Urine diagnostics are crucial for identifying urological disorders and systemic diseases. Monitoring bladder catheters for urine output and early signs of urinary tract infections (UTIs) is essential but labor-intensive and prone to documentation errors. Recent advances in electronic monitoring and spectroscopy offer potential improvement in this process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeishmaniasis is a heterogeneous group of neglected tropical diseases with various clinical syndromes, which is caused by obligate intracellular protozoa of the genus and transmitted by the bite of a female phlebotomine sandfly. Humans and several animal species are considered as reservoirs of the disease. Among other animal species, dogs are the most important reservoirs in a domestic environment, maintaining the endemic focus of the parasite.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeishmaniasis remains one of the major neglected tropical diseases. The epidemiological profile of the disease comprises a wide range of hosts, including dogs and cats. Despite several studies about feline Leishmaniosis, the role of cats in disease epidemiology and its clinical impact is still debated.
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May 2014
Hyaluronan receptor CD44 mediates interaction between cells and extracellular matrix. The expression of standard form and its variants is dysregulated in human leukemias and is associated with metastasis and prognosis. The aim of this work is the evaluation of CD44 mRNA and protein expression in canine leukemia.
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