A study of oestrous behaviour and oestrus detection methods in a large commercial dairy herd. I. The relative efficiency of methods of oestrus detection   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

N B Williamson  R S Morris  D C Blood  C M Cannon 《The Veterinary record》1972,91(3):50-58

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Clinical and pathological responses of weaned pigs to atmospheric ammonia and dust     

Done SH  Chennells DJ  Gresham AC  Williamson S  Hunt B  Taylor LL  Bland V  Jones P  Armstrong D  White RP  Demmers TG  Teer N  Wathes CM 《The Veterinary record》2005,157(3):71-80

Nine hundred and sixty weaned pigs were exposed for five weeks to controlled concentrations of atmospheric ammonia and dust in a single, multifactorial experiment. The treatments were a mean dust concentration of either 1.2, 2.7, 5.1 or 9.9 mg/m3 (inhalable fraction) and a mean ammonia concentration of either 0.6, 10.0, 18.8 or 37.0 ppm, concentrations representative of commercial conditions. The experiment was carried out over two years and the pigs were used in eight batches, each consisting of five lots of 24 pigs. Each treatment combination was replicated once, and an additional control lot (nominally 0 mg/m3 dust and 0 ppm ammonia) was included in each batch. The dust concentration was the same in the other four lots in each batch in which the four concentrations of ammonia were used; thus, the split-plot design was more sensitive to the effects of ammonia than dust. The groups of pigs were kept separately in five rooms in a purpose-built facility, and the pollutants were injected continuously into the air supply. Ammonia was supplied from a pressurised cylinder, and the endogenous dust in each room was supplemented by an artificial dust manufactured from feed, barley straw and faeces, mixed by weight in the proportions 5:1:4; its ingredients were oven-dried, milled and mixed, and then resuspended in the air supply. The health of the pigs was assessed in terms of general pathology, respiratory tract pathology, and the microbiology of the nasal cavity, trachea and lung. In each batch, postmortem examinations were carried out on 40 pigs after five weeks' exposure to the pollutants and on 30 pigs two weeks later to test for carryover and recovery--a total of 560 pigs. These examinations revealed minimal gross pathology and widespread minor pathological changes of little significance. The pigs' turbinate and lung scores were low and unaffected by exposure to pollutants. All the putative bacterial pathogens, with the exception of toxigenic Pasteurella multocida type D, were isolated from the respiratory tract of the pigs of both ages, but there were no differences between the effects of the different concentrations of pollutants.  相似文献   

LESIONS CAUSED BY CORYNEBACTERIUM PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS IN THE SCROTUM OF RAMS   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

P. Williamson  M. E. Nairn 《Australian veterinary journal》1980,56(10):496-498

SUMMARY Palpable lesions within the scrotum but not associated with the testis or epididymis were detected in 20 of 200 merino rams in 3 flocks during routine veterinary examination. In 13 of 15 rams further examined Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis was isolated from the lesions, which were typical CLA type abscesses. C. pseudotuberculosis was not shed in semen, and semen quality was normal in all affected rams.  相似文献   

Letters to the Editor     

Williamson MA 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1960,132(3441):1772

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Portland cement: pseudomorphs of original cement grains observed in hardened pastes     

Williamson RB 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1969,164(3879):549-551

Scanning electron micrographs show that a hydration product forms inside the anhydrous cement grains and forms a pseudomorph of the original cement grain. The originally water-filled space between the grains is partially filled with calcium hydroxide crystals that appear to be responsible for the strength of the cement paste.  相似文献   

Fibrous dysplasia in a monkey and a kudu     

W M Williamson  L S Lombard  H S Firfer 《Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association》1965,147(10):1049-1052

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Further evaluation of the use of buparvaquone in the infection and treatment method of immunizing cattle against Theileria parva derived from African buffalo (Syncerus caffer).     

P N Ngumi  A S Young  D Lampard  S K Mining  S G Ndungu  A C Lesan  S M Williamson  A Linyonyi  D P Kariuki 《Veterinary parasitology》1992,43(1-2):15-24

Three experiments were undertaken to determine the efficacy of different doses of buparvaquone in the infection and treatment immunization of cattle against Theileria parva derived from African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Two of these experiments also compared buparvaquone with standard doses of long- and short-acting formulations of oxytetracycline. In addition, different dilutions of stabilates were used in the experiments. In the first experiment, a 10(-1.0) dilution of stabilate was used to infect groups of cattle treated with buparvaquone at doses of between 5 and 0.625 mg kg-1 body weight (bwt) on Day 0 after infection. All control cattle developed severe theileriosis and none of the treatment regimes (including those utilizing long-acting oxytetracycline) prevented the development of theileriosis. Treatment with buparvaquone at 2.5 mg kg-1 bwt or oxytetracycline gave the most satisfactory results. In the second experiment when the sporozoite dose was reduced to 10(-2.0) dilution, buparvaquone treatment at 5 and 2.5 mg kg-1 bwt and short- and long-acting formulations of oxytetracycline reduced reactions greatly. While all the oxytetracycline treated animals produced a serological response and were immune to a 50-fold higher challenge with the immunizing stabilate, several animals in the buparvaquone groups did not show a serological response and were not immune to challenge. In the third experiment, groups of cattle were infected with 10(-1.2), 10(-1.4) and 10(-1.6) dilutions of stabilate and were treated with 2.5 mg kg-1 bwt of buparvaquone. No animals developed severe theileriosis and all seroconverted. On homologous challenge, however, two out of 14 cattle showed severe reactions. It was concluded that further work on immunization using buparvaquone treatment at 2.5 mg kg-1 bwt and 10(-1.6) dilution of the stabilate would have to be carried out before such a system could be used in the field.  相似文献   

EXTENSIONS TO A VETERINARY HEALTH AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM DATA SYSTEM FOR DAIRY HERDS   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

N. B. Williamson    G. A. Anderson    D. C. Blood  J. Malmo  † 《Australian veterinary journal》1980,56(10):474-476

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The use of PCR to detect Neospora caninum DNA in the blood of naturally infected cows   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Okeoma CM  Williamson NB  Pomroy WE  Stowell KM  Gillespie L 《Veterinary parasitology》2004,122(4):307-315

Twelve 2-year old heifers in their fifth month of gestation when pregnancy tested were used in this study. Six heifers aborted at approximately 4 months of gestation and had blood samples drawn less than 6 weeks after the abortions were identified. Blood samples were also drawn from three sero-positive pregnant and three sero-negative pregnant heifers. DNA was isolated from the samples and a 350 bp fragment of the Nc-5 gene was PCR amplified using primer pair Np21+ and Np6+. Also, the Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 (ITS1) was PCR amplified using Tim 3 and Tim 11 primer pair. The Nc-5 gene fragment was cloned, sequenced and the sequence BLAST-tested. Similarly, the ITS1 product was sequenced and BLAST-tested. The BLAST test results revealed that Neospora caninum DNA was present in these blood samples indicating that polymerase chain reaction can be used in the detection of N. caninum DNA in the blood of sero-positive cows.  相似文献   

Validation of the FAMACHA eye color chart for detecting clinical anemia in sheep and goats on farms in the southern United States     

Kaplan RM  Burke JM  Terrill TH  Miller JE  Getz WR  Mobini S  Valencia E  Williams MJ  Williamson LH  Larsen M  Vatta AF 《Veterinary parasitology》2004,123(1-2):105-120

Recent studies on sheep and goat farms in the southern United States indicate that multiple-anthelmintic resistance in Haemonchus contortus is becoming a severe problem. Though many factors are involved in the evolution of resistance, the proportion of the parasite population under drug selection is believed to be the single most important factor influencing how rapidly resistance develops. Therefore, where prevention of resistance is an important parallel goal of worm control, it is recommended to leave a portion of the animals untreated. Recently, a novel system called FAMACHA was developed in South Africa, which enables clinical identification of anemic sheep and goats. When H. contortus is the primary parasitic pathogen, this system can be applied on the farm level to reduce the number of treatments administered, thereby increasing the proportion of the worm population in refugia. Since most studies validating the FAMACHA method have been performed in South Africa, it is important that the method be tested in other regions before its use is broadly recommended. We performed a validation study of FAMACHA by testing the system in sheep (n = 847) and goats (n = 537) of various breeds and ages from 39 farms located in Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, and the US Virgin Islands. The color of the ocular conjunctiva of all animals were scored on a 1-5 scale using the FAMACHA card, and blood samples were collected from each animal for determination of packed cell volume (PCV). Fecal samples were also collected from a majority of the animals tested for performance of fecal egg counts (FEC). Correlations between PCV and eye scores, PCV and FEC, and FEC and eye scores were all highly significant for both sheep and goats (P < 0.001). Data for both FAMACHA scores and PCV were evaluated using two separate criteria for anemia: eye score values of 3, 4 and 5 or 4 and 5, and PCV values of < or =19 or < or =15 were considered anemic. Specificity was maximized when eye score values of 4 and 5 were considered anemic and PCV cut off for anemia was < or =19, but sensitivity was low. In contrast, sensitivity was 100% for both sheep and goats when eye score values of 3, 4 and 5 were considered anemic and PCV cut off was < or =15, but specificity was low. In both sheep and goats, predictive value of a negative was greater than 92% for all anemia and eye score categories, and was greater than 99% for both eye score categories when an anemia cutoff of < or =15 was used. Predictive value of a positive test was low under all criteria indicating that many non-anemic animals would be treated using this system. However, compared to conventional dosing practices where all animals are treated, a large proportion of animals would still be left untreated. These data indicate that the FAMACHA method is an extremely useful tool for identifying anemic sheep and goats in the southern US and US Virgin Islands. However, further studies are required to determine optimal strategies for incorporating FAMACHA-based selective treatment protocols into integrated nematode control programs.  相似文献