Assignment of the Bacterffa] Agent of Urinary Calculus in Young Rats by the Comparatiye Sequence Analysis of the 16S rRNA Genes of Corynebacteria TatsufumiTAKAHASHI,MasayeshiTSUJIi),NaoyaKIKUCHI,ChiakiISHIHARAi),TsutomuOSANAI2),NoriyukiKASAI2),Ryo YANAGAWA, and Takashi HIRAMUNE Departments of Epizootiology, Animals, School of VeterinaoJ Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen Universit.v, Ebetsu 069, and 2Jins...

Data on the epizootiological status of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in all districts of Saudi Arabia were obtained through responses to a specifically-designed questionnaire from field veterinarians working in different Directorates of Agriculture throughout the country. Suspected clinical occurrence of the disease was reported in seventeen of the twenty-three Directorates. The animal species a...

Bluetongue is an International Office of Epizootics List A disease described as the century's most economically devastating affliction of sheep. Bluetongue (BLU) viruses were thought to infect only ruminants, shrews, and some rodents, but recently, inadvertent administration of BLU virus-contaminated vaccine resulted in mortality and abortion among domestic dogs. We present evidence of natural ...

Channel catfish virus disease (CCVD) is a highly pathogenic herpesvirus disease of cultured channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, fry and fingerlings. The disease is confined to the southern United States, but occurs sporadically in other areas where young channel catfish are intensively cultured. Blue catfish, I. furcatus, have been experimentally infected with CCV, but other ictalurids appear...

Summanr This study u-as aimed at determining whether tumour DNA content measured bv cell image analysis could proVide additional prognostic information when compared to that proVided bv flow cytometry. Sections cut from paraffin blocks of tumours from 101 patients with node negative breast cancer were analysed by both methods and the results related to other prognostic variables and to patient ...

Hantaviruses cause two severe human diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Various rodent species act as animal reservoirs for hantavirus. In Japan, urban rat- (Rattus norvegicus) and laboratory rat-derived human infections were reported during the 1960s and 1970s-1984, respectively. Although no human cases of infection have been reported...

This communication briefly reviews knowledge of the systemic disease caused by Crassicauda boopis in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (B. physalus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). Infections with this giant nematode characteristically incite a chronic inflammatory reaction of the blood vessels which drain the kidneys. In this critical location, the parasite-induced ...