Campylobacter jejuni clone SA is the major cause of sheep abortion and contributes significantly to foodborne illnesses in the United States. Clone SA is hypervirulent because of its distinct ability to produce systemic infection and its predominant role in clinical sheep abortion. Despite the importance of clone SA, little is known about its distribution and epidemiological features in cattle....

The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence and longitudinal distribution of Escherichia coli O157 in feedlot cattle and the feedlot environment. Pen floors, water tanks, other cattle in the feedlot, feed, and bird feces were sampled for 2 weeks prior to entry of the study cattle. Twelve pens of study cattle were sampled twice weekly. At each sample time cattle feces, water from ta...

Bovine mastitis is the most costly disease for dairy farmers and the most frequent reason for the use of antibiotics in dairy cattle; thus, control measures to detect and prevent mastitis are crucial for dairy farm sustainability. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a sensitive method to magnetically detect Streptococcus agalactiae (a Group B streptococci) and Streptococcus uberis...

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map) is the etiological agent of paratuberculosis. In Chile, information about Map isolation from both domestic ruminant and wildlife species has been accumulating, but it has to be extended to other species. The present study focuses specifically on one wild grazing species, the pudu (Pudu puda), one of the less known South American deer considered ...

Paratuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium avium subs. paratuberculosis a chronic, inflammatory and fatal disease of ruminants. The infection is characterized by chronic “subclinic” phase. Cattle in this phase is capable of infecting other animals in the herd. Although the presence of paratuberculosis has been known, the scientific studies on the disease and the prevalence appears to be scarced i...

This study was carried out to determine the presence and frequency of Anaplasma ovis and Anaplasma marginale in sheep and dairy cattle in West-Azerbaijan province, Iran. A total number of 200 blood samples were randomly collected via the jugular vein from apparently healthy cattle (100) and sheep (100). The extracted DNA from blood cells was screened using genus-specific (Anaplasma...

AIM The objective of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of Neospora caninum (NC) and its risk factors in farm dogs in Kenya. MATERIALS AND METHODS As part of a longitudinal study on dairy cattle abortion in 2010 in Kenya, serum samples were collected from 84 dogs in 53 randomly selected dairy cattle farms to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors of seropositivity for NC. ...

To determine the prevalence of bacterial mastitis in cattle, milk samples positive for California mastitistest (CMT) were cultured during a period of almost 4 years. The bacterial species isolated from 2904 milksamples studied were coagulase negative Staphylococcus sp. in 879 (30.27%) samples, Streptococcusagalactiae in 642 (22.11%), S. dysgalactiae in 332 (11.43%), E. coli in 295 (10.16%), Sta...

this study was an attempt to devise productive orientations of cattle herds in eastern high plains of algeria. in this regard, 165 farms randomly identified were investigated. the selection of breeders was based to existence of cattle on the farm, and the farmer proposed to investigation must have at least two cows. the approach taken was to identify all systems adopted by farmers in a region t...