Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a zoonotic bacterial pathogen capable of causing severe disease in human beings. Cattle are considered to be the main reservoir of the bacterium. The objective of the current study was to compare environmental sampling (consisting of dust, overshoe, and...

Introduction: BDV in sheep and goats has a worldwide distribution and is responsible for economic losses each year. In the epidemiology of pestiviruses in goats persistently infected cattle and sheep play a key role in the spread of the viruses. The purpose of this study was to estimate the...

Dictyocaulus collected from cattle, roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and moose (Alces alces) in Sweden were subjected to morphological and molecular analyses to investigate whether mixed or monospecific Dictyocaulus infections occur in Swedish cattle and whether wild cervids may act as reservoirs....

This contains 51 papers given at the Third International Symposium on Listeriosis at Bilthpven in 1966. The papers are collected in three sections: I. Microbiological and biochemical aspects; II. Veterinary medical aspects; III. Human medical aspects of the disease. The first section includes...

This section opens with a summary (in French) by B. Castagnoli & L. Bellani. It deals particularly with the epidemiology of salmonellosis in cattle, pigs, horses and man. Following this there are reports from several countries including Belgium, India, Thailand, the U.AJr., and Argentina. In W....

The Veterinary Division of the Ministry of Animal and Forest Resources was being subdivided into three Divisions-the Animal Health Division covers all matters relating to Animal Health, the investigation services, and Staff training. An Animal Husbandry Division has recently been created to deal...

M. gives an account of the veterinary side of the above investigation, and reviews the history of the control of bovine TB. in Sweden.
Efforts to control the disease were started in 1897. Slaughter was not compulsory except in the case of cows with tuberculous mastitis. Reactors were dealt with by...

This report contains 11 chapters on the outbreak four articles on special research work carried out during its course two appendixes on special government decrees etc. and on co-operation with Denmark respectively and certain diagrams maps and tables. The chapters are as follows: -
(1) HISTORICAL-A ...

ZWICK.-BORNA DISEASE. A cinematograph film of Borna disease was shown and it was stated that this virus disease is transmissible to the rabbit, guineapig, rat, fowl, sheep, bovine and horse. The virus is nearly related to that of malignant bovine catarrh and it is excreted in the nasal secretion,...

The number of fresh outbreaks during the year was eight and the mortality 798 head, as compared with five and 374, respectively, during the previous year. Eleven farms regarded as infected at the beginning of the year were released from quarantine, no case of the disease having occurred on any of...