In this short review, an extensive table gives details of some of the most important zoonoses: viral diseases (rabies); bacterial diseases (cat scratch disease, caused by Bartonella henselae; Salmonella; Campylobacter); protozoal infections; helminthoses (Toxocara); mycoses; parasitoses and...

A puppy that died when two and a half months old was sent by a breeder in Hedmark to the Veterinary Institute in Oslo for postmortem examination; the animal had been treated with fluids for rehydration following diarrhoea. The mucous membranes and abdominal organs were pale and there was mild...

This article describes the use of cleaning fish as biological control agents and the risks of nematode, Ichthyophonus hoferi and other infectious disease transmission between them and farmed salmon and rainbow trout by predation in Norway.

The Norwegian Veterinary Institute studied blood samples from 80 dogs and stool samples from 70 dogs imported from countries in Eastern Europe in 2012. It was shown that the majority of the veterinarians (87.2%) have had street dogs as patients, and 14.8% have had more than 20 street dogs in the...

The systems operating in Norway for recording zoonoses are described. The incidence of food-borne diseases is low because diseases incidence in farm animals is low, but the number of disease incidents cased by waterborne pathogens is higher than in several other industrial lands. Not all zoonoses...

The clinical signs, postmortem findings and diagnosis of an acorn poisoning outbreak in sheep in Norway [date not given] are described.

The Norwegian Food Safety Authority has commissioned this monitoring program, which is part of the Norwegian implementation of national and international feed legislation. In this report, the results from the official monitoring program for fish feed, feed ingredients and premixes for 2017, are...

The wild reindeer populations that inhabit alpine areas of southern Norway represent the last remnants of wild tundra reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) in Europe and must be preserved for the future. For a long period of time these mountain areas have been the site of human encroachments, which ...

This article includes a case report followed by a general overview of tremorgenic mycotoxin intoxication in dogs and discusses clinical signs, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. A three years old labrador, male, was brought into the clinic for emergency help due to vomiting and tremor. Clinical...

Recent changes in Norwegian legislation have legalised the private ownership of 19 species of reptiles, the so-called 'positive list'. This change will likely lead to an increase in the number of pet reptiles, and an increase in the demand for veterinary services for these animals. It also...