Annual report of the Sudan Veterinary Service.

  • Sudan. Veterinary Service.
Date:
[1952]
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Credit: Annual report of the Sudan Veterinary Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ** islands ” border on the routes of seasonal migration of nearly a quarter of a million cattle to and from a large dried swamp grazing area, and are potentially a very important source of infection of trypanosomiasis. It is not improbable that infected cattle return¬ ing northwards at the beginning of the rainy season do in turn act as sources of infection for spread of the disease by biting flies to cattle in southern Kordofan Province. VI. PASTURE SURVEY. It was decided in November that as it would be impossible for the Pasture Research Officer to complete his survey of all the graz¬ ing areas and also write his final report before the summer, he should suspend field work immediately and complete that part of his report which dealt with the cattle grazing areas, excluding the Fung District. The second, and final, part of his report, dealing with the camel and sheep grazing areas and the Fung District should be completed early in 1953. Mr. Harrison spent the next three months at the Common¬ wealth Bureau of Pasture Plants and Forage Crops at Aberystwyth writing this part of the report and on his return to the Sudan left it there to be stencilled. Both report and stencils were lost in the post on the way to the Sudan and no trace of them found despite most exhaustive enquiries. The first part of the report had conse¬ quently to be re-written and this has not yet been completed. VII. PUBLICATIONS. The following papers were published 1. Priestley, F. W. — A Slide Flocculation Test for the Diag¬ nosis of Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia,— Vet. Rec., 1951, Vol. 63 pp 427-429. 2. Priestley, F. W. — Freeze Drying of the Organism of Con¬ tagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia—Jour. Comp. Path. & Therap., 1952, Vol. 62 pp 125-135. 3. Priestley, F. W. — Observations on Immunity to Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia with special reference to the Bactericidal Action of the Blood—Brit. Vet. Jour., 1952, Vol. 108 pp 153-161. 4. Priestley, F. W. and White, R. W. — A Note on the Isola¬ tion from Serum of a Heat-Stable Growth Factor for the Growth of the Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneu¬ monia Organism— Vet. Rec., 1952, Vol. 64 p 259 5. White, R. W. — Selective Bacteriostatic Substances for the Isolation and Cultivation of Asterococcus bovis, the causal organism of Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia— Brit. Vet. Jour., 1952, Vol.108 pp 111-123.