1/13. Human rabies: a reemerging disease in costa rica?Two human rabies cases caused by a bat-associated virus variant were identified in September 2001 in costa rica, after a 31-year absence of the disease in humans. Both patients lived in a rural area where cattle had a high risk for bat bites, but neither person had a definitive history of being bitten by a rabid animal. Characterization of the rabies viruses from the patients showed that the reservoir was the hematophagous Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, and that a sick cat was the vector.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/13. Report of three children with leptospirosis in rural area of the east of turkey.leptospirosis is a systemic infection usually producing fever with hepatorenal involvement, meningoencephalitis, and hemorrhage. In this article, we present three children between 10 and 13 years of age with leptospirosis. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize that leptospirosis is a problem in our country with farmers/cattle and that leptospirosis should be considered in certain ill children. The main symptoms were headache, fever, fatigue, abdominal pain and unconsciousness. Two patients had hepatic and renal involvement. The other had hepatic, pulmonary and probably pericardial involvement. In all children spirochetes were demonstrated in blood and urine smears by dark-field microscopy and they were also isolated from urine and blood cultures by using Flecher medium. All patients were treated with penicillin; however, one subsequently required additional antibiotics due to klebsiella pneumoniae septicemia. While one patient was discharged in a good health, the others were taken to their home by parents without completing treatment. In conclusion, we would like to emphasize that leptospirosis is still a public health problem in our region (Eastern turkey) in where the majority of population are farmers and raise domestic animals such as cattle in rural areas. Additionally, leptospirosis should be considered in children admitted with headache, unconsciousness, fever and abdominal pain.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 2keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/13. Epidemiological and molecular evidence of a monophyletic infection with staphylococcus aureus causing a purulent dermatitis in a dairy farmer and multiple cases of mastitis in his cows.An epidemiological and molecular investigation of a cutaneous suppurative infection with staphylococcus aureus in a dairy farmer, occurring concurrently with an outbreak of clinical mastitis in his herd, was carried out. A common aetiology for the diseases in the farmer and his cows was established by combining clinical evidence with a molecular genomic analysis of the bacterial isolates using pulsed field gel electrophoresis of dna macro-restriction fragments. This case indicates the possibility of the emergence and circulation of anthropozoonotic clones of S. aureus in dairy herds. It also provides further evidence of the severe impact of infection with highly virulent clones on dairy lactating cattle.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/13. mycobacterium bovis tuberculosis: from animal to man and back.Rare cases of tuberculosis due to mycobacterium bovis have been described in humans who have been exposed to cattle or other infected animals. We report a case of tuberculosis in cattle exposed to a patient infected with M. bovis, where the strain isolated in the cattle and the patient were identical. As the patient is reported to have been exposed and contaminated during childhood, this seems to be the first documented case of transmission of M. bovis from animal to man and back to animal.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 3keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
5/13. Zoonotic onchocerciasis caused by a parasite from wild boar in Oita, japan. A comprehensive analysis of morphological characteristics of the worms for its diagnosis.Histological examination of a nodule removed from the back of the hand of a 58-year-old woman from Oita, Kyushu, japan showed an onchocerca female sectioned through the posterior region of the worm (ovaries identifiable) and young (thin cuticle). Six onchocerca species are enzootic in that area: O. gutturosa and O. lienalis in cattle, O. suzukii in serows (Capricornis crispus), O. skrjabini and an onchocerca sp. in Cervus nippon nippon, and O. dewittei japonica in wild boar (sus scrofa leucomystax). Diagnostic characters of female onchocerca species, such as the cuticle and its ridges, change along the body length. tables of the histologic morphology of the mid- and posterior body-regions of the local species are presented. In addition, it was observed that transverse ridges arose and thickened during the adult stage (examination of fourth stage and juvenile females of O. volvulus). The specimen described in this report, with its prominent and widely spaced ridges, was identified as O. d. japonica. Four of the 10 zoonotic cases of onchocerciasis reported worldwide were from Oita, three of them being caused by O. d. japonica, the prevalence of which in local wild boar was 22 of 24 (92%).- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
6/13. echinococcus granulosus cattle strain identification in an autochthonous case of cystic echinococcosis in central mexico.echinococcosis is a frequent hepatic parasitic disease in several countries but it is practically absent in mexico. A cattle strain of echinococcus granulosus was identified by RAPD, PCR-RFLP and mitochondrial CO1 gene analysis in an autochthonous case. The parasite was obtained after a laparoscopic excision of a liver cyst from a patient that was symptomatic for 6 years but mis-diagnosed before hospitalization.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 5keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
7/13. Transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis from human to cattle.We describe the first transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis from human to cattle confirmed by molecular typing of isolates involved in the transmission. IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis showed that the isolates from the cattle and farm worker who suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis 1 year prior to this case were the same strains.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 6keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
8/13. Zoonotic onchocerca in a Japanese child.A female onchocerca was found in histopathological sections of a nodule removed from the foot of a 2-year-old girl in southern japan. As in previously reported cases in switzerland, Crimea, canada, and the USA, evident morphological features of the worm resembled those of onchocerca gutturosa and O. cervicalis, which are known to exist in cervical ligaments of cattle and horses, respectively, in japan and elsewhere.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
9/13. Cutaneous form of bovine papular stomatitis in man.A cutaneous form of bovine papular stomatitis (BPS) infection was diagnosed in eight persons at the School of veterinary medicine at Auburn University, Auburn, Ala. The initial outbreak occurred in five persons who were involved in the care of a bull that required manual placement of an oral feeding tube. Confirmation of diagnosis was based on clinical findings, cytopathological effects in tissue culture, and isolation of typical paravaccinia virus particles in tissue culture. Transmission studies were performed successfully in three normal calves using tissue culture prepared from human biopsy material. In man, the cutaneous form of BPS infection shows gross lesions similar to the cutaneous form of contagious ecthyma ("orf") or pseudocowpox ("milkers' nodules") infection. Because BPS in cattle occurs most often without evidence of readily observable lesions, unlike contagious ecthyma in sheep or pseudocowpox in cattle, the transmission of BPS to man in the cutaneous form could occur without apparent source. The mild clinical manifestations make the condition relatively minor; however, the occasional case may have more severe lesions.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 2keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
10/13. corynebacterium ulcerans infection associated with untreated milk.infection with corynebacterium ulcerans has been previously reported in association with cows' milk. Further evidence that the disease is a zoonosis is given in this report of infection in a consumer of untreated milk. The organism was isolated from a sample of milk, and from two cows in a herd of 93 Jersey cattle. One of the farm workers was a symptomless nasal carrier.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = cattle (Clic here for more details about this article) |
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