Respiratory Disease Technical Articles
Article published the August 17, 2017:
Cold weather is not just hard on the people taking care of animals, it can be tough on the animals themselves. Consider respiratory disease (pneumonia) in dairy calves. It’s not just our imagination tha...
Article published the October 28, 2016:
Introduction
Evaluation of serum or plasma electrolytes is important part of the blood chemistry profile in cattle. Potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) are the major intracellular and extracellular cations, ...
Article published the February 22, 2016:
On 27 July 2015, Germany’s veterinary authorities notified the European Commission via an ADNS and OIE announcement that a highly pathogenic avian influenza H7N7 had broken out in a poultry flock of 14,10...
Article published the July 31, 2014:
Shipping Fever, also called bovine respiratory disease complex or pneumonic pasteurellosis, is an important respiratory disease of cattle that appears in animals from six months of age, usually after suffering ...
Article published the September 6, 2013:
1 Laboratório de Doenças Bacterianas da Reprodução, Centro Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento de Sanidade Animal, Instituto Biológico de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil...
Article published the January 4, 2013:
Introduction
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis is worldwide in distribution caused by bovine herpes virus-1 (BHV-1), however, IBR was reported for the first time in India by Mehrotra et al. (1976). It is one o...
Article published the August 30, 2012:
1 Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, 2 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, Un...
Article published the August 7, 2012:
Respiratory disease is the second leading cause of death losses (scours is the first) in un-weaned heifer calves. Respiratory problems have increased by 34 percent in the last 20 years, causing nearly 21 percen...
Article published the February 14, 2011:
Diarrhoea is a multifactorial disease entity that can have serious financial and animal welfare implications in dairy herds. It has been estimated that 75% of early calf mortality in dairy herds is caused by ac...
Article published the September 17, 2008:
Bovine respiratory disease continues to be the leading cause of illness and death loss from weaning through finishing. There is no objective method to evaluate a live animal’s severity of sickness or their resp...