A migratory bird, the white stork Ciconia boyciana was captured from a pond in the Chejudo, Korea R. on the 18th of Dec. 82. The morphological characteristics were described as seen in the binocular stereoscopic microscope and further fine structures were observed by means of the scanning electron microscope (model; ISI-DS-130). The bird was examined for ectoparasites at the Cheju Provincial Veterinary Research Lab. Two kinds of specimens were collected from the head and body feathers. The specimens were sent to the Inst. of Veterinary Research in Anyang, Korea R. for classification and identification

The present observations were focussed mainly on the macroscopic and histopathological examinations of polyps found on the stomach of 4-month-old pig, small intestine of 3-month-old pig and cecum of 9-month-old dog. The polyps were gray or pink hemispherical shapes attached by the broad base to the gastrointestinal walls and were 3 to 8 mm in diameter and diffuse appearance. The surfaces of polyps were flat or indented and were ulcerated in some large polyps

Basic biological and epidemiological observation on eperythrozoonosis like disease of swine in Korea R. was taken, using 157 naturally affected pigs and blood samples of 250 normal pigs. Although infection rates, morphology and sizes of the organisms in stained blood films varied depending on the season, all of the affected pigs showed positive infection and the normal pigs were found 54% positive over the year. The organisms appeared to have 5 morphological forms with sizes of 0.5-5.0 micron but the sizes had increment to 1.4-8.5 micron with cytoplasmic granules when the blood was stored under 0 deg C for more than 1 week or -20 deg C for 24 hrs.

Cells with an epithelioid morphology were isolated from the rabbit myometrium and were grown in culture. The cells had a doubling time of 53 hrs when grown in the presence of 10% fetal calf serum in Basal Eagle's medium with 3mM glutamine. In the presence of estrogen plus insulin, doubling time was reduced to 40 hrs. Creatine kinase activity upon reaching confluency was determined to be 0.019 uit per mg protein. Approximately 30% of the activity was extractable only in high ionic strength buffer. Cells also contained plasminogen activator with a specific activity of 140 CTA units per million cells

In this study lactating female rabbits and strains of coliforms previously isolated from acute and chronic mastitis cases in dairy cattle were used. The pathological changes on mastitis experimentally induced with the coliform strains and the mammary glands after infusions of Escherichia coli suspension together with dexamethasone, dextran iron or transferrin were grossly and microscopically observed. In the bacterial suspension-infused groups by E. coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter aerogenes, the affected quarters of udder showed gross swelling, hyperemia, hemorrhage, focal necrosis and firmness

The study was to find out the changes of hormone levels in blood serum and milk of Holstein cows during the estrous cycle. The progesterone, estradio 1-17beta from the blood serum and milk samples were assayed by radioimmunoassay methods. During 20 to 25 days after artificial insemination, the accuracy of pregnancy diagnosis from the blood serum progesterone levels were 87.5% for non pregnant cows (2.Ong/ml) and 83.3% for pregnant cows (3.Ong/ml). The accuracy of pregnancy diagnosis from the milk progesterone levels were 75.0% for non-pregnant cows (2.4ng/ml), and 94.4% for pregnant cows (3.2ng/ml)

Five Korean native goats were used to test the effectiveness of the 2 modified techniques (Method 1 and 2) of Pawlow's pouch method. Both methods turned out to be successful and simpler than the original Pawlow's pouch method. In both methods, the miniature rumens were formed on the junction of 2 veins; vena ruminalis sinistra and vena ruminalis dextra. Both method 1 and 2 have the advantage of shortening the operation time, but caution was necessary to prevent the fistual formation between the rumen and miniature rumen in Method 1.

As a fundamental study to increase the reproductive efficiency in cattle, highly motile sperm were separated and collected from raw semen, extended semen and frozen semen by different methods using various concentrations of bovine serum albumin or Tyrode's solution. Various characteristics and light microscopic and electron microscopic morphology of sperm separated by different methods were compared

The in vitro activity of penicillins (penicillin G, ampicillin, carbenicillin, methicillin and cloxacillin) and gentamicin to Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from bovine mastitic milk samples was determined. The growth of all isolates of staphylococci tested was inhibited by cloxacillin and methicillin at concentration of 0.78 micro g/ml and by gentamicin at a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 1.56 micro g/ml

An experiment was conducted to measure the cellular immune response in guinea pigs by sensitizing the animals with 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB). The guinea pigs could be sensitizing with one application of DNCB. The sensitizing and challenge dose was standardized. The histological response was characteristic of a delayed hypersensitivity reaction