Good veterinary certification is possible only if a country's veterinary governance complies with the quality standards of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The standards in the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code stipulate that the main prerequisite for good veterinary governance is for Veterinary Services to be independent, that is to say they are able to carry out their mandate ...

The objectives of this study were to evaluate poloxamer as a slow release carrier for morphine (M) and potential tissue irritation after subcutaneous poloxamer-morphine (PM) injection in a rat model. Based on the result of a previous in vitro work, 25% poloxamer, with and without morphine, and saline were administered in 14 rats' flanks. Blood for morphine concentrations was automatically sampl...

Until the middle of the 19th century, very few references exist regarding the occurrence of animal diseases in Namibia. With the introduction of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) in 1859, this picture changed completely and livestock owners implemented various forms of disease control in an effort to contain the spread of this disease and minimise its devastating effects. After the e...

OBJECTIVE To explore and gain an understanding of what "clinical communication skills" mean to veterinarians working in private practice and what implications this might have for veterinary medical education. METHODS Qualitative research methods were used to purposefully sample a range of veterinary practitioners from a pool of South Australian veterinary practices who were interviewed to det...

This article discusses the integration of global and veterinary public health issues into the Australian veterinary curriculum. Formal veterinary education in Australia has a history of over 100 years and veterinarians have played a major role in the control of zoonotic and transboundary diseases for an even longer period. Australia is the largest exporter of red meat and live animals in the wo...

Department of Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, 37, K.B. Sarani, Belgachia, High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Indian Veterinary Research Institute, AICRP-PHT (ICAR), Department of Fish Processing Technology, Faculty of Fishery Sciences, West Bengal Univers Chakgaria, Kolkata Department of Veterina...

David M. Sherman, Tending Animals In The Global Village: A Guide To International Veterinary Medicine, 495 pages Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins ISBN 0-683-18051-7, reviewed by Corrie Brown, DVM, PhD.

Udo Hetzel,* Tarja Sironen, Pasi Laurinmäki, Lassi Liljeroos, Aino Patjas, Heikki Henttonen, Antti Vaheri, Annette Artelt, Anja Kipar,* Sarah J. Butcher, Olli Vapalahti, Jussi Hepojoki ‹Veterinary Pathology, Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsi...

J Immune Disord Vol 1 No 1 August 2017 1 Department of Veterinary Medicine Virology Lab, College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Seoul National University, DaeHakRo, GwanAk-Gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea; 2Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Hanoi, Vietnam; 3Res...

1 Department of Animal Biotechnology, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai-7, Tamil Nadu, India 2 Education Cell, Madras Veterinary College, TANUVAS, Chennai-7, Tamil Nadu, India 3 Translational Research Platform for Veterinary Biologicals, Chennai – 51, Tamil Nadu, India 4 Madras Veterinary College, TANUVAS, Chennai-7, Tamil Nadu, India 5 Cen...