The mucous membrane of the smnall intestine is rich in phosphatase which can be liberated into the blood stream or into the intestinal secretion. This accounts for a part of the faecal phosphatase. Estimation of the faecal phosphatase may therefore enable one to study biochemically the activity of the mucous membrane of the small intestine in the intact animal. The early publications on faecal ...

Xanthohumol (1), isolated from hop, was fed to rats in a dose of 1000 mg kg(-1) body weight. The faeces of the animals were collected after 24 and 48 h and analysed for metabolites of 1. Approximately 89% of the recovered flavonoid-compounds consisted of unchanged 1. Sixteen metabolites and six previously known metabolites were isolated and characterized by coupling techniques (HPLC-NMR, HPLC-M...

This trial was undertaken with the objective to evaluate the efficacy of amprolium, toltrazuril and their combination in rabbits naturally infected with Eimeria species (32 × 103 ± 4.63 oocysts per gram (OPG) of faeces). Thirty-six rabbits (11 weeks old with average body weight (BW) 2000 ± 75 g), were randomly allocated into six groups (six kits each), namely, negative untreated and was retaine...

The increased susceptibility of infants fed on cows' milk preparations has been attributed, at least in part, to differences in the nature of the large-bowel content-owing to the acidity of the faeces and their high content of Lactobacillus bifidus. In an attempt to mimic these features of the breastfed infant in one who is fed artificially, a breast milk substitute was devised which resembles ...

In hookworm surveys, it is not always possible to examine the faeces in the field, and a field laboratory with expert microscopists entails a great deal of expenditure of money. An intelligent laboratory assistant can, however, collect faeces in the field, label them properly and forward them to a central laboratory where they can be examined in large numbers daily by centrifugalization and egg...

The oral infection of laboratory mice with 10(8) colony-forming units of viable Salmonella ochiogu bacteria resulted in clinical salmonellosis and death in 10 out of 45 of the mice (22%). None of the mice treated with oxytetracycline died. Infection in susceptible mice was characterized by septicaemia, respiratory involvement and mild enteritis. The organism was shed in the faeces from the firs...

Cellulose degrading bacteria from koala faeces were isolated using caboxymethylcellulose-Congo red agar, screened in vitro for different hydrolytic enzyme activities and phylogenetically characterized using molecular tools. Bacillus sp. and Pseudomonas sp. were the most prominent bacteria from koala faeces. The isolates demonstrated good xylanase, amylase, lipase, protease, tannase and lignin p...

The suitability and selectivity of nutrient broth with bile salts and varying concentrations of brilliant green as an enrichment medium was tested for the isolation of Plesiomonas shigelloides from faeces. The broth was most effective at a concentration of 0.001 g/l brilliant green, using faeces deliberately contaminated with Plesiomonas. Two hundred and nineteen faecal samples from Nigeria wer...

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is ubiquitous in most parts of the world where poultry are reared and is able to spread very rapidly in nonprotected birds. It is shed via both the respiratory tract and the faeces and can persist in the birds and faeces for several weeks or months. Although strict biosecurity and working with a one-age system are essential control measures, normally vaccinatio...

Faecal egg counts were performed in 187 foals of a large Polish stud farm between February and September 2007. Eggs of Parascaris equorum were present in faeces of 7% and those of cyathostomins in 13% of the foals aged less than 194 days. Information dealing with age of foals and/or efficiency of ivermectin treatment as well as the nematode parasite prepatent periods, it can be conducted that m...