Errors in aerial survey count data: Identifying pitfalls and solutions.

Accurate estimates of animal abundance are essential for guiding effective management, and poor survey data can produce misleading inferences. Aerial surveys are an efficient survey platform, capable of collecting wildlife data across large spatial extents in short timeframes. However, these surveys can yield unreliable data if not carefully executed.

Data on birds and habitat associated with forest management on public conservation areas in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley.

This data article contains data collected from 2006-2012 in forests located on 31 State or Federal conservation lands in or adjacent to the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. We present the location, treatment type, and silvicultural age of data collection locations. Presented data on bird detections and forest habitat were collected during avian point counts and associated forest habitat plots and linked to the publication (D.

Toward utilization of data for program management and evaluation: quality assessment of five years of health management information system data in Rwanda.

Background: Health data can be useful for effective service delivery, decision making, and evaluating existing programs in order to maintain high quality of healthcare. Studies have shown variability in data quality from national health management information systems (HMISs) in sub-Saharan Africa which threatens utility of these data as a tool to improve health systems. The purpose of this study is to assess the quality of Rwanda's HMIS data over a 5-year period.

Detection of Cryptococcus gattii in selected urban parks of the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

Human and animal infections of the fungus Cryptococcus gattii have been recognized in Oregon since 2006. Transmission is primarily via airborne environmental spores and now thought to be locally acquired due to infection in non-migratory animals and humans with no travel history. Previous published efforts to detect C.

Mastocytaemia in cats: prevalence, detection and quantification methods, haematological associations and potential implications in 30 cats with mast cell tumours.

The significance of mastocytaemia in cats is different from that in dogs because it appears exclusively associated with mast cell neoplasia. The prevalence of mastocytaemia was 0.05% of all feline submissions to a private laboratory and 43% in cats with mast cell neoplasia.

Dendritic cells from malaria-infected mice are fully functional APC.

Malaria infection has long been associated with diminished T cell responses in vitro and more recently in experimental studies in vivo. Suppression of T cell-proliferative responses during malaria has been attributed to macrophages in a variety of murine and human systems. More recently, however, attention has been directed at the role of dendritic cells in this phenomenon, with several studies suggesting that maturation of dendritic cells is inhibited in vitro by the presence of malaria-infected E.