| the control of hydatid disease and ovine cysticercoses in the australian capital territory and southern new south wales. | a survey of human hydatid disease in new south wales and the australian capital territory over the period 1968 to 1973 was made from hospital records in sydney and canberra. the 162 new cases found represent an incidence, of 0-57 per 100,000 per annum, but the 20 patients living in the central west statistical division of new south wales at the time of admission to hospital represent an incidence of 12-6 per 100,000 per annum in that area. a survey of a.c.t. farms revealed dogs carrying the caus ... | 1977 | 875855 |
| dog bite injuries to children: potential rabies threat to australia. | a consecutive series of 800 mammalian bites is reported from the canberra hospital. of these, 66% were dog bites; 119 children were bitten by dogs (requiring hospital attention) over a 30-month period, giving an average dog-bite rate for the total population of 184 per 100,000 per year. one dog in 38 causes an injury requiring hospital attention. thirty-seven per cent of the 119 children were bitten on the face and head, the modal age for this type of injury being three years. ten per cent of ca ... | 1980 | 7189574 |
| dog and cat keeping in the australian capital territory, 1993. | | 1994 | 8172552 |
| human hydatidosis in new south wales and the australian capital territory. | | 1996 | 8668087 |
| toxocariasis: a serological survey of blood donors in the australian capital territory together with observations on the risks of infection. | the sera from 660 healthy blood donors from canberra were tested for antibodies to toxocara canis by the elisa test. the results were compared with those from patients with suspected or confirmed visceral larva migrans or ocular toxocariasis. over 7% of canberra sera showed elevated levels of antibody reacting with t. canis antigen. sera from patients resident in australia with other helminth parasites did not cross-react with t. canis antigen in our tests. however, studies of sera collected in ... | 1986 | 3787682 |
| an australian record of the american dog tick dermacentor variabilis, and the risk of its establishment outside north america. | a living female of dermacentor variabilis (say) was collected in canberra, australia, on a human who had recently returned from the u.s.a. climatic data indicate that this could become established in eastern australia and many other parts of the world, with serious consequences for human and animal health. | 1990 | 2307072 |