Research Results - (PDF, 101 mb) - USAID

quite frequent in these groups. Perhaps this is
related to the relative low birth weight and / or
the poor nutritional condition of dams. Apparently
there was no correlation between the
isolated organisms and the immunoglobulin
level.
Project Achievements
The importance of passively transferred
immunoglobulin in reducing neonatal mortality
of newborn alpaca cria was verified in community
herds as well as large enterprise herds. It is
now imperative to investigate the nutritional
and management failure of passive transfer and
to study the role of novel bacterial agents in
disease of crias.
Changes in 1990 Workplans
Due to the lower number of animals
compared with former studies done at large
cooperative enterprises, the number of diseased
animals was smaller. Although other procedures
may have been superior, the sodium
sulfite precipitation test for determining levels
of immunoglobulins in dead crias was done
because this test was more available than others
for application to the field.
Training Progress and Institutional
Development
Long-term
Pedro Yi Araujo. Thesis for DVM degree.
Detection of rotaviral genome in alpaca diarrhea.
University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
1989.
Alberto Manchego. Thesis for DVM degree.
Serological analysis of viral infection in mixed
herds from Arequipa Communities. University
of San Marcos, Lima, Peru. 1989.
Mirtha Luna. Thesis for DVM degree. Ovine
lentivi-us-associated mastitis in the Central
Sierra of Peru. University of San Marcos, Lima,
Peru. 1989.
s0
Mwaengo, Dufton. Ph.D. candidate. Molecular
virology. Expected graduation, 1994. Colorado
State University.
Short-term
Training in Peru consisted of seminars,
short courses, and technique-oriented individual
training sessions in university settings, on
INIAA and IVITA field stations and on-farm in
the field to the extent that security conditions
permit, and in workshops in Cajamarca, Lima,
and Puno, Peru, and RioBamba, Equador (see
abstracts, technical communications and verbal
presentations below). Peruvian veterinary
students were involved as trainees in some of
the research being conducted in IVITA laboratories.
In accordance with Technical Committee,
Board of Directors, and EEP directives, no new
graduate training positions for Peruvians were
initiated during this budget year.
Drs. Ramirez and Rosadio spent productive
short visits at CSU during which research
results were discussed and interpreted and
manuscripts were prepared. Dr. Fernando
Villafane, a veterinary pathologist from Columbia,
spent a six-month sabbatical leave at CSU,
terminating in November, 1989. He was engaged
on a pathology study of ovine pulmonary
carcinoma, completing some studies initiated by
Dr. Rosadio.
Institutional development
Many improvements in the capacity of
San Marcos University and IVITA to perform
research and teaching functions have been made
during the last year. Dr. Rosadio, who received
a Ph.D. at CSU in 1987, is Director of Graduate
Studies in the Veterinary School at San Marcos
University and he has been instrumental in
developing a new Master's degree program in
Veterinary Science at the University. The postgraduate
unit of the Veterinary School has
implemented a biweekly seminar program to
disseminate recent research results in veterinary
science among the staff and students of the
school. Some of the offices, including the postgraduate
unit, have been funded by the National
Council for Science aid Technology