Publications by authors named "Scott Medlin"
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- Researchers examined blood samples from Hoffman's two-toed and brown-throated sloths in Costa Rica to check for antibodies to 16 different arboviruses over a three-year period.
- They found that a significant percentage of sloths had antibodies, especially for St. Louis encephalitis and Ilheus viruses, but no antibodies were detected for eight other viruses tested.
- The study suggests that the presence of antibodies could affect land management and domestic animal health, but it's unclear if sloths act as hosts for these viruses or just indicators of exposure, indicating the need for further research.
Twenty-three lizards were captured for this study, both males and females (12 males, 10 females, 1 undetermined), with a large range in body weights (40-286 g) appeared to be healthy based on activity level, physical examinations, and body condition scores. Heparinized blood samples from 20 free-ranging basilisk lizards (Basiliscus plumifrons) in Costa Rica were used for determining complete blood cell counts, plasma, and heparinized whole blood biochemical analysis. This information will serve as baseline reference data for future health assessment studies of free-ranging and captive basilisk lizards, as well as epidemiologic, conservation, and captive-breeding studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOBJECTIVE-To evaluate the analgesic efficacy of meloxicam in parrots with experimentally induced arthritis, with extent of weight bearing and rotational perch walking used as outcome measures. ANIMALS-15 adult Hispaniolan parrots (Amazona ventralis). PROCEDURES-Arthritis was experimentally induced via intra-articular injection of microcrystalline sodium urate suspension (MSU) into 1 intertarsal joint.
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