Bovine digital dermatitis (DD) is a severe infectious disease causing lameness in dairy cattle worldwide and is an important ruminant welfare problem that has considerable economic issues. Bovine DD is endemic in many regions worldwide and it is important to understand this major disease so that effective control strategies can be identified. There is substantial evidence that specific treponem...

A novel recommendation for the Digital Pathology Information Web-Services (DPIWS) standard is presented, with respect to specific characteristics of the informative content of discourse. The recommendation establishes a common software interface for the exchange of digital pathology (DP) images and related metadata over the web, independently of storage, encoding, and internal handling details....

Small, Gram-negative bacteria that produced a blue-green fluorescence characteristic of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Bacillus pyocyaneus) were found in all but 2 cases of an unusually severe outbreak of bovine mastitis involving 23 cows. Since the outbreak wais unusual in character, a study was carried on to determine the identity of the organisms and their possible significance. The results are rep...

A computerized handheld procedure is presented in this paper. It is intended as a database complementary tool, to enhance prospective risk analysis in the field of occupational health. The Pendragon forms software (version 3.2) has been used to implement acquisition procedures on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and to transfer data to a computer in an MS-Access format. The data acquisition s...