Verhandelingen - Koninklijke Academie voor Geneeskunde van België.
Discontinued
Publisher:
Paleis Der Academein
Frequency: Six no. a year
Country: Belgium
Language: Dutch
Author(s):
Koninklijke Academie voor Geneeskunde van België
Start Year:1973 - 2011
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0302-6469 (Print) 0302-6469 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 0413210 |
| (DNLM): | V01780000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 03593658 |
| Coden: | VKGBAU |
| Classification: | W1 VE475KA |
[Jenner’s cowpox vaccine in light of current vaccinology]. Two hundred years ago Edward Jenner inoculated James Phipps with vaccinia and 181 years later smallpox had disappeared from the surface of the earth as a result of generalized vaccination. Compared to the requirements of modern vaccinology, the procedures used by Jenner and his successors, were extremely primitive because of an almost total lack of knowledge in the field of microbiology and immunology. The active principle of smallpox vaccine is vaccinia virus, which in many respects, differs from that of natural cowpox; the term "cowpox" has been used for more than a century and a half to des...
[Anthelmintics resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes in domestic animals]. In Belgium benzimidazole resistance has been reported in 28% of the sheep farms and 29 to 50% of the studs. In several member states of the European Union the prevalence of anthelmintic resistance (AR) is even higher than in Belgium, although AR is nearly absent in some countries of Southern Europe. AR is particularly widespread in certain nematodes of sheep, goats and horses in Europe, whereas only sporadic cases of AR have been reported in helminths of cattle. In Belgium only one case of AR has been described in goat and one in cattle; no surveys for AR have been carried out in pigs. The mai...