In the search
for other causes of the disease, an international team of researchers, led by Davide Calebiro, Luca Persani from the University of Milan and Ralf Paschke from the University of Calgary, have now scored a success.
«For many diseases we suspect or have shown a congenital or heritable predilection such as feline HCM, Boxer DCM, but
many other causes of disease is largely unknown,» says Dr. Oyama, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.
The Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory provides diagnostic medical testing for infectious agents, toxins, and
other causes of disease in animal diagnostic samples submitted by veterinary practitioners serving animal owners, public officials associated with public health, law or wildlife management, and scientists with collaborative research projects.
But over the last several decades,
other causes of the disease have emerged, including treatment with high - intensity therapeutic radiation and, more recently, an inherited genetic mutation.
PVOD is diagnosed in only about 10 percent of PH cases where
no other cause of the disease has been determined.
We need a new type of vaccine that uses select components of a microbe or tumor cell or
other cause of disease, and administers these with other defined substances, such as adjuvants, that directly exploit immunology.»
There is not really a problem as at present
no other causes of disease have been commonly identified.