{"id":942,"date":"2012-05-02T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=942"},"modified":"2012-05-07T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T07:47:26","slug":"cameras-used-to-fight-infectious-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Cameras used to fight infectious disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>The International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases (ISCAID) is urging practitioners to document infectious diseases using photographic images. The organisation is compiling an online image library to educate veterinary students and practitioners about the presentation, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.\r\n\r\nMelbourne University graduate and ISCAID President Professor Jane Sykes returned to Australia recently to address veterinarians at the Centre for Veterinary Education\u2019s feline medicine conference.\r\n\r\nAfter completing a PhD on the diagnosis of upper respiratory disease with Glenn Browning and Virginia Studdert in 1997, Sykes completed a residency in small animal medicine at the University of Minnesota and became board certified in small animal medicine in 2001. She is currently Professor of Small Animal Medicine at the University of California, Davis, and President Elect of the Specialty of Small Animal Medicine of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM).\r\n\r\nSykes has a special interest in infectious diseases of companion animals and believes that photographs of cases seen in general practice can be used in the fight against infectious disease.\r\n\r\n\u201cAt the practice level, images can be used as part of a medical record and can be used to enhance patient care as you can compare before and after, or early and late presentation,\u201d Sykes said.\r\n\r\nBut such images have a broader application in educating veterinarians worldwide.\r\n\r\n\u201cEven with common conditions we see a tremendous variation in clinical presentation. Take dermatophytosis \u2013 we\u2019ve all seen it but it has a variable presentation and it is useful for practitioners to see a range of presentations so they can recognise the disease.\u201d\r\n\r\nEarly recognition may lead to rapid intervention.\r\n\r\n\u201cWith the increase in number of people using smartphones it is very easy for veterinarians in practice to take photos and we\u2019re accumulating images quickly,\u201d Sykes said.\r\n\r\nShe believes that many veterinarians are visual learners, and some disease presentations, such as localised tetanus, may be captured in a single picture that is easily recalled for decades.\r\n\r\n\u201cI am definitely one of those people,\u201d she said.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe know that veterinarians go online to look for images, so we want to provide a library of high quality images with accurate, reliable information so that people can be confident the image is what it says it is.\u201d\r\n\r\nISCAID is seeking images of anything pertaining to infectious disease including gross lesions, cytology, histopathology, images of organisms growing on culture and even electron microscopy images. Images should be stored in JPEG format with minimal compression. They can be emailed to jesykes@ucdavis.edu\r\n\r\nANNE FAWCETT<\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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