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  1. Shigella: Bacteria that Causes the Foodborne Illness Shigellosis

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-5563

    children with the disease can have seizures. Symptoms can take as long as a week to show up, but most often ... weeks. The bacteria must be swallowed to cause disease. They are often spread when people do not wash ... swallow the water or even get their lips wet. If you think you might have this disease, you should see ...

  2. Forest Products Terminology

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-85

    such as steel. Annual Ring —or growth ring, the portion of wood encompassing one earlywood section and ... one latewood section. The annual ring constitutes one growing season. Ash —a collective term for the ... ring. Digester —a heated pressure vessel used to make wood pulp for papermaking in which wood is mixed ...

  3. Controlling Non-Native Invasive Plants: Common and Japanese Barberry

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0106

    acting as an alternative host for the disease, black stem rust, caused by the fungus Puccina graminis. As ... public health threat to humans, companion animals, and livestock. Multiple diseases of consequence such ... as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and anaplasmosis can be vectored or transmitted by ...

  4. Freezing and Canning Venison

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5367

    common parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, the cause of the disease toxoplasmosis. Symptoms of illnesses ... meat will be reduced. Other Safety Precautions The Centers for Disease Control recommend that “hunters ... should avoid eating meat from deer and elk that look sick or test positive for chronic wasting disease ...

  5. Narrow Row Spacing in Corn: Management Considerations for Ohio

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0152

    disease issues, and response to foliar inputs of nitrogen (N) and fungicide. The trials were conducted ... foliar disease ratings, according to company literature, were used to assess differences in foliar ... disease and response to fungicide and foliar nitrogen (N) when grown in narrow (15-inch) or conventional ...

  6. Drones for Spraying Pesticides—Opportunities and Challenges

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/fabe-540

    detection of insects and diseases Drones successfully and effectively monitor plant growth by collecting and ...

  7. Blacklegged (Deer) Tick, Ixodes scapularis

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-0096

    companion animals with pathogens that cause diseases. Preventing tick bites is the best protection from ... tickborne disease (box 1). If you find a tick biting you, remove the tick as soon as possible (box 2), note ... adult male ticks are uniformly covered by a dark brown shield or “scutum.” This shield partially covers ...

  8. Sudden Oak Death (aka Ramorum blight)

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-tree-05

    blight) is a disease caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora ramorum that was discovered in ... central-coastal California in 1995. This pathogen had been known to cause disease in nurseries and gardens since ...  Sporangia of  P. ramorum. Photo by UC Berkeley. The disease causes extensive mortality on tanoak ...

  9. Brown Patch on Turfgrass

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-3084

    susceptible to brown patch. Colonial bentgrass is very susceptible to the disease. Cultural Practices. Avoid ... patches on turf brown patch on turf brown path fungus on lawn fungicide infected turfgrass Plant Pathology ... to young immature grass seedlings. During long periods of hot, wet, and humid conditions, brown patch ...

  10. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/vme-1037

    lungs.  Disease severity ranges from mild to severe illness and can cause death. The flu infects many ... domestic poultry (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017). There are four types of flu: Influenza ... currently thought to infect only cattle and pigs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021, and ...

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