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Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India (Veterinary Series) Etiology of Equine Contagious Abortion in India October 1922

1922

The question of milk supply while of primary importance in the cow does not arise in the case of the mare. [...] These investigators were the first to describe the very characteristic growth of the organism on the surface of agar, the medium after twenty-four hours' incubation having a dry wrinkled appearance, the intersecting lines being raised above the surrounding surface. [...] From the description of the growth of the organisms on agar, it was most probably the B. abortivo equinus. [...] The present work was undertaken with the object of investigating the following questions :— (1) The etiology of the disease. [...] The agglutination test of the serum gave a negative result in both donkey mares In the case of the pony mare, the agglutination titre of the serum was not very high, but milk from the same mare gave a very high titre.
technology medicine science
Pages
26
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100016
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii T. M. Doyle view
Etiology of Equine Contagious Abortion in India
139-158 T. M. Doyle view
Publications of the Imperial Department of Agriculture in India
i-iv T. M. Doyle view

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