Racecadotril, used as an antidiarrheal drug in humans and some animals such as the dog, inhibits peripheral enkephalinase, which degrades enkephalins and enkephalinase inhibition induces a selective...
Parasites are increasingly resisting current antiparasitic drugs. Countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and South America have contended with antiparasitic-resistant livestock...
The prevention of diseases in the early stages of calf rearing is of fundamental importance. The onset of diseases often requires the administration of antimicrobials, but reducing their use in...
Intestinal strangulation is constriction of the intestine by a band of tissue, ligament or blood vessel causing partial or complete intestinal obstruction.
Permanent surgical orchiectomy with or without scrotal ablation has become the contraceptive method of choice in male macropods, as reversible chemical methods have found little success.
Two sheep presented with acute tonic-clonic seizures, opisthotonos, absent pupillary light reflexes and abnormal vital signs within 18 hours after observed consumption of leaves from an ornamental...
A total of 5113 antibiotic doses were recorded over the 15-year period. Monitoring antibiotic use is essential to provide a framework enabling veterinarians to use antibiotics...
Attainment of adequate transfer of passive immunity (TPI) is critical to health of calves; however, studies comparing available tools for measurement of TPI in individual beef animals are limited....
