茶根朽病是肯尼亚茶树的一种重要病害

因蜜环菌 Armilaria mellea(Vahl exFr.)引起的根朽病,是许多木本植物的一种重要病害而遍及全世界,作者在肯尼亚从鳄梨、油桃、茶树上鉴定到这种病。茶树感病后发黄,较健株矮小,提早开花,根际皮层裂开,因而名“根裂病”,根际下方皮层干裂或根系复有米白色常呈扇状的菌丝体,在肯尼亚海拔较高(2000米以     

WEPP——新一代的侵蚀预报技术

<正>侵蚀预报是美国水土保持规划、设计最常用、最有效的方法.用侵蚀预报可根据可能的侵蚀影响对可选措施进行排序.     

The detection of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in bovine faeces by isolation and the comparison of isolation with the examination of stained smears by light microscopy

The detection of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis organisms in bovine faeces by isolation was compared with that by the microscopical examination of Ziehl-Neelsen stained faecal smears for the presence of clumps of acid-fast M. paratuberculosis organisms. Faeces were obtained from cattle naturally or experimentally infected with M. paratuberculosis as well as from uninfected cattle. Microscopical examination was an unreliable method for the detection of M. paratuberculosis organisms, since the organisms were only detected in 99 (=55.9%) of 177 culturally positive faecal samples. 1111 addition, clumps of acid-fast organisms indistinguishable from M. paratuberculosis were also observed iin three of 18 samples from cattle free from Johne's disease and in 18 of 37 culturally negative samples from paratuberculous cattle. When M. paratuberculosis organisms were added to faeces from an uninfected cow, results showed that isolation attempts should be positive when 15 or more M. paratuberculosis organisms per gram of faeces are present.     

Intracranial schwannoma in a cow

A nine year old Hereford crossbred cow with a history of progressive neurological signs was referred to the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon. A large intracranial mass, histologically identified as a schwannoma, was found to be compressing the left brain stem and appeared to have arisen from the left fifth cranial nerve.