Case notes on veterinary investigations in sheep, cattle and other species
District Veterinarian Conference 2016
Sheep
Brucella ovis as cause of abortion
Written by: Rahul Shankar, DV Young and Jillian Kelly, DV Coonamble
A producer noticed several aborted fetuses about his lambing paddock, stocked with 3-4 year old ewes. ... Read More
Chlamydia serological study in a commercial sheep flock
Written by: Evelyn Walker, District Veterinarian Central West LLS (Dubbo) and Assoc. Prof. Adam
Polkinghorne, Centre for Animal Health Innovation, University of the Sunshine Coast
Chlamydia pecorum, commonly isolated from the gastrointestinal tract, is ubiquitous in livestock
globally. In sheep it is mainly associated with keratoconjunctivitis and polyarthritis but also implicated in
respiratory disease, abortions and enteritis ... Read More
Laboratory detection of Fasciola hepatica in live sheep
Written by: Rob Woodgate, Tara Cassidy and Stephen Love
In this paper we briefly review testing options and report some of the results to date in evaluating a faecal
antigen ELISA test as an alternative for checking live sheep for F. hepatica ... Read More
Neonatal lamb mortality
Written by: Scott Ison, Murray Local Land Services, Albury
Lamb survival in Australian flocks has become a focal point of industry groups and researchers in recent
years. The recent MLA report listed Neonatal Lamb Mortalities as the most costly of 17 cattle, 23 sheep and
nine goat diseases ... Read more
Oesophagitis mortalities
Written by: Andrew Peters, Timothy Biffin, Emma Croser and Janet Wild
Sudden death was reported in 22 of 2100 merino crossbred weaner lambs (3-4 months old) showing symptoms that
were rapidly progressive, including weakness, altered mentation, ... Read More
Ovine respiratory disorders - a global overview
Written by: Peter Windsor, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
Throughout the world, the most common respiratory disorders of sheep are rhinitis/sinusitis and pneumonia,
caused by a wide range of host-pathogen-environment (HPE) interactions that reflect the various sheep
husbandry systems used in different countries ... Read More
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis enteritis in adult sheep
Written by: Nigel Gillan, District Veterinarian, Mudgee
While Yersinia enteritis is known to occur in adult sheep, most reports focus on the disease in younger
animals, and recent work has sought to clarify the role of Y. pseudotuberculosis and Y.
enterocolitica in a weaner scours syndrome ... Read More
Zinc phosphide toxicity in crossbred ewes
Written by: Gabrielle Morrice, DV Narrandera
Zinc phosphide is a rodenticide used to treat grain, and used extensively in recent mice plagues to control
mice damage in crops through perimeter baiting of crops ... Read More
Cattle
Cattle nematodes on the mid-north coast of NSW
Written by: Jim Kerr, District Veterinarian, Paterson
Investigation of weight loss in cattle in the Taree and Gloucester districts of NSW sometimes implicates
gastrointestinal worms as a likely cause ... Read more
Other
Antibiotic resistance in food animals - national and international developments
Written by: David Jordan, Principal Research Scientist, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Wollongbar,
NSW
Antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial usage has been a contentious issue at the nexus of animal and human
health for over 50 years. The discovery of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the UK
hospital system in 1960 first brought ... Read more
Australian bat lyssavirus update
Written by: Paul Freeman, NSW DPI Wollongbar
Australian Bat Lyssavirus is endemic in both insectivorous bats and megabats of Australia, where the
prevalence in wild populations is estimated at less than one percent but in bats that are showing neurological
signs a much higher prevalence occurs ... Read more
Canine article removed for academic purposes
Challenge of biosecurity in periurban areas - a case study
Written by: Kate Sawford, South East Local Land Services
The periurban environment poses unique animal biosecurity challenges including a large concentration of
migrant communities, with a range of common languages spoken at home and religious affiliations, farms are
small both in terms of area and livestock numbers and lack proper handling facilities, and knowledge of
regulations governing the ownership and sale of stock ... Read more
Diseases of alpacas
Written by: Patrick Staples, State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, EMAI, Menangle
This paper attempts to provide an introduction and overview of some of the diseases of alpacas that may be
seen in Australia ... Read more
Henipavirus outbreak in the southern Philippines, 2014
Written by: Debbie Eagles, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (CSIRO AAHL)
This paper describes the investigation of an outbreak of neurological disease with high case fatality amongst
people and horses in southern Philippines in 2014 ... Read more
Introducing Brucella melitensis
Written by: Bruce Watt, Central Tablelands Local Land Services, Bathurst
Worldwide, brucellosis remains a major source of disease in humans and domesticated animals. In humans,
ovine/caprine brucellosis caused by B. melitensis is by far the most important clinically apparent
disease ... Read more
Pinery fire in South Australia 2015 - Lessons learned
Written by: Nigel Baum, PIRSA Biosecurity SA Animal Health, Clare SA
The fire began near the Adelaide Plains grain-growing locality of Pinery, 70 kilometres due north of
Adelaide's centre, at midday on Wednesday 25 November, 2015. With winds reaching 100 km/h, the fire rapidly
spread ... Read
more
Red Racer disease
Written by: Dr Jillian Kelly, Regional Veterinarian CWLLS
In August 2015, Central West Local Land Services ran a mock Emergency Animal Disease Exercise in the Dubbo
area ... Read
more
Response to bushfires: NSW perspective
Written by: Elizabeth Braddon, Local Land Services, Riverina
In Southern NSW, bushfires are a considerable risk to livestock producers and rural communities almost every
year.As a veterinarian with the Local Land Services, we are typically contacted to assess and perform humane
destruction of livestock that are affected ... Read more
Smallholder livestock producers in Australia - biosecurity and knowledge transfer | Posted March
2016
Written by: M Hernández-Jover, L Hayes, J-A LML Toribio, R Woodgate, L Rast
Practices of smallholder livestock producers are perceived to pose biosecurity risks. The aim of the current
study was to investigate biosecurity, disease management and communication networks of smallholder producers
... Read more