• Identification of high-value bioactive constituents in Northern European willow varieties: S.X. Dasyclados, Endeavour, Cheviot, Tora, Resolution, S. Purpurea, Terranova, endurance 

  Hijazi, Ayman; Pisano, Italo; Leahy, J.J.; Kwapinski, Witold; Johnston, Christopher; Prendergast, John (Elsevier, 2022-09-05)

  Willow trees have maintained their place in medicine for many years as they are herbal source of various cures. Willow varieties are considered to contain a wide range of anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial species such ...
• Honey bee colony loss rates in 37 countries using the COLOSS survey for winter 2019–2020: the combined effects of operation size, migration and queen replacement 

  Gray, Alison; Adjlane, Noureddine; Arab, Alireza; Ballis, Alexis; Brusbardis, Valters; Douglas, Adrian Bugeja; Cadahía, Luis; Charrière, Jean-Daniel; Chlebo, Robert; Coffey, Mary F.; Cornelissen, Bram; da Costa, Cristina Amaro; Danneels, Ellen; Danihlík, Jiří; Dobrescu, Constantin; Evans, Garth; Fedoriak, Mariia; Forsythe, Ivan; Gregorc, Aleš; Arakelyan, Iliyana Ilieva; Johannesen, Jes; Kauko, Lassi; Kristiansen, Preben; Martikkala, Maritta; Martín-Hernández, Raquel; Mazur, Ewa; Medina-Flores, Carlos Aurelio; Mutinelli, Franco; Omar, Eslam M.; Patalano, Solenn; Raudmets, Aivar; San Martin, Gilles; Soroker, Victoria; Stahlmann-Brown, Philip; Stevanovic, Jevrosima; Uzunov, Aleksandar; Vejsnaes, Flemming; Williams, Anthony; Brodschneider, Robert (Taylor & Francis, 2022-09-06)

  This article presents managed honey bee colony loss rates over winter 2019/20 resulting from using the standardised COLOSS questionnaire in 37 countries. Six countries were from outside Europe, including, for the first ...
• Farm Biosecurity Measures and Interventions with an Impact on Bacterial Biofilms 

  Butucel, Eugenia; Balta, Igori; McCleery, David; Morariu, Florica; Pet, Ioan; Popescu, Cosmin Alin; Stef, Lavinia; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae (MDPI, 2022-08-18)

  Farm biosecurity management includes a set of practical measures used to prevent and limit the spread of infections to humans and animals. Infections, predominantly caused by zoonotic agents, often occur due to a lack ...
• Common themes in antimicrobial and anticancer drug resistance 

  Chifiriuc, Mariana Carmen; Filip, Roxana; Constantin, Marian; Gratiela Gradisteanu Pircalabioru, Gratiela Gradisteanu; Bleotu, Coralia; Burlibasa, Liliana; Ionica, Elena; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae; Mihaescu, Grigore (Frontiers Media, 2022-08-08)

  Antimicrobial and anticancer drug resistance represent two of the main global challenges for the public health, requiring immediate practical solutions. In line with this, we need a better understanding of the origins ...
• Assessment of Rapid MinION Nanopore DNA Virus Meta-Genomics Using Calves Experimentally Infected with Bovine Herpes Virus-1 

  Esnault, Gaelle; Earley, Bernadette; Cormican, Paul; Waters, Sinead M.; Lemon, Ken; Cosby, S. Louise; Lagan, Paula; Barry, Thomas; Reddington, Kate; McCabe, Matthew S. (MDPI, 2022-08-24)

  Bovine respiratory disease (BRD), which is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in cattle, is caused by numerous known and unknown viruses and is responsible for the widespread use of broad-spectrum antibiotics ...
• Anti-Campylobacter Probiotics: Latest Mechanistic Insights 

  Balta, Igori; Butucel, Eugenia; Stef, Lavinia; Pet, Ioan; Gradisteanu-Pircalabioru, Gratiela; Chifiriuc, Carmen; Gundogdu, Ozan; McCleery, David; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae (Mary Ann Liebert, 2022-07-29)

  The Campylobacter genus is the leading cause of human gastroenteritis, with the consumption of contaminated poultry meat as the main route of infection. Probiotic bacteria, such as Lactobacillus, Bacillus, Escherichia ...
• European badger (Meles meles) responses to low-intensity, selective culling: using mark recapture and relatedness data to assess social perturbation 

  Allen, Adrian; Milne, Margaret Georgina; McCormick, Charles M.; Collins, Shane; O'Hagan, Maria; Skuce, Robin A.; Trimble, Nigel; Harwook, Roland; Menzies, Fraser; Byrne, Andrew W. (Wiley, 2022-07-28)

  Culling the main wildlife host of bovine tuberculosis in Great Britain (GB) and Ireland, the European badger (Meles meles), has been employed in both territories to reduce infections in cattle. In GB, this has been ...
• Resistome Analysis of Global Livestock and Soil Microbiomes 

  Lawther, Katie; Santos, Fernanda Godoy; Oyama, Linda Boniface; Rubino, Francesco; Morrison, Steven; Creevey, Chris J.; McGrath, John W.; Huws, Sharon Ann (Frontiers media, 2022-07-07)

  Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to public health globally; it is estimated that AMR bacteria caused 1.27 million deaths in 2019, and this is set to rise to 10 million deaths annually. Agricultural and ...
• Effect of anaerobic digestate fuel pellet production on Enterobacteriaceae and Salmonella persistence 

  Cathcart, Ashley; Smyth, Beatrice M.; Forbes, Christina; Lyons, Gary; Murray, Simon T.; Rooney, David; Johnston, Christopher (Wiley, 2022-07-07)

  Production of digestate pellets for fuel has been identified as a promising circular economy approach to provide renewable energy and additional income to farms, while at the same time presenting the potential to divert ...
• Effects of the Lipid Profile, Type 2 Diabetes and Medication on the Metabolic Syndrome—Associated Gut Microbiome 

  Gradisteanu Pircalabioru, Gratiela; Liaw, Janie; Gundogdu, Ozan; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae; Ilie, Iuliana; Oprea, Luciana; Musat, Madalina; Chifiriuc, Mariana-Carmen (MDPI, 2022-07-06)

  Metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is a major health problem affecting approximately 25% of the worldwide population. Since the gut microbiota is highly connected to the host metabolism, several recent studies have emerged to ...
• Spatial clusters of Varroa destructor control strategies in Europe 

  Brodschneider, Robert; Schlagbauer, Johannes; Arakelyan, Iliyana; Ballis, Alexis; Brus, Jan; Brusbardis, Valters; Cadahia, Luis; Charriere, Jean-Daniel; Chlebo, Robert; Coffey, Mary F.; Cornelissen, Bram; Amaro da Costa, Cristina; Danneels, Ellen; Danihlik, Jiri; Dobrescu, Constantin; Evans, Garth; Fedoriak, Mariia; Forsythe, Ivan W.N.; Gregorc, Ales; Johannesen, Jes; Kauko, Lassi; Kristiansen, Preben; Martikkala, Maritta; Martin-Hernandez, Raquel; Mazur, Ewa; Mutinelli, Franco; Patalano, Solenn; Raudmets, Aivar; Delso, Noa Simon; Stevanovic, Jevrosima; Uzunov, Aleksandar; Vejsnaes, Flemming; Williams, Anthony; Gray, Alison (Springer, 2022-06-29)

  Beekeepers have various options to control the parasitic mite Varroa destructor in honey bee colonies, but no empirical data are available on the methods they apply in practice. We surveyed 28,409 beekeepers maintaining ...
• The Zymoseptoria tritici white collar-1 gene, ZtWco-1, is required for development and virulence on wheat 

  Tiley, Anna; Lawless, Colleen; Pilo, Paola; Karki, Sujit J.; Lu, Jijun; Long, Zhuowei; Gibriel, Hesham; Bailey, Andy M.; Feechan, Angela (Elsevier, 2022-06-14)

  The fungus Zymoseptoria tritici causes Septoria Tritici Blotch (STB), which is one of the most devastating diseases of wheat in Europe. There are currently no fully durable methods of control against Z. tritici, so novel ...
• Efficacy of single pass UVC air treatment for the inactivation of coronavirus, MS2 coliphage and Staphylococcus aureus bioaerosols 

  Snelling, William J.; Afkhami, Arsalan; Turkington, Hannah; Carlisle, Claire L.; Cosby, S. Louise; Hamilton, Jeremy W.J.; Ternan, Nigel G.; Dunlop, Patrick S.M. (Elsevier, 2022-04-26)

  There is strong evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is spread predominantly by airborne transmission, with high viral loads released into the air as respiratory droplets and aerosols from the infected subject. The spread and persistence ...
• A Novel Prototype Biosensor Array Electrode System for Detecting the Bacterial Pathogen Salmonella typhimurium. 

  Ramasamy, Palaniappan; Dakshinamoorthy, Gajalakshmi; Jayashree, Shanmugam; Prabhu, Dhamodharan; Rajamanikandan, Sundararaj; Velusamy, Palaniyandi; Dayanithi, Govindan; Hanna, Robert E.B. (MDPI, 2022-06-04)

  Salmonellosis caused by Salmonella sp. has long been reported all over the world. Despite the availability of various diagnostic methods, easy and effective detection systems are still required. This report describes a ...
• Effect of overlaying rubber on fully slatted concrete floors on hoof health and lying postures in finishing dairy-origin bulls offered two contrasting diets 

  Lowe, Denise; Gordon, Alan; Lively, Francis (Elsevier, 2019-10-29)

  Fully slatted concrete floors are labour-efficient, cost-effective and thus common in beef cattle housing. However, the welfare of cattle accommodated on them has been questioned. The objective of this study was to evaluate ...
• Biocides as Biomedicines against Foodborne Pathogenic Bacteria 

  Butucel, Eugenia; Balta, Igori; Ahmadi, Mirela; Dumitrescu, Gabi; Morariu, Florica; Pet, Ioan; Stef, Lavinia; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae (MDPI, 2022-02-04)

  Biocides are currently considered the first line of defense against foodborne pathogens in hospitals or food processing facilities due to the versatility and efficiency of their chemical active ingredients. Understanding ...
• Strategies for Hypothermia Compensation in Altricial and Precocial Newborn Mammals and Their Monitoring by Infrared Thermography 

  Lezama-García, Karina; Mota-Rojas, Daniel; Martínez-Burnes, Julio; Villanueva-García, Dina; Domínguez-Oliva, Adriana; Gómez-Prado, Jocelyn; Mora-Medina, Patricia; Casas-Alvarado, Alejandro; Olmos-Hernández, Adriana; Soto, Paola; Muns, Ramon (MDPI, 2022-05-23)

  Thermoregulation in newborn mammals is an essential species-specific mechanism of the nervous system that contributes to their survival during the first hours and days of their life. When exposed to cold weather, which ...
• Glutamine in suppression of lipopolysaccharide-induced piglet intestinal inflammation: The crosstalk between AMPK activation and mitochondrial function 

  He, Liuqin; Zhou, Xihong; Wu, Ziping; Feng, Yanzhong; Liu, Di; Li, Tiejun; Yin, Yulong (Elsevier (on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd), 2022-03-26)

  The study was conducted to investigate the regulatory mechanism of glutamine (Gln) on intestinal inflammation in an Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (E. coli LPS)-induced in vivo and in vitro models. Piglets (n = 8) ...
• The Antioxidant Effect of Natural Antimicrobials in Shrimp Primary Intestinal Cells Infected with Nematopsis messor 

  Balta, Igori; Stef, Lavinia; Butucel, Eugenia; Pircalabioru, Gratiela Gradisteanu; Venig, Adelina; Ward, Patrick; Deshaies, Myriam; Pet, Ioan; Stef, Ducu; Koyun, Osman Y.; Callaway, Todd R.; Gundogdu, Ozan; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae (MDPI, 2022-05-15)

  Nematopsis messor infections severely impact on shrimp’s health with devastating economic consequences on shrimp farming. In a shrimp primary intestinal cells (SGP) model of infection, a sub-inhibitory concentration (0.5%) ...
• Cytochrome P450 168A1 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa is involved in the hydroxylation of biologically relevant fatty acids 

  Price, Claire L.; Warrilow, Andrew G. S.; Rolley, Nicola J.; Parker, Josie E.; Thoss, Vera; Kelly, Diane E.; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae; Kelly, Steven L. (PLoS (Public Library of Science), 2022-03-21)

  The cytochrome P450 CYP168A1 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli followed by purification and characterization of function. CYP168A1 is a fatty acid hydroxylase that hydroxylates saturated ...

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