Outbreak of Kyasanur Forest Disease in Shivamogga, Karnataka State, India, during 2015

Abstract

The prevalence study For presence of osteoarthritis changes (malformation of femoral head, acetabulum, sclerosis, periarticular new bone for-mation) was performed retrospectively on radiographs of pure-bred small dogs (> 1 year of age, body weight < 15 kg) taken at the Small Animal Hospital at University of Copenhagen in a period of 5 years (2006 – 2010). During this period, a total of 2423 small pure breed dogs were presented for all kind of consultation. From these 229 Ventro-Dorsal radiographs of the pelvic area from 37 different pure breeds were included in the study (Table 1).