Subclinical hypocalcemia may affect half of all multiparous cows, and clinical hypocalcemia or milk fever affects approximately 5% of dairy cows each year. This disorder of calcium homeostasis can be induced by several dietary factors. Recent studies implicate high dietary potassium and high dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) with increased risk of milk fever. The hypothesis tested in this ...

BACKGROUND Q fever is a worldwide zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii. Epidemiologically, animals are considered reservoirs and humans incidental hosts. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We investigated Q fever in rural Senegal. Human samples (e.g., sera, saliva, breast milk, feces) were screened in the generally healthy population of two villages of the Sine-Saloum region. Ticks were c...

BACKGROUND Q fever is a zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, a Gram negative bacterium present worldwide. Small ruminants are considered the main reservoirs for infection of humans. This study aimed to estimate the extent of C. burnetii infection among sheep and goats in part of The Gambia. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This survey was carried out from March to May 2012 at two areas in The ...

Background: Brucellosis is an important re-emerging zoonosis with a worldwide distribution. It is a common but often neglected disease in India. Objectives: To detect prevalence of brucellosis in clinically suspected cases of Fever of Unknown Origin and to compare the diagnostic efficacy of ELISA and Conventional blood culture. Material And Methods: Blood samples from 100 suspected cases of fev...

BACKGROUND Human brucellosis is common in southern Israel among the semi-nomadic Bedouin, a population that consumes unpasteurized dairy products. Though camel milk ingestion is a known mechanism for brucellosis acquisition, only a few reports of sporadic cases have been published in the medical literature. OBJECTIVES To describe a local brucellosis outbreak in 15 extended Bedouin family memb...

Our objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of a low dietary cation-anion balance (DCAB) in preventing milk fever and udder edema in dry cows consuming a high-Ca diet and to evaluate the effect of this diet on calves delivered by these cows. Seventy primiparous or multiparous cows and 50 pregnant heifers were offered alfalfa hay-based diets beginning 4 wk before their projected calving date...

41 She was born weighing 1750 g at term with a spontaneous vaginal delivery. Her birth length is not known. She lived in the inubator for two days. Although she was fed with breast milk for two weeks, thereafter she could not get it (Thereupon, the breast milk was taken by breast pumps and given to her for one week). After the third week, she was fed with formula milk which was given without di...

The local and systemic effects of intramammary lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection on the chemiluminescence (CL) of milk and blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) were investigated in six healthy early lactation cows. Clinical signs of acute mastitis such as fever, increased heart rate and a decreased milk production were observed in all cows. Before LPS challenge, the CL activity of milk PMN...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect rumination times and days spent in a close-up group before calving (DCU) on early-lactation health reproductive outcomes dairy cows. Data were gathered for 719 cows located single herd. Herd management records analyzed receiving treatment first 30 d lactation (days milk; DIM) clinical mastitis, tract disease, ketosis, milk fever, displaced ab...

A consideration of the Edinburgh notification statistics tends to show that the season of greatest prevalence of typhoid fever is during the three autumnal months?September, October, and November. This coincides generally with the statistics of other places in the United Kingdom, and also with Buchan and Mitchell's curve, based on the mortality returns of London. In fact, typhoid fever remains ...