Author Archives: kaggen

The first case of a Brucella canis infection of a dog in Sweden

Posted on 2011-10-11 by kaggen

Samples from a bitch which gave birth to stillborn pups were analyzed during the summer 2011 at the Department of Bacteriology of the National Veterinary Institute (SVA) in Uppsala. Brucellosis caused by Brucella canis was suspected and  the isolate was, … Continue reading →

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Image Quiz at VetBact

Posted on 2011-10-04 by kaggen

Different types of quizzes were added to VetBact during the last year. When the bacteriology course for veterinary students started this autumn, a new kind of quiz – the Image Quiz (IQuiz) – was released. In the IQuiz, you get … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Bacteriology course, 2011!

Posted on 2011-09-20 by kaggen

On September 20 the bacteriology course starts for the veterinary students. We hope that  VetBact will be useful during your studies and we appreciate all kinds of feed-back, which will help us to improve VetBact and its modules. One of … Continue reading →

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Klebsiella spp. – 11 new images in VetBact

Posted on 2011-08-30 by kaggen

We have now introduced new images and replaced old ones of Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae and Klebsiella oxytoca in VetBact. The former species may cause mastitis in cows, urinary tract infections in dogs and pneumonia in calves and foals. The … Continue reading →

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Was the recent outbreak of VTEC O104 infections in Europe caused by EHEC?

Posted on 2011-06-10 by kaggen

The recent outbreak of VTEC  (verotoxin producing E. coli) O104 infections in Europe, leading in some cases to the serious complication HUS (hemolytic uremic syndrome), was first suspected to be caused by consumption of vegetables contaminated by Escherichia coli of … Continue reading →

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New images of Streptococcus canis

Posted on 2011-06-09 by kaggen

Six new images of Streptococcus canis has been included in VetBact. Fereshteh Banihashem (Natl. Vet. Inst., Uppsala) has prepared the agar plates for morphological comparisons and Lise-Lotte Fernström (SLU) has performed the Gram staining and the CAMP test. S. canis … Continue reading →

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Escherichia coli, EHEC and HUS

Posted on 2011-06-03 by kaggen

Today it was written in Svenska Dagbladet (a daily journal in Sweden) that “A new bacterium transmitts ehec”. It is unfortunately a very common mistake among Swedish journalists to confuse the bacterium with the disease. Correctly, it should have been … Continue reading →

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Doctoral dissertation related to veterinary bacteriology

Posted on 2011-05-15 by kaggen

On May 20, 2011, veterinarian Annette Backhans will defend her thesis entitled: “Wild rodents as carriers of potential pathogens to pigs, chickens and humans, with special emphasis on Brachyspira spp. and Yersinia enterocolitica“. Annette Backhans is affiliated to the Department … Continue reading →

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Borrelia burgdorferi – new images of the Lyme disease agent of humans and the borreliosis agent of animals

Posted on 2011-04-26 by kaggen

Members of the phylum Spirochaetes (trivial name: spirochetes) have a very special morphology. They are very thin and rather long (about 0.1-0.3 x 10-20 µm) and spiral shaped. However, in the case of members of the genus Borrelia, the spiral … Continue reading →

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Borrelia anserina, which causes fowl spirochetosis, has now been included in VetBact

Posted on 2011-04-17 by kaggen

Fowl spirochetosis, which is considered to be caused by Borrelia anserina, is an important disease in Asia, America and in the Middle East. The organism has never been isolated from Swedish birds, because the tick vector (Argas spp.) is not … Continue reading →

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