| occurrence of organochlorine residues in australian meat. | in spite of several quality control procedures used by australia to ensure the wholesomeness of export meat, a number of pesticide residue violations were identified in the australian product exported to the usa in may 1987. the pesticides involved were the organochlorines, dieldrin and heptachlor. the problems were caused by the persistence of organochlorines in soils and their illicit use or contamination of storage facilities. animals grazing contaminated pasture, ingesting contaminated feed ... | 1990 | 2344338 |
| age-specific prevalence of porcine parvovirus antibody in feral pigs from a site in the northern territory. | | 1995 | 8787527 |
| communicable diseases network australia: national arbovirus and malaria advisory committee annual report 2004-05. | this report describes the epidemiology of mosquito-borne disease in australia for the mosquito-borne disease season 1 july 2004 to 30 june 2005. ross river virus (rrv) infections (45%), barmah forest virus (bfv) infections (30%) and malaria (19%) were the most common mosquito-borne diseases reported in 2004-05. the northern territory had the highest rate of rrv notifications and the peak notification rate (in february 2005) was 54 per cent less than the previous season. the northern territory al ... | 2005 | 16465923 |
| communicable diseases network australia national arbovirus and malaria advisory committee annual report, 2005-06. | this report describes the epidemiology of mosquito-borne disease in australia for the mosquito-borne disease season 1 july 2005 to 30 june 2006, in which the second largest number of notifications since 1995-96 was reported. ross river virus (rrv) infections (66%), barmah forest virus (bfv) infections (23%) and malaria (9%) were the most common mosquito-borne diseases reported in 2005-06. national rrv notifications were the fifth largest on record. the northern territory had the highest rate of ... | 2006 | 17330382 |
| communicable diseases network australia national arbovirus and malaria advisory committee annual report, 2006-07. | this report describes the epidemiology of mosquito-borne disease in australia for the mosquito-borne disease season 1 july 2006 to 30 june 2007, which was moderately low compared to previous seasons. ross river virus (rrv) infections (55%), barmah forest virus (bfv) infections (29%) and overseas acquired malaria (11%) were the most common mosquito-borne diseases reported in 2006-07. the number, proportion and rate of national bfv notifications were the second highest on record since 1998-99. the ... | 2008 | 18522303 |
| expanding distribution of human serotype g6 rotaviruses in australia. | serotype g6 rotaviruses are common pathogens of cattle but are rarely found in humans. in australia, human g6 isolates have previously been detected in two major southern population centres. a new isolate, asg6.02, was detected in central australia (alice springs) in 1997. comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of the major neutralizing antigen, vp7, indicated that asg6.02 was related to human g6 viruses isolated from children in italy and australia. phylogenetic analysis supported the cl ... | 2002 | 12222938 |
| a survey of mycobacteriosis of feral pigs in the northern territory. | seven hundred and fifty-one feral pigs from the subcoastal plains of the northern territory were examined. the sample population consisted of 52.4% females and 47.6% males. they ranged in age from newborn piglets to mature animals of over 72 months. of the pigs examined 47.7% had macroscopic abscesses and of these 80.2% were probably caused by mycobacteria. tissues from 193 pigs were examined bacteriologically and 93 strains of mycobacteria were isolated. these were typed as m. bovis (37 strains ... | 1981 | 7041875 |
| the isolation and preliminary characterization of a rhabdovirus in australia related to bovine ephemeral fever virus. | csiro 368 virus was isolated from blood collected in the northern territory from a healthy cow and electron microscope studies showed that the isolate had rhabdovirus morphology. fluorescent antibody studies and complement fixation tests related the virus to bovine ephemeral fever (bef) virus. neutralization tests in both suckling mice and vero cells showed that the virus was not bef virus. antibodies to csiro 368 virus were found in cattle sera from northern and eastern australia and papua new ... | 1983 | 6612981 |
| stephanurus dentatus in an ox in the northern territory. | | 1970 | 5465994 |
| epidemiology of bluetongue in australia: the vertebrate hosts. | ruminants became established in australia after european settlement which commenced in the late 18th century. bluetongue (bt) disease has never been suspected in cattle or sheep in this country. the species of ruminants found to have antibodies to bt and epizootic haemorrhagic disease (ehd) viruses are cattle, buffaloes, deer, goats and sheep. no antibodies have been found in pigs, horses, marsupials (kangaroos and wallabies) or humans, even in areas of high prevalence of bt and ehd infection. t ... | 1985 | 2989897 |
| pesticide residues in australian meat. | on several occasions in 1987 australian meat was reported by overseas countries to contain unacceptable levels of pesticide residues. investigations revealed that the residues were mainly the organochlorine compounds ddt, dieldrin and heptachlor, the concentrations of which exceeded the maximum residue limits. the organochlorines had accumulated in the soil of farms where they were used annually, or more frequently, owing to their long half-life in soils, and grazing animals had accumulated the ... | 1989 | 2678724 |
| antibody to togaviruses in the northern territory and adjoining areas of australia. | antibody to flaviviruses murray valley encephalitis (mve) and kunjin and to alphaviruses ross river and sindbis were found in many aboriginal children and adults bled in central australia in 1974 after several cases of mve occurred there as part of a widespread epidemic. antibody was also detected in sera taken in the period 1968 to 1973, but in a much lower proportion, suggesting both that the 1974 epidemic had caused frequent sub-clinical infection and that infection had occurred in the arid c ... | 1977 | 901314 |
| neosychnocotyle maggiae, n. gen., n. sp. (platyhelminthes: aspidogastrea) from freshwater turtles in northern australia. | neosychnocotyle maggiae, n. gen., n. sp., (aspidogastrea) is described from the pig-nosed turtle, carettochelys insculpta, and reported from the victoria river red-faced turtle, emydura victoriae, all from the daly river, northern territory, australia. neosychnocotyle n. gen. is differentiated from all aspidogastrean genera but one by the absence of a cirrus sac. the similar sychnocotyle also lacks a cirrus sac, but neosychnocotyle n. gen. differs from the former genus by possessing a narrow, ta ... | 2007 | 17539425 |
| leptospirosis: an unusual presentation. | leptospirosis is a common zoonosis that is endemic in the tropical top end of the northern territory. disease ranges from mild to very severe. we report a patient with anicteric leptospirosis who became critically ill, challenging the view that anicteric leptospirosis is less severe than the icteric form. despite a typical but non-specific presentation and recreational high-risk activities, diagnosis of leptospirosis was delayed. the patient developed respiratory failure, resulting from pulmonar ... | 2006 | 16930107 |
| clinical variation in melioidosis in pigs with clonal infection following possible environmental contamination from bore water. | an outbreak of melioidosis occurred in pigs on a rural property in the tropical north of the northern territory of australia. the pigs were mostly asymptomatic but lesions in the parotid glands suggested an oral route of infection. skin lesions were also common and one piglet had disseminated infection. pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed an identical pattern amongst burkholderia pseudomallei isolates from the pigs, with similarity to an isolate from the unchlorinated bore water supplying th ... | 2007 | 16807011 |
| modelling development of reptile embryos under fluctuating temperature regimes. | an increase in temperature, within bounds, will accelerate development of reptile embryos, and morphogenesis can be normal over a range of temperatures despite those varying rates of development. less well understood is the form of the relationship that best describes variation in developmental rate with temperature. in this article, we apply a linear degree.hour model, an empirical curvilinear model, a biophysical model, and a polynomial model to data on rates of embryonic development and tempe ... | 2005 | 15702459 |
| preliminary report on the northern australian melioidosis environmental surveillance project. | an environmental surveillance programme was developed to determine whether water supplies could be a source of burkholderia pseudomallei as noted during previous melioidosis outbreak investigations. water supplies to communities in the three northern australian jurisdictions (western australia, northern territory and queensland) were sampled periodically during 2001 and 2002. water and soil samples were collected from communities known to have had recent culture-positive melioidosis cases and ne ... | 2004 | 15473143 |
| animal melioidosis in australia. | melioidosis was first diagnosed in australia in sheep in 1949. while it has been considered endemic in tropical australia, there have been animal outbreaks in southwest western australia and southern queensland. infection occurs in many species, with both latency and a wide range of clinical manifestations. some species may develop melioidosis only if immunocompromised. sheep and goats are particularly susceptible, resulting in the requirement for pasteurisation of tropical commercial goat's mil ... | 2000 | 10674644 |
| serological survey for brucella antibodies in feral pigs from eastern australia. | | 1999 | 10376107 |
| prevalence of mycobacterium bovis infection in feral pigs in the northern territory. | the prevalence of mycobacterium bovis infection in populations of feral pigs from five areas in the northern territory was examined. in total 790 pigs were necropsied and positive cultures of m bovis were obtained from two pigs (0.25%) and a mycobacterial granuloma was found in one pig. the observed prevalence of m bovis infection in feral pigs is significantly less (chi 2 = 139.8, df = 1, p < 0.001) than the results of a comparable survey conducted during the early 1970s before the implementati ... | 1995 | 8825308 |