Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) has a great economic impact on the United States cattle industry. The Academy of Veterinary Consultants, the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association have called for the goal of BVDV control and eventual eradication in the U.S.A. One of the key factors in such efforts will be the detection of BVDV infections, ...

Differences in preweaning growth of calves nursing 2- and 3-yr-old dams compared with contemporaries nursing older dams are accentuated in the Miles City Line 1 Hereford herd relative to age-of-dam (AOD) effects implied by preadjustment of 205-d weight in national cattle evaluation. Mixed-model analyses of 205-d weight that fit random individual direct effects and maternal genetic and permanent...

Bu çalışmada Samsun yöresinde sık görülen viral solunum sistemi hastalıklarının varlığı ve hematolojik, kan gazları akut faz proteinlerle ilişkisinin araştırılması amaçlandı. amaçla InfectiousBovineRhinotracheitis (IBR), BovineViralDiarrhea (BVD), Parainfluenza -3Virus (PI-3) BovineRespiratorySynctialVirus(BRSV) virüslerle aşılanmamış, yaşları dokuz aydan büyük olan 200 adeti hasta 204 ise sağl...

BACKGROUND Vestibular reflexes, evoked by human electrical (galvanic) vestibular stimulation (EVS), are utilized to assess vestibular function and investigate its pathways. Our study aimed to investigate the electrically-evoked vestibulo-ocular reflex (eVOR) output after bilateral and unilateral vestibular deafferentations to determine the characteristics for interpreting unilateral lesions suc...

In November 2012, a dairy farmer in the district Kleve first observed a reduction in milk yield, respiratory symptoms, nasal discharge, fever, sporadic diarrhoea and sudden deaths in dairy cows and calves. In the following months, further farms were found infected with cattle showing similar clinical signs. An epidemiological investigation was carried out to identify the source of infection, th...

Differences in preweaning growth of calves nursing 2and 3-yr-old dams compared with contemporaries nursing older dams are accentuated in the Miles City Line 1 Hereford herd relative to age-ofdam (AOD) effects implied by preadjustment of 205-d weight in national cattle evaluation. Mixedmodel analyses of 205-d weight that fit random individual direct effects and maternal genetic and permanent env...

Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) is a viral disease appearing in various forms and causing high economic losses in the cattle stocks of Hungary. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) in Hungary through a monitoring survey carried out on samples collected in cattle-keeping units throughout the country. Since no such survey had been carrie...

BACKGROUND Many low-income countries have a human population with a high number of cattle owners depending on their livestock for food and income. Infectious diseases threaten the health and production of cattle, affecting both the farmers and their families as well as other actors in often informal value chains. Many infectious diseases can be prevented by good biosecurity. The objectives of t...