Veterinary Services

• Fourteen outbreaks of salmonellosis due to Salmonella Dublin in cattle

• Salmonellosis due to S.

• Black disease, the cardiac form of blackleg and clostridial enterotoxaemia confirmed in cattle
• Parasitic bronchitis in cattle frequently diagnosed
• Diagnosis of Johne’s disease in cattle and sheep 1993 to 2008
• Fourteen outbreaks of systemic pasteurellosis
• Erysipelas confirmed in growing turkeys and laying hens

• Review of causes of bovine abortion from 2004 to 2009
• Salmonellosis in cattle causing milk drop, abortion and calf pneumonia
• Nematodirosis, haemonchosis, lungworm infections and chronic fasciolosis diagnosed in sheep
• Continuing spread of outbreaks of swine dysentery in pigs
• Histomonosis and “Round Heart Disease” in turkey poults

• Suspected blue-green algal toxicity kills dairy cows
• Parasitic bronchitis commonly seen in young cattle
• Review of bovine and ovine fasciolosis over last sixteen years
• Parasitic gastroenteritis the most common diagnosis in sheep
• Enteric pathology in pigs including spirochaetal colitis and swine dysentery

• Review of bovine respiratory disease 1998 to 2008
• Clostridial diseases affect spring born calves across Scotland
• High mortality in suckled calves due to omphalophlebitis
• Unusual presentations of Streptococcus dysgalactiae infections in sheep
• Gamebird deaths due to protozoal infections

• Unusual clinical presentation of malignant catarrhal fever in a cow
• Fewer cases of nematodirosis but other causes of scour in lambs common
• PMWS confirmed as the cause of ill thrift, scour and piglet deaths
• Review of coccidiosis in game birds in Great Britain from 2002 to 2008

• Production disease in dairy heifers and cows due to ostertagiasis
• Review of infectious causes of sheep abortion outbreaks in 2009
• Ewe deaths due to louping ill after returning from winter grazing
• Differential diagnosis of proliferative enteropathy in pig ileum samples
• Mass mortality in pheasant chicks due to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning

• Eight outbreaks of idiopathic haemorrhagic diathesis syndrome in spring born suckled calves diagnosed.
• Three yearling cattle die from severe thromboembolic meningoencephalitis due to Histophilus somni infection.
• Outbreaks of lamb dysentery in lambs three days to three weeks of age.
• Severe losses among seven to ten-week-old pigs due to Streptococcus suis type 2 infection on unrelated units.

• Ill thrift related to parasitic gastroenteritis in cattle
• Plant poisoning due to Pieris species in sheep
• Penile and vulval lesions in sheep associated with ovine herpesvirus 2
• Necrotising epidermitis in pigs due to Staphylococcus chromogenes
• Review of rotav

• Increasing diagnoses of coccidiosis in cattle over last 16 years
• 2008 had highest numbers of fasciolosis incidents in cattle and sheep
• Deaths in sheep due to nitroxynil overdose
• Continuing problems of neonatal anaemia in a pig unit