Actinomycosis is a rare infectious bacterial disease that affects domestic and wild ruminants, horses, small carnivores, monkeys, rabbits, birds and humans. Actinomyces spp. are gram-positive, acid-fast-negative filamentous bacteria which can grow anaerobically and cause abscesses and...

The aim of this study was to recognise the etiological factor of the disease in 14 rabbits (3-6 years old) with symptoms of jaw deformations, abscesses in the mandible region and purulent discharge from the eye. All clinical, bacteriological, histopathological and radiological examinations were...

There are 24 short papers on dermatomycoses, as follows. Dermatophytoses of animals in Afghanistan (S. V. Petrovich & M. T. Kokar, pp. 3-6); Dermatomycoses of Felidae (I. D. Polyakov, 6-12); Trichophytosis of goats (N. P. Golovina & A. I. Donasov, 12-16); Saprophytic fungal flora of the skin of...

From 67 rabbits, 50 females and 17 males, as well as 91 neonates reared under poor hygienic conditions, natural Actinomyces infections with different clinical manifestations are reported. Both endogenous and exogenous infections were observed and the latter was attributed to the contamination of...

Dermatophilus congolensis infection in 4 Holstein-Friesian bulls is reported. Diagnosis was based on microscopy of smears and biopsies of tongue lesions and experimental studies in the rabbit.

The disease occurred in 3 of 5 laboratory rabbits in separate cages. There were hard nodules in the skin; some of these were fistu-lous with a whitish exúdate containing yellow granules consisting of radiating club-shaped structures. Lesions also occurred in various bones. The disease was diagnosed ...

Pharyngeal abscess in a bull was diagnosed clinically as actinomycosis; Streptomyces albus (but not Acîinomyces) was isolated. Treatment with streptomycin was ineffective. Lesions appeared on the scrotum, thighs, the base of the tail and the rump; they healed slowly. Skin scrapings revealed ...

(1) Suspensions of material from jaw, lymph node, and tongue actinomycotic infections were each inoculated subcutaneously into one rat and intraperitoneally into another. Slight swellings appeared at the site of. inoculation in three days, but soon regressed. The animals were killed five weeks...

Normal values for horse, ox, pig, sheep, goat, duck, fowl, goose, guineapig, mouse, rabbit and dog are shown in a table. Over 2, 500 determinations were made. Fifty-one sick dogs were also examined and high serum antistreptolysin titres were found in cases of streptococcal sepsis, nephritis,...

Subcutaneous inoculation of 0.2-l.6 ml. of A. bovis culture caused a swelling the size of a walnut to develop after 5-7 days in new-born rabbits. Anaerobic, bovine and human strains of the organism were used.-R.M.