Bovine mastitis is an important disease in the dairy industry, causing economic losses as a result of withheld milk and treatment costs. Several studies have suggested milk amyloid A (MAA) as a promising biomarker in the diagnosis of mastitis. In the absence of a gold standard for diagnosis of...

Milk losses associated with mastitis can be attributed to either effects of pathogens per se (i.e., direct losses) or effects of the immune response triggered by intramammary infection (indirect losses). The distinction is important in terms of mastitis prevention and treatment. Regardless, the...

Determination of antimicrobial susceptibility of bovine mastitis pathogens is important for guiding antimicrobial treatment decisions and for the detection of emerging resistance. Environmental streptococci are ubiquitous in the farm environment and are a frequent cause of mastitis in dairy cows....

II. A pasteurella was isolated from the milk of cows in one herd for over 12 months. Affected cows showed acute MASTITIS with ropy milk and there were severe systemic effects. Lancefield Group 0 streptococci were recovered from a herd in which 20 of 25 cows showed systemic effects and painful...

Green zone (viridans) streptococci have been isolated from over 60 cows suspected of being infertile, although such strains are also found in the normal bovine genital tract. Four sheep in a group of 50 revealed intervertebral abscesses due to Corynebacterium ovis. A Pasteurella-like organism was...

Brief references are made to work on inheritance of carcass quality, nutrition of breeding ewes, fecundity (attempts to increase fertility in ewes by injection of gonadotrophin before oestrus were unsuccessful), mammary gland development and KETOSIS in pregnant ewes.
Rats were used to study RICKETS ...

Investigations carried out have been chiefly connected with MASTITIS, ABORTION and BOVINE STERILITY. Some work was also clone on EQUINE PNEUMONIA. Reference is made to an organism (unnamed) stated to have been found frequently associated with bovine sterility.
Some outbreaks of ABORTION in ewes...

ARIZONA, 1941-42.-Bunyea's stained antigen was found equal to the slow tube method for the diagnosis of turkey PARATYPHOID. Attempts to find the cause of INFECTIOUS KERATITIS of cattle failed. A single treatment of range cattle with derris in soapy water was ineffective in control of WARBLE FLIES....

STAFF-There were 16 European veterinary surgeons, 12 European " auxiliaries " and about 100 native assistants employed in the service, and it is also stated that 11 European veterinary surgeons were employed by livestock breeding societies.
A veterinary laboratory at Gabu-Nioka worked on...

The matter given here is a bare outline of the work done. When papers by the staffs of these stations are published, abstracts are prepared from them and included in the Veterinary Bulletin as a matter of routine. Details of the titles of these reports will be found in Index Veterinarius.
ARIZONA,...