Diseases affecting the central nervous system of animals in South Africa include poisoning by Helichrysum argyrosphaerum, Solanum kwebense, Matricaria pyogenes. Reference is also made to some conditions, originally described in overseas countries and which subsequently have been diagnosed in South...

The correspondent criticises the article 'A primary health care approach to an outbreak of cutaneous larva migrans' by C.M.E. McCrindle et al. (Journal of the South African Veterinary Association (1996) 67, 133-136), with reference to helminth nomenclature and the presentation and interpretation of ...

Vaccination with two injections of antigen in water-in-oil produced solid immunity against Clostridium botulinum toxins C and D. The life cycle of Babesia bovis and B. bigemina in ticks and cattle was studied and, in schistosomiasis, it appeared that, regardless of the numbers of worms present,...

This is apparently the first report of resistance of helminths of equids to anthelmintics in South Africa. While a strain of Cyathostominae from an Arab horse stud near Pretoria showed greatly reduced susceptibility to benzimidazoles (mebendazole (Telmin) and fenbendazole (Panacur)) in faecal egg...

Six cases of disseminated intravascular coagulation in the horse are reported. They were characterized clinically by severe subcutaneous oedema of the head and neck, and clinocopathologically by abnormal partial tromboplastin and prothrombin times, a thrombocytopaenia and an increase in fibrin...

Twenty-six abstracts of papers presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting held in the Veterinary Faculty, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa, 7 and 8 July 1988, are presented. Helminths, protozoa and arthropods are covered. Hosts include man, livestock, wild animals, laboratory...

The use of the faecal egg count reduction test in monitoring the anthelmintic resistance of Ostertagia and Trichostrongylus in sheep is described. Application of the test to 60 Dorper lambs in Venterstad district, Cape Province, South Africa, showed that Ostertagia and Trichostrongylus were...

Two young dogs, which played in a domestic garden in which the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) grew wild developed euphoric as well as other nervous signs, reminiscent of opium poisoning. No medicinal treatment was given. One dog recovered in one day while the other took 1-2 weeks to recover.

Angora goat kids from the eastern Cape province with natural infestations of O. circumcincta, Nematodirus spathiger, and Trichostrongylus rugatus were treated with albendazole, fenbendazole or morantel citrate, while a fourth group remained an untreated control group. The benzimidazoles had no...

Summarizing Shope's work on the role of lungworms and earthworms in the aetiology of swine influenza, and the association of Haemo-philus influenzae-suis with the virus in clinical cases of the disease, the editor comments on the lack of evidence as to the inter-epidemic reservoirs of human...