- Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Leptospirosis research and findings
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Infection Control and Ventilation
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Virus-based gene therapy research
- Aortic Thrombus and Embolism
University of Lisbon
2021-2024
Abstract Background: The Biological Isolation and Containment Unit (BICU) of the Faculty Veterinary Medicine, University Lisbon, is dedicated to treating animals with suspected or confirmed infectious diseases. Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) Leukemia (FeLV) are two most common infections reported in this unit. This study explored use logistic regression predict FIV FeLV triage stage. Results: Of 1211 cats treated at BICU since its opening, 134 were FIV-positive 126 FeLV-positive....
The teaching hospital of the Faculty Veterinary Medicine at University Lisbon hosts a Biological Isolation and Containment Unit (BICU) for hospitalization both confirmed suspected animals an infectious disease. This study targets BICU dog population to identify characterize most frequent diseases recorded in 7-year period. Several epidemiologic factors were analyzed their significance triage infected cases. During period, 534 dogs admitted, which 263 (49.3%) had disease diagnosis:...
Abstract Background The Biological Isolation and Containment Unit (BICU) is a subunit of the Teaching Hospital Faculty Veterinary Medicine University Lisbon, Portugal, for admission animals with confirmed infectious diseases or under clinical suspicion waiting diagnosis. As high-risk environment transmission agents, it extremely important to implement programs surveillance nosocomial microorganisms in these facilities. purpose this study was evaluate level bacterial contamination BICU...
Abstract Background Referral of cases is becoming more and frequent in companion animal practice. The Infectious Diseases Isolation Unit (IDIU) admits first opinion, second opinion referred patients with a confirmed infectious disease (ID) or clinically suspected ID that awaiting laboratory diagnosis. primary aims this study were to describe the annual number characteristics IDIU identify most IDs dogs cats. A secondary aim was investigate possible differences length hospitalisation clinical...