Ikeda infection does not negatively impact growth performance or breeding soundness exam results in young beef bulls at bull test stations.

Introduction: Ikeda genotype is an emerging cattle disease in the US. Since 2017, when Ikeda was discovered in beef cattle in two counties in Virginia, cattle infections have risen to include ~67% of Virginia counties and 14 states. Consistent with New Zealand studies, many infected herds in Virginia were >90% positive upon initial testing without overt evidence of infection.

A new paraprobiotic-based treatment for control of Haemonchus contortus in sheep.

Haemonchus contortus is a critical parasite of goats and sheep. Infection by this blood-feeding gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) parasite has significant health consequences, especially in lambs and kids. The parasite has developed resistance to virtually all known classes of small molecule anthelmintics used to treat it, giving rise in some areas to multidrug resistant parasites that are very difficult to control.

Characterization of gill Na/K-ATPase activity and ouabain binding in Antarctic and New Zealand nototheniid fishes.

The effects of thermal acclimation in two Nototheniid species, the stenothermal Antarctic Trematomous bernacchii and the eurythermal New Zealand Notothenia angustata, were investigated. Serum osmolality, gill Na/K-ATPase activity, sodium pump density and ouabain affinity were determined. Both fish were acclimated at their upper and lower viable thermal temperatures.