1. Epidemiological, bacteriological and molecular studies on caseous lymphadenitis in Sirohi goats of Rajasthan, India

   • Jyoti Kumar
   • Fateh Singh
   • Ganesh Gangaram Sonawane

   Brief Communication 29 February 2012 Pages: 1319 - 1322

   

2. Growth performance in heavy lambs experimentally treated with 17 ß-estradiol

   • Guido Ruggero Loria
   • Roberto Puleio
   • Massimo Todaro

   Brief Communication 03 August 2012 Pages: 1323 - 1328

3. Prevalence of antibodies to peste des petits ruminants virus before and during outbreaks of the disease in Awash Fentale district, Afar, Ethiopia

   • Faris Delil
   • Yilkal Asfaw
   • Berhe Gebreegziabher

   Brief Communication 23 February 2012 Pages: 1329 - 1330

4. Genetic evaluation of IS900 partial sequence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Brazilian isolates from bovine milk

   • Isabel Azevedo Carvalho
   • Victor Oliveira Silva
   • Maria Aparecida Scatamburlo Moreira

   Brief Communication 16 March 2012 Pages: 1331 - 1334

   

5. RT-PCR test for detecting porcine sapovirus in weanling piglets in Hunan Province, China

   • Guo-Hua Liu
   • Run-Cheng Li
   • Xing-Long Yu

   Brief Communication 11 April 2012 Pages: 1335 - 1339

   

6. The role of nuclear technologies in the diagnosis and control of livestock diseases—a review

   • Gerrit J. Viljoen
   • Antony G. Luckins

   Review Article Open access 28 January 2012 Pages: 1341 - 1366

7. The past and present of and potential for the domestic (water) buffalo in Africa

   • Richard Trevor Wilson

   Review Article 12 February 2012 Pages: 1367 - 1373

   

8. Assessment of Grewia oppositifolia leaves as crude protein supplement to low-quality forage diets of sheep

   • Nazir Ahmad Khan
   • Ghulam Habib

   Original Research 14 February 2012 Pages: 1375 - 1381

9. Biochemical changes in heat exposed buffalo heifers supplemented with yeast

   • Shiv Pratap Singh
   • Om Kanwar Hooda
   • Sohanvir Singh

   Original Research 15 March 2012 Pages: 1383 - 1387

10. Antiviral activity of crude extracts from Commiphora swynnertonii against Newcastle disease virus in ovo

    • Gaymary George Bakari
    • Robert A. Max
    • Mkumbukwa M. A. Mtambo

    Original Research 03 February 2012 Pages: 1389 - 1393

    

11. Seasonal variation in time budgets and milk yield for Jersey, Friesland and crossbred cows raised in a pasture-based system

    • Madodana S. Dodzi
    • Voster Muchenje

    Original Research 22 January 2012 Pages: 1395 - 1401

    

12. Factors affecting yield and composition of camel milk kept under desert conditions of central Punjab, Pakistan

    • Sibtain Ahmad
    • Muhammad Yaqoob
    • Muhammad Tariq

    Original Research 24 January 2012 Pages: 1403 - 1410

13. Carcass quality and meat tenderness of Hawaii pasture-finished cattle and Hawaii-originated, mainland feedlot-finished cattle

    • Yong Soo Kim
    • Glen Kazumi Fukumoto
    • Sunae Kim

    Original Research 25 January 2012 Pages: 1411 - 1415

    

14. Detection of antibodies and risk factors for infection with bovine respiratory syncytial virus and parainfluenza virus 3 in dual-purpose farms in Colima, Mexico

    • Daniel Figueroa-Chávez
    • José C. Segura-Correa
    • Arturo Gerardo Valdivia-Flores

    Original Research 21 January 2012 Pages: 1417 - 1421

15. Prevalence of and risk factors for bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) infection in non-vaccinated dairy and dual-purpose cattle herds in Ecuador

    • Luis Rodrigo Saa
    • Anselmo Perea
    • Alfonso Carbonero

    Original Research 24 January 2012 Pages: 1423 - 1427

16. Characterisation of smallholder dairy production systems using animal welfare and milk quality

    • Bettie S. Kawonga
    • Mizeck G. G. Chagunda
    • James W. Banda

    Original Research 31 January 2012 Pages: 1429 - 1435

    

17. Estimation of genetic parameters for body weight and egg production traits in Mazandaran native chicken

    • Shahram Niknafs
    • Ardeshir Nejati-Javaremi
    • Seyed Abolghasem Fatemi

    Original Research 30 January 2012 Pages: 1437 - 1443

18. Low prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in Somali pastoral livestock, southeast Ethiopia

    • Balako Gumi
    • Esther Schelling
    • Jakob Zinsstag

    Original Research Open access 29 January 2012 Pages: 1445 - 1450

    

19. Serological and bacteriological responses of water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) vaccinated with two doses of Brucella abortus strain RB51 vaccine

    • Anil Ramnanan
    • Michael Diptee
    • Abiodun Adewale Adesiyun

    Original Research 02 February 2012 Pages: 1451 - 1458

20. Feed inventory and smallholder farmers’ perceived causes of feed shortage for dairy cattle in Gisagara District, Rwanda

    • Moses Kamanzi
    • Cletos Mapiye

    Original Research 26 January 2012 Pages: 1459 - 1468

21. Prion protein gene polymorphism in four West African sheep populations

    • Amadou Traoré
    • Luis J. Royo
    • Félix Goyache

    Original Research 31 January 2012 Pages: 1469 - 1472

22. Effect of nutritional supplementation upon pregnancy rates of goats under semiarid rangelands and exposed to the male effect

    • Jorge Urrutia-Morales
    • Cesar A. Meza-Herrera
    • Sergio Beltrán-López

    Original Research 05 February 2012 Pages: 1473 - 1477

23. Dietary Wolffia arrhiza meal as a substitute for soybean meal: its effects on the productive performance and egg quality of laying Japanese quails

    • Tawadchai Suppadit
    • Sanchai Jaturasitha
    • Pukkapong Poungsuk

    Original Research 02 February 2012 Pages: 1479 - 1486

24. The prevalence of bovine venereal campylobacteriosis in cattle herds in the Lake Chad basin of Nigeria

    • Gideon Dauda Mshelia
    • Jibrilla Dahiru Amin
    • Richard Donald Murray

    Original Research 09 February 2012 Pages: 1487 - 1489

    

25. Fattening performance, carcass and meat quality characteristics of Kivircik male lambs

    • Özdal Gökdal
    • Okan Atay
    • Sibel Karaca Demircioğlu

    Original Research 10 February 2012 Pages: 1491 - 1496

    

26. Detection of Pasteurella multocida isolates from local pigs of India by polymerase chain reaction and their antibiogram

    • Swaraj Rajkhowa
    • Ingudam Shakuntala
    • Anubrata Das

    Original Research 09 February 2012 Pages: 1497 - 1503

    

27. Estrus response and follicular development in Boer does synchronized with flugestone acetate and PGF_2α or their combination with eCG or FSH

    • Muhammad Modu Bukar
    • Rosnina Yusoff
    • Mohammed Ariff Omar

    Original Research 30 March 2012 Pages: 1505 - 1511

28. Optimization of Saanen sperm genes amplification: evaluation of standardized protocols in genetically uncharacterized rural goats reared under a subtropical environment

    • Elie K. Barbour
    • Maya F. Saade
    • Houssam A. Shaib

    Original Research 18 February 2012 Pages: 1513 - 1519

    

29. Effects of different finishing systems on carcass traits, fatty acid composition, and beef quality characteristics of young Eastern Anatolian Red bulls

    • Sadrettin Yüksel
    • Mete Yanar
    • Fatih Oz

    Original Research 11 February 2012 Pages: 1521 - 1528

30. Phenotypic and genetic parameters for body weights and antibody response against Newcastle disease virus (NDV) vaccine for Kuchi chicken ecotype of Tanzania under extensive management

    • James Lwelamira

    Original Research 14 February 2012 Pages: 1529 - 1534

31. Seroepidemiological study of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in animals in Saudi Arabia

    • Adel I. Al-Afaleq
    • Mansour F. Hussein
    • Anwar G. Kabati

    Original Research 23 February 2012 Pages: 1535 - 1539

    

32. Reducing methane emissions and the methanogen population in the rumen of Tibetan sheep by dietary supplementation with coconut oil

    • Xuezhi Ding
    • Ruijun Long
    • Jiandui Mi

    Original Research 26 February 2012 Pages: 1541 - 1545

    

33. Rumen degradability characteristics of normal maize stover and silage, and quality protein maize silage-based diets offered to cows

    • Berhan Tamir
    • Ephrem Gebrehawariat
    • Mohammed Y. Kortu

    Original Research 27 February 2012 Pages: 1547 - 1553

34. Ultrasonographic findings in cattle and buffaloes with chronic hepatic fascioliosis

    • Mohamed Tharwat

    Original Research 24 February 2012 Pages: 1555 - 1560

    

35. Comparison of two techniques for diagnosis of cryptosporidiosis in diarrhoeic goat kids and lambs in Cyprus

    • Nektarios D. Giadinis
    • Symeon Symeoudakis
    • Harilaos Karatzias

    Original Research 29 February 2012 Pages: 1561 - 1565

36. Effect of mastitis during the first lactation on production and reproduction performance of Holstein cows

    • Alireza Heravi Moussavi
    • Mohsen Danesh Mesgaran
    • Robert O. Gilbert

    Original Research 23 February 2012 Pages: 1567 - 1573

    

37. Brucellosis due to Brucella suis in a swine herd associated with a human clinical case in the State of São Paulo, Brazil

    • Raphaella Barbosa Meirelles-Bartoli
    • Luis Antonio Mathias
    • Luis Ernesto Samartino

    Original Research 03 March 2012 Pages: 1575 - 1579

38. Effect of dietary inclusion of fermented pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) meal on growth, apparent nutrient digestibility and blood parameters of cockerel chicks

    • Abimbola Oladele Oso
    • Olusegun Mark Obawale Idowu
    • Adeyemi Mustapha Bamgbose

    Original Research 06 March 2012 Pages: 1581 - 1586

39. PCR-SSCP analysis of leptin gene and its association with milk production traits in river buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)

    • Tushar Tanpure
    • Praveen Kumar Dubey
    • Ranjit Singh Kataria

    Original Research 07 March 2012 Pages: 1587 - 1592

    

40. African swine fever among slaughter pigs in Mubende district, Uganda

    • Adrian Muwonge
    • Hetron M. Munang’andu
    • James Oloya

    Original Research 26 February 2012 Pages: 1593 - 1598

41. Susceptibility assay of Haemonchus contortus to commonly used anthelmintics in Jimma, southwest Ethiopia

    • Sileshi Belew
    • Jemal Hussien
    • Tadele Tolosa

    Original Research 09 March 2012 Pages: 1599 - 1603

    

42. Animal production systems of small farms in the Kaski district of Nepal

    • Laurel Redding
    • Dipesh Kumar Chetri
    • James Ferguson

    Original Research 06 March 2012 Pages: 1605 - 1613

    

43. Effect of bypass fat supplementation on productive performance and blood biochemical profile in lactating Murrah (Bubalus bubalis) buffaloes

    • Amit Ranjan
    • Biswanath Sahoo
    • Ashok Kumar Pattanaik

    Original Research 29 February 2012 Pages: 1615 - 1621

    

44. Improvement of growth and nitrogen utilization in sheep using sugar beet pulp treated with Trichoderma reesei or urea

    • Aly B. Okab
    • Mostafa A. Ayoub
    • Ayman A. Hassan

    Original Research 13 March 2012 Pages: 1623 - 1629

45. A comparison between urban livestock production strategies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria in West Africa

    • Hamadoun Amadou
    • Luc Hippolyte Dossa
    • Eva Schlecht

    Original Research Open access 20 March 2012 Pages: 1631 - 1642

    

46. Epidemic characterization and modeling within herd transmission dynamics of an “emerging trans-boundary” camel disease epidemic in Ethiopia

    • Bekele Megersa
    • Demelash Biffa
    • Eystein Skjerve

    Original Research 14 March 2012 Pages: 1643 - 1651

    

47. Effect of feeding different levels of energy and protein on performance of Aseel breed of chicken during juvenile phase

    • Santosh Haunshi
    • Arun Kumar Panda
    • Rudra Nath Chatterjee

    Original Research 29 March 2012 Pages: 1653 - 1658

48. Effect of feeding different levels of foliage from Erythrina variegata on the performance of growing goats

    • Daovy Kongmanila
    • Jan Bertilsson
    • Ewa Wredle

    Original Research 30 March 2012 Pages: 1659 - 1665

    

49. Serosurvey and molecular detection of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) in northern Turkey

    • Harun Albayrak
    • Emre Ozan
    • Mitat Kurt

    Original Research 29 March 2012 Pages: 1667 - 1671

50. The effect of multiplex-PCR-assessed major pathogens causing subclinical mastitis on somatic cell profiles

    • Mohammad Goli
    • Hamid Ezzatpanah
    • Shahin Eghbalsaied

    OriginalPaper 26 April 2012 Pages: 1673 - 1680