Bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) is a multifactorial of cattle which presents as bacterial and viral pneumonia. The causative agents BRDC work in synergy to suppress the host immune response increase colonisation lower tracts by pathogenic bacteria. Environmental stress and/or infection predispose secondary infections via suppression key innate adaptive mechanisms. This allows bacteria...

I herby declare that the research described in this thesis and the thesis itself was composed and originated entirely by myself, except where otherwise stated. Genes controlling vaccine responses and disease resistance to respiratory viral pathogens in cattle. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. (In press) Quantitative trait loci for variation in immune response to a Foot-and-Mouth disea...

a very rare disease in wild deer. Prior to 1994, only eight wild white-tailed and mule deer had been reported with bovine TB in North America. In 1994, a hunter in southwestern Alpena County, Michigan, shot a 4-year old male white-tailed deer infected with bovine TB. The Description Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious disease caused when bacteria attack the respiratory system. There are three types ...

Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) is an important cause of respiratory disease in young cattle and is closely related to human RSV (HRSV), which causes severe respiratory disease in infants and the elderly. The RSV genome encodes a small hydrophobic (SH) protein with viroporin activity. Previous studies have shown that recombinant BRSV lacking the SH gene (rBRSVΔSH) is attenuated in the...

A seroepidemiologic survey of cattle diseases was undertaken in Suriname in 1985 to help assess the livestock disease situation in that country. The six diseases covered by the survey were bovine coronavirus infection, bovine rhinotracheitis, bovine virus diarrhea, brucellosis, parainfluenza3 infection, and respiratory syncytial virus infection. The results indicated relatively low prevalences ...

Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) is major health problem occurring worldwide in bovines, responsible for high morbidity and mortality calves heavy economic losses terms of production milch animals cost veterinary treatment. Hence the present study was planned to investigate epidemiological, clinico-diagnostic therapeutic aspects BRD Indian buffaloes. A total 805 buffaloes reported TVCC, COVAS, ...