Infectious abortions in swine

Spatiotemporal trends in the discovery of new swine infectious agents

A literature review was conducted to assess the spatiotemporal trend and diversity of infectious agents that were newly found in pigs between 1985 and 2010. We identified 173 new variants from 91 species, of which 73 species had not been previously described in pigs. These new species, of which one third was zoonotic, were taxonomically diverse. They were identified throughout the study period,...

Some experience in legal abortions.

Abortion has been mankind's most commonly used method of birth control. Today, both the social attitudes and medical practices are changing fast. New medical and smgical techniques are being developed for an easy and safe method tl) meet the increasing social demand for such a procedure. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 came to force irl India from 1st April 1972. From April, 1972...

An outbreak of acute swine erysipelase in a herd

Heterochromatic polymorphism in spontaneous abortions.

Since the advent of C-banding as a routine diagnostic procedure, the significance of heterochromatic polymorphism has been questioned. Some workers have considered variations in heterochromatin in chromosomes 1 and 9 to be associated with fetal wastage, recurrent abortions, and abnormal phenotypes. Over a 15-month period, this laboratory made a study of the diagnostic significance of heterochro...

Seasonal distribution of abortions.

At least one pregnancy in eight terminates in an abortion recognized as such and recalled by women when asked for a pregnancy history (McDonald, 1958; Warburton and Fraser, 1964). Some women have a greater tendency to abort than others (Warburton and Fraser, 1964) and a few abort repeatedly (Eastman and Hellman, 1961). Gross fetal malformation undoubtedly accounts for some spontaneous abortions...