Numerous colleges utilize distributed veterinary education (DVE) to deliver most or all their students' clinical education. This study explored students' experiences and development of competence in a DVE program. Veterinarians evaluated 120 final-year students' performances at the end of each 4-week clinical rotation using a four-point RIME (Reporter, Interpreter, Manager, Educator) scale.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVaccines are the most effective and sustainable intervention to control ticks and tick-borne diseases (TBD). Using a personalized vaccine design based on regional tick genotypes, a Rhipicephalus appendiculatus Subolesin protective antigen was used in a field trial evaluating tick vaccine efficacy, effectiveness, and safety in cattle infested with multiple tick species in different Ugandan agro-ecological zones. Vaccination with SUB was safe with a protective capacity against anemia and infection, and reduced the number of infested cattle, tick fitness (feeding and reproduction) with vaccine effectiveness against multiple tick species between 93.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo present a case of central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) leading to the diagnosis of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss syndrome) within 1 week of an adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccination. A case was reviewed. A 50-year-old man with atopic dermatitis and asthma presented with acute painless vision loss in 1 eye.
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