Effectiveness of a mixture of cyromazine and diazinon for controlling flystrike on sheep     

GW LEVOT  N. SALES 《Australian veterinary journal》1998,76(5):343-344

Objective To determine whether there is any need for woolgrowers to add diazinon to cyromazine jetting fluid to control active flystrike on sheep.
Method Larval implants were placed on 143 sheep and allowed to develop for 2 days. Groups of 47 or 48 of these struck sheep were jetted with cyromazine at 1000 mg/L, diazinon at 400 mg/L, or a mixture of the two. After treatment, the implants were assessed daily for 3 days for the presence of feeding larvae.
Results When checked 1 day after treatment, there was a 62% reduction in flystrike in the diazinon treated sheep compared to only 12% reduction on the cyromazine treated sheep. Flystrike reduction on the sheep jetted with the mixture of cyromazine and diazinon was 69%. Three days after treatment flystrike control was 97 to 99% in the latter two groups.
Conclusion Diazinon provided a faster resolution of strikes but by 3 days after treatment there was no significant difference in the number of implants remaining active on the sheep treated with cyromazine or with the mixture of cyro-mazine and diazinon.  相似文献   

Disease and destiny–mystery and mastery     

George W. Beran   《Preventive veterinary medicine》2008,86(3-4):198

When early people made their appearance, zoonotic infectious diseases were already waiting, but epidemic diseases did not appear in human history until people began to live in large numbers under conditions of close contact, mainly during the last 10,000 years. Disease has decimated urban populations, conquered armies, and disrupted society. The focus here is on (1) the plague of Athens and the Black Death; (2) smallpox, influenza, and rabies; (3) avian influenza prion diseases, and foot & mouth disease; and (4) emerging and re-emerging diseases. All have veterinary public health associations.In Athens, Greece, in 430 BC, when the Spartans ravaged the countryside, hordes crowded into Athens so that orderly movements, space in which to live, and adequate supplies of food became impossible. Crowding of any population fosters disease transmission; chaos and disorder enhance it all the more. Out of northern Egypt came a terrible plague from across the Mediterranean Sea. The identity of the plague of Athens remains unsure, but the well-considered conclusion is Rift Valley Fever, a mosquito borne, viral zoonosis. The Black Death, also called the Plague, raged in Asia for centuries. In 1347, the Black Death was brought by a ship out of Asia to Sicily. The scenes of devastation were repeated throughout Europe, with 90% or more of the people dying in city after city.Influenza, too, has been a cause of periodic human epidemics, but the great pandemic of influenza occurred in the last months of World War I. In the years of highest occurrence, more than half the world's population became clinically infected. If veterinary public health had been born earlier, it could have led to elucidating the epidemiology of influenza and the plagues of Athens, Europe, and Asia. In turn, smallpox had also caused continual tragedy. In 1796, Edward Jenner began to harvest pustules of cowpox from children or infected cows and inject them into susceptible children. In 1980, the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eliminated from the world. Rabies, though, still strikes terror.A number of animal diseases, broadly termed emerging and re-emerging diseases, need surveillance because they have the potential to impact human health. From late in 2003 to 2007, the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus in poultry infected at least 121 people and caused 62 deaths in four countries. The prion diseases, too, all have very high numbers in concentrated contacts. To control these diseases, veterinary public health is essential, with diagnosis, epidemiological surveillance, clinical manifestations, and prevention as primary measures.  相似文献   

Strategy for the detection and differentiation of Mycobacterium avium species in isolates and heavily infected tissues   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Moravkova M  Hlozek P  Beran V  Pavlik I  Preziuso S  Cuteri V  Bartos M 《Research in veterinary science》2008,85(2):257-264

The members of Mycobacterium avium species, comprising M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis, M. a. hominissuis, M. a. avium, M. a. silvaticum, are currently the most prevalent opportunistic pathogenic mycobacteria causing mycobacterial infection in animals and humans. The ability to distinguish between these subspecies is of relevance for proper diagnosis and control programmes of the diseases. The aim of this study was to design a fast and specific PCR strategy for the detection and differentiation of M. avium subspecies from the solid plate cultures for use in routine veterinary diagnosis. We have developed a multiplex PCR based on IS900, IS901, IS1245 and the dnaJ gene. This method allows the detection of M. a. paratuberculosis, M. a. hominissuis and M. a. avium/M. a. silvaticum in one PCR reaction and theoretically enables mixed infections of M. a. paratuberculosis and M. a. avium or M. a. paratuberculosis and M. a. hominissuis to be revealed. The sensitivity of this multiplex PCR is 10(3)CFU for each bacterial strain in one PCR reaction, which also enabled the use of this test directly for DNA isolated from the tissue of the heavily infected sheep.  相似文献   

Epizootiologic aspects of viscerotropic velogenic Newcastle disease in six pet bird species     

G A Erickson  C J Maré  G W Beran  E A Carbrey 《American journal of veterinary research》1978,39(1):105-107

Pet birds of 6 species were exposed to a psittacine isolate to viscerotropic velogenic Newcastle disease (VVND) virus to evaluate the impact of VVND in those species. Species examined were the budgerigar, yellow-headed Amazon parrot, canary, halfmoon conure, lesser hill mynah, and blackheaded nun. Five of the 6 species were highly susceptible to infection with VVND virus. Canaries were relatively refractory to infection with the virus. Contact birds of the same species developed infections almost as rapidly as did the birds directly exposed to nebulized VVND virus. Mortality was most marked for the conures. Less than half of the parrots exposed to nebulized virus died of VVND. Of the directly exposed budgerigars, mynahs, and nuns, 16% to 22% died during an observation period of postexposure days 0 through 28.  相似文献   

Survival of pseudorabies virus in the presence of selected diluents and fomites.     

M A Schoenbaum  J D Freund  G W Beran 《Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association》1991,198(8):1393-1397

Because of the importance of environmental survival of pseudorabies virus to proposals to eradicate the virus from swine in the United States, survival of the virus was studied in various diluents and on combinations of diluents and solid fomites at 25 C. Suspensions of the virus in phosphate-buffered saline and saline G solutions remained infectious for at least 10 days. Infectivity of other virus/diluent suspensions decreased to less than 10 plaque-forming units/ml in 14 days (swine urine), 7 days (well water), 4 days (swine saliva), 2 days (lagoon water and swine nasal washings), and 1 day (swine pit effluent, chlorinated water, and bile). Suspensions of pseudorabies virus in saline G solution and on the solid fomites, whole corn, and steel remained infectious for at least 7 days. Infectivity of other virus/diluent/fomite combinations decreased to less than 10 plaque-forming units/ml in 7 days. The role of the fomites as vehicles for transmission of infection is discussed.  相似文献   

Zur Frage der Bienengefährilchkeit von Thiodan     

F. Beran 《Journal of pest science》1962,35(3):38-40

Ohne Zusammenfassung  相似文献   

Spontaneous shedding of pseudorabies virus from a clinically recovered postparturient sow   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

E B Davies  G W Beran 《Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association》1980,176(12):1345-1347

Pseudorabies virus was shed by a sow that had been clinically infected 19 months earlier (when 1 month old) and had been in isolation for 3 1/2 months. The shedding was detected from the third to eighth days after farrowing and was confined to the nasal secretion. Two susceptible pigs in contact with the sow after farrowing were not infected.  相似文献   

Pflanzenschutzmittel- Kompendium und Richtlinien für die Gebarung mit Pflanzenschutzmitteln     

F. Beran 《Journal of pest science》1969,42(4):60-61

Ohne Zusammenfassung  相似文献   

A survey of cattle producers in the Boophilus microplus endemic area of Queensland to determine attitudes to the control of and vaccination against tick fever     

RE BOCK  GW BLIGHT†  TG KINGSTON  AJ de  VOS 《Australian veterinary journal》1995,72(3):88-92

SUMMARY: A survey by mail was used to determine the views of beef producers in the Boophilus microplus endemic area of Queensland on the control of and vaccination against tick fever. Data from 448 questionnaires were analysed, representing 2.7% of beef producers in the survey area. Producers considered buffalo fly ( Haematobia irritans exigua ) infestation as the most important problem whereas tick fever ranked sixth overall. Private veterinarians were regarded as the most important source of information on vaccines for cattle followed by a weekly rural newspaper. From the survey we estimate that about 33% of producers used the tick fever vaccine produced by the Tick Fever Research Centre of Queensland Department of Primary Industries but there were significant (P < 0.05) variations between regions and herds. Large herds (≥ 400 head) in south-east Queensland were the most likely to be vaccinated against tick fever. Of the producers who did not use the vaccine, over 70% replied that there was no need to vaccinate because of the low risk of the disease in their herds. In 52% of unvaccinated herds the treatment of animals with acaricide was considered the most important means of tick fever control and 61% of these herds comprised Bos indicus x Bos taurus or Bos indicus cattle.  相似文献   

Efficacy of dressings for killing larvae of the sheep blowfly     

GW LEVOT  I. BARCHIA 《Australian veterinary journal》1995,72(7):245-248

SUMMARY Resistance to organophosphorus (OP) insecticides in the Australian sheep blowfly has decreased the larvicidal effectiveness of several popular products used as dressings for flystrike. Laboratory bioassays in which near full-size Australian sheep blowfly larvae were immersed in flystrike dressings at registered concentrations for times ranging from 5 to 180 s indicated that none of the products was completely effective in killing highly OP-resistant larvae. Several products performed poorly, even against a susceptible population. Effectiveness did not always reflect the concentration of active ingredient. For example, the products considered to be the most, and least effective overall, contained 0.036% propetamphos but were formulated very differently. Larvicidal efficacy is important in terms of minimising injury to stock but also in the management of insecticide resistance. In situations when the degree of resistance is known, it will be possible to make recommendations for the most cost-effective treatment of flystrike. In the meantime, there appears to be a clear advantage for woolgrowers to use a propetam-phos-based flystrike jetting product to dress flystrike lesions.  相似文献