The incidence of TUBERCULOSIS in cattle in the Northern Territory appears to be greater than was previously suspected.
The Alice Springs Pastoral District has been free from BOVINE CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA for three years, but cattle travelling to South Australia are likely to re-introduce the...
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Northern Territory Administration, Animal Industry Branch, eighth annual report, 1953 / 54. (Covering activities for year ending30/6/54.), 1954, pp 31
I. The examination of lesions in lymph nodes from pigs for Mycobacterium tuiberculosis and the typing of the strains was continued. Glands were divided into five groups. Group 1, "Mottled Glands", contained no distinct lesions but had fine white striations. Group 2 nodes had a large encapsulated...
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Adelaide : K. M. Stevenson, Govt. Printer.,
Citation
The Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science. Seventeenth Annual Report of the Council, July 1954-June 1955 and Eighteenth Annual Report ofthe Council, July, 1955-June, 1956., 1956, pp 113; 109 pp.
I. The examination of lesions in lymph nodes from pigs for Mycobacterium tuiberculosis and the typing of the strains was continued. Glands were divided into five groups. Group 1, "Mottled Glands", contained no distinct lesions but had fine white striations. Group 2 nodes had a large encapsulated...
Publisher
Adelaide : K. M. Stevenson, Govt. Printer.,
Citation
The Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science. Seventeenth Annual Report of the Council, July 1954-June 1955 and Eighteenth Annual Report ofthe Council, July, 1955-June, 1956., 1956, pp 113; 109 pp.
There was a comparatively high incidence of TB. in some cattle from the Northern Territory (3.18% of 5, 000 head slaughtered at Darwin and 4% of 1, 475 slaughtered in South Australia).
BOTULISM was diagnosed among sheep and goats and there were some outbreaks in cattle. The importance of...
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Animal Industry Branch, seventh annual report, 1952-1953 (covering activities for the year ending 30/6/53)., 1953, pp 30 pp.
III. On two properties where the incidence of TB. was high the entire herds were tested and reactors sent to Adelaide abattoirs. Among 11, 305 cattle on one property there were 1, 094 (17.1%) reactors, and on the other, among 6, 087 there were 438 (7.2%) reactors. As a result of the tests store...
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III. (1957). Eleventh annual report 1956-1957. (Covering activities for the year ending 30. 6. 57.)., 1955, pp 43 pp.
A diagnostic test, for TB. in cattle, based on lysis of sheep r.b.c. coated with a fraction extracted from tubercle bacilli, was not more accurate than the tuberculin test, but may be useful in diagnosing JOHNE'S DISEASE.
Studies on vaccination against CASEOUS LYMPHADENITIS in sheep were continued. ...
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Canberra: L. F. Johnston, Govt. Printer.,
Citation
Third annual report of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization for the year ending 30th June, 1951., 1951, pp 167 ; 37-60; 67-68 pp.