What's the difference between enzootic and epizootic?

Enzootic


Definition:

  • (a.) Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
  • (2) A vaccine, which was prepared from one of the strains isolated, was used in addition to antibiotic prophylaxis to control the enzootic disease.
  • (3) In 34 out of 35 sera from cattle affected by enzootic bovine leukosis antibodies against gp69 were detected, whereas the sera from 197 animals, free of bovine leukosis, did not react in immunodiffusion test.
  • (4) Prevention of Enzootic Icterus by salts of molybdenum given orally confirms the identity.
  • (5) Of these 48 strains, 43 (90%) came from the southern part of France in which B. melitensis infection in sheep and goats is enzootic and where the dissemination of this species by sheep flocks moving to mountain pastures most often accounted for cattle contamination.
  • (6) Ewe placental and lamb intestinal isolates of Chlamydia psittaci recovered from flocks affected with ovine enzootic abortion were examined by inclusion morphology, indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) and immunoblot analysis.
  • (7) An account is given of the importance and position of enzootic pneumonia in the general complex of mycoplasmic infections of cattle stock.
  • (8) On the one hand was the condition found in many parts of the world of bovine enzootic haematuria with uncertain aetiology and, on the other, the investigations conducted on the acute radiomimetic cattle bracken poisoning under laboratory conditions.
  • (9) Two epidemic strains from Guatemala or Venezuela stimulated levels of viremia similar to those following infection with enzootic strains.
  • (10) Nasal exudate and tumour tissue from goats with enzootic nasal tumours were shown to contain a reverse transcriptase activity associated with a particle of buoyant density typical of retroviruses.
  • (11) Forty-five horses were infected peripherally or intrathecally with enzootic or epizootic strains of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus.
  • (12) Within Illinois certain counties were demonstrated to have persistent rabies histories and likely served as enzootic foci.
  • (13) These interrelationships of M. pulmonis, host, and environment may be representative of many breeding colonies of rats that have enzootic MRM.
  • (14) Better diagnostic methods are needed to prevent clinical disease, especially when susceptible cattle are being moved into disease enzootic areas.
  • (15) It may occur either epizootically or enzootically in affected rabbit units.
  • (16) A new cell line, obtained by co-cultivation of fetal lamb kidney cells and lymphocytes collected from an adult calf affected by enzootic bovine leukemia, was studied for bovine leukemia virus (BLV) morphogenesis.
  • (17) Several methods were employed to obtain lymphocyte cultures from blood samples taken from normal cattle and from cattle affected with enzootic leukosis.
  • (18) Spectacular outbreaks of yellow fever, such as the one in Ethiopia in 1960-1962 with 15,000-30,000 estimated deaths, still occur in Africa in areas contiguous to rain forest regions where jungle yellow fever is enzootic.
  • (19) Nairobi sheep disease was seen principally upon movement of susceptible animals into the enzootic areas.
  • (20) Wood mice from a population showing enzootic infection with Eimeria were trapped and bred under laboratory conditions.

Epizootic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an epizoon.
  • (a.) Containing fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like.
  • (a.) Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.
  • (n.) An epizootic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses.
  • (2) No VEE epizootics have been reported since the introduction of the live attenuated TC-83 vaccine virus.
  • (3) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
  • (4) The disease has been confined to sub-Saharan Africa, until it recently appeared in epizootic form in Egypt and in Israel.
  • (5) This showed that regardless of the small territory of the country the districts are sufficiently differing between each other (due to the various degrees of integration) so that they could not be grouped together by similar values of intensity of poultry breeding and epizootic conjuncture with regard to Newcastle disease.
  • (6) Widespread, frequent, and persistent rainfall has been a feature of these epizootic periods.
  • (7) The spirochete was seen in blood of fetuses with lesions of epizootic bovine abortion.
  • (8) The authors report an epizootic form of toxoplasmosis observed among the crowned pigeons (Goura cristata Pallas and Goura victoria Frazer).
  • (9) Acid fast rods, constituting chemoautotrophic nocardioform bacteria, could be repeatedly cultivated and isolated and propagated indefinitely in vitro from fish actinomycotic macrophage granuloma from the massive epizootics of ulcerative disease syndrome of fish in eastern India during 1988-90.
  • (10) This is the first localized epizootic defined in Argentina and the first in which EEE has been found as the sole etiologic arbovirus.
  • (11) Strains of both high and low virulence are involved in the present epizootic.
  • (12) The isolates have been typed as 27 separate viruses belonging to the bluetongue, epizootic haemorrhagic disease, Palyam, Simbu, bovine ephemeral fever, Tibrogargan and alphavirus groups.
  • (13) Recommendations are given for control and prevention of clinical signs and, therefore, the severity of disease during epizootics of vesicular stomatitis in California dairies.
  • (14) In 1981, a localized epizootic of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) occurred in irrigated areas of four counties in the province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
  • (15) With regard to the one-year developmental cycle, D. reticulatus can be considered an appropriate indicator of current epizootic activity of the focus, while the occurrence of I. ricinus is rather an indicator of the geographic spread of foci.
  • (16) The model suggests that vaccinating growing pigs, in addition to the breeding herd, results in only a relatively small improvement in long-term productivity following a pseudorabies epizootic.
  • (17) Systematic microbiologic control was carried out in the 1972-1975 period on an elite poultry farm whereas from the 23,724 samples studied, taken from objects of the epizootic chain forage-birds-hatchery, 78 cultures of Salmonella organisms of 14 species or 0.32 per cent of the total number of samples were isolated.
  • (18) Control of East Coast Fever in the epizootic and disease-free areas is still a more complex issue.
  • (19) During the seal epizootic in Danish waters in 1988 a total of 81 adult seals were necropsied.
  • (20) An epizootic of feline infectious peritonitis in a captive cheetah population during 1982-1983 served to focus attention on the susceptibility of the cheetah (Acinoyx jubatus) to infectious disease.