Publications by authors named "Giuseppe Achille Busca"
Animals (Basel)
August 2021
Article Synopsis
- Adjuvant treatments are suggested for dogs with incompletely removed soft-tissue sarcomas to minimize local recurrence, but there's no clear guidance for managing cases with clean but close margins (CbCM).
- A study analyzed 98 canine sarcoma cases to see how CbCM affects the risk of local recurrence, comparing it against tumor-free and infiltrated margins.
- The results showed different local recurrence rates over three years: 42% for infiltrated margins, 23% for CbCM, and 7% for tumor-free margins, indicating that CbCM could be treated as a separate risk category.
Animals (Basel)
March 2020
Article Synopsis
- The German Shorthaired Pointer (GSHP) is recognized for its hunting skills and is popular as both a companion and athlete, leading to a study on its genetic structure and inbreeding levels.
- A total of 34 samples from Italy and the USA were analyzed, revealing 3183 runs of homozygosity (ROH) with a mean of 93.6 ROH per dog, indicating genetic diversity across all chromosomes.
- The genomic analysis showed a low inbreeding coefficient of 0.17 based on ROH, while genealogical data indicated an even lower inbreeding level of 0.023, suggesting a relatively healthy genetic pool for the breed.
