Is 'traditional medicine' mumbo-jumbo, as I was given to understand as a doctor's son in then British-run Uganda? Any link the witch-doctors had with modern times was the constant pinching of syringes from Mulago Hospital. They plunged them into their customers with unsterilised needles, I remember overhearing. Victims often ended up being treated in Mulago, occassionally with cattle urine in t...

Abstract Pare Village, Selogiri District, Boyolali Regency, has a high enough beef cattle, which serves as an opportunity for the community to be developed through improved economy from cattle fattening, both main product in form of meat and by-products livestock manure. The utilization manure into organic fertilizer does not only increases income but also creates environmentally friendly condi...

A study was performed to investigate interlaboratory test agreement between a research and a commercial veterinary diagnostic laboratory on blood and urine samples, and to investigate test agreement between blood, urine, and kidney samples (research laboratory) for leptospirosis diagnosis. Samples were sourced from 399 sheep and 146 beef cattle from a local abattoir. Interlaboratory agreement f...

Three case studies involving Leptospira interrogans serovar pomona outbreaks within mixed farming systems in South Africa are described. On 2 farms, pigs constituted the main enterprise with cattle and sheep of secondary importance. On each of these 2 farms, abortion due to L. pomona in sows was confirmed by culture, and antibody titres to pomona were detected in cattle, sheep, horses and dogs....

AIM We report a one-health investigation of three cases of leptospirosis on a dairy farm with unvaccinated cattle in New Zealand. The cases are discussed in the context of diagnostics, risk factors, persistence of symptoms and outbreak mitigation measures. METHOD Clinical and laboratory records from the human cases were reviewed and serological and molecular investigations were conducted into...

Nine metabolites of albendazole were identified in the urine of cattle, sheep, rats, and mice which had been given the labeled drug orally. Metabolic conversions included oxidation at sulfur, alkyl and aromatic hydroxylation, methylation at both nitrogen and sulfur, and carbamate hydrolysis. Unchanged albendazole was present in urine in only minor amounts. Albendazole (ABZ), methyl [5-(propyltb...

Pakistan lies in the Warm Climate Zones of the world and is subjected to extended periods of high ambient temperature and relative humidity. The objective of this article is to review the physiologic/adaptive responses of acclimated cattle to heat stress emphasizing its affects on nutrient acquisition and metabolism, acid-base chemistry and hormonal balance of the body. Heat stress invokes a de...

Forty seven of 150, 15-month-old long weaners died of an acute renal disease syndrome following introduction into an old maize field with a heavy stand of Amaranthus spp. The clinical syndrome was characterised by sudden onset neurological disease with ataxia and recumbency. Subcutaneous oedema, ascites and perirenal oedema with urine odour were the major gross necropsy findings. Renal histopat...