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1988 Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, Volume 55, 1988: Recent submissions
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)Eleven enzymes, which were used to compare South African S. mattheei and S. haematobium in a former study, were employed to study intraspecific variation within S. mattheei, using starch gel electrophoresis and iso-electric ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)Investigation into the presence of C. ruminantium antigen, using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in various tick tissues and haemolymph of adult Amblyomma hebraeum ticks revealed that the organism invades a ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)The resistance to artificical infection with Cowdria ruminantium of calves born to cows fully susceptible to heartwater is no different from that of calves bred in heartwater endemic areas where the tick challenge is ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)A total of 23 kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, were shot at 2-month intervals from June 1983 to April 1984 in the Etosha Game Reserve in the north of South West Africa/Namibia. The parasite survey conducted on these animals ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)The presence of endotoxin was examined in 5 sheep with experimentally-induced heartwater. Two peaks in endotoxin levels were recorded in 4 out of the 5 sheep during the acute stage of the disease. The 1st peak coincided ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)The effects of wave form, voltage, frequency and current as well as application time on the narcotizing ability of alternating current were investigated. A 60 Vrms, 50 Hz sine wave current applied for 30 s produced narcosis ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)Each of two horses was dosed by stomach tube with culture material on maize of Fusarium moniliforme MRC 826. One horse developed severe hepatosis and mild oedema of the brain after 6 doses of 2,5 g of culture material/kg ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)A field outbreak of Pachystigma pygmaeum intoxication in sheep is described. Noteworthy clinical signs were: respiratory distress, apathy and subcutaneous oedema of mainly the head. Gross changes included cardiomegaly, ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)DNA from the Washington, South-Idaho, Virginia and Florida isolates of Anaplasma marginale was hybridized to probes specific for Anaplasma centrale and A. marginale. The A. centrale probes AC-2 and AC-4 hybridized to ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)To investigate the correlation of haemodynamic parameters with the intensity of the gallop sound (S₃), use was made of right heart catheterization with a Swan-Ganz catheter to measure the pulmonary and right atrial pressures. ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)In an examination of 34 southern African SAT-type foot-and-mouth disease viruses, all but 1 attained satisfactory levels of infectivity within 6 passages in rolled BHK₂₁monolayer cell cultures. However, there were marked ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)Fifty sera collected from 12 different species of free-living game animals in game parks in the Northern Natal were tested against 8 Leptospira interrogans antigens using the microscopic agglutination test (MAT). Six out ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)Scanning electron microscopical (SEM) studies on tegument of the bovid schistosomes, Schistosoma margrebowiei and Schistosoma mattheei have yielded conflicting results; certain authors observed the tubercles on the tegument ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)Teladorsagia davtiani in sheep in the south-western Cape, is recorded in the Republic of South Africa for the first time. The literature dealing with this helminth is briefly reviewed.
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)A flock of sheep, known to be infected with the "FSA" mutant of Brucella melitensis Rev. 1, was examined serologically and bacteriologically to determine whether any relationship existed which would help in the control of ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)Various immunization procedures were investigated in an effort to improve the number of hybridomas producing antibodies against Cysticercus cellulosae. Ten groups of 5 BALB/c mice were subjected to different immunization ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)The first isolations of Campylobacter mucosalis in South Africa are described. Isolations were made from a 6-week-old weaner pig with necrotic enteritis and from 2 gingival swabs of suckling piglets from herds with histories ...
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(Published by the Government Printer, Pretoria., 1988)The faeces of 11 horses were examined for Fasciola spp. eggs. One of them was positive for Fasciola hepatica, a finding which was confirmed post-mortem. The 10 negative horses were subsequently infested with either F. ...
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