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Rift Valley fever virus
The virus is a member of the family Bunyaviridae, genus Phlebotomus. The virus is 90-110 nm in diameter, with an internal core of single...
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West Nile virus
WNV virions are approximately 40 nm in diameter, spherical and contain a lipid envelope. The positive-sense single stranded RNA genome is 11.3...
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Staphylococcus aureus
Structure The structure of Staphylococcus aureus is similar to some extent to other species belonging to the genus...
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Micrococcus infections
A fuller datasheet will be added for this topic in the next edition of the Compendium.As with all our datasheets we welcome contributions...
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Bacillus cereus, Bacillus licheniformis and other Bacillus infections
The family Bacillaceae comprises the rod-shaped bacteria that form endospores. The two principal subdivisions are the anaerobic spore-forming...
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Bacillus cereus
Bacillus species are generally referred to as Gram-positive, spore-forming bacilli. The Gram-positive staining reaction is not...
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Anoplocephalidae
Parasites in the Anoplocephalidae occur in the gastrointestinal tract, bile ducts and pancreatic ducts of domestic and wild ruminants. Their...
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Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm)
This disease is on the list of diseases notifiable to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The distribution section contains data...
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Ureaplasma infections
While few laboratories isolate and identify mycoplasmas regularly, even fewer are capable of detecting ureaplasmas because of their unusual and...
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Tritrichomonas foetus
Morphology/motility Tritrichomonas foetus is typically 9-18 µm long x 5-10 µm wide, and somewhat spindle-shaped, although it...
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