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G H Collins

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Changes in liveweight gain, blood constituents and worm egg output in goats infected with a sheep-derived strain of Trichostrongylus colubriformis.

Two groups of goats were dosed with 20,000 and 40,000 sheep-derived strain (SDS) larvae of Trichostrongylus colubriformis respectively. Over a period of 42 days, goats dosed with 40,000 larvae lost more weight than goats dosed with 20,000 larvae. Anaemia was not observed in infected goats, but total serum proteins, albumins and phosphorus fell with infection.

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Changes in liveweight gain, blood constituents and worm egg output in goats artificially infected with a sheep-derived strain of Haemonchus contortus.

Two groups of goats were dosed with 10,000 and 20,000 sheep-derived strain (SDS) larvae of Haemonchus contortus respectively. Over a period of 42 days goats dosed with 20,000 larvae lost more weight than those dosed with 10,000 larvae. Infected goats showed anaemia from about 2 weeks after infection as well as reduced levels of total serum proteins and albumins.

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Infection of goats with Haemonchus contortus and Trichostrongylus colubriformis: histopathology and pH changes.

Two groups of goats were experimentally infected with Haemonchus contortus and Trichostrongylus colubriformis, and killed at various days after infection (DAI). The percentage of worms that established in the abomasum and the small intestine was low. At necropsy, abomasums from infected goats had thickened walls and oedematous folds. At 7 DAI there was an initial infiltration of eosinophils and some neutrophils which tend to increase with age of infection. The mean pH of the abomasum in goats infected with H. contortus was 5.43 (range 5.3-5.7), while that of the control goats was 3.30 (range 2.8-3.7).

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in an adolescent.

A 16-year-old boy was stricken with a progressive neurologic disorder characterized primarily by dementia progressing to severe neurologic debility in 12 months and death 28 months following the first symptoms. Pathologic examination showed a spongiform encephalopathy, consistent witha clinical diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The noteworthy features of the case are the age of onset, the somewhat prolonged course an the amount of white matter change. These are discussed within the frame of reference of CJD and the spongiform encephalopathies of infancy and childhood. Animal inoculation studies employing post-mortem embalmed brain as inoculum are currently in progress to determine the transmissibility of this patient's disease.

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