haemorrhagic septicaemia (hs) is a fatal systemic disease of cattle and buffaloes. some control isachieved with administration of alum-precipitated or oil-adjuvanted killed whole-cell vaccines injectedsubcutaneously. these vaccines, however, provide only short-term immunity and for effective use, theyshould be administered annually. we constructed an aroa attenuated derivative of a pasteurella ...

The differential diagnosis of the association of pneumonia and haemorrhagic pericarditis should include viral aetiologies Sir, For the sake of completeness, the differential diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia with haemorrhagic pericarditis 1 should include Chlamydia infection in immunocompetent subjects, 2 and the association of pneumonia and staphylococcal pericarditis. 3 Where a bacterial patho...

OBJECTIVE To compare serum lipid profile between patients of ischaemic and haemorrhagic strokes. STUDY DESIGN Cross sectional, comparative study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from August 2004 to February 2005. METHODOLOGY Patients with diagnosis of stroke comprising 100 consecutive patients each of ischaemic and haemorrhagic strokes were included in the study...

Dengue fever is a major public health problem in India. Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF), a more serious form of disease, occurs when a person previously infected with dengue is reinfected with a different serotype. Besides common manifestations pleural effusion, pneumonitis, haemoptysis and pulmonary haemorrhage have rarely been seen. We report a case of 30 years old male, who developed pulmona...

Gastrointestinal disturbances like anorexia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort and diarrhoea are known adverse effects of rifampicin. We report an upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to haemorrhagic gastric erosions after ingestion of rifampicin for pulmonary tuberculosis. The cause and effect relationship between development of haemorrhagic gastric erosions and rifampicin administration w...

in order to determine the changes in serum and blood factors of rainbow trout following experimental infection with a pathogenic aeromonas hydrophila, the cause of haemorrhagic septicemia in fish, three groups of rainbow trout (10 fish in each group) were injected intraperitoneally with 105, 106 and 107 of this bacteria respectively. the same number of fish in a control group were injected simi...

Sera collected in May 1984 from 132 adult residents of Karamoja district, Uganda, were examined by haemagglutination inhibition tests for antibodies against selected arboviruses, namely Chikungunya and Semliki Forest alphaviruses (Togaviridae); dengue type 2, Wesselsbron, West Nile, yellow fever and Zika flaviviruses (Flaviviridae); Bunyamwera, Ilesha and Tahyna bunyaviruses (Bunyaviridae); and...

A dengue type 1 epidemic occurred in Fiji between July 1989 and July 1990. Virus isolation in C6/36 cell cultures and Toxorhynchites mosquitos yielded 36 strains. Of the 3686 cases recorded by the Ministry of Health, 60% involved indigenous Fijians and 37%, Indians. A house-to-house survey revealed that a large majority of patients had classical dengue symptoms and 8% reported haemorrhagic mani...

OBJECTIVES To describe haemorrhagic pleural effusion as a rare complication of brucellosis that finally needed lung decortication. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 37-year-old female presented with a 1-week history of fever, dry cough and pleuritic chest pain. Physical examination showed signs of right pleural effusion and hepatosplenomegaly. Complete blood count showed pancytopenia, ...