Objective: To characterize health care utilization (HCU) and associated costs among patients with migraine categorized by the number of preventive treatment failures (TFs; 1 TF, 2 TFs, and 3+ TFs) using real-world data.
Methods: This retrospective analysis identified adults with incident migraine diagnosis in the IBM MarketScan Commercial and Medicare Supplemental database between January 1, 2011, and June 30, 2015. TF was defined in the 2 years after the first migraine diagnosis period.
Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis is the most important protozoan disease of horses in North America and is usually caused by Sarcocystis neurona. Natural cases of encephalitis caused by S. neurona have been reported in skunks (Mephitis mephitis) and raccoons (Procyon lotor).
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