| experimental infection with murray valley encephalitis virus. pigs, cattle, sheep, dogs, rabbits, macropods and chickens. | a total of 142 young animals including 10 domestic and 14 feral pigs, 12 hereford calves, 12 crossbred and 24 merino lambs, 11 dogs, 8 domestic and 16 feral rabbits, 14 grey kangaroos, 9 agile wallabies and 12 chickens was exposed to infection with 4 strains of murray valley encephalitis virus (mve), mainly using orally infected culex annulirostris mosquitoes. in terms of their viraemic response, the animals were grouped into high (grey kangaroos, rabbits), moderate (pigs, dogs, chickens) and lo ... | 1985 | 2990398 |
| the characterization of variants of human hemoglobin a2. | | 1974 | 4472352 |
| epidemiological aspects of toxoplasmosis in southern western australia. | | 1983 | 6639518 |
| immunodominant epitopes on the ns1 protein of mve and kun viruses serve as targets for a blocking elisa to detect virus-specific antibodies in sentinel animal serum. | two mosquito-borne flaviviruses, murray valley encephalitis (mve) and kunjin (kun), are the aetiological agents of australian encephalitis. mve causes a severe and potentially fatal form of the disease while kun is responsible for only a few relatively mild cases. therefore it is important that serological tests used in flavivirus surveillance differentiate between infections with these two viruses. however, this has been hampered in the past by the close antigenic relationships between flavivir ... | 1995 | 7738140 |
| tuberculosis in imported hyrax (procavia capensis) caused by an unusual variant belonging to the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. | tuberculosis was diagnosed in an adult female hyrax (procavia capensis) imported from south africa and held in a captive colony at the perth zoo. an organism similar to mycobacterium microti was isolated from the lung of this animal and the lung of an adult male hyrax in the colony. the organism was not pathogenic to rabbits or guinea pigs. protein profiles and rflp patterns using the probes is6110 and ptbn12 showed both hyrax isolates were identical. these isolates were similar to a m. tubercul ... | 1994 | 7886928 |
| adverse reactions in wild, free-ranging european rabbits vaccinated against rabbit haemorrhagic virus. | | 1997 | 9247699 |
| microsporidia (encephalitozoon cuniculi) in wild rabbits in australia. | to determine the prevalence of infection with encephalitozoon cuniculi in wild rabbit populations in western australia, and to isolate the organism from seropositive rabbits. | 1997 | 9404614 |
| coccidia (eimeria spp) of wild rabbits in southwestern australia. | | 1998 | 9578759 |
| factors influencing the fecal egg and oocyst counts of parasites of wild european rabbits oryctolagus cuniculus (l.) in southern western australia. | abundance of intestinal parasites was monitored by fecal egg and oocyst counts for samples of wild rabbits oryctolagus cuniculus with different levels of imposed female sterility from 12 populations in southwestern australia. differences in egg counts of trichostrongylus retortaeformis between seasons and age groups were dependent on the sex of the host. pregnancy may have been responsible for these differences because egg counts were consistently higher in intact females than in females surgica ... | 1999 | 10577712 |
| evaluation of the association of parasitism with mortality of wild european rabbits oryctolagus cuniculus (l.) in southwestern australia. | abundances of the parasitic nematodes trichostrongylus retortaeformis and passalurus ambiguus, and 8 eimeria species were estimated by fecal egg and oocyst output in 12 discrete free-ranging populations of wild rabbits (oryctolagus cuniculus) in southwestern australia. comparisons of parasite egg and oocyst counts were made between those rabbits known to have survived at least 2 mo after fecal samples were collected and those rabbits that did not survive. there were significant negative relation ... | 1999 | 10577713 |
| first isolation of an aquatic birnavirus from farmed and wild fish species in australia. | during routine sampling and testing, as part of a systematic surveillance program (the tasmanian salmonid health surveillance program), an aquatic birnavirus was isolated from 'pin-head' (fish exhibiting deficient acclimatisation on transfer to saltwater) atlantic salmon salmo salar, approximately 18 mo old, farmed in net-pens located in macquarie harbour on the west coast of tasmania, australia. the isolate grows readily in a range of fish cell lines including chse-214, rtg-2 and bf-2 and is ne ... | 2000 | 11129376 |
| hosts of the exotic ornate kangaroo tick, amblyomma triguttatum triguttatum koch, on southern yorke peninsula, south australia. | amblyomma triguttatum triguttatum is assumed to be endemic to south-western western australia (including barrow island), queensland (excluding cape york peninsula), and new south wales, south to dubbo and barham. the species has been recorded on a range of mammalian hosts including macropods and domestic animals. in queensland, a. triguttatum triguttatum is implicated in the epidemiology of q fever. in 2000, the species was detected on southern yorke peninsula in south australia. we aimed to ide ... | 2007 | 17611781 |
| determination of mosquito (diptera: culicidae) bloodmeal sources in western australia: implications for arbovirus transmission. | a double-antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to determine the bloodmeal sources of adult mosquitoes (diptera: culicidae) collected in encephalitis vector surveillance mosquito traps in western australia between may 1993 and august 2004. in total, 2,606 blood-fed mosquitoes, representing 29 mosquito species, were tested, and 81.7% reacted with one or more of the primary antibodies. aedes camptorhynchus (thomson) and culex annulirostris skuse were the most common species tested, ma ... | 2009 | 19769051 |
| deliberate introduction of the european rabbit, oryctolagus cuniculus, into australia. | the european rabbit was brought to australia as a companion animal by early settlers. it sometimes escaped, but failed to survive in the australian bush. in 1879 wild rabbits were deliberately sent to victoria to provide game for wealthy settlers to shoot. they soon spread all over australia, except in the tropics, and became australia's major animal pest. after careful testing in australian wildlife and in humans, control by myxoma virus was introduced at various sites between 1937 and 1950, sp ... | 2010 | 20617651 |
| Genetic characterization of flea-derived Bartonella species from native animals in Australia suggests host-parasite co-evolution. | Fleas are important arthropod vectors for a variety of diseases in veterinary and human medicine, and bacteria belonging to the genus Bartonella are among the organisms most commonly transmitted by these ectoparasites. Recently, a number of novel Bartonella species and novel species candidates have been reported in marsupial fleas in Australia. In the present study the genetic diversity of marsupial fleas was investigated; 10 species of fleas were collected from seven different marsupial and pla ... | 2011 | 21856444 |
| a landscape approach to invasive species management. | biological invasions are not only a major threat to biodiversity, they also have major impacts on local economies and agricultural production systems. once established, the connection of local populations into metapopulation networks facilitates dispersal at landscape scales, generating spatial dynamics that can impact the outcome of pest-management actions. much planning goes into landscape-scale invasive species management. however, effective management requires knowledge on the interplay betw ... | 2016 | 27471853 |