antibodies to berne virus in horses and other animals. | after inoculation into 2 foals, berne virus induced neutralizing antibody, but did not cause clinical symptoms. in a horizontal study of seropositive mares and their offspring, a decline of maternal antibodies and a sudden synchronous seroconversion in all foals were observed, again without clinical symptoms. the virus is widespread in the swiss horse population and has been so during the last decade; rises in antibody titers were noted in 9% of paired sera sampled at random. positive reactions ... | 1984 | 6506447 |
[an old disease with a new face: canine leptospirosis does not lose its relevance]. | the clinical features of the disease are presented based on retrospective analysis of the records of eleven dogs diagnosed with leptospirosis using clinical signs and results of the microagglutination test (mat) between 1991 and 1996. additionally, leptospira titres were determined in 30 healthy dogs and 20 hospitalised dogs without clinical or laboratory evidence of leptospirosis. a positive titre for l. grippotyphosa, l. pomona, l. bratislava, l. australis, l. icterohaemorrhagiae and/or l. can ... | 1999 | 10596270 |
canine neurological diseases in a referral hospital population between 1989 and 2000 in switzerland. | to merge clinical information from partly overlapping medical record databases of the small animal teaching hospital of the vetsuisse faculty, university of berne. to describe the frequencies and localisations of neurological diseases in dogs, as well as their age, gender, breed and geographical distributions. | 2006 | 17004950 |
multiple sclerosis and canine distemper encephalitis--an epidemiological approach. | the evolution of the incidence of canine distemper encephalitis in dogs in some areas of switzerland over the past 30 years was studied from the neuropathological records of the school of veterinary medicine at berne and compared with the incidence of multiple sclerosis, as estimated from the clinical records of the neurologic hospital at the same university. even considering incubation times of up to 10 years no epidemiological relationship was found between the diseases. whereas canine distemp ... | 1980 | 7411172 |