In this study, we examined the prevalence and molecular characteristics of Cryptosporidium in buffalo, dairy cattle and sheep in different farms at Kafr El Sheikh Province, Egypt. Rectal fecal samples, including 466 samples from buffalo, 1697 from cattle and 120 from sheep, were collected from different ages and screened by modified Ziehl-Neelsen acid-fast microscopy for detection of Cryptospor...

Faecal samples were collected from seventy-eight diarrhoeic cow and buffalo calves between November 1998 and February 1999 to study the genomic diversity and prevalence of Rotavirus infection by ribonucleic acid polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (RNA-PAGE) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In the organised dairy farm (where daily production and health records were maintained), the...

BACKGROUND Haemorrhagic septicaemia (HS) is an acute septicaemic disease of buffalo and cattle caused by Pasteurella multocida B:2 and E:2. Field outbreaks of HS are known to result in localisation of bacteria in the tonsils of surviving buffalo, confirming that animals can become carriers and the role of respiratory tract in the transmission of the disease. This report describes additional sit...

The authors estimated the rates of development of serum antibodies against Brucella abortus, between January 1987 and December 1990, in female Jersey cattle and buffalo weaned from seropositive and seronegative dams, and used logistic regression analysis to examine the epidemiological relationship of these rates with the serum antibody status of dams. The offspring from both seropositive and se...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to throw light on the clinical characteristics of abomasal impaction in buffalo calves and its associated biochemical alterations. For this reason, a total of 20 male buffalo calves (Bubalus bubalis) with abomasal impaction were studied. The investigated calves were at 6 to 12 months of age and were belonged to three private farms in Dakahlia Governorate besid...

AIM Aim of the study was to investigate the prevalence, virulence gene profiles, and antimicrobial resistance pattern of Shiga toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) in diarrheic buffalo calves from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 375 fecal samples from diarrheic buffalo calves of 1-7, 8-30, 31-60, and 61-90 days age were collected from which STEC were isolate...

The pharmacokinetics of cefpirome was investigated in buffalo calves following its single intramuscular (IM) administration (10 mg). The peak plasma concentration of cefpirome at 30 min was 9.0 ± 0.5 μg.ml-1, which declined to 0.2 ± 0.1 μg.ml -1 at 24 hrs. The absorption half-life (t1/2Ka) and elimination half-life (t1/2 β) were 0.19 ± 0.03 hr and 2.39 ± 0.05 hr, respectively. The area under th...

Different antigens of Pasteurella multocida Carter's type 6:B including whole bacterium, antigen heated at 56 degrees C, antigen heated at 100 degrees C, sonicated antigen, capsular antigen, potassium thiocyanate extract, lipopolysaccharide and sodium salicylate extract were evaluated to assess protection in buffalo calves against haemorrhagic septicaemia. Sera from calves with known protection...

pharmacokinetics of ceftriaxone was studied in buffalo calves (bubalus bubalis) after single intravenousand intramuscular administration of 10 mg/kg body weight. the drug concentrations in plasma samples weremeasured by high performance liquid chromatography with uv detection. following intravenousadministration, the drug was rapidly distributed (cpo: 106.5 ± 9.64 μg/ml; t1/2α: 0.09 ± 0.01 h; v...

Growth is outcome of interactions among several factors, where thyroid hormones play a key role in coordination of these factors and the information of thyroid hormones in relation to growth in buffalo calves and heifers is not adequate. Thus the study was conducted on Murrah female buffalo calves and heifers, varying in age from newborn to 30 months. The study investigated the serum thyroid pa...