The authors describe the incidence of black leg disease in a Hungarian dairy herd. The case occurred among young animals of 10-12 months of age. Five from 28 heifers died suddenly without clinical signs of illness during a three month period in the spring of 2010. The other animals (n=23) showed...

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)...

Clostridium chauvoei is the aetiologic agent of blackleg in bovine and small ruminants. It is always lethal and involves considerable economic losses. In Senegal, bacteriological, biochemical and immunological studies allowed the isolation and identification of the major soluble antigenic protein...

In 2010, 49 of the African Union (AU) Member States (MS) submitted their animal disease reports to AU-IBAR. This was the highest number of reports since 2000. Out of the expected 636 monthly disease reports from all MS, 560 were received as compared to 551 reports received in 2009. From the 2010...

In 2011, 42 Member States (MS) of the African Union (AU) submitted their disease reports to the Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources of African Union (AU-IBAR). The number of countries that reported their disease situation to AU-IBAR has decreased by 11.68% from 49 (92.45%) in 2010 to 42...

Clostridium chauvoei is the pathogenic agent for blackleg, a toxigenic disease of bovine and small ruminants which is known to cause high mortality in infected animals and also considerable economic losses. Studies on biochemical, immunological and molecular properties of this bacteria lead to the...

This study was designed to determine the health status of dairy cattle, and the rates of and reasons for culling on dairy farms in Kars. A 2-stage stratified sampling strategy was used to select localities and farms. The study involved an interview with the farmers and regular visits to the farms....

Using figures obtained for periods of up to 27 years, morbidity associated with 12 infectious diseases of domestic animals was plotted with their computed secular trends. Seasonal variation was eliminated by using annual figures, and cyclic variation and irregular fluctuations were combined as a...