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An estimation of the possible etiology behind summer mastitis in heifers includes an evaluation of the significance of various insects as hosts for the causal microorganism. Under Danish conditions, several sp...
Three hundred and fifteen E. coli strains isolated from the intestine of piglets were examined for K-antigens 88 and 99, enterotoxin production and colicin resistance. Of these strains 308 belonged to one of 3...
Fecal samples each followed by a completed questionnaire were obtained from 233 persons representing 80 households. Using the formalinether concentration method combined with the acid-fast staining oocysts of ...
Experimental infections attributed solely to Cryptosporidium were carried out in newborn SPF mice, calves and chicken in order to study the prepatency, patency and incubation periods, describe the clinical sym...
The serological characteristicis of 14 strains assigned to serotype 5 were examined by the slide agglutination test, the indirect haemagglutination (IHA) test and by gel diffusion.
Bisection of bovine post-compaction embryos has become a useful tool for improving embryo transfer results. Compared to pre-compaction division, the technique is simpler but is does involve some cellular damag...
The peroxidase-anti-peroxidase (PAP), avidin-biotin-complex (ABC) techniques, and electron microscopy, were used to identify protozoan parasites in formalin-fixed material from routine necropsy cases. The mate...
Goccidian parasites of the genus Cryptosporidium have been reported in a variety of host species. Within the host, developmental stages of Cryptosporidium occur on the luminal surface of epithelial cells of th...
Streptococcus suis is an important pig pathogen which is associated with respiratory problems, meningitis and less fre-quently with a variety of other conditions(Hommez et al. 1986). S. suis type 1 causes disease...
A female racing greyhound dog was presented to the clinic at the age of 3 months with a 2 months’ history of irregular hindleg movements and thin hindleg muscles. On examination 1 month later, a squatting stan...
In 2 goat herds, one infected with Gorynebacterium pseudo-tuberculosis and one free from the infection,, goats were examined for superficial swellings on the shoulder and chest. All animals in this study had b...
Serological examinations for Gorynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in-fection were carried out in 14 known positive herds and in 1 herd that had beeni recently established through purchase of animals from differe...
The bacterial agglutination test (BAT) and the hemolysis inhibition test (HIT) were employed and evaluated.
Trophoblast from Day-14 bovine embryos was cultured in medium containing mitogens to determine if the mitotic index could be altered. Trophoblast from each of 15 embryos was cultured in minimum essential mediu...
Eight of 16 conventional broiler-chicken flocks examined contained Campylobacter. All isolates were identified as C. jejuni except from 1 flock were C. coli was isolated. One herd consisting of 6 different hou...
Corynebacterium (Eubacterium) suis strains from boars and sows haemagglutinated erythrocytes of different animal species (calf, guinea pig, poultry, pig, and human).
Chronological changes of bovine follicular cumulus-oocyte-complexesi were studied after in vitro maturation over a period of 48 h. According to their thickness and compactness of cumulus investments they were ...
An outbreak of contagious respiratory disease in mink occurred in October 1984 on the south-east coast of Sweden. High morbidity with coughing, sneezing and dullness was reported. Post mortem examination showe...
In the southern parts of Sweden a Borrelia infection transmitted by the tick Ixodes ricinus may affect man, In the present study antibodies to Borrelia spirochetes were studied in sera from 58 cows, 68 calves ...
Groups af White Leghorn chicks obtained from dams deprived on selenium (Se), were fed from hatching a low-Se-vitamin E basal diet alone, or supplemented with 0.02, 0.04, 0.06 or 0.08 mg Se/kg diet, as sodium s...
Monitoring of the body temperature in animals kept under intensive production conditions is desirable for a number of reasons: oestrus detection, disease monitoring and stress indication in addition to more sp...
Until now 11 serotypes of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae have been described (Nicolet 1971, Gunnarsson 1980, Nielsen 1982, Rosendal & Boyd 1982, Nielsen & O’Connor 1984, Nielsen 1985, Kamp 1986). Recently a hith...
Blooms of blue-green algae from 51 eutrophic Scandinavian lakes were investigated during the period 1978–1984, to ascertain the occurrence of toxinogenic species.
The paper describes the postpartum (pp) reproductive performance of 252 dairy cows in 2 areas in Iceland, in the north (Eyjafjörður) and in the south (Skeið), during a 12 months period.
Counter current immunoelectrophoresis (CCIE) is the diagnostic method used in the ongoing Aleutian disease virus eradication program on Danish mink farms. There has been an increasing demand for an alternative...
The prevalence of Elaphostrongylus cervi infection in moose shot during the hunting season 1983 in 47 different municipalities in Southern Norway was studied. E. cervi seemed to occur endemically in the popula...
Pregnant sows were injected subcutaneously (s.c.) or intramuscularly (i.m.) with a barium selenate suspension (0.5–1.0 mg Se/kg body weight (b.w.)) and together with control animals fed a commercial diet. No r...
The study was designed to determine differences between normal mares and mares with endometrial pathology in the inflammatory response after bacterial challenge. Six normal mares (biopsy category I) and 4 mare...
Fourteen dogs with naturally occurring nephrotic syndrome were evaluated for abnormalities in the hemostatic system. Histopathologic diagnoses included 8 dogs with membraneous glomerulonephritis, 1 dog with ac...
In an experiment with 12 calves, Aquacycline® in a 5 % (OTC-A5) and a 10 % (OTC-A10) solution, was compared with Terramycin®-100 (OTC-C) by injecting 20 mg OTC/kg bwt. of these preparations in the dewlap and m...
Using high pressure liquid chromatography the serum concentration of vitamin E was measured in dairy cows fed either hay or silage as their main roughage, in calves fed milk-replacer, and in young intensively ...
Mononuclear cells isolated from thymus, spleen and cord blood of pig fetuses ranging in age from 48 to 112 days were examined for the presence of sheep red blood cell rosette-forming cells (SRBC-RFC). After an...
During the first 5 months of 1985, 35 moose were obtained for necropsy at the National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. 17 (49 %) of these cases were found to be infected with Elaphostrongylus sp. The ne...
The penetration of penicillin into tissue cage fluid (TCF) in calves was studied after intravenous and intramuscular injection. The penicillin concentrations in TCF were lower than in serum and maximum was rea...
Eight animals, 3 heifers and 5 primiparous cows, were artificially inseminated by intrauterine deposition of frozen-thawed semen. The insemination dose comprised 20×106 or 200 × 106 spermatozoa, frozen in French ...
Serological evidence of exposure of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) to a virus related to bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1) (Synonym: Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) virus) has been reported in Canada (El Azhary 1...
The indirect fluorescent antibody (IF) test is often performed on glass slides prepared with smears or tissue sections containing an antigen. It is convenient to have several separate and distinct areas of ant...
Peripheral plasma levels of 15-keto-13,14-dihydro-PGF2α, progesterone, Cortisol, LH and prolactin were studied in 6 primiparous postpartum dairy cows. The cows were followed by hormone measurements and clinical e...
Meiosis in bovine oocytes has; been studied after maturation in vitro or in vivo. Oocytes for in vitro maturation were collected from the ovaries of slaughtered cattle without regard to the phase of the estrou...
The object of this investigation was to study luteinizing hormone (LH) response to different doses of synthetic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in prepubertal gilts. Four crossbred prepubertal gilts, 128...
Serum C3 levels and total haemolytic complement (HC) activity were determined simultaneously in young bulls (130 animals, 14 sire families). 3 of the 14 families show considerable deviation in C3 levels and th...
Proprietary formulations of sulfaphenazole were administered intravenously and orally to sheep. After intravenous injection the disposition of sulfaphenazole was described by an open two compartment model, and...
Ninety E. coli strains, isolated from piglets which had died from neonatal diarrhea, were tested for the presence of K88, K99, 987P and type 1 fimbriae. Two or more types of fimbriae were demonstrated in 14 of...
The epidemiology and genetic variability of clinical mastitis were examined. The data consisted of 70,775 Finnish Ayrshire cows. All cows were from milk recorded herds and calved during 1983. Each cow was unde...
The epidemiology of clinical ketosis, hypocalcaemia and hypomagnesaemia was examined. In addition, the genetic variability of ketosis and parturient paresis was investigated. The data set consisted of the lact...
The epidemiology and genetic variability of the most common reproductive diseases were examined. The data set consisted of the lactation records of 70,775 Finnish Ayrshire dairy cows. Each cow was under observ...
The epidemiology and genetic variability of the most common dairy cow diseases were examined. This paper describes the data set, lactation incidence rates and culling during lactation. The data set consisted o...
Cotton swab samples were taken from the ventral surface of the mouth and from the proximal esophagus from 23 captive nonpoisonous snakes. The samples were cultured and investigated for aerobic bacteria. Both t...
Parvovirus infections in Finnish fur animals, i.e. ferrets, raccoon dogs, blue foxes and mink, were studied. The ferret was found to be the only insusceptible animal. Parvo enteritis of raccoon dogs, reported ...
An experiment was conducted to examine the effect of a lipopoly-saccharide (LPS) of Salmonella typhimurium on the luteal function in 80 days pregnant gilts. Four animals were i.v. injected with 2 μg LPS/kg bod...
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