| serological examinations of slaughtered animals (cattle and goats) in the slaughter-house of colombo/sri lanka towards antibodies against brucellosis, q-fever, rmsf-rickettsia-group, listeriosis, echinococcosis and adenoviruses. | serological examinations of slaughtered animals (76 cattle and 184 goats) in the slaughter-house of colombo/sri lanka revealed antibodies against listeriosis, brucellosis, q-fever, rmsf-rickettsia-group, echinococcus and adenoviruses. as the results show, part of this zooanthroponosis has a role to play in human medicine and human infections are to be expected. | 1988 | 3139493 |
| prevalence of arbovirus antibodies in sera of animals in sri lanka. | the sera of cattle, goats, dogs and crows from the colombo area were tested for antibodies against seven arboviruses of the families togaviridae and bunyaviridae by a plaque-reduction neutralization microtest, using vero cells and a stable line of pig kidney (ps) cells. the overall percentages of positive sera among the mammals were: bhanja, 92.5%; calovo (batai), 30.6%; sindbis, 13.8%; langat, 4.8%; tahyna, 3.9%; west nile, 1.6%. among the birds, 23.8% had antibodies to bhanja virus and 9.5% to ... | 1983 | 6609014 |