TUBERCULOSIS DIAGNOSTIC METHODS IN BUFFALOES

Tuberculosis diagnostic methods in buffaloes

The low productivity of buffalo herds and condemnation of carcasses in slaughterhouses due to tuberculosis lesions have resulted in increasing economic losses because these animals cannot be treated and must be destroyed by sanitary slaughter.Tuberculosis is a widely distributed zoonosis that affects the beef supply chain of the Brazilian agribusin

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Description of Paranoplocephala etholeni n. sp. (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) in the meadow vole Microtus pennsylvanicus, with a synopsis of Paranoplocephala s. l. in Holarctic rodents

Paranoplocephala etholeni n.sp., parasitizing the meadow vole Microtus pennsylvanicus in Alaska and Wisconsin, USA is described.Paranoplocephala etholeni is morphologically most closely zury sis wigs chill related to the Nearctic Paranoplocephala ondatrae (Rausch, 1948).Available data suggest that P.etholeni is a host-specific, locally rare species

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