Disease relevance of Hospitals, Animal

• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection was identified in 2 horses treated at a veterinary hospital in 2000, prompting a study of colonization rates of horses and associated persons [1].
• Nosocomial transmission of Serratia marcescens in a veterinary hospital due to contamination by benzalkonium chloride [2].
• Enterococci isolated from Portuguese dairy products (milk and cheese) and clinical settings (hospitals and veterinary clinics), together with reference strains from the genus Enterococcus, were screened for low- and high-level gentamicin resistance using the standard disc diffusion method (10 and 120 microg gentamicin discs) [3].
• In addition, strains from other veterinary hospitals in California were compared with the VMTH strains to assess the geographic distribution of specific enrofloxacin-resistant E. coli isolates [4].
• The material consists of all horses with ataxia available for necropsy and presented to the large animal clinic of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Uppsala and the Animal Hospital in Helsingborg during 1981 through 1983 [5].

High impact information on Hospitals, Animal

• From 16 veterinary clinics throughout the State of Maine, 828 canine sera were obtained during the heartworm-testing months of April and May 1989 and measured for anti-Borrelia antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [6].
• An outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections resulting from horse to human transmission in a veterinary hospital [7].
• OBJECTIVE: To evaluate owner compliance with longterm home monitoring of blood glucose concentrations in diabetic cats and assess the influence of home monitoring on the frequency of reevaluation of those cats at a veterinary hospital [8].
• Owners chose continued medical care with either the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Internal Medicine Service or a local veterinarian [9].
• Localisation of antimicrobial resistance genes indicated that the veterinary hospital isolates had more than one plasmid carrying resistance genes and that the genes encoding sulphathiazole and trimethoprim resistance were not on these plasmids [10].

Chemical compound and disease context of Hospitals, Animal

• Multiple myelomas are uncommon neoplasms of the bone marrow of cats [Weber NA, Tebeau CS (1998) An unusual presentation of multiple myeloma in two cats. Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association34 (6), 477-483] [11].

Biological context of Hospitals, Animal

• The highest percentages of antibiotic resistance were reached in the group of antibiotics (tetracycline, streptomycin, sulphadiazine, ampicillin, kanamycin, neomycin, chloramphenicol, trimethoprim and cotrimoxazole) that are most generally used by Spanish veterinary clinics [12].

Associations of Hospitals, Animal with chemical compounds

• Halothane, administered through an anesthetic machine, proved to be effective for use in a veterinary hospital [13].
• To examine the efficacy and safety of milrinone to treat myocardial failure in dogs, dogs with myocardial failure were selected from the patient populations of 3 veterinary hospitals [14].
• This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of a citronella bark collar and a new, scentless spray bark collar in a veterinary hospital or a similar kennel-type environment [15].
• Characteristic polioencephalomalacic autofluorescence was seen under long ultraviolet radiation of four fresh brains examined in the veterinary clinic and two formalin-fixed brains sectioned and examined in the laboratory [16].
• A serological survey with latex agglutination test to detect anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies was conducted on 800 serum samples collected from domiciled cats at animal hospitals in various areas of Japan. The overall prevalence was 6.0% (48/800) [17].

Gene context of Hospitals, Animal

• Assessment of the quality of radiographs in 44 veterinary clinics in Great Britain [18].
• CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: CSF samples collected at veterinary clinics remote from a diagnostic laboratory or during nonoperational hours may be preserved through the addition of autologous serum [19].

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