A total of 842 wild boar of differing ages, originating from 29 (37.7%) of the 77 districts in the Czech Republic, were examined during the hunting seasons from 2002 to 2005. Of them, 274 (32.5%) of the animals were wild specimens and 568 (67.5%) from game parks. Out of 786 animals, the following were included in the study: 668 piglets, 61 juveniles, 32 adult males and 25 adult females. A total...

Bovine tuberculosis was last detected in cattle and pigs in the Czech Republic in 1995. Since March, 31, 2004 (Commission Decision No. 2004/320/EC) the Czech Republic has been included amongst states free from bovine tuberculosis within the European Union. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate results of intravital and post-mortem diagnosis of mycobacterial infections in slaughtered ...

BACKGROUND While it is known that the majority of pages on the World Wide Web are in English, little is known about the preferred language of users searching for health information online. OBJECTIVES (1) To help global and domestic publishers, for example health and food agencies, to determine the need for translation of online information from English into local languages. (2) To help these ...

Avian tuberculosis was described at 50 week-old Lohmann chickens in a commercial chicken farm. The study materials were 20 pieces of from 2 coops and 16 pullets 4 After necropsy, samples processed routinely for histopathological microbiological examinations. 
 Macroscopically, hard consistency, numerous different sizes, whitish-yellow caseificated-calcifiated nodules seen on the liver, spl...

A group of 1,974 cattle from Balcarce, Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) was tuberculin tested in the neck with 0.1 mg of bovine PPD. In a second test carried out 35 days later, two doses of bovine PPDs from different laboratories and one dose of avian PPD were given to 90 of the cattle having shown a 5 mm or more increase in skin fold thick­ ness, and to 25 that were to be slaughtered for s...

An analysis of the responses received shows that, in Europe, nearly two thirds of the countries have a certain degree of epidemiological surveillance for diseases and pathogens in wildlife. Rabies, trichinellosis, infection of wild birds with a highly pathogenic or low pathogenic avian influenza virus, alveolar echinococcosis, bovine tuberculosis, classical swine fever and African swine fever w...

Background: Avian rotaviruses are one of the important agents of enteritis in birds and have a worldwide distribution. These viruses have an important role in runting and stunting syndrome in chickens. Objectives: The aim of this study was detection and molecular characterization of avian rotaviruses in broiler farms in Guilan province. Methods: In this study, 100 samples were collected on diff...