The recognition and binding of pathogens to extracellular matrix glycoproteins may determine the outcome of infective processes. The interaction between the bovine urogenital parasite Tritrichomonas foetus and the major basal membrane glycoprotein laminin-1 (LMN-1) was investigated. The chemical nature of parasite molecules involved in the attachment of T. foetus to immobilized LMN-1 and the in...

Fetal Heart Rate signal is an objective index which reflects the physiological activity of foetus heart electricity, The abstraction and processing of the signal of foetus' rhythm of the heart enclose the key technology which the foetus guards in childbirth period. For dealing with this kind of nonsteady random signal of foetus' rhythm of the heart. Through adjusting weight value the adaptive f...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of tinidazole for treatment of cats with experimentally induced Tritrichomonas foetus infection. ANIMALS 8 specific-pathogen-free kittens. PROCEDURES Tinidazole was tested for activity against a feline isolate of T foetus in vitro. Kittens were infected orogastrically with the same isolate and treated or not with tinidazole (30 mg/kg, PO, q 24 h for 14 da...

Data were gathered for 117 cats from 89 catteries at an international cat show to examine prevalence and risk factors for feline Tritrichomonas foetus and Giardia infection. Prevalence of T. foetus was 31% among cats (36 out of 117) and catteries (28 out of 89) based on results of fecal smear examination (5 out of 36), fecal culture in modified Diamond's medium (9 out of 36), fecal culture in I...

Professor Simpson exhibited a five and a half months' foetus, which had been thrown off by a patient labouring under a severe attack of smallpox. The pustules were distinctly seen all over the foetus, especially on its back. With regard to the time a dead foetus is retained in utero, Prof. Simpson stated that three weeks generally suffices for expelling it; the membranes and placenta first unde...