Five field populations of Musca domestica L. collected in poultry farms were bioassayed in order to detect possible resistance to the larvicide cyromazine in Brazil. The concentrations used were 0, 0.5, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 1, 2, 4 and 8 ppm. Three populations (Petrópolis, RJ, Montes Claros, MG and Promissão, SP) were resistant, while the other two populations (Ibiuna, SP and Monte Mor, SP) were more...

The goal of this study was to assess the effect of the different habitats on rodent diversity, and to estimate the effect of changes in land use on the rodent abundance through different possible scenarios. We sampled poultry farms, human houses, riparian habitats, railway embankments, woodlots, pasture, crop fields and their borders. The habitats with highest frequency of captures were poultry...

Twenty-one samples of water were collected from commercial egg production farms in Georgia with or without a history of fatty liver syndrome. These samples plus a sample of water from the University of Georgia Poultry Farm were analyzed for various mineral elements by atomic absorption, direct reading emission spectroscopy and by neutron activation. Water samples from farms with a history of fa...

BACKGROUND We conducted a systematic review to investigate avian influenza outbreaks and to explore their distribution, upon avian influenza subtype, country, avian species and other relating details as no comprehensive epidemiological analysis of global avian influenza outbreaks from 2010 to 2016 exists. METHODS Data was collated from four databases (Scopus, Web of Science Core Correlation, ...

BACKGROUND The susceptibilities of adult and larval lesser mealworms, Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer), to two commercially formulated insecticides, cyfluthrin and tetrachlorvinphos, were examined through exposure on treated plywood panels. Lesser mealworms were collected from four caged-layer poultry farms, three in New York and one in Maine. An additional strain was obtained from an infestatio...

Air pollution has been one of Europe’s main political concerns since the late 1970’s. The aim of EU-policy is to develop and implement appropriate instruments to improve air quality. The Sixth Environment Action Programme, “Environment 2010: Our future, Our Choice” regards the period from 2001 until 2010. One of the important issues of the EAP is the reduction of greenhouse gasses. This also su...

Title of Document: PREVALENCE OF SALMONELLA ON LAYING HEN FARMS AND CONTROL OF COLONIZATION IN POULTRY THROUGH EGG YOLK ANTIBODIES. Jose Alejandro N. Almario, Master’s of Science, 2014 Directed By: Assistant Professor, Dr. Debabrata Biswas, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences In the United States, rates of foodborne illness caused by Salmonella have not changed significantly. One study in t...

BACKGROUND: Poultry and poultry products are among the major sources of Salmonella infections for humans. Increasing occurrence of antimicrobial resistance among Salmonellae has become a serious public health concern. The detection of extended spectrum b-lactamase (ESBL) producers among Salmonella spp. has increased in recent years. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate the a...

BACKGROUND Although modern commercial poultry production today is based on large farms and intensive husbandry, keeping backyard poultry has regained popularity in industrialized countries. However, the health status of backyard flocks is still relatively poorly documented. A questionnaire was sent to the owners of 376 backyard poultry flocks (<500 birds) in order to study health management pro...