Comment:

Renewing DEFRA (again)
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 431. [Full Text] [PDF]  

News and Reports:

Industry to be responsible for collecting fallen stock
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 432. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reshuffle brings changes at DEFRA
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 432. [Full Text] [PDF]  

No further action to be taken in disciplinary case
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 432-433. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Quarantine kennels under investigation
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 433. [Full Text] [PDF]  

AMTRA launches CPD for SQPs
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 433. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beat the crush this Christmas
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 433. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Regulating the veterinary team
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 434-435. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Welfare and disease in captive and free-living species
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 435-436. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Border disease virus infection predisposes lambs to erysipelas
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 437-440. [Full Text] [PDF]  

News In Brief
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 440. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Papers and Articles:

G. van Schaik, I. M. G. A. Berends, H. van Langen, A. R. W. Elbers, and P. Vellema

Seroprevalence of bluetongue serotype 8 in cattle in the Netherlands in spring 2007, and its consequences
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 441-444. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ø. Angen, M. Andreasen, E. O. Nielsen, A. Stockmarr, and P. Bækbo

Effect of tulathromycin on the carrier status of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 2 in the tonsils of pigs
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 445-447. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

F. T. Cannizzo, B. Miniscalco, F. Riondato, E. Bollo, G. Barbarino, P. Giorgi, C. Mazzini, and B. Biolatti

Effects of anabolic and therapeutic doses of dexamethasone on thymus morphology and apoptosis in veal calves
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 448-452. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Short Communications:

J. G. H. Hickford, H. Zhou, Q. Fang, S. O. Byun, and H. Gong

Frequency of PRNP genotypes in common New Zealand sheep breeds
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 453-454. [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. Fritsche, S. Simova-Curd, M. Clauss, and J-M. Hatt

Hyperthyroidism in connection with suspected diabetes mellitus in a chinchilla (Chinchilla laniger)
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 454-456. [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. R. Urfer

Right censored data ('cohort bias') in veterinary life span studies
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 457-458. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gazette:

BRITISH VETERINARY ASSOCIATION
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 459. [Full Text] [PDF]  

DEATHS
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 459-460. [Full Text] [PDF]  

DIARY
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 460. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters:

Richard Irvine, Vanessa Ceeraz, Bill Cox, Fin Twomey, Stuart Young, Janet Bradshaw, Charlotte Featherstone, J. Paul Holmes, Heather Ainsworth, and Richard Jones

Goose parvovirus in Great Britain
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 461. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard H. C. Penny

Is the veterinary profession divided and in decline?
Vet Rec. 2008 163: 462. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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