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Endotoxin was detected by the LAL test in the plasma of swine and cattle following in vivo injection of endotoxin in order to evaluate the applicability of the test in veterinary medicine for detection of endo...
Yersinia enterocolitica serotype 0:3/biotype 4 was isolated from the oral cavity of altogether 32 (68.1 %) of 47 freshly eviscerated slaughter pigs. Most efficient recovery was achieved by cultivation of tissu...
Contagious ecthyma (CE) has been a frequently occurring disease in captive Norwegian muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus), inflicting heavy losses among calves and adult males; adult females, however, have been little ...
The ability of sheep leukocytes to mediate antibody — dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and that of sheep serum IgG1 and IgG2 to induce ADCC were investigated. Partial characterization of effector cells...
The cysts of S. tarandivulpes were found to be limited by a unit membrane which has been called the cyst membrane. The surface of the cysts was covered by closely packed and hexagonally arranged knob-like prot...
A total of 147 dogs and 85 cats was surveyed for faecal carriage of thermophilic Campylobacters. Isolates were obtained from 33 (22.4 %) of the dogs and from 10 (11.8 %) of the cats investigated. The isolation...
Three thousand Danish porcine field sera were tested for the possible presence of neutralizing antibodies for Hog Cholera (HC) and Bovine viral Diarrhea (BVD).
In a material of free-living mammals collected and necropsied during the period 1934–1984, leukaemic neoplasia was found in 1 roe deer, 1 red deer and 15 brown hares. In order to determine the types of leukaem...
Changes in the bone mineral content (BMG) during the first 4 lactations were continuously studied between July 1977 and February 1982 in a total number of 103 dairy cows of different breeds and rearing intensi...
ELISA was adapted for the study of antigenic relations among important Campylobacters and for the presence of anti-campylo-bacter antibodies in 394 sheep and 265 cattle. Rabbit anti-C. jejuni, C. coli, G. fetu...
To evaluate the effect of vaccination with a Russian live vaccine (LTF 130) against ringworm in specialized beef production, half of the calves on 3 farms were vaccinated on arrival with 5 ml. A booster vaccin...
Altogether, 71 strains of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia enterocolitica-like bacteria from porcine tonsils and pork products were examined for their ability to produce enterotoxin using the infant mouse ...
Forty-two repeat breeder heifers (RBH) and 27 virgin heifers (VH) were used in the study. The breeding history and the occurrence of chromosomal aberrations were investigated in the RBH. The genital tracts of ...
Eight conventionally reared, 1- to 11-week old Ayrshire calves were naturally infected by a strain of Mycoplasma dispar (M. dispar). The colonisation was quantitatively followed by nasal swab samples, transtra...
Sera from 200 sheep, swine and cattle, respectively, collected at slaughter at each of 3 abattoirs situated in the north, middle and south of Sweden were examined for the presence of antibodies to Toxoplasma g...
The day old broiler chickens possessing IBD precipitating maternal antibody when exposed either to IBD contaminated environment or challenged intrabursally with virulent virus at weekly intervals indicated 100...
Culture conditions for studying sheep PBL responses to mitogens (PHA and LPS) in a hanging drop micro-assay were investigated. Using those conditions, the responses of putative sheep T-cells (vide infra) to th...
A study was made to develop and evaluate techniques for the isolation of ovine peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and to investigate the suitability of peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Helix pomatia agglutinin (HP)...
Sera from 7 dog families comprising 20 parents with 48 offspring and 70 unrelated dogs of various breeds have been studied with regard to polymorphism of esterases. Isoelectric focusing in Polyacrylamide gels ...
The effect of daily oral doses of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 (1,25-(OH)2D3) on plasma mineral concentrations and incidence of milk fever was tested in 39 aged cows. Three dose levels of 1,25-(OH)2D3 (0, 100 and 20...
Platelet aggregation induced by ADP was studied in dogs after vaccination with a modified live-virus distemper vaccine. A significant decrease in platelet counts was observed about 1 week after the vaccination...
Total serum bile acids were determined in 62 dogs with different primary or secondary liver diseases, using 3α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase coupled to nitrobluetetrazolium in a centrifugal analyzer. A reaction...
Three different types of subcutaneous tissue cages were evaluated as sources of tissue fluid in cattle. The biochemical composition of fluid sampled at various intervals after insertion was analysed and compar...
Four different treatments of bovine ketosis, using 3 different pharmaceutical preparations, were monitored. The main antiketogenic and glucogenic ingredients of the preparations were as follows: invert sugar (...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of animal, breed and parity on postpartum reproductive functions in dairy cows. A total of 141 cows were included in the experiment, which was carried ou...
Selenium treatment of pregnant sows and gilts was conducted as a double-blind placebo-controlled study in 5 commercial herds with a total of 350 sows and gilts (Danish Landrace, Yorkshire and Landrace-Yorkshir...
Sperm morphology and the fertilizing capacity of ejaculated spermatozoa were examined in 6 Swedish Landrace boars before and after heat stress. The boars were exposed to 35° C during 100 h in a climatic room. ...
A raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides; Family: Canidae), was given cardiac muscle of reindeer infected with S. grueneri, and started shedding Sarcocystis sporocysts 10 days post feeding. The sporocysts measu...
Fresh preparations of microisolated sarcocysts from striated muscle of several domestic reindeer from northern Norway were examined by light microscopy. In cardiac muscle, cysts of S. grueneri were found. In s...
Skeletal muscle of 5 wild reindeer was examined for sarcocysts and used for experimental infection of 6 foxes. Skeletal and cardiac muscle of another reindeer were only examined for sarcocysts. The skeletal mu...
Strips of bovine teat smooth muscle were studied. Their innervation was investigated with analytical pharmacology on field stimulated preparations. The content of noradrenaline in the teat wall and the sphinct...
Intravenous administration of 2.6–3.3 µg/kg of an endotoxin from Salmonella typhimurium to goats caused a marked drop in plasma Ca levels associated with an increase of prostaglandin synthesis and release meas...
Endotoxin from Salmonella typhimurium was administered intravenously to 3 cows. It produced an immediate increase in blood prostaglandin metabolite levels causing either luteolysis or a temporary drop in proge...
Various tissues and body fluids of pigs given chloramphenicol intramuscularly at a dose level of 20 mg/kg 1.5, 2.5 and 18 h before slaughter were examined for drug residues with different agar diffusion method...
Fluorescein fundus angiography was performed on 30 dogs with no pathologic fundus findings using a Canon CF 60 Z wide angle camera. In serial photography of the dye passage 4 different circulatory phases could...
The levels of antimony, arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, molybdenum, selenium and zinc were determined in liver of moose, reindeer and red deer from differen localities in Norway. Reindeer had consider...
A total of 135 bitches suspected of being pregnant were examined with a real-time ultrasound equipment. 58 bitches were not pregnant. In pregnancy diagnosis ultrasound produced an overall accuracy of 99.3%, se...
Trophozoites, gametes, and schizonts characteristic of Cryptosporidia were demonstrated in 2 Tanzanian goat kids. In a heavily infected kid the parasite was associated with villous atrophy and crypt hyperplasi...
The influence of some diseases (lesions at slaughter) on daily weight gain and the relation between some mainly non-environmental factors and diseases, weight gain and carcass quality were studied in 12 herds ...
Growth of mastitis pathogenic bacteria was measured in bovine whey samples by a turbidometric microtechnique. Whey from mastitis cows supported growth as compared with whey prepared from normal milk. Blood pro...
The frequency of enterotoxigenic coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative staphylococci in nose and throat and in hand lesions was investigated in 86 meat cutters and dressers. Enterotoxin-producing staphyloc...
Urinary excretion rates for Ca, Mg and P were compared to simultaneous measurements of the same elements in blood plasma of cows recovering from moderate hypocalcaemia post partum and in 1 animal during recove...
Fresh preparations of micro-isolated sarcocysts from skeletal and cardiac muscle of 12 reindeer were examined by light microscopy. On the basis of cyst structure and cyst wall structure 4 Sarcocystis spp. coul...
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