Stray dog population health in Jodhpur, India in the wake of an animal birth control (ABC) program     

Totton SC  Wandeler AI  Ribble CS  Rosatte RC  McEwen SA 《Preventive veterinary medicine》2011,98(2-3):215-220

Our objectives were to (1) estimate the prevalence of various health indices in the stray dog population in Jodhpur, India and (2) determine if there was an association between an animal birth control (ABC) program and the prevalence of these health indices in this population. A prevalence survey of 323 sexually intact stray dogs >3 months caught from the streets of Jodhpur from September to November, 2005 indicated that low body condition score (70%), skin conditions (69%) and tick infestation (68%) were the most common health problems in this population. An observational study of 888 stray dogs on the streets of Jodhpur from March to April, 2006 revealed that sterilized dogs were more likely to have a higher body condition score (BCS) than sexually intact dogs when controlling for age, based on a multinomial regression model. However, sterilized dogs were more likely to have a skin condition than sexually intact dogs, based on a logistic regression model. Our observations of the surgical/kennel facility indicated that an effective tick control program was needed. Additionally, the current parasite control protocol at the kennel/shelter facility was inadequate to treat mange, a contact-transmitted skin disease. This is the first study to evaluate the associations between an ABC program and stray dog health, apart from rabies.  相似文献   

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC APPEARANCE OF OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS-LIKE LESIONS OF THE PROXIMAL ARTICULAR SURFACE OF THE PROXIMAL PHALANX IN A HORSE     

William C.  Schoenborn  DVM  Mark C.  Rick  DVM  William J.  Hornof  DVM  MS 《Veterinary radiology & ultrasound》2002,43(6):541-544

A 6-year-old Thoroughbred gelding presented with a left forelimb lameness. The results of lameness examination, radiography, nuclear scintigraphy, and computed tomography are presented. Based on the diagnostic imaging, subchondral fractures and osteochondritis dissecans lesions of the proximal articular surface of the proximal phalanx were diagnosed. A brief discussion of osteochondritis dissecans is presented.  相似文献   

TOADFISH POISONING (TETRODOTOXIN) IN THE CAT     

R. B. Atwell  G. B. Stutchbury 《Australian veterinary journal》1978,54(6):308-310

SUMMARY Two cases of tetrodotoxin (toadfish) poisoning in the cat are reported. The pharmacological and physiological actions of the toxin and treatment of this intoxication are discussed.  相似文献   

Outbreak of neurologic disease caused by equine herpesvirus-1 at a university equestrian center     

Henninger RW  Reed SM  Saville WJ  Allen GP  Hass GF  Kohn CW  Sofaly C 《Journal of veterinary internal medicine / American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine》2007,21(1):157-165

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Expression of select mRNA in Thoroughbreds with catastrophic racing injuries     

Allen E. Page  Emma Adam  Rick Arthur  Virginia Barker  Forrest Franklin  Ron Friedman  Timothy Grande  Michael Hardy  Bruce Howard  Emma Partridge  Matthew Rutledge  Mary Scollay  John C. Stewart  Alina Vale  David W. Horohov 《Equine veterinary journal》2022,54(1):63-73

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Glyphosate Carryover in Seed Potato: Effects on Mother Crop and Daughter Tubers     

Pamela J. S. Hutchinson  Joel Felix  Rick Boydston 《American Journal of Potato Research》2014,91(4):394-403

Field studies were conducted in 2008 and 2009 in Aberdeen, ID, Ontario, OR, and Paterson, WA to determine the effect of simulated glyphosate drift on ‘Ranger Russet’ potato during the application year and the crop growing the next year from the daughter tubers. Glyphosate was applied at 8.5, 54, 107, 215, and 423 g ae ha^?1 which corresponds to 1/00, 1/16, 1/8, ¼, and 1/2 of the lowest recommended single-application rate for glyphosate-resistant corn and sugar beet of 846 g ha^–1. Glyphosate was applied when potato plants were at 10 to 15 cm tall (Early), or at stolon hooking (H), tuber initiation (TI), or during mid-bulking (MB). In general, the MB applications caused less visual foliar injury to the mother crop than earlier applications at ID or OR, and H applications at WA. Mother crop injury increased as glyphosate rate increased regardless of location, application timing, and rating date. U.S. No.1 and total tuber yields were usually related to the injury level resulting from glyphosate application timings and rates. Although injury to the mother crop from glyphosate applied at MB usually was the lowest compared to injury from other application timings, when daughter tubers from that timing were planted the following year, emergence, plant vigor, and yield was most detrimentally impacted compared with that of daughter tubers from other timing treatments. MB daughter tuber emergence was less than 30 % of the nontreated control tuber emergence while emergence of daughter tubers from the other treatments was 60 to 95 %. As rate of glyphosate applied to the mother crop increased, daughter tuber emergence decreased. When MB daughter tubers did emerge, plants were chlorotic and stunted as if the plants had been directly sprayed with glyphosate. Regardless of whether the daughter tubers had defects or not, results the following year were the same. Implications are that if a mother seed crop encounters glyphosate during bulking, injury may not even be noticeable on the foliage or the tubers, however, emergence, vigor, and yield of the crop growing the following year from the daughter tubers could be greatly impacted.  相似文献   

Coral reefs still in danger from tourism head     

Macpherson R 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2007,317(5844):1498-1500

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Composition and Antimicrobial Activity of Anemopsis californica leaf oil     

Medina AL  Lucero ME  Holguin FO  Estell RE  Posakony JJ  Simon J  O'Connell MA 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2005,53(22):8694-8698

Isolation and characterization of leaf volatiles in Anemopsis californica (Nutt.) Hook. and Arn. (A. californica) was performed using steam distillation, solid-phase microextraction, and supercritical fluid extraction. Thirty-eight compounds were detected and identified by gas chromatography; elemicin was the major component of the leaf volatiles. While the composition of the leaf volatiles varied with method of extraction, alpha-pinene, sabinene, beta-phellandrene, 1,8-cineole, piperitone, methyl eugenol, (E)-caryophyllene, and elemicin were usually present in readily detectable amounts. Greenhouse-reared clones of a wild population of A. californica had an identical leaf volatile composition with the parent plants. Steam-distilled oil had antimicrobial properties against 3 (Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Geotrichim candidum) of 11 microbial species tested. Some of this bioactivity could be accounted for by the alpha-pinene in the oil.  相似文献   

End Product Quality and Agronomic Performance of Compost     

Mary F. Fauci  David F. Bezdicek  Dan Caldwell  Rick Finch 《Compost science & utilization》2013,21(2):17-29

Washington State University produces a manure-based compost of high pH (>8) and low N content (1 percent) by windrow composting campus wastes. Annual production at the four-acre facility is 18-20,000 cubic yards. In the interest of producing compost of higher N content and lower pH, ten experimental piles were constructed to investigate the effects of different feedstocks on the composting process, end quality and agronomic performance. Biosolids and manure were compared at two rates of bedding both with and without coal ash. Compost temperature and inorganic N content during 96 days of active composting are reported along with end product nutrient analysis and metal concentration. The composts behaved differently based on the N feedstock and level of bedding in the mix. Compost quality was influenced by the characteristics of the feedstocks. Applying the composts to an eroded hilltop (50 Mg/ha) increased winter wheat yield, but there were no differences among the ten composts.  相似文献   

Aminopyralid Residue Impacts on Potatoes and Weeds     

Steven S. Seefeldt  Rick A. Boydston  Phil N. Kaspari  Mingchu Zhang  Erin Carr  Jeff Smeenk  David L. Barnes 《American Journal of Potato Research》2013,90(3):239-244

Aminopyralid is used in Alaska to control certain invasive weed species; however it appears to have an extended soil half-life in interior Alaska resulting in carry-over injury in potatoes. Field studies at three experiment stations in Delta Junction, Fairbanks, and Palmer, Alaska were established to determine the dose–response of weeds and above and below ground potato growth to soil-applied aminopyralid (0, 8, 15, 31, 62, and 123 g ae ha^?1) . Both prostrate knotweed and narrowleaf hawksbeard were susceptible to aminopyralid. At Delta Junction and Fairbanks, visual injury of potatoes greater than 25 % was observed at 15 g ae ha^?1 aminopyralid, whereas at Palmer visual injury was greater than 40 % at 8 g ae ha^?1, the lowest rate tested. Potato tuber production was reduced by aminopyralid at rates of 15 g ae ha^?1 and above at both Delta Junction and Palmer. Sub-samples of potato tubers from Delta Junction and Palmer were analyzed for aminopyralid content and grown out to determine if aminopyralid in tubers would reduce subsequent growth. The aminopyralid concentration in potato tubers increased with increasing field application rates, with 30 ppb extracted from tubers grown at the highest application rate (123 g ae ha^?1). All plants grown from daughter tubers except from control plots in Palmer exhibited injury symptoms. The number of emerged shoots, and shoot height decreased with increasing aminopyralid concentrations in the tuber, with injury rates greater than 70 % at 8 g ae ha^?1.  相似文献