| hepatitis e virus infection among domestic animals in eastern china. | hepatitis e virus (hev) is a zoonotic pathogen of which several species of animal were reported as reservoirs. antibodies to hev and hev rna have been detected in some chinese population and swine groups but few other domestic animals. in this study, to investigate the hev prevalence, we tested sera from 788 pigs, 100 cows, 50 goats, 49 horses, 101 pet dogs, 105 chickens, 47 duck and 45 pigeons in eastern china for anti-hev immunoglobulin g (igg). we also tested 50% of the swine sera, all of ser ... | 2008 | 18638181 |
| the occurrence of dirofilaria immitis, borrelia burgdorferi, ehrlichia canis and anaplasma phagocytophium in dogs in china. | a survey of the occurrence of dirofilaria immitis, borrelia burgdorferi, ehrlichia canis and anaplasma phagocytophium in dogs was undertaken in the people's republic of china between october 2008 and october 2009. a total of 600 blood samples were taken from dogs in four cities in china: 300 in beijing, 150 in shenzhen, 30 in shanghai and 120 in zhengzhou. all samples were tested for the heartworm antigen and antibodies of canine b. burgdorferi, e. canis and a. phagocytophium by using the canine ... | 2011 | 21729390 |
| tribendimidine: a promising, safe and broad-spectrum anthelmintic agent from china. | we review, for the first time, a 20-year chinese story of research and development pertaining to tribendimidine, a promising anthelmintic agent that is safe and exhibits a broad spectrum of activity. tribendimidine was first synthesized at the national institute of parasitic diseases in shanghai in the mid 1980s. in laboratory studies, tribendimidine showed high efficacy against nippostrongylus braziliensis in rats, necator americanus in hamsters, ancylostoma caninum and toxocara canis in dogs, ... | 2005 | 15777691 |
| [a study on the epidemiological characteristics and the preventive measures of rabies in shanghai]. | to analyze the epidemiological characteristics and the preventive measures of rabies in shanghai from 1950 to 2000. | 2001 | 11860835 |
| isolation and characterization of canine astrovirus in china. | in this study, we first investigated the prevalence of astrovirus in stools of dogs with and without diarrhea in shanghai, china. of all the specimens, 22 (12.02%) from the 183 dogs with diarrhea and none (0%) from the 138 healthy controls were positive for astrovirus. furthermore, we cloned partial sequences of orf1b (442 bp) and the entire sequences of orf2 (2475 bp). phylogenetic analysis showed that the new isolates were belonged to genus mamastrovirus and most closely clustered with the ita ... | 2011 | 21604183 |
| prevalence of toxoplasma gondii antibodies and dna in dogs in shanghai, china. | abstract the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of toxoplasma gondii infection in dogs in shanghai, china. a total of 1,736 sera (1,178 from the city center and 558 from the outskirts) was collected from healthy dogs and tested for t. gondii infection by indirect hemagglutination; 56 sera (3.2%) were considered positive, with titers >1∶64. the seroprevalence in dogs from the outskirts of the city (town dogs, 6.0%; countryside dogs, 9.8%) was significantly higher (p > 0.05) than tha ... | 2011 | 21506785 |
| co-infection with influenza a/h1n1 and a/h3n2 viruses in a patient with influenza-like illness during the winter/spring of 2008 in shanghai, china. | co-infection with different influenza viruses occurs naturally and plays an important role in epidemiology and pathogenicity. to monitor the prevalence of influenza viruses in humans during seasonal influenza epidemics in shanghai, china, and to analyze the genetic characteristics of the viruses, 365 nasopharyngeal swabs collected from patients with influenza-like illness between january and april 2008, were tested by a colloidal gold assay, viral isolation in madin-darby canine kidney (mdck) ce ... | 2010 | 21280055 |
| serological evidence of west nile virus in dogs and cats in china. | we evaluated west nile virus (wnv) seroprevalence in dogs and cats in shanghai, china. seventeen of the 367 dogs (4.6%) and 46 of the 309 cats (14.9%) tested positive for wnv antibodies. a higher wnv seroprevalence was found with outdoor and rural pets than with indoor and urban pets. however, wnv seroprevalence between the sexes were not significantly different. the results indicate that wnv-positive serum antibodies are present in dogs and cats in china, and pets, especially strays, could be s ... | 2011 | 21221671 |