A study involving 244 pigs initially averaging 13 kg was conducted at two stations to evaluate tiamulin as a growth promotant for growing swine. In each experiment, four replicate pens of five (Exp. 1) or six (Exp. 2) pigs/pen were used to evaluate each treatment. In Exp. 1, pigs were fed 0, 11, 22 or 44 ppm tiamulin from 15 to 58 kg, then fed a nonmedicated control diet for the remainder of th...

We examined the effect on the Syrian hamster fetal pancrease of N-nitrosobis(2-oxopropyl)amine (BOP), a potent pancreatic carcinogen in adult hamsters. Pregnant Syrian hamsters (F0 generation) were treated with BOP (10 mg/kg body weight) at the 8th, 10th, 12th, and 14th days of gestation (for a total dose of 40 mg/kg body weight). Treatment was well tolerated and all hamsters delivered, at term...

BACKGROUND International travellers are at risk of travel-related, vaccine-preventable diseases. More data are needed on the proportion of travellers who refuse vaccines during a pre-travel health consultation and their reasons for refusing vaccines. METHODS We analyzed data on travellers seen for a pre-travel health consultation from July 2012 through June 2014 in the Global TravEpiNet (GTEN...

1. Weanling rats were fed on purified-casein diets containing active and inactive (autoclaved) field bean (Vicia faba L.) proteinase inhibitors (PI) at levels of 1.25, 2.5, 5.0 and 10 g/kg. Diets containing raw- and autoclaved-field-bean meal (FBM) were also given. The body-weight gain, protein efficiency ratio (PER); i.e. the ratio of the live weight gain in g/g of protein consumed and apparen...

Studies have established that the highest monthly milk yield in cows of all groups was noted third month lactation. In this lactation III group with a live weight 481 kg and more, was, respectively, 44 24 higher than peers I II groups. The I, 12.33%, 12.37% 12.53% per confirmed level payment for feed dairy products is closely related to production cows. cost units high-yielding noticeably lower...

We studied the outcome of 79 pregnancies in 44 Saudi women who had epilepsy. Their mean age was 28+/-6.5 years and the number of pregnancies studied varied from one to six. Nineteen subjects had generalized seizures, 16 had partial seizures and nine were unclassified. The commonest drug prescribed was carbamazepine and the majority of the women (61%) were on monotherapy. The seizures were contr...

OBJECTIVE To present updated national birthweight percentiles by gestational age for male and female singleton infants born in Australia. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional population-based study of 2.53 million singleton live births in Australia between 1998 and 2007. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Birthweight percentiles by gestational age and sex. RESULTS Between 1998 and 2007, women in Austral...

The purpose of this study was 2-fold: to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of 64Cu-bromoacetamidobenzyl- 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane-N,N',N'',N'''-tetraacetic acid (BAT)-2-iminothiolane (2IT)-monoclonal antibody (MAb) 1A3 in hamsters, and second, to determine the therapeutic efficacy of 64Cu-BAT-2IT-MAb 1A3 at various dose levels in hamsters with large (600 mg), 7-day-old GW39 hu...