Animal farms 2001

Chemical characterization of volatile organic compounds on animal farms

More than one hundred volatile organic substances were identified by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC/MS) in the indoor and outdoor air, stable and farm road dust and farm soil samples from two pig and cattle farms in the South Moravian Region. Volatile fatty acids (acetic, propanoic, butanoic and pentanoic acids) and their esters dominated along with aldehydes (butanal, pentanal an...

Insects represent a link between food animal farms and

Ludek Zurek and Anuradha Ghosh 10 Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology; College of Veterinary Medicine 11 Department of Entomology; College of Agriculture 12 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 13 14 15 16 17 18 *Corresponding author 19 Department of Entomology 20 Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology 21 Waters Hall 034 22 Kansas State University 23 Manhattan...

Microbiological evaluation of water used in different animal farms

Water A total of 100 water samples were collected from different poultry and cattle farms in Behera province to be evaluated bacteriologically to investigate the role of drinking water as a source of pathogenic and potentially pathogenic bacteria in different animal farms including cattle and poultry. The results of bacteriological examination of 25 water samples collected from broiler farms r...

The Leeuwenhoek Lecture 2001. Animal origins of human infectious disease.

Since time immemorial animals have been a major source of human infectious disease. Certain infections like rabies are recognized as zoonoses caused in each case by direct animal-to-human transmission. Others like measles became independently sustained with the human population so that the causative virus has diverged from its animal progenitor. Recent examples of direct zoonoses are variant Cr...

Compendium of animal rabies, prevention and control, 2001.