Perioperative administration of B-lactam antimicrobials, including penicillin G procaine, is commonly performed at the time of bovine surgical castration despite a paucity of published evidence regarding rate of bovine castration wound infections and efficacy of single-dose perioperative...

In the present study, two cases of tetanus in cows are reported associated with the history of difficult parturition and retention of placenta. On clinical examination, these animals had mild to severe fever. In both the cows, characteristic clinical signs observed were the prolapse of third eyelid ...

This paper describes two infections with Clostridium tetani (C. tetani). One outbreak occurred after dehorning of calves, the second infection happened after ear tagging of a goat. In the first case 3 young Holstein Friesian calves showed generalized stiffness, severe lock-jaw and bloat two weeks...

Nervous diseases of cattle are of considerable importance as they represent a serious threat for animal health despite they are less frequent in comparison to other infective pathologies. This article aims at being a short discussion of the main bacterial, viral and neurotoxic aetiologies of...

Vaccination, the transmission of "vaccine", a benign disease of cows, to immunize human beings against smallpox, was invented by Jenner at the end of the eighteenth century. Pasteur, convinced that the vaccine microbe was an attenuated form of the smallpox microbe, showed that, similarly,...

Background: Immediate type hypersensitivity to vaccines containing bovine/porcine excipients, such as the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is probably due to sensitization to bovine/porcine gelatin. Most patients with such reactions in Sri Lanka have cow's milk (CM) or beef allergy....

In this study, the infectious disease and pathogens detected in cattle in Yamaguchi Prefecture from 2006 to 2016 were summarized to better understand their current status with a View to preventing their associated diseases. Sixteen cases of Johne's disease and five other infectious diseases...

Whether colostral leukocytes (CLs) of vaccinated dams influence the immune response of neonatal calves following vaccination against the same antigen as their respective dams remains unanswered. Therefore, we compared the induction of humoral and cellular immune responses after vaccination in...

The genus Clostridium includes a group of Gram positive, anaerobic bacteria which produce endospores and toxins when conditions favourable to their development are met. These toxins can be produced and absorbed in the intestinal lumen, as occurs in cases of enterotoxaemia (Clostridium perfringens)...

Background: Theileria equi and Babesia caballi cause equine piroplasmosis (EP), one of the most important tick-borne diseases of horses due to its high negative impact to the equine industry. Although infections with these parasites have been reported for decades in Spain, epidemiological studies...