by Vets-net.com
Mar
12
2010
Bacteria toxic to wound-treating maggots
Source: Bacteria that infect chronic wounds can be deadly to maggot 'biosurgeons' used to treat the lesions, show researchers writing in the journal Microbiology. The findings could lead to more effective treatment of wounds and the development of novel antibiotics. Scientists from the Copenhagen Wound Healing Centre, Statens Serum Institut and the Unive...
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by Vets-net.com
Mar
12
2010
9 March 2010
Cattle drug may help tackle river blindness
A veterinary drug that kills worms in cattle may also fight river blindness, a debilitating parasitic infection that afflicts 37 million people worldwide, researchers say. But experts caution against trying the compound in humans just yet. People contract river blindness, also known as onchoc...
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by Vets-net.com
Jan
28
2010
New test may help address costly parasite in sheep industry
Researchers at Oregon State University and the University of Georgia have developed an improved, more efficient method to test for the most serious of the parasitic worms in sheep, a problem that causes hundreds of millions of dollars in losses every year to the global sheep and wool industry. This technology is now a...
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