Molecular detection of bovine coronavirus in a diarrhea outbreak in pasture-feeding Nellore steers in southern Brazil     

Juliane Ribeiro  Elis Lorenzetti  Alice Fernandes Alfieri  Amauri Alcindo Alfieri 《Tropical animal health and production》2016,48(3):649-653

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Dairy calf rearing unit and infectious diseases: diarrhea outbreak by bovine coronavirus as a model for the dispersion of pathogenic microorganisms     

Alfieri  Amauri Alcindo  Ribeiro  Juliane  de Carvalho Balbo  Luciana  Lorenzetti  Elis  Alfieri  Alice Fernandes 《Tropical animal health and production》2018,50(8):1937-1940

Dairy calf rearing unit is a management system that is only recently being implemented by some milk producer’s cooperatives in southern Brazil. However, aspects related to the health profile of the heifer calves that arrive in the rearing unit as well as about biosecurity practices and microbiological challenges have not yet been evaluated in this rearing system in a tropical country. Diarrhea is the main and most frequent consequence of enteric infections in newborn calves. This study, through some etiological and epidemiological characteristics of an outbreak of neonatal diarrhea, has the aim to alert to the possibility of pathogenic microorganism spread in a dairy heifer calf rearing unit. The diarrhea outbreak presented some non-regular characteristics observed in bovine coronavirus (BCoV) enteric infections in dairy calves. The spread of infection was extremely rapid (1 week); the attack rate (>?50%) was much higher than that observed in calves subjected to conventional rearing; and the age range (5 to 90 days) of the affected heifer calves was much broader than that often observed in the BCoV diarrhea worldwide. These unusual epidemiological characteristics observed in this BCoV diarrhea outbreak raise awareness of the health threat present in calf rearing units as well as of the easy and rapid viral spread in a population of young animals from different dairy herds and, therefore, with very distinct immunological status.

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Wildlife-Caused Losses for Producers of Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus in 1996     

Alice P  Wywialowski 《Journal of the World Aquaculture Society》1999,30(4):461-472

The National Agricultural Statistics Service surveyed by telephone and mail in January and February 1997 all known producers of channel catfish letalurus punctatus to acquire current information about wildlife-caused losses in calendar year 1996. Many producers tried to prevent wildlife-caused losses of their catfish by shooting (57%), vehicle patrol (55%), or frightening (36%), at an estimated cost of >$5 million. Yet, 69% of catfish producers cited some wildlife-caused losses. Birds were most frequently cited as a cause of losses, and double-crested cormorants Phalacrocorax auritus was the species cited most frequently (53%). The next most frequently cited birds were herons Ardea spp. (48%), egrets Egretta spp . (16%), and pelicans Pelecanus spp. (8%). Muskrats Ondatra zibethicus were cited by 10% of producers, primarily for damaging dikes and roads. The main problems caused by wildlife were feeding on catfish (67%), injuring catfish (40%) or disturbing feeding patterns of the catfish (23%). The total estimated cost of losses was $12 million. Overall, wildlife damage and damage prevention may have cost catfish producers > $17 million, about 4% of the total $425 million of catfish sales in 1996. Of the 44% of all catfish producers who were familiar with Wildlife Services (WS), 51% had ever contacted WS for assistance, 55% used methods suggested by WS to reduce their losses, and 40% received direct assistance from WS in 1996. Mississippi producers, who most frequently received direct assistance from WS, had proportionately lower wildlife-caused losses.  相似文献   

Species hybridization in Trifolium     

Alice M. Evans 《Euphytica》1962,11(3):256-262

In this investigation, pollen tubes were traced in intraspecific and interspecific crosses in Trifolium. Pollen tube growth was slower in the interspecific crosses examined but no failure of pollen germination was observed. Incompatibility of the pollen tube and stylar tissue proved to be an important pre-fertilization barrier to compatibility and a parallel could be drawn between the success of the pollen and the success of vegetative grafting of the genotypes.  相似文献   

Annual and spatial variation in coning shown by the Forest Condition Monitoring programme data for Norway spruce, Sitka spruce and Scots pine in Britain     

Broome  Alice; Hendry  Steven; Peace  Andrew 《Forestry》2007,80(1):17-28

Conifer seed is a valuable forest resource; as well as beingreproductive material, it is an important foodstuff for manywoodland species. Information on cone and therefore seed productionof the main forest species are useful in the fields of bothforest management and forest ecology. Coning has been recordedsince 1989 in plots of Norway spruce, Sitka spruce and Scotspine across Britain as part of the Forestry Commission's ForestCondition Monitoring programme. An 11-year period of these recordswas analysed and a summary of annual cone production by speciesand coning synchrony is presented. Both Norway spruce and Sitkaspruce coned sporadically, with a 4-year period between mastcrops during which cone density was very low or cone productionabsent, whereas Scots pine produced a good cone crop in mostyears throughout Britain. Coning was synchronous within andbetween Norway and Sitka spruce across the whole of Britain(at distances >600 km) but coning within Scots pine was insynchrony only over distances of up to 200 km. Synchrony ofcone production was not evident between the spruce species andScots pine. These findings have implications when planning andinterpreting monitoring used to predict cone crops and in thedesign of forests for wildlife conservation.  相似文献   

Fumonisin disruption of ceramide biosynthesis in maize roots and the effects on plant development and Fusarium verticillioides-induced seedling disease     

Williams LD  Glenn AE  Zimeri AM  Bacon CW  Smith MA  Riley RT 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2007,55(8):2937-2946

The fungus Fusarium verticillioides infects maize and produces fumonisins, inhibitors of ceramide synthase. Seeds of the cultivar Silver Queen were inoculated with fumonisin-producing or non-fumonisin-producing strains of F. verticillioides. Leaf lesion incidence and severity of effects on root and stalk growth were significantly correlated with fumonisin in roots and disruption of sphingolipid metabolism in roots. Uninoculated seeds grown in soil watered with solutions of fumonisin B1 exhibited above-ground symptoms indicative of F. verticillioides-induced seedling disease and dose-dependent reduction in root mass that was inversely correlated with fumonisin B1, sphingoid bases, and sphingoid base 1-phosphates in roots. There was also evidence of an adaptive response to disrupted sphingolipid metabolism in both the virulence and watering assays, suggesting induction of pathways responsible for metabolism of sphingoid base 1-phosphates after prolonged exposure. The results suggest that fumonisin, and its effects on sphingolipids, could contribute to all aspects of F. verticillioides maize seedling disease.  相似文献   

Cadmium and lead residue control in a hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) environment     

Pagan-Rodríguez D  O'Keefe M  Deyrup C  Zervos P  Walker H  Thaler A 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2007,55(4):1638-1642

In 2003-2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) conducted an exploratory assessment to determine the occurrence and levels of cadmium and lead in randomly collected samples of kidney, liver, and muscle tissues of mature chickens, boars/stags, dairy cows, and heifers. The data generated in the study were qualitatively compared to data that FSIS gathered in a 1985-1986 study in order to identify trends in the levels of cadmium and lead in meat and poultry products. The exploratory assessment was necessary to verify that Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point plans and efforts to control exposure to these heavy metals are effective and result in products that meet U.S. export requirements. A comparison of data from the two FSIS studies suggests that the incidence and levels of cadmium and lead in different slaughter classes have remained stable since the first study was conducted in 1985-1986. This study was conducted to fulfill FSIS mandate to ensure that meat, poultry, and egg products entering commerce in the United States are free of adulterants, including elevated levels of environmental contaminants such as cadmium and lead.  相似文献   

Pathogenesis of a Texas feline immunodeficiency virus isolate: an emerging subtype of clade B     

Phadke AP  de la Concha-Bermejillo A  Wolf AM  Andersen PR  Baladandayuthapani V  Collisson EW 《Veterinary microbiology》2006,115(1-3):64-76

We have recently provided evidence that Texas feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV-TX) isolates are an emerging subtype sharing a common ancestry with clade B isolates. Specific, pathogen-free cats were infected, intravenously, with 500, 2000 or 8000TCID(50) of the FIV-TX53 virus to study the acute stage of infection. Infection of cats resulted in lymphadenopathy at 10 days post-infection (p.i.). By 7 weeks p.i., gag specific antibody could be detected from sera of all infected cats. Virus could be detected by culturing PBMC and by nested capsid PCR. A reduction in the absolute numbers of lymphocytes and neutrophils was observed in infected cats although there was no trend identified between this reduction and the viral dose administered. By 11 weeks p.i., the CD4(+)/CD8(+) T cell ratios from all infected cats had dropped from approximately 2 to below 1. While decrease in the ratio was dependent on the viral dose, the T cell ratios of cats receiving the highest dose had significantly dropped below 1 by 4-7 weeks p.i. This decrease in the ratio was accompanied by a sharp and temporal decline in the absolute CD4(+) T cells and a slight increase in the absolute CD8(+) T cell numbers with a dramatic expansion of cells with CD8beta(low) chain expression.  相似文献   

Tyrannosaur life tables: an example of nonavian dinosaur population biology     

Erickson GM  Currie PJ  Inouye BD  Winn AA 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2006,313(5784):213-217

The size and age structures for four assemblages of North American tyrannosaurs-Albertosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Gorgosaurus, and Daspletosaurus-reveal a pronounced, bootstrap-supported pattern of age-specific mortality characterized by relatively high juvenile survivorship and increased mortality at midlife and near the maximum life span. Such patterns are common today in wild populations of long-lived birds and mammals. Factors such as predation and entrance into the breeding population may have influenced tyrannosaur survivorship. This survivorship pattern can explain the rarity of juvenile specimens in museum collections.  相似文献   

Structure of human urokinase plasminogen activator in complex with its receptor     

Huai Q  Mazar AP  Kuo A  Parry GC  Shaw DE  Callahan J  Li Y  Yuan C  Bian C  Chen L  Furie B  Furie BC  Cines DB  Huang M 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2006,311(5761):656-659

The urokinase plasminogen activator binds to its cellular receptor with high affinity and initiates signaling cascades that are implicated in pathological processes including tumor growth, metastasis, and inflammation. We report the crystal structure at 1.9 angstroms of the urokinase receptor complexed with the urokinase amino-terminal fragment and an antibody against the receptor. The three domains of urokinase receptor form a concave shape with a central cone-shaped cavity where the urokinase fragment inserts. The structure provides insight into the flexibility of the urokinase receptor that enables its interaction with a wide variety of ligands and a basis for the design of urokinase-urokinase receptor antagonists.  相似文献