The recent development of techniques to measure levels of carcinogens covalently bound to DNA provides the opportunity to use DNA adducts as molecular dosimeters of exposure to environmental carcinogens and mutagens. This is especially important because epizootiologic studies have shown a positive association between environmental carcinogens, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and incre...

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................................................................................................................... 6 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 7 History – The first descriptions of the parasite and disease ....................................... 7 Morphology and nomenclature .............................

The "VIIth, Annual International Meeting on Research Advances and Rabies Control in the Americas" will be convened at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta during 9–13 December 1996. The Conference will focus on both basic scientific contributions and applied research in the understanding and control of this fatal viral disease. Conference sessions are designed fro a diverse...

Kouba V.: EPIZTEXT: The First Electronic Textbook for Education and Training in General Epizootiology. Acta Vet. Brno, 2001, 70: 211-215. First electronic textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in general epizootiology was developed under the name EPIZTEXT. Its version 2.2 is operated under Microsoft WORD text processing software for WINDOWS. The English written textbook contains 3...

Bovine virus diarrhoea-mucosal disease was described for the first time in the USSR in 1967. The disease occurs in 20 to 80% of farms, depending on geographic and climatic zones of the country. Control measures against the disease include quarantine restrictions and prevention by means of specific preparations of active and passive effect. Passive prophylaxis is conducted by aerosol methods for...