Slide Collection (Veterinary Tropical Diseases)

Slide Collection (Veterinary Tropical Diseases)

 

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Recent Submissions

  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2013-11-05)
    Bovine babesiosis or rewater is a tick-borne disease caused by parasites of the genus Babesia which occur in the erythrocytes of infected cattle. There are four Babesia species that are known to occur in cattle in Southern ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2013-11-05)
    Cerebral redwater is diagnosed at necropsy by the examination of strained brain smears. The majority of erythrocytes are parasitized by Babesia bovis. In the cerebral form of the disease the grey matter of the cerebrum and ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2013-11-05)
    Bovine babesiosis or redwater is a tick-borne disease caused by parasites of the genus Babesia which occur in the erythrocytes of infected cattle. In animals which have died from acute B. Bovis infections there is severe ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology (2013-05-29)
    Turning sickness or cerebral theileriosis is an uncommon aberrant form of infection by Theileria parva or Theileria taurotragi in which lymphoblasts parasitized by schizonts accumulate in cerebral vessels leading to ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology (2013-05-29)
    Turning sickness or cerebral theileriosis is an uncommon aberrant form of infection by Theileria parva or Theileria taurotragi in which lymphoblasts parasitized by schizonts accumulate in cerebral vessels leading to ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology (2013-05-29)
    Turning sickness or cerebral theileriosis is an uncommon aberrant form of infection by Theileria parva or Theileria taurotragi in which lymphoblasts parasitized by schizonts accumulate in cerebral vessels leading to ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology (2013-05-29)
    Turning sickness or cerebral theileriosis is an uncommon aberrant form of infection by Theileria parva or Theileria taurotragi in which lymphoblasts parasitized by schizonts accumulate in cerebral vessels leading to ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology (2013-05-29)
    Turning sickness or cerebral theileriosis is an uncommon aberrant form of infection by Theileria parva or Theileria taurotragi in which lymphoblasts parasitized by schizonts accumulate in cerebral vessels leading to ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology (2013-05-29)
    Turning sickness or cerebral theileriosis is an uncommon aberrant form of infection by Theileria parva or Theileria taurotragi in which lymphoblasts parasitized by schizonts accumulate in cerebral vessels leading to ...
  • Unknown; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2009-09-30)
    The small intestines are unopened. The numerous white foci, 1-2 mm in diameter each comprise an area in the mucosa where there is a severe infection of epithelial cells. The reddened, hyperaemic intestinal wall indicates ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2009-09-30)
    Microscopic appearance of coccidial oocysts in sheep faeces. Numerous round oocysts are present. The slide was prepared by the flotation technique of infected sheep faeces.
  • Unknown; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2009-09-30)
    Severe infection of Eimeria sp. in the epithelial cells of the mucosa. It is a histological section of one of the white nodules seen macroscopically in some cases of coccidiosis in sheep.
  • Penzhorn, Barend Louis; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2009-09-30)
    The liver is the seat of infection with the Eimeria stiedae parasite in rabbits. The photo show numerous white nodules in a rabbit liver. Each nodule comprises thousands of the various developmental stages of the organism.
  • Penzhorn, Barend Louis; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2009-09-30)
    The worm egg measures about 80-85 by 40-45 in size so that one can obtain an idea of the relative sizes of the two for diagnostic purposes. The preparation is made by the flotation technique of sheep faeces.
  • Unknown; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2009-09-30)
    Species of the genus Eimeria are the most important causes of an important protozoal diseases known as coccidiosis which occurs in many livestock species like cattle, sheep, goats, horses, other mammals and poultry. In ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Paraclinical Sciences. Section of Pathology; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2009-09-30)
    The photo shows a severe infection of the small intestine of a goat. Each of the white foci contains numerous Eimeria parasites in various stages of the developmental cycle.
  • Unknown; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2009-07-02)
    This lesion is present to some degree in all cases of heartwater.
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2008-11-14)
    The lesion, petechiation of the conjunctiva, is present in some cases of heartwater
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science. Dept. of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (2008-09-05)
    After being bitten by an infected tick E. ruminantium enters the animal in the saliva of the tick. Initial multiplication of the parasiteprobably takes place in cells of the lymph node regional to the tick bite from where ...
  • University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2008-05-27)
    Amblyomma hebraeum is one of the tick vectors of heartwater which is an acute disease of cattle, goats, sheep and some wild ruminants caused by the rickettsia, Ehrlichia ruminantium (formely Cowdria ruminantium). Heartwater ...

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