study, the intraspecific variation of the c. felis first and second ribosomal rna internal transcribe ... | 2017 | 28917305 |
| detection of arbitrarily-shaped clusters using a neighbor-expanding approach: a case study on murine typhus in south texas. | kulldorff's spatial scan statistic has been one of the most widely used statistical methods for automatic detection of clusters in spatial data. one limitation of this method lies in the fact that it has to rely on scan windows with predefined shapes in the search process, and therefore it cannot detect cluster with arbitrary shapes. we employ a new neighbor-expanding approach and introduce two new algorithms to detect cluster with arbitrary shapes in spatial data. these two algorithms are calle ... | 2011 | 21453514 |