veterinary medical Articles
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Responsible Pet Ownership: Celebrating National Pet Week
This week is National Pet Week. While it technically ends tomorrow, it’s not too late to celebrate your furry companions! National Pet Week was created in 1981 by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the Auxiliary to the AVMA. It is celebrated each year during the first full week of May to encourage responsible pet care and to celebrate the bond between pets and their ...
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Babesia species occurring in austrian ixodes ricinus ticks
Babesiosis is a tick-transmitted disease of veterinary and medical importance. The first Austrian case of human babesiosis was recently recorded. In the current study, ticks at all life cycle stages (instars), including 853 Ixodes ricinus and 11 Haemaphysalis concinna ticks, from sampling sites throughout Austria were examined for the presence of Babesia spp. by using 18S rRNA gene PCR and ...
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Effects of ivermectin application on the diversity and function of dung and soil fauna: Regulatory and scientific background information
The application of veterinary medical products (VMPs) to livestock can impact soil organisms in manure‐amended fields or adversely affect organisms that colonize dung pats of treated animals, and potentially retard the degradation of dung on pastures. For this reason, the authorization process for VMPs in the European Union includes a requirement for higher‐tier tests when adverse effects on ...
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A field test of the effect of spiked ivermectin concentrations on the biodiversity of coprophagous dung insects in Switzerland
Veterinary medical product residues can cause severe damage in the dung ecosystem. Depending on the manner of application and the time after treatment, the excreted concentration of a given pharmaceutical varies. The popular anthelmintic drug ivermectin (IVM) can be applied to livestock in several different ways and is faecally excreted over a period of days to months after application. In a ...
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Fluxergy Expands to Scale Up COVID-19 Test Production and Prepare for Testing Beyond COVID-19
The company’s longer-term goal is to develop the platform to provide “multiple points of information from a single test,” says President Tej Patel. Fluxergy, a company that has already made headlines for earning a CE mark for its one-hour COVID-19 RT-PCR test, has expanded its U.S. headquarters after commercializing the test globally. The expansion will enable the company to ...
By Fluxergy
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