Case notes on veterinary investigations in sheep, cattle and other species
District Veterinarian Conference, 2022
Sheep
Flystrike Prevention and Treatment - Planning Now Required
Written by: Narelle Sales, NSW DPI, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle
There are long-, medium- and short-term strategies that should be adopted against flystrike with an overall
view of reducing reliance on chemicals ... Read more
How Well Does the Elastase Test Support Clinical Footrot Diagnosis?
Written by: Alison Collins, Karen Smith and Damian Collins, NSW DPI, EMAI, and Om Dhungyel, University of
Sydney
This study measured the rate of elastase clearing (digestion of elastin particles) in D. nodosus
isolate cultures submitted from 184 sheep flocks in NSW ... Read more
Cattle
Retrospective Study of the Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Campaign in Fiji from 2015 to 2020
Written by: Garcia A, Borja E, Reid A, Samy V, Singh Shivani, Whittington R, Toribio J-ALML
To provide evidence of the performance of the test-and-cull based BTEC program to inform revision of the BTEC
strategy ... Read
more
Theileria orientalis on the North Coast
Written by: Ian Poe, North Coast Local Land Services, Kempsey
Since being first detected in the region in the early 2000s anaemia due to Theileria orientalis has
become a frequent diagnosis on the north coast ... Read more
Other
Anaerobic Culture - Why? What? How?
Written by: Ana I. S. Esteves & Mark Westman, Diagnostic Veterinary Bacteriology Laboratory, Elizabeth
Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Department of Regional NSW, Menangle NSW
Anaerobic bacteria can cause animal disease as invasive pathogens, as toxigenic agents and as participants in
pyogenic infections ... Read more
Climate and Disease
Written by: Nigel Brown, DV Glen Innes
This presentation considers not only the meteorological climate as it relates to disease development with the
current spectre of anthropogenic climate change but also the financial, political, bureaucratic, social and
emotional climates ... Read more
How I Investigate (as an Industry Funded Government Veterinarian)
Written by: Shaun Slattery, District Veterinarian
This paper will outline the livestock disease investigation principles the author has developed from 30 years
as a government veterinarian ... Read more
Mass Poultry Euthanasia
Written by: Elizabeth Braddon, NSW DPI
Two methods to euthanase birds are non-penetrating captive bolts (TED guns) and the use of CO2 for
mass euthanasia ... Read
more
Producer Disease Reporting
Written by: Zi Yi Lim, District Veterinarian, Western Local Land Services, Broken Hill
This paper examines producer's abilities to recognise disease, their decision to report disease and actions
they subsequently take ... Read more