Prevalence, species identification and genotyping cryptosporidium from livestock and deer in a catchment in the cairngorms with a history of a contaminated public water supply...supply.Methods: A novel method of processing adult ruminant faecal sample was used to concentrate oocysts, followed by a nested species specific multiplex (nssm) PCR, targeting the 18S rRNA gene, to speciate Cryptosporidium....
Postprandial changes in methanogenic and acidogenic bacteria in the rumens of steers fed high- or low-forage diets once daily.... It is also the first study to suggest that other hydrogen-oxidizing, carbon dioxide-reducing bacteria which produce acid instead of methane are present at high population densities in the normally fed adult ruminant
Zoonosis update rift valley fever virus... 1 Since that time, RVF virus has caused numerous economically devastating epizootics that were characterized by sweeping abortion storms and mortality ratios of approximately 100 % among neonatal animals and of 10 % to 20 % among adult ruminant livestock (especially sheep and cattle)....
