Volume 10, Issue 3 (2015) | American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences

Clinio-Pathological Changes in Goats Challenged with Corynebacterium Peudotuberculosis and its Exotoxin (PLD)

Z. K.H. Mahmood — 2015-05-26

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 26 May 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.112.132

Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) is a chronic disease caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. However, there is a paucity of data about the C. pseudotuberculosis exotoxin, phospholipase D (PLD) respo...

Closing the Gaps in Rat Cytomegalovirus ALL-03 (Malaysian Strain) Genomic Scaffold

Krishnan Nair Balakrishnan — 2015-06-08

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 8 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.133.140

Next generation sequencing technologies has revolutionized genomic research by producing a large volume of sequence data and lowest per base cost compared to the traditional sanger method. Although th...

Parasitic Loads and Growth Performance of Goats and Kids under Sequential and Mixed Species Grazing with Cattle at a Constant Stocking Rate

Renita Woods Marshall — 2015-06-08

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 8 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.141.149

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of sequential and mixed species grazing on parasitic loads and growth performance of goat kids. The study was conducted between June and October...

Standardized Ileal Digestible Lysine Requirement of 6- to 10-kg Weanling Pigs

Chan Sol Park — 2015-06-10

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 10 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.150.155

The objective of the experiment was to determine the Standardized Ileal Digestible (SID) lysine requirement for weanling pigs from 6 to 10 kg of Body Weight (BW). A total of 216 weanling pigs with an ...

Host Cell and Antibody Response towards Pasteurella Multocida B2 Infection-A General Review

Eric Lim Teik Chung — 2015-06-27

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 27 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.156.161

Pasteurella multocida was first shown to be the causative agent of fowl cholera by Louis Pasteur in 1881. Since then, this Gram-negative bacterium has been identified as the causative agent of many ot...

Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacterial Pathogens of Canine Otitis

Ricardo Antonio Pilegi Sfaciotte — 2015-07-03

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 3 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.162.169

Otitis is one of the most frequent infections in dogs. This is attributed to the misuse of drugs enabling generation of multi-resistant micro-organisms. The emergence of multiresistant bacterial strai...

RCMV ALL-03 Model and Study of CMV Pathogenesis in Congenital Infection

Ashwaq Ahmed Abdullah — 2015-07-18

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 18 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.170.186

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the most commonly studied members of the Herpesviridae family. So far several strains have been identified but human CMV (HCMV) remains the most important due to its ab...

Occurrence of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) and Feline Leukemia (FeLV) in São Luís-MA

Nathálya dos Santos Martins — 2015-07-24

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 24 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.187.192

The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukemia virus in the city of São Luís, Maranhão state (MA), Brazil. A total of 120 blood samples ...

Levels of Aflatoxin M1 in Different Types of Milk Collected in Jahrom, Iran, Winter-Spring 2013

Reyhaneh Rouhi — 2015-08-19

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 19 August 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.193.196

Aflatoxins as a group of mycotoxins, are produced by Aspergillus species under environments that favor the growth of molds. Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) has been considered as a class 2Bcarcinogen. As milk is ...

Do Cows Under Subacute Ruminal Acidosis (SARA) Attempt to Self-Medicate?

Erin Hendriksen — 2015-09-02

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Published online: 2 September 2015; doi:10.3844/ajavsp.2015.197.201

The objective of this study was to examine feed-sorting behavior of dairy cows in response to a grain challenge that leads to Subacute Ruminal Acidosis (SARA). Sixteen multiparous, rumen-cannulated la...