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A Study on the Water Systems in the Rural Districts of Korea (농촌 생활용수에 관한 조사 연구)

  • 박승우;정하우
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.3420-3429
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    • 1974
  • This study was performed to estimate the daily water consumption for watering livestock and home use, and to organize the water systems in the rural districts of Korea. For these purposes, 560 farms and other 40 urban families were randomly chosen and investigated about their water systems and daily water consumption seasonally from July 20 to August 31, 1973, and other 82 livestock raisers' useful data for watering livestock helped the study to assess the consumption of livestock water and compare it to that of general farms which bred some domestic animals as their sidelines. The results of data showed that the daily consumption of water was varied with the difference of districts and seasons in which the investigations were conducted. The results were summarized as follows. 1. The mean consumption of water for home use was varied with the range of 30.2-48.7 lit./day in summer and 22.4-45.2 lit./day per a person, respectively, in the rural districts, which showed that the water consumption in summer was more than in autumn. 2. The mean consumption of livestock water in the general farms approached to about 15.8-37.1 lit./day per cattle, 3.87-16.45 lit./day per a pig, and 0.19-1.03 lit./day per chicken, but it was slightly reduced in autumn; 10.89-37.09 lit./day per cattle, 3.87-12.63 lit./day per a pig, and 0.06-0.94 lit./day per chicken. The ratio of livestock water consumption to home use amounted to the range of 10-25%. 3. The mean consumption of livestock water used at the livestock raisers amounted to 134 lit./day per dairy cow, 67.4 lit./day per cattle, 43.29 lit./day per a horse, 13.24 lit./day per a pig, 0.438 lit./day per a layer, and 0.177 lit./day per a broiler, which showed that the daily water consumption for larger livestock was about two times as much as the farms, but it was approximately of the same for small ones. 4. The factors affecting the amount of water consumption for home use were statistically analyzed to find the kind of water sources and the class of water systems by the factorial arrangement method to the fundamental experimental unit, Suwon area of 100 of families, in which the former was very significant while the latter was significant. However, the standard of living and their interactions were not significant. 5. Almost 83.24% of the sampled farms used some kinds of wells as their water sources, of which 32.06% was of hard water, and of which 11.l% or 2.6% contained much of iron or organice materials, respectively, examining them by a simple technique of sensibility, 6. The resulting chart of the farm water systems was summarized as Fig. IV-6. Observating the safe distance from contamination sources, the ratio of 42.4% of sampled farms whose water sources were wells, confronted highly to the danger of contamination to their water sources. And other dangerous sources of contamination such as toilets, stalls, and compost heaps were situated nearly to the water sources, and most of them were able to make their spoiled water infiltrated into the ground. Thereafter, it was recommended to develop some protecting methods and to install some suitable faculties to clean water.

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Diagnosis of swine sarcoptic mange(Sarcoptes scabiei var. suis) by ELISA (ELISA를 이용한 돼지 옴 (Sarcoptes scabiei var. suis) 감염증의 진단)

  • Jee, Cha-Ho;Lee, Sam-sun;Chang, Lai-hun
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.565-570
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    • 2001
  • The diagnosis of swine sarcoptic mange (Sarcoptes scabiei var. suis) was investigated by ELISA in order to replace current diagnostic methods such as skin scraping, scratching index, or lesion score of dermatitis. The current methods need many efforts and much times and cost much. They can not handle many samples simultaneously. Therefore, in this research we developed ELISA that can handle many samples at a time. The antigens of swine sarcoptic mite were isolated and examined by 12.5% SDS-PAGE and silver staining. The antigenicity of antigen was confirmed by Western blotting using the swine from the artificailly-infested swine with swine sarcoptic mite. The optical density (OD) values of the artificailly-infested positive sera and the naturally-infested positive sera of sows were measured and read in order to confirm the stability of antigens, the reproducibility and validity (sensitivity and specificity) of the manufactured ELISA of swine sarcoptic antigens. In above results, the developed ELISA would be possible to use the diagnostic tool of sarcoptic mange if OD values of piglets, fattening pigs and sows are interpreted reasonably and classified as mange-free and infested.

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Seroprevalence of Swine Influenza Viruses H1N1 and H3N2 in Gyeongbuk Province, Korea (경북지역 돼지인플루엔자 바이러스(H1N1, H3N2) 항체조사)

  • Chae, Tae-Chul;Kim, Seong-Guk;Cho, Kwang-Hyun;Eo, Kyung-Yeon;Kwon, Oh-Deog
    • Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.293-297
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    • 2014
  • Swine influenza is an acute respiratory disease prevalent in pig-growing areas worldwide. In total, 518 gilt and sow serum samples and 14 litters (66 samples) of aborted fetuses from 37 farms (average of 14 serum samples per farm) in Gyeongbuk Province were collected between September 2010 and May 2011. All samples were examined for antibodies to swine influenza virus (SIV) H1N1 and H3N2 using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The seropositive rates of gilt and sows were 59.8% (310/518) for SIV H1N1, 78.8% (408/518) for H3N2, and 55.6% (288/518) for both subtypes tested. The rate of aborted fetuses was 13.6% (9/66) for H1N1, 9.1% (6/66) for H3N2, and 9.1% for both subtypes. The seroprevalence for H1N1 in gilts and sows was 46.6% (69/148) and 65.1% (241/370), respectively, and that for H3N2 was 78.4% (116/148) and 78.9% (292/370), respectively.

Epidemiological characteristics of classical swine fever outbreak at Jeonbuk area in 2003 (전북지역에서 발생한 돼지콜레라의 역학적 특성)

  • Eum Sung-Shim;Lee Jeoung-Won;Seo Lee-Won;Bea Joung-Jun;Joung Dong-Suk
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.239-247
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    • 2004
  • Classical swine fever (CSF) was confirmed in 19 herds in Jeunbuk provence (Iksan, Gimje, Wanju, Buan, and Jangsu) in Korea between March and May, 2003 and 10,263 pigs were slaughtered. Pigs contacted with CSF virus in primary outbreak farm show fever, reduced appetite, arched back and chill in company with sever respirative sign and then most infected farms also were observed to fever, reduced appetite, sudden death, and leukopenia (101 pigs). In order to detecting infectious pig with CSF virus, A total of 555 pigs were inspected in 65 herds and blood samples were collected and serological test (ELISA), antigen ELISA, and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) had been done. Positive rate were $74\%$ (410 pigs) in antibody ELISA, $2\%$ (11 pigs) in antigen ELISA and $33\%$ (182 pigs) in RT-PCR, respectively. As shown that the RT-PCR was useful than the ELISA for determining CSF virus in blood, meat, and other organs.

The current status and strategies of livestock health control on national and international basis (국내.외 가축위생관리기준의 현황, 적용과 대책)

  • Ryu, Il-Sun
    • 한국환경농학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.07a
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    • pp.240-272
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    • 2009
  • Recently, as Foot and Mouth disease(FMD) outbreaks in South-East Asia, Taiwan, China, we cannot loose our tense to sustain our FMD free country status. And we have increasing possibility of disease inflow because of continual outbreaks of FMD type A, O and Asia 1 in neighbored countries, foreign visitor and foreign workers. So we have to be urgently ready for strengthen surveillance, early-report and early-diagnosis. So the most important things in epidemic control of livestock are co-work between central and local epidemic control office and field epidemic control. However, potential risk for FMD recurrence and sporadic occurrence of epidemic disease still threaten our livestock farmhouse, so we have to be ready for bio-security against these threatening. For these reasons, I will introduce the concept, etiology and epidemiology of disease and investment/ analysis of health management standard of main animals like cattle and pig which is applied to the inside and outside of country. With these references, we have to manage livestock health management thoroughly by establishing livestock health management standard and notifying special veterinarian and livestock farmer of these standard. Later on, prevention and quarantine of epidemic outbreak and establishing livestock health management standard should be undertaken primarily for sustainable growth and stability of livestock farm industry.

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Real-time Blood Pressure Monitoring in Porcine Tibial Artery Using LC Resonant Pressure Sensor (LC 공진형 압력 센서를 이용한 돼지 경골 동맥의 실시간 혈압 측정)

  • Choi, Won-Seok;Kim, Jin-Tae;Joung, Yeun-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.445-450
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    • 2012
  • We have developed an implantable wireless sensor for real time pressure monitoring of blood circulation system. MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system) technology was adopted as a sensor development method. The sensor is composed of photolithographically patterned inductors and a distributed capacitor in gap between the inductors. A resulting LC resonant system produces its resonant frequency in range of 269 to 284 MHz at 740 mmHg. To read the resonant frequency changed by blood pressure variation, we developed a custom readout system based on a network analyzer functionality. The bench-top testing of the pressure sensors showed good mechanical and electrical functionality. A sensor was implanted into tibial artery of farm pig, and interrogated wirelessly with accurate readings of blood pressure. After 45 days, the sensor's electrical response and histopathology were studied with good frequency reading and biocompatibility.

Haptoglobin as an early indicator of infection in pigs (돼지에서 감염의 조기진단 지표로서의 Haptoglobin 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Moon, Jin-san;Nam, Hyang-mi;Ku, Bok-gyeong;Joo, Yi-seok;Jung, Suk-chan;Kim, Jong-yeom;Park, Yong-ho
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.615-619
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    • 1996
  • Sera of pigs with clinically normal and infectious conditions were analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis(SDS-PAGE) to demonstrate the specific changes in protein profile. In the sera from pigs with infection, haptoglobin with a 40KDa protein was found to be increased as compared to that of sera from normal pigs. As a rapid detection method for monitoring infections at large-scale farms, one of acute phase protein, haptoglobin, was selected to compare the concentrations between infectious and non-infectious conditions. Haptoglobin concentrations were low in pigs with clinically normal conditions but significantly increased in pigs with Aujesky's disease, hog cholera and parvo-virus infection. The studies provide that haptoglobin can be used as an indicator to monitor infections early at farm level.

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Sensitivity of Bordetella bronchise ptica Isolated from Pigs Affected by Infectious Atrophic Rhinitis to Chemotherapeutic Agents (전염성위축성비염돈(傳染性萎縮性鼻炎豚)으로부터 분리(分離)한 Bordetella bronchiseptica의 화학요법제(化學療法劑)에 대(對)한 감수성시험(感受性試驗))

  • Kang, Byong Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.159-165
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    • 1980
  • A total of 98 strains of Bordetella bronckiseptica isolated from pigs affected the infectious atrophic rhinitis(AR) during 1978 were surveyed for drug sensitivity to 26 chemotherapeutic agents, and minimum inhibitory concentration(MIC), incidence rate of resistant strain and resistant patern from the strains which were obtained from the different pig farm in Jeonnam province were examined. The results obtained are summarized as follows. 1. Most of the strains tested were resistant to Ampicillin (AB, PC), spiramycin(SPO, sulfa drugs (SD) (MIC:$400.0{{\mu}g/ml}$) and streptomycin(SM) (MIC:$200.0{{\mu}g/ml}$). Of the 75.0% of strains were also resistant to penicillin(PC) (MIC:$200.0{{\mu}g/ml}$) and of the 14.3 of strains were inhibited to grow to tetracycline(TC), chlortetracycline(CTC), oxytetracyc-line(OTC), erythromycin(EM), tylosin(TS), leucomycin (LM) and chloramphenicol (CP) (MIC:$6.25{{\mu}g/ml}$). On the other hand, most of the strains tested were inhibited to grow to kanamycin(KM), gentamycin(GM) neomycin(NM) (MIC:$25.0{{\mu}g/ml}$) and to colistin(CL) (MIC:$12.5{{\mu}g/ml}$). 2. Incidence rate of resistant strains to main chemotherapeutic agents was 100.0% of sulfa drugs, 96.4% of streptomycin, 85.7% of penicillin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol and erythromycin, 46.4% of gentamycin, 17.9% of colistin and 0.0% of kanamycin and nalidixic acid.

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Studies on Enteric Colibacillosis in Piglets 3. A Field Trial of Polyvalent Live Escherichia coli Oral Vaccine (자돈(仔豚)의 병원성(病源性) 대장균증(大腸菌症)에 관한 연구(硏究) 3. 임신모돈(姙娠母豚)에 대한 대장균생균(大腸菌生菌)백신의 경구투여(經口投與)가 자돈(仔豚)의 대장균(大腸菌)설사병 예방(豫防)에 미치는 영향(影響))

  • Kim, Bong-Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.155-159
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    • 1982
  • A polyvalent live Escherochia coli oral vaccine were prepared by the use of 5 field isolates of enteropathogenic E. coli, serotypes 08 : K87, K88a, b ; 0138 : K81, K88a, c ; 0141 : K85a, b, K88a, b ; 0149 : K91, K88a, c and 0157 : K'V17', K88a, c. Some field experiments were conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the polyvalent live E. coli oral vaccine in the prevention of neonatal colibacillosis in piglets suckling orally vaccinated sows. Seventy-nine pregnant sows in an intensive pig farm were vaccinated with oral vaccine 4 weeks prior to farrowing and 19 sows were chosen for control. The piglets suckling vaccinated sows showed a significant protection against neonatal enteric colibacillosis during the 2 weeks observation period from the farrowing but no significant differences in protection between vaccinated and control group were observed with piglets older than 15 days.

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A Cost-Effective Pigsty Monitoring System Based on a Video Sensor

  • Chung, Yongwha;Kim, Haelyeon;Lee, Hansung;Park, Daihee;Jeon, Taewoong;Chang, Hong-Hee
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.1481-1498
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    • 2014
  • Automated activity monitoring has become important in many applications. In particular, automated monitoring is an important issue in large-scale management of group-housed livestock because it can save a significant part of farm workers' time or minimize the damage caused by livestock problems. In this paper, we propose an automated solution for measuring the daily-life activities of pigs by using video data in order to manage the group-housed pigs. Especially, we focus on the circadian rhythm of group-housed pigs under windowless and 24-hour light-on conditions. Also, we derive a cost-effective solution within the acceptable range of quality for the activity monitoring application. From the experimental results with the video monitoring data obtained from two pig farms, we believe our method based on circadian rhythm can be applied for detecting management problems of group-housed pigs in a cost-effective way.