During 36 months a study was conducted in beef cattle farms in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil to survey outbreaks of Senecio spp. poisoning. The first part of this dissertation reports an outbreak of Senecio brasiliensis poisoning ...

Gross, microscopic, and bacteriologic evaluation of broiler livers condemned by the Federal Inspection Service of Animal Products was performed. One hundred broiler livers were sampled at slaughter. Ninety of them had gross ...

This dissertation consists of an investigation on infectious canine hepatitis (IHC) and resulted in two scientific papers which are placed in the final part of this dissertation. The necropsy reports of 5,361 dogs necropsied ...

To determine the main factors influencing the biological behavior of 40 squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) of the upper digestive tract (UDT) of cattle associated with spontaneous ingestion of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum), ...

Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a highly contagious, progressive and invariably fatal viral disease of cats, and occasionally of wild felids, which results from antibody-mediated hypersensitivity reactions (types ...

Two oubreaks of poisoning by the mushroom Ramaria flavo-brunnescens are reported in cattle from two farms located in the municipalities of Santa Maria and São Gabriel, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil during April-May ...

Mammary gland tumors are common in dogs and are the most common type of neoplasms of female dogs. The main purposes of this study were to establish the prevalence of the mammary gland tumors, as well as of its different ...

Twenty-one cases of pythiosis involving horses (10), dogs, (nine) and cattle (2) were investigated. In all of them the etiology was confirmed through immunohistochemistry technique. Data related to clinical course, ...

The epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical and pathological aspects of the spontaneous and experimental poisoning of cattle by bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) were studied. Two scientific papers that stemmed from these ...

The necropsy reports of 335 horses necropsied at the LPV-UFSM between 1968-2007 were reviewed in order to determine the necropsy findings related with cause of death or reason for euthanasia. The distribution of these ...