Author Archives: kaggen

Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica and Escherichia coli – new images

Posted on 2012-03-05 by kaggen

Old VetBact images of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica and Escherichia coli (cultivated on bovine blood agar) have now been replaced with images of improved quality. Images of S. enterica and E. coli  cultivated on purple agar and on special media … Continue reading →

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New field heading in VetBact

Posted on 2012-01-24 by kaggen

To avoid getting too many images under the heading “Macromorphology” in VetBact, we have introduced the new heading “Special media” (see e.g. Escherichia coli). Our intention is to use this new heading for images of bacterial colonies cultivated on special … Continue reading →

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More than 300 images at VetBact

Posted on 2011-10-18 by kaggen

Over 300 pictures are included in VetBact (you can see thumb nail images of most of them by chosing  Images on the start page). In connection with the latest course in Bacteriology for veterinary students (sep-oct 2011), several new pictures … Continue reading →

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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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