In dogs, the sacrum consists of three fused vertebrae (Evans & De Lahunta, 2013) and recently the population of greyhounds in Victoria, Australia have shown a remarkably high incidence of sacrocaudal fusion in which the ...

Little is known about the population of viruses present in the intestine of dogs, the virome, despite advances in molecular biology techniques. The viral flora in the intestine of dogs has been mostly studied in disease ...

The Australian alpaca industry has grown remarkably since the re-introduced of alpaca into the country in the 1980s. This relatively new and small industry faces various challenges that affect the overall production (fibre, ...

Equine laminitis is a multifactorial condition leading to the rotation of the distal phalanx. It is widely accepted that endocrinopathic is the most common form of the condition and that Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS) is ...

Enterocytozoon bieneusi is a microsporidian microorganism that causes intestinal disease in animals including humans. Although E. bieneusi has been discovered and investigated in numerous countries around the world, at the ...

Mycoplasma species are free living bacteria with minimal gene sets, and have been used as model organisms to study the basic requirements for life. M. gallisepticum and M. bovis are important pathogens of birds and cattle ...

Mycoplasma bovis is an important pathogen in cattle production systems worldwide and causes significant economic losses. It causes mastitis, pneumonia, otitis media, keratoconjunctivitis and polyarthritis in affected cattle. ...

Background: Hyperthyroidism and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are common in geriatric cats and often occur concurrently. Among other effects, hyperthyroidism causes protein catabolism and increases renal blood flow and the ...

Many diseases and injuries of synovial joints result in a focal loss of articular surface congruity. These conditions are known to lead to degenerative changes within the affected joint and subsequent osteoarthritis (OA). ...

Animal welfare is becoming critical to the general public, farmers and dairy industry. In Australian dairy farming systems, maintenance of good welfare of large numbers of surplus non-replacement young male dairy calves ...