Research in veterinary pathology in Latvia: from the past to the future
2009
Matise, I., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Preclinical Inst.
Veterinary pathology as a discipline in Latvia emerged concurrently with the establishment of the College of Veterinary Medicine in 1919. The College was located in Riga, and existed as one of the colleges in the newly established higher education institution of Latvia. In 1920 Ernsts Paukuls established the Department of General Pathology which was the first academic home for a pathologist and later dean Rūdolfs Grapmanis. There are several names that have dominated in the research of veterinary pathology in Latvia: R. Grapmanis, Milda Salmiņa-Skudiņa, and Oļģerts Parčinskis. Each of them has devoted their entire life to veterinary pathology: R. Grapmanis from 1920-1949; M. Skudiņa from 1926-1960, and O. Parčinskis from 1957-2009. O. Parčinskis worked together with M. Skudiņa and later provided continuity in many aspects of veterinary pathology. Much of his research was devoted to study bovine enzootic leukaemia which was a rare disease in Latvia until 1960 when its prevalence started to increase consequently reaching the peak in the 1980s when ~76% of cows in Latvia were seropositive. Examples of O. Parčinskis research include a thorough description of gross and microscopic lesions characteristic of bovine enzootic leukaemia, and recommendations for elimination of this disease from dairy herds. Research in veterinary pathology in Latvia in the past 20 years has produced numerous student publications, and Master’s level scientific studies (47 publications between 1993 and 1999); although none of these has been published in peer-reviewed international veterinary journals.
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