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Robertson A, Bannister GL, Ruckerbauer GM, Boulanger P. Toxoplasmosis II. Studies of Animal Sera Using Complement-Fixation Tests. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE MEDICINE AND VETERINARY SCIENCE 1963; 27:169-76. [PMID: 17649451 PMCID: PMC1583675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Serological studies were performed in guinea pigs, a sheep, calf, goat and two pigs experimentally infected with toxoplasmosis. The direct complement-fixation method was effective in detecting antibodies in guinea-pig, goat and sheep sera. The modified complement-fixation technique supplementing complement with normal bovine serum fraction, was required when testing bovine serum. With swine sera best reactions occurred in the indirect complement-fixation test and definite but low grade reactions were produced in the direct test after pro-complementary activity was removed by pH treatment of the sera. Allergic skin reactions were produced in the experimental animals but improvement in the antigen is necessary before the test could be used generally in the field as a diagnostic method for animal toxoplasmosis.
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Robertson A, Boulanger P. Comparison of the Complement-Fixation Test and the Microscopic-Agglutination Test (Agglutination-Lysis) for the Detection of Leptospiral Serogroup Antibodies. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE MEDICINE AND VETERINARY SCIENCE 1963; 27:113-20. [PMID: 17649439 PMCID: PMC1583654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The MA and CF tests using alcohol extracted antigens have been compared with sera from infected rabbits and calves. The MA test was highly serotype specific with serum from both animal species. The CF test was broadly reactive with serum from rabbits infected with various serotypes. However, when bovine serum was used cross reactivity was reduced and it was necessary to use pooled antigens to detect heterologous serotypes.
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Robertson A, Boulanger P. Immunological Activity of Leptospira Pomona Bacterins. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE MEDICINE AND VETERINARY SCIENCE 1963; 27:85-90. [PMID: 17649435 PMCID: PMC1583641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Seven commercially available leptospiral bacterins were compared in guinea pigs and on that basis two of them, the best and the poorest, were further compared in calves. A wide variation was observed in their antigenicity and in their ability to provide protection. Guinea pigs appeared to be satisfactory test animals for evaluation of bacterins prepared for use in cattle.
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Ruckerbauer GM, Robertson A, Bannister GL, Boulanger P, Beauregard M. Toxoplasmosis I. Studies by the Fluorescein-labelled Antibody Technique. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE MEDICINE AND VETERINARY SCIENCE 1963; 27:27-33. [PMID: 17649421 PMCID: PMC1583629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The fluorescein-labelled antibody technique was investigated for the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis. The direct method, the inhibition and indirect modifications are suitable for the demonstration of Toxoplasma gondii in fluid and tissue-impression slides from animals in the acute phase of infection. The method was not applicable with the frozen tissue sections. The fluorescein-labelled antibody inhibition technique detected antibodies in immune sera from various species of animal. However the titres obtained were lower than with the complement-fixation test.
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Boulanger P, Robertson A. Fluorescein-Labelled Antibody Technique for the Demonstration of Leptospira Pomona. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE MEDICINE AND VETERINARY SCIENCE 1961; 25:299-306. [PMID: 17649339 PMCID: PMC1583390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Robertson A. Remuneration of Doctors by Salary. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL 1961; 84:1327. [PMID: 20326787 PMCID: PMC1847979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Neimann-Sorensen A, Robertson A. The Association between Blood Groups and Several Production Characteristics in Three Danish Cattle Breeds. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1961. [DOI: 10.1080/00015126109433054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Gwilt JR, Livingstone JL, Robertson A. Properties of Actal. West J Med 1959. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5116.238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Rice CE, Plummer PJG, Annau E, Robertson A. The Effect of Prolonged Injection of Ethionine on Rabbits and Guinea Pigs on a High Cholesterol Diet. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1958. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.81.6.506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The complement titers, protein and lipid values of the serum, and the pathologic findings were compared in ethionine-injected and untreated rabbits and guinea pigs on cholesterol-supplemented or stock diets. All of the ethionine-injected rabbits when sacrificed after 7–24 week's treatment showed some degree of pathologic change in the liver and kidney or both; in some, other organs as well were affected. Atheromatous lesions in the aorta and vessels of the heart were found in all rabbits that had been on the high-cholesterol diet for periods of 14–24 weeks, their location and extent was similar in the ethionine-treated and control animals. No such lesions were observed in any of the guinea pigs on the cholesterol-supplemented diet, although there was a marked accumulation of lipid in the liver, pancreas and other organs.
The complement titers and total protein content of the serum of the untreated rabbits on the high cholesterol diet tended to be higher than those of the untreated controls on the stock diet; this difference was not observed in the corresponding groups of guinea pigs. Complement titers fell and remained low in both dietary groups of rabbits and guinea pigs during the period of ethionine treatment; in rabbits the total serum protein values were depressed initially but later rose to normal levels; prolonged ethionine treatment had no apparent effect upon the hyperlipemia developing in cholesterol-fed rabbits, but in guinea pigs on the same diet an initial rise in serum lipids was followed by a decline during ensuing months of ethionine injection.
The basic mechanisms underlying these changes observed in ethionine-injected animals are discussed briefly from the physiologic and immunologic standpoint.
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Schofield FW, Robertson A. Oedema Disease (Entero-Toxaemia) in Swine - I. Experiments Designed To Reproduce The Disease. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE MEDICINE AND VETERINARY SCIENCE 1955; 19:240-2. [PMID: 17648834 PMCID: PMC1614122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Webster HL, Robertson A. The rapid determination of total fatty acid in unbuilt soap products. Analyst 1955. [DOI: 10.1039/an9558000616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Robertson A. Hunterian Oration. West J Med 1949. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4602.498-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Thomson RT, Bush WA, Cumming WM, Rae N, Gueterbock PGJ, Voelcker JA, Denham HG, Garner JH, Forster MO, Robertson A, Bagster LS, Rawling SO, Kay FW, Richardson FW. Obituary notices: Robert Addie, 1870–1934; William Dalrymple Borland, 1863–1934; Richard Arthur Bush, 1863–1933; Robert Martin Craven, 1870–1934; Juan Pedige Charles Chandrasena, 1887–1934; Robert English, 1870–1934; Morris Broad Fowler, 1870–1934; George Fry, 1843–1934; George Gray, 1848–1934; John Haworth, 1869–1934; Andrew Norman Meldrum, 1876–1934; William F. Sandrock, 1909–1933; B. D. Steele; Bertram Vincent Storr, 1878–1934; George Tate, 1858–1933; Henry White, 1867–1934; W. Frank J. Wood, 1877–1934. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1934. [DOI: 10.1039/jr9340001468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Thomson JG, Robertson A. Experimental Passage of the Oöcysts of Fish Coccidia through the Human Intestine. BMJ : BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1926; 1:420-1. [PMID: 20772420 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.3401.420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Thomson JG, Robertson A. Fish as the Source of Certain Coccidia Recently Described as Intestinal Parasites of Man. BMJ : BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1926; 1:282-3. [PMID: 20772377 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.3398.282-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Robertson A. Specimens from a Human Case of Infection with Dientamœba fragilis, Jepps and Dobell, 1917. Proc R Soc Med 1923; 16:48. [PMID: 20907807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Robertson A. Specimens from a Human Case of Infection with Dientamœba fragilis, Jepps and Dobell, 1917. Proc R Soc Med 1923; 16:48. [PMID: 19983410 PMCID: PMC2103310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Thomson JG, Robertson A. The Value of Laboratory Reports on Stools in Cases of Suspected Amœbic Dysentery, and their Interpretation by the Clinician; with a Special Note on the Diagnostic Significance of Charcot-Leyden Crystals. Proc R Soc Med 1921; 14:33-44. [PMID: 19982049 PMCID: PMC2152946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Thomson JG, Robertson A. The Value of Laboratory Reports on Stools in Cases of Suspected Amœbic Dysentery, and their Interpretation by the Clinician; with a Special Note on the Diagnostic Significance of Charcot-Leyden Crystals. Proc R Soc Med 1921; 14:33-44. [PMID: 20906446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Robertson A. Fish Hatching Systems. Sci Am 1917. [DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican12011917-347asupp] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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