Testicular tumors are rarely reported in rabbits. In this case study, a 4-year-old Holland lop rabbit, previously diagnosed with unilateral cryptorchidism, was presented because of enlargement of the descended testis. The rabbit was clinically normal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAround 0.4% of pregnant women in England have chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and need services to prevent vertical transmission. In this national audit, sociodemographic, clinical and laboratory information was requested from all maternity units in England for hepatitis B surface antigen-positive women initiating antenatal care in 2014.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Prospective studies of Zika virus in pregnancy have reported rates of congenital Zika syndrome and other adverse outcomes by trimester. However, Zika virus can infect and damage the fetus early in utero, but clear before delivery. The true vertical transmission rate is therefore unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOur understanding of congenital infections is based on prospective studies of women infected during pregnancy. The EU has funded three consortia to study Zika virus, each including a prospective study of pregnant women. Another multi-centre study has been funded by the US National Institutes of Health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To estimate the potential impact of the addition of culture-based screening for group B streptococcus (GBS) carriage in pregnancy to a risk-based prevention policy in the UK. We aimed to establish agreement within a multidisciplinary group of key stakeholders on the model input parameters.
Design: Deterministic model using a consensus approach for the selection of input parameters.