What's the difference between actinomycosis and swine?
Actinomycosis
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings confirm the association between IUD use and pelvic actinomycosis; a review of the literature reveals 395 such cases.
(2) A case of renal actinomycosis, treated by nephrectomy, in a 41 year-old male, is reported.
(3) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(4) The literature on this relatively rare bacterial disease which histologically resembles actinomycosis is reviewed.
(5) The chest radiographs and computed tomographic (CT) scans obtained in eight patients with pathologically proved cases of thoracic actinomycosis were independently reviewed by two observers.
(6) A case of abdominal actinomycosis originating from the sigmoid colon is presented.
(7) Actinomycosis is a relatively rare chronic granulomatous infection, which is characterized by the formation of abscesses which tend to form fistulas.
(8) Other important bacterial infections of potential concern are tuberculosis, Johne's disease, anthrax, malignant edema, actinomycosis, tetanus, and the South American condition referred to as alpaca fever, which, to date, has not been observed in North America.
(9) Intravenous penicillin and clindamycin were used for treatment of the actinomycosis and bacteroids that were cultured from the abscesses.
(10) The diagnosis of actinomycosis usually is made at surgery.
(11) Physicians should consider actinomycosis in acute abdominal sepsis cases with a longterm use of an IUD.
(12) Concomitant intestinal actinomycosis, known to produce tumorous lesion without eosinophilia, appears as an attractive natural model in producing tumorous eosinophilic enterocolitis.
(13) In the past three years, four cases of thoracic actinomycosis have been found in children at our hospital.
(14) The first case, to our knowledge, of cervicofacial actinomycosis arising in a patient with evidence of infection by the human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type III, the causal agent of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is reported.
(15) Abdominal wall actinomycosis without pelvic organ involvement in users of intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs) has not been reported on previously.
(16) One had coincidental rheumatoid arthritis, and another had actinomycosis of the ipsilateral middle ear and contralateral parotid gland.
(17) We suggest that diverticular strictures and actinomycosis may coexist more often than the literature suggests.
(18) The presence of intrabony abscesses in rat mandibles following surgical trauma supports the clinical observation that antecedent trauma is an important factor in the pathogenesis of cervicofacial actinomycosis.
(19) We present a case of cervicofacial actinomycosis and its treatment, emphasizing on the difficulty of the diagnosis of the lesion.
(20) Actinomycosis of the female genital tract is the subject of this brief review article, which adds 4 new cases to 300 previously reported.
Swine
Definition:
(n.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) After Western blot, 2 of the 5 protein bands of swine-cag (27 and 57 kD) and 3 of the 8 protein bands of human cag (27, 32, and 57 kD) reacted with the anti-Toxoplasma antibody used in the ELISA.
(3) After an interim of no treatment for swine dysentery, sodium arsanilate was fed at a level of 220 parts per million for 21 days.
(4) Analysis of literature data in which both the in vivo protection test and the in vitro neutralization test results were available on the same sera showed consistency with the above conclusions for both cattle and swine sera.
(5) Two similar calici agents, San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) and vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) are susceptible to the virucidal activity of disinfectants of differing formulation.
(6) These swine were compared to four groups fed the medicated diet to determine the effect of duration of treatment and degree of animal isolation on the persistence of resistance in lactose-fermenting enteric organisms.
(7) Report on the results of serological studies on the species Leptospira interrogans in cattle (19,607), swine (6,348), dogs (182) and horses (88) from the Netherlands during the period from 1969 to 1974.
(8) A glycosylated protein was essential for activity in bovine cells, but not in swine cells.
(9) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
(10) The results do not favour the possibility that transient motor reactions exhibited by swine during pre-slaughter CO2-exposure are manifestations of emotional stress.
(11) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
(12) However, select strains of E. coli may cause or contribute to intestinal emphysema in swine.
(13) Because new drugs, which are really "defibrillating" drugs, are available (bretylium tosylate, bethanidine, clofilium, tricyclic antidepressants, phenotiazine derivatives), we plan to investigate these defibrillating drugs in isolated hearts, found in suitable animals like dogs (sheep and swine are difficult to defibrillate) and in humans during routine electropharmacological studies.
(14) Chlamydia psittaci was believed responsible for an episode of high perinatal death loss in a swine herd in which 8.5 pigs per litter normally were weaned.
(15) Authors used a wild strain of classical swine fever virus Alfort A19, grown on PK15 cell culture.
(16) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.
(17) The damage threshold during aortic valvuloplasty was determined in 12 normal swine subjected to inflation of oversized dual balloons.
(18) Protein p12 is incorporated into the membrane of infected cells about 7 h post-infection and is not present in purified African swine fever virus particles.
(19) The biological actions of hydrocortisone and insulin on the growth of swine cell line IB-RS-2 were studied.
(20) The overall differences between swine fed mash-cholesterol and those fed milk-cholesterol diets appear to result from more efficient absorption of both neutral and acid steroids in the milk-cholesterol group only partially compensated for by decreased cholesterol synthesis.