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The Effect of the Bacteriological Status of Feed on Some Haematological and Blood Chemical Data on Mink

Betydelsen av fodrets bakteriella kvalitet på några blodvärden hos kliniskt friska minkar

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica volume 21, pages 504–515 (1980)Cite this article

Abstract

Blood samples from 100 minks from a research farm using bacteriologically high quality feed and from 55 minks from another farm supplying bacteriologically inferior feed, as well as from nine minks from Denmark from two farms providing still better quality feed than both Finnish farms – all minks apparently clinically healthy – were analyzed for some haematological and chemical data: total leucocyte count, haemoglobin, ornithine carba-moyltransferase (OCT), alkaline phosphatase (AP), alanine aminotransferase (ALAT), aspartate aminotransferase (ASAT), γ-glutamyl-transferase (Γ-GT), total bilirubin and creatinine. The Finnish minks supplied with high quality feed had more optimal values of total leucocytes, haemoglobin, OCT, AP and creatinine than minks receiving feed with higher bacterial contamination. The Danish minks had better blood values in the investigated parameters except for lower haemoglobin and total bilirubin, which showed no significant difference.

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Blod från 100 minkar från en försöksfarm med foder av bakteriologiskt god kvalitet, från 55 minkar från en annan farm med foder av bakteriologiskt dålig kvalitet och från nio minkar från Danmark med ett foder av bättre bakteriologisk kvalitet än de båda finländska gruppernas — samtliga djur kliniskt friska — undersöktes p ngra hematologiska och kemiska värden: totalt leukocyttal, hemoglobin, ornitinkarbamyltransferas (OCT), alkalisk fosfatas (AP), alanin-aminotransferas (ALAT), aspartat-aminotransferas (ASAT), γ-glutamyltransferas (γ-GT), totalt bilirubin och kreatinin. De finska minkarna, som erhöll kvalitativt gott foder, hade signifikant battre värden vad gäller totala leukocyttalet, hemoglobin, OCT, AP och kreatinin jämfört med minkarna som fick starkare infekterat foder. Blodvärdena hos de danska minkarna var bäst så när som på hemoglobin, vars värde var signifikant lägre, och bilirubin, som inte visade ngon signifikant skillnad.

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Juokslahti, T. The Effect of the Bacteriological Status of Feed on Some Haematological and Blood Chemical Data on Mink. Acta Vet Scand 21, 504–515 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03546838

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