With emerging diseases on the rise, there is an urgent need to identify and understand novel mechanisms of prophylactic protection in vertebrate hosts. Inducing resistance against emerging pathogens through prophylaxis is an ideal management strategy that may impact pathogens and their...

Infection after tooth extraction occurred in 14,0% of 100 dog and cat patients. There was a statistically significant difference between the species; 7,7% in dogs and 36,4% in cats. According to current antibiotic policy, prophylactic use of antibiotics should only be administered to a very...

Revolutionary changes in the production of fattening pigs were initiated about 50 years ago in the USA. In connection with these the close cooperation of British and American scientists with veterinarians has led to organizational improvements based on bacteriological, virological, serological, and ...

Adintrevimab is a human immunoglobulin G1 monoclonal antibody engineered to have broad neutralization against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants and other SARS-like coronaviruses with pandemic potential. In both Syrian golden hamster and rhesus macaque models,...

Periodontitis, defined as a secondary inflammatory condition, arises in conjunction with other primary problems. In connection with the author's thesis for a bachelor's degree in the veterinary medicine programme, this article describes the aetiology, occurrence, pathogenesis, prevention and...

Royal jelly (RJ), an essential food for the queen honeybee, has a variety of biological activities. Although RJ exerts preventive effects on various lifestyle-related diseases, such as osteoporosis and obesity, no study evaluated the effect of RJ on the development of osteoarthritis (OA), the most...

A neonatal Holstein bull calf presented emergently for abdominal evisceration. Calving was unassisted. Ninety minutes postpartum, farm staff noted the defect and brought the patient to the hospital. On presentation, the calf was recumbent, dull, and in hypovolemic shock with uncompensated...

Vaccination is the best way to prevent and reduce the damage caused by infectious diseases in animals and humans. So, several vaccines are used for prophylactic purposes before the pathogen infects, while therapeutic vaccines strengthen the immune system after infection with the pathogen. Adjuvants ...

Epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus is an orbivirus that poses a serious threat to the EU cattle herd. The virus had never previously been reported on the European continent but was detected recently in late 2022 in Sicily, Sardinia and southern Spain. This article presents the structure and...

White tail disease caused by Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV) and extra small virus (XSV) is an infection that primarily affects giant freshwater prawns, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, which in turn causes significant economic losses in aquaculture farms worldwide. In response, different...