(1) Bolo disease is limited to Merino and Döhne merino sheep in the Stutterheim and Cathcart districts of the eastern Cape Province.
(2) A total of 718 sheep, 381 severely and 190 mildly affected with Bolo disease as well as 147 visibly unaffected animals emanating from 15 farms in the Stutterheim and Cathcart districts in the eastern Cape were subjected to bacteriological examination of skin surfaces and wool specimens.
(3) This rate was not significantly different from the rates reported in control populations by Blum et al (1990), CEPH, or Bolos et al (1990), and differed only slightly from those reported by Grandy et al (1990).
(4) In a comparative study, swabs taken directly from the skin surface, proved to be the method of choice for the collection of specimens for bacteriological examination of Bolo disease.
(5) was isolated from 98.7% of severely, and 85.3% of mildly affected sheep as well as 4% of sheep apparently unaffected by Bolo disease.
(6) Wearing trademark jeans, boots, cowboy hat and bolo tie, the Mormon father of 14 was upbeat in an interview with the Guardian, speaking from the family home – which as a boy he helped his father build – and as he inspected cattle pens, trailed by his two dogs.
(7) The local bread, bolo de caco, made with potato and served with more garlic butter, is astonishingly good.
(8) Bolo de miel, or honey cake, is delicious and robust enough to survive the journey home.
(9) In all, Corynebacterium spp was isolated from specimens of 94.2% of sheep severely affected with Bolo disease and from 83.7% of those mildly affected, whereas it could only be isolated from 1.36% clinically unaffected sheep.
(10) Consistent with the results of Gueron and his colleagues [Leroy, J. L., Bolo, N., Figueroa, N., Plateau, P., & Gueron, M. (1985) J. Biomol.
Obolo
Definition:
(n.) A copper coin, used in the Ionian Islands, about one cent in value.