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The growth of the reindeer from birth to adulthood is cumulative consisting of a rapid weight accretion during summers followed by a weight loss or stasis during winters. The birth weight of the newborn calves...
Willow ptarmigan chicks were reared during 8 years on concentrates supplemented with blueberry plants. Mortality during the first 3 weeks after hatching ranged between 33 and 65 %, and was mainly caused by ent...
Mortality due to nephritis and uric acid diathesis was observed during the fall and winter in captive willow ptarmigan. The present study examined how feed protein concentration influences feed and water consu...
No significant differences in plasma testosterone level were observed between cows carrying a male foetus and cows carrying a female foetus at any ten-day interval from day 35 of gestation until parturition. R...
The effectiveness of 4 enrichment media for the recovery of low levels of inoculated cells of Campylobacter jejuni was evaluated. The media contained antibiotics or antibiotics and bile acids as selective comp...
The effect of various concentrations of polymyxin B and Colistin in Skirrow’s or Butzler’s type media, respectively, on the recovery rate of 13 strains of G. jejuni before and after heat treatment was studied....
The different agar diffusion methods were compared using antibiotic and sulphonamide-impregnated filter-paper discs and the kidneys of healthy and emergency-slaughtered pigs and cows after slaughter.
During the years 1977–1980 60 cases of non-neoplastic chronic exocrine pancreatic disease in dogs were investigated clinically and pathologically. The disorders were clinically divided into pancreatic degenera...
In a herd of 65 goats with outbreaks of listeriosis (Herd A) blood, faeces and milk were collected just after the outbreaks, about 1 month later and at delivery about 4 months thereafter. Faeces and milk were ...
The majority of 50 nonpregnant dairy goats in a herd showed acute symptoms of disease for 1–2 days after a sudden change in weather conditions, feeding regime and management. In 17 of the does the condition pr...
Growing and laying chickens were fed graded levels of selenium in the form of sodium selenite. One day old Norwegian bred broiler chickens and 20 weeks old Norwegian bred White Leghorn chickens were divided in...
Twenty Norwegian Landrace pigs were divided into 5 groups and fed a basal diet consisting of a mixture of dried skim milk and whey powder together with ground barley. The diet was supplemented with 0, 0.2, 0.8...
Newborn and young pups up to the age of 15 days were exposed to E. cuniculi, either by keeping the pups in cages together with orally inoculated foster-mothers and their offspring, or by oral inoculation with ...
A concentrate was fortified with mineral salts by adding CaCl2, Al2(SO4)3 and MgSO4 to standard concentrate A and pelleting the product When used as feed supplement from 3 weeks pre partum to 1 week post partum t...
Löwenstein-Jensen medium with mycobactin, cyclo-heximide, penicillin, and chloramphenicol, and enriched with sodium pyruvate, was compared with an ordinary L.-J. medium with mycobactin. Faeces samples from cat...
A specific Polarographic method with a sensitivity of ≥ 2 jig/kg (ppb) has been used to determine the plasma and tissue concentrations of nitroxynil (NTX), which is used against Parafilaria bovicola in cattle....
A randomized, blocked 23 factorial experiment was conducted with 48 young pigs. The treatment factors were: 2 levels of selenium (55 and 115 µg/kg), 2 levels of vitamin E (3 and 53 mg/kg) and 2 levels of the anti...
Ornithine decarboxylase (E.G. 4.1.1.17) and S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (E.G. 4.1.1.50) and their products putrescine, spermidine and spermine were estimated in the rumen liquid from 3 groups of growing...
Sheep lungs obtained at slaughter from 4 herds from Central Norway were subjected to a macroscopical examination. Gross pulmonary findings included normal lungs, fibrous pleurisy, verminous nodules, atelectasi...
In a study of 4 sheep herds, 1 apparently healthy and 3 having respiratory problems, lesions typical of subacute or chronic pneumonia were found in 3–36 % of slaughtered lambs. Occurrence appeared to be relate...
In order to study the occurrence of mycoplasmas among Norwegian sheep, lungs from a great number of different herds were collected at 3 abattoirs in Southern Norway. The presence of fermenting mycoplasmas and ...
The occurrence of Sarcocystis infection and pathological changes were recorded in samples of the heart, diaphragm, and oesophagus from 198 healthy sheep representing 3 different age groups, obtained from an ab...
Spores of Encephalitozoon cuniculi were recovered from foetal and placental tissues from blue fox females orally inoculated with the parasite. The results provided evidence for transplacental transmission of t...
Enterotoxigenic reference strains of Staphylococcus aureus were cultivated in sterile whole and skim milk for 18 h at 37°G. Staphylococcal enterotoxin A, B, and C were detected directly in the milk by an enzym...
A convenient method was developed to diagnose pancreatic degenerative atrophy (PDA) in small animal practice based on the observations, that feeding crude soybean increases faecal protease activity in dogs wit...
Serum ionized calcium concentrations (CaF) were determined in 87 Swedish red-and-white cows and 10 Swedish Friesian cows with clinical signs of parturient paresis. All cows were in the week prior to or after part...
The influence of environment on animal health was studied in 40 bacon herds. These herds delivered approx. 11,000 baconers annually to the slaughter-house. The data from the meat inspection was studied in conn...
The influence of sow colostrum trypsin inhibitor (SCTI) on the immunoglobulin absorption from the gut of 16 newborn colostrum-deprived piglets was investigated in a paired feeding experiment.
The heart and liver functions, blood electrolytes and acid-base balance were studies in halothane-sensitive and nonsensitive pigs. An inhibition of the hyperthermia reaction was attempted by an i.v. injection ...
An unselected material consisting of composite milk samples from 1029 Ayrshire and 113 Friesian cows were analysed for the β-lactoglobulin types. The frequencies of β-Lg types were AA 8.3 %, AB 45.5% and BB 46...
Pooled faeces samples from 106 poultry flocks in Norway were examined. Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni was isolated from 10 of 100 chicken flocks and from 4 of 6 turkey flocks. Eight of the 14 isolates were ...
Post-traumatic lung insufficiency in dogs was induced by a combination of haemorrhagic hypotension and liver trauma. In one experimental group, lung biopsies were sampled every 4 h. This paper describes the de...
In connection with reindeer, slaughter 348 foetuses were collected at different foetal developmental stages and studied together with 20 full-term newborn calves with respect to weight, crown-rump length, meta...
Sera from 32 foxes sampled at intervals varying from 20 to 70 days after oral inoculation with E. cuniculi spores were tested by the india-ink immunoreaction (IIR) and the indirect fluorescent antibody test (I...
Characteristics of 50 strains of G. jejuni/coli isolated from rectal swabs, caecal contents or bile of cow, sheep, goat, swine, broiler chicken and man were investigated. All the strains grew at 30 °C, 35°C 42...
Altogether 235 strains of Escherichia coli isolated from jejunal content of piglets with neonatal diarrhea were examined for serological, enterotoxin-producing and certain biochemical properties. Of 198 strain...
The California Dairy Herd Improvement Association records of 29 California dairies which experienced clinical mycoplasmal mastitis between January 1975 and December 1977 were examined and compared to the recor...
Serological examination of 4 Border disease affected flocks of sheep using the neutralization test showed antibody prevalences between 14 and 96 %. Prevalence in yearlings in 3 of the 4 flocks was 37 %, it increa...
A rapid method for the determination of urea in milk was evaluated. The method employed was a urease/glutamate dehydrogenase procedure where the decrease in absorbante of NADH is monitored spectrophotometrical...
Bovine serum containing penicillinase inhibitor activity was fractioned by gel filtration chromatography and ion exchange chromatography. The penicillinase inhibitor was principally located in the IgG-fraction...
The lipid peroxide level of rat liver increased due to i.p. endotoxin injection, reaching its maximum, value 24 h after administration. After that the level declined, reaching approximately the initial value a...
The concentrations of methoxychlor in cow milk and plasma were determined following a cutaneous application of a non-commercial emulsion and an intravenous injection of a solution containing 5 and 1 g methoxyc...
One hundred and two strains of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni isolated from pigs, various avian species and man were subjected to biochemical characterization including hydrolysis of hippurate, tolerance of...
Progesterone concentrations in heparinized plasma harvested immediately after blood collection were compared with levels obtained after storage of the corresponding whole blood for 2 h, 4 h, 6 h, 1 day, 2 days...
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