| prevalence of toxoplasma gondii infection in man and animals in guangdong, peoples republic of china. | tissue and serum samples from animals and man in guangdong province of the peoples republic of china were examined for toxoplasma gondii infection. tissues from 519 swine, 576 rodents, 84 people, one cat and two dogs were bioassayed in mice. t. gondii was isolated from 13 pools of swine tissues, but not from any other hosts. serum samples from animals and man were examined at 1:64 dilution in the indirect hemagglutination test. antibodies to t. gondii were found in 10.4% of 816 pigs, 0.9% of 955 ... | 1990 | 2316181 |
| [epidemiological survey and analysis on bronchial asthma in guangdong province]. | to survey asthma prevalence and risk factors of asthma in guangdong and then to provide a basic consideration for research and preventive and therapeutic poliaes for control of asthma. | 2000 | 11778478 |
| isolation and characterization of viruses related to the sars coronavirus from animals in southern china. | a novel coronavirus (scov) is the etiological agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars). scov-like viruses were isolated from himalayan palm civets found in a live-animal market in guangdong, china. evidence of virus infection was also detected in other animals (including a raccoon dog, nyctereutes procyonoides) and in humans working at the same market. all the animal isolates retain a 29-nucleotide sequence that is not found in most human isolates. the detection of scov-like viruses in ... | 2003 | 12958366 |
| [the epidemic situation of human rabies from 1984 to 2002 and its preventive measures in china]. | to summarize and analyze the epidemic situation of human rabies from 1984 to 2002 in china, and to explore the possible factors causing the increase of cases so as to provide evidence for preventive and control measures. | 2003 | 14575600 |
| [isolation and identification of sars virus in guangdong province]. | to isolate and identify pathogen of atypical pneumonia in guangdong. | 2003 | 15340560 |
| [surveillance on severe acute respiratory syndrome associated coronavirus in animals at a live animal market of guangzhou in 2004]. | to study the prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (sars-cov) like virus in animals at a live animal market of guanzhou in 2004 before and after culling of wild animal action taken by the local authority, in order to predict the re-emerging of sars from animal originals in this region. | 2005 | 15921605 |
| serological survey of canine dirofilariosis in chongqing, kunming, nanchang, fuzhou, guangzhou, shenzhen, and nanning in southern china. | the present study conducts a serological survey on the presence of canine dirofilariosis in domestic dogs using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) kit. a total of 310 household dogs (166 females and 144 males) in chongqing, kunming, nanchang, fuzhou, guangzhou, shenzhen, and nanning in southern china were examined. of the 310 dogs, 42 (13.5%) were seropositive for dirofilariosis. no statistically significant difference was observed in terms of sex in the seroprevalence of dirofilariosi ... | 2011 | 22024016 |
| prevalence of igg antibody to sars-associated coronavirus in animal traders--guangdong province, china, 2003. | severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars) was identified in 2003 as an infectious disease caused by the sars-associated coronavirus (sars-cov), a member of the coronavirus family not observed previously in humans. because its sequence data differ from that of known human coronaviruses, sars-cov is suspected to have crossed the species barrier between an animal host and humans. the sars outbreak began in china's guangdong province, where approximately 1,500 probable cases were identified during no ... | 2003 | 14561956 |
| severe acute respiratory syndrome. | the mysterious severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars) that has originated from the southern chinese province of guangdong appears to be a major public health threat and medical challenge. laboratory studies of sars patients in a number of countries identified the etiologic agent being a novel member of coronaviridae. high rna concentrations of this virus in sputum make it as a highly infectious agent. low concentrations of viral genome are also detectable in feces. coronaviruses are ubiquitos. ... | 2003 | 12824956 |
| [studies on clonorchiasis sinensis control in sanshui city, guangdong province]. | during 1986 to 1988 and 1990 to 1992, dongyong township and guanyuan township in sanshui city, guangdong province were selected as demonstration areas for clonorchiasis sinensis control by using measures of repeated examination and treatment respectively. after two years' examination and treatment, the population infection rates were from 43.6% to 13.2% in dongyong township and from 78.5% to 36.3% in guanyuan township. the first intermediate host was alocimma longicornis, and the second intermed ... | 1994 | 7720206 |
| Prevalence of Clonorchis sinensis infection in dogs and cats in subtropical southern China. | Clonorchiasis, caused by Clonorchis sinensis, is one of the major parasitic zoonoses in China, particularly in China's southern Guangdong province where the prevalence of C. sinensis infection in humans is high. However, little is known of the prevalence of C. sinensis infection in its reservoir hosts dogs and cats. Hence, the prevalence of C. sinensis infection in dogs and cats was investigated in Guangdong province, China between October 2006 and March 2008. | 2011 | 21929783 |
| [detection of sars-coronavirus in both human and animals by rt-pcr]. | to find the most suitable rt-pcr detection method for sars-coronavirus (sars-cov) detection in both human and animals, and to study the source of sars virus by investigating the condition of virus carried by wild, domestic animals and animals sold in market. | 2005 | 16229261 |
| molecular evolution analysis and geographic investigation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-like virus in palm civets at an animal market and on farms. | massive numbers of palm civets were culled to remove sources for the reemergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars) in guangdong province, china, in january 2004, following sars coronavirus detection in market animals. the virus was identified in all 91 palm civets and 15 raccoon dogs of animal market origin sampled prior to culling, but not in 1,107 palm civets later sampled at 25 farms, spread over 12 provinces, which were claimed to be the source of traded animals. twenty-seven novel ... | 2005 | 16140765 |
| [epidemiological perspectives on sars and avian influenza]. | sars is a respiratory infection caused by coronavirus (nidoviruses, rna) from which 3 groups are known. group 1 affects dogs, cats, pigs, and the human agent is 229 e. group 2 affects bovines or rodents, and the human agent is oc43. and group 3 corresponds to the avian pathology.... the epidemics emerged on february 2003 in guangdong, south china, due to consumption of exotic animals (civeta, etc.), and it spread through interperson contagion to other regions in asia, america and europe. incubat ... | 2004 | 15563120 |
| dynamics of rabies epidemics and the impact of control efforts in guangdong province, china. | rabies is a major public health problem in some developing countries including china. one of the reasons is that there is a very large number of dogs, both domestic and stray, especially in guangdong province which has the third most rabies cases (after guangxi and hunan) among the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in mainland, china, and at least 18.2% of the human rabies cases are caused by stray dogs. in this paper, based on the reported data and characteristics of the rabie ... | 2012 | 22273729 |
| 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 |
| antibodies to toxoplasma gondii in stray and household dogs in guangzhou, china. | the frequency of toxoplasma gondii antibodies in stray and household dogs in guangzhou, china was examined by elisa on serum samples from 150 animals (36 strays and 114 from households) and the overall prevalence was 21.3%. the extent of infection in stray dogs (33.3%) was significantly higher (p < 0.05) than in household dogs (17.5%). infection in male and female dogs of both groups was not significantly different (p >or= 0.05), i.e., 31.8% versus 35.7% for male and female in stray dogs, and 14 ... | 2010 | 20020807 |
| the occurrence of the feline "candidatus mycoplasma haemominutum" in dog in china confirmed by sequence-based analysis of ribosomal dna. | in the present study, polymerase chain reaction (pcr) assay was used to detect haemoplasmas (haemotropic bacteria) in 40 clinically healthy pet dogs in foshan city, guangdong province, china, and one dog was found positive. comparison of its 16s ribosomal dna (rdna) sequence with relevant sequences showed that the isolated haemoplasma had greater sequence identity to feline species "candidatus mycoplasma haemominutum" (99%) than to "candidatus mycoplasma haematoparvum" (95%). this result, for th ... | 2009 | 18949572 |
| rabies trend in china (1990-2007) and post-exposure prophylaxis in the guangdong province. | rabies is a major public-health problem in developing countries such as china. although the recent re-emergence of human rabies in china was noted in several epidemiological studies, little attention was paid to the reasons behind this phenomenon paralleling the findings of the previous reports. the purpose of this study is thus first to characterize the current trends of human rabies in china from 1990 to 2007, and then to define better recommendations for improving the post-exposure prophylaxi ... | 2008 | 18717989 |
| the occurrence of toxocara malaysiensis in cats in china, confirmed by sequence-based analyses of ribosomal dna. | non-isotopic polymerase chain reaction (pcr)-based single-strand conformation polymorphism and sequence analyses of the second internal transcribed spacer (its-2) of nuclear ribosomal dna (rdna) were utilized to genetically characterise ascaridoids from dogs and cats from china by comparison with those from other countries. the study showed that toxocara canis, toxocara cati, and toxascaris leonina from china were genetically the same as those from other geographical origins. specimens from cats ... | 2006 | 16636846 |