Zagadnienie rzęsistnicy zwierząt w piśmiennictwie polskim w latach 1936-1958

The interest in trichomoniasis of cattle in Poland dates from 1936, in which year one began to pay attention to Trichomonas foetus as the etiological factor in some cases of miscarriage. This interest increased and became more permanent beginning from 1947. The registrational and apizootiological investigations carried out in the provinces Bydgoszcz, Katowice, Cracow, Poznań, Rzeszów and Warsaw showed that the Trichomonas infection represents a serious problem in the pathology of the genital system being at the same time an important question in cattle breeding and economical calculations. In the years 1942-1943 one found in the Cracow province 8.6% of positive results out of 5267 mucus samples and miscarried foetuses examined. In the years 1953-1957 the rinsings from prepuces of 8172 bulls were examined in various regions of Poland and an average percentage of infections amounting to 9,6 was ascertained. The most systematical investigations on trichomoniasis of cattle has been carried out in the Katowice province. In the period 1954-1958 6171 bulls were examined. The average percentage of infections in the last few years amounted to about 5.2. In the years 1936-1958 47 papers (available to the author) were published in the Polish literature. They concerned recording of trihomoniasis, the biology of the parasite, the diagnostics, treatment, eradication and prophylaxis. The most permanent interest in the problem of trichomoniasis in Poland show three centres: the Bydgoszcz centre (Jaśkowski, Romaniuk and others), the Katowice-Cracow centre (Bielański, Szaflarski, Steffen and others) and the Warsaw centre (Hoppe, Markowski, Kowalczyk and others). The greatest scientific achievements in the trichomoniasis problem possesses the Bydgoszcz centre under the guidance of Jaśkowski. In this centre the greatest attention is paid to the registration of the infection, to the biology of the parasite, to the treatment, epizootiology, eradicatlion and prophylaxis of the disease. The activity of the Katowice-Cracow centre is mainly concentrated on registrartion of the infection in bulls and on diagnostics, the Warsaw centre on treatment of the bulls and registratiron.