Determination of Factors Influencing Perceived Health Status Among Poor and Non-Poor Women in Eastern Turkey

B A C K G R O U N D : Socio-economic status, income, gender, education, and individual and cultural differencesinfluence the perceived health status. Perceived health is important as it enables individuals to be sensitive to changesin their health, and heralds the presence of diseases before their signs and symptoms appear.A I M : This study was conducted to determine factors that may account for variations in perceived health statusbetween poor and non-poor women.M A T E R I A L - M E T H O D : The study was conducted in Kars, a city located in the eastern part of Turkey, andincluded a total of 420 women (210 poor and 210 non-poor).R E S U L T S : The non-poor women had better living conditions and did not have to struggle to make a living.There was a significant difference (P<0.01) in health perception between the poor and non-poor populations, with78.1% of the poor women and 43.4% of the non-poor women having a bad to moderate perception of health. Amongthe poor women, chronic diseases (P<0.01), age (P<0.05) and monthly income (P<0.05) significantly affected perceivedhealth status; education, marital status, smoking and health insurance had no significant impact on perceived healthstatus (P>0.05). Among the non-poor women, education (P<0.05), chronic diseases (P<0.01), age (P<0.05), monthlyincome (P<0.05) and health insurance (P<0.01) significantly affected perceived health status; marital status and smokingdid not affect the perceived health status (P>0.05).C O N C L U S I O N S : The results of this study indicate that perceived health status, an important indicator foractual health status, is affected by poverty

Large genomic differences between Moraxella bovoculi isolates acquired from the eyes of cattle with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis versus the deep nasopharynx of asymptomatic cattle

Citation: Dickey, A. M., Loy, J. D., Bono, J. L., Smith, T. P. L., Apley, M. D., Lubbers, B. V., . . . Clawson, M. L. (2016). Large genomic differences between Moraxella bovoculi isolates acquired from the eyes of cattle with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis versus the deep nasopharynx of asymptomatic cattle. Veterinary Research, 47, 11. doi:10.1186/s13567-016-0316-2Moraxella bovoculi is a recently described bacterium that is associated with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK) or "pinkeye" in cattle. In this study, closed circularized genomes were generated for seven M. bovoculi isolates: three that originated from the eyes of clinical IBK bovine cases and four from the deep nasopharynx of asymptomatic cattle. Isolates that originated from the eyes of IBK cases profoundly differed from those that originated from the nasopharynx of asymptomatic cattle in genome structure, gene content and polymorphism diversity and consequently placed into two distinct phylogenetic groups. These results suggest that there are genetically distinct strains of M. bovoculi that may not associate with IBK