Background: Susceptibility to Mycobacterium bovis infection in cattle is governed in part by host genetics.
However, cattle diagnosed as infected with M. bovis display varying signs of pathology. The variation in ...
Background: Cryptosporidium is a major cause of diarrhea worldwide in both humans and farm animals with no
completely effective treatment available at present. In this study, we assessed the inhibitory effect of different ...
The current trend in reducing the antibiotic usage in animal production imposes urgency in the identification of novel biocides. The essential oil carvacrol, for example, changes the morphology of the cell and acts against ...
de Swart, Rik L.; de Vries, Rory D.; Rennick, Linda J.; van Amerongen, Geert; McQuaid, Stephen; Verburgh, R. Joyce; Yuksel, Selma; de Jong, Alwin; Lemon, Ken; Nguyen, D. Tien; Ludlow, Martin; Osterhaus, Albert D.M.E.; Duprex, W. Paul(Nature Research, 2017-08-01)
Needle-free measles virus vaccination by aerosol inhalation has many potential benefits. The current standard route of vaccination
is subcutaneous injection, whereas measles virus is an airborne pathogen. However, the ...
Byrne, Andrew W.; Graham, Jordon; Brown, Craig; Donaghy, Aoibheann; Guelbenzu Gonzalo, Maria; McNair, James; Skuce, Robin A.; Allen, Adrian; McDowell, Stanley W.J.(Springer, 2017-12)
Background: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, remains a significant problem for livestock
industries in many countries worldwide including Northern Ireland, where a test and slaughter regime has ...
Although a relatively recently emerged virus, identified only in 2004 as a separate species of avian astrovirus, chicken astrovirus (CAstV) has been associated with poor growth of broiler flocks, enteritis and diarrhea and ...
Tetrodotoxins (TTXs) are traditionally associated with the occurrence of tropical Pufferfish Poisoning. In recent years, however, TTXs have been identified in European bivalve mollusc shellfish, resulting in the need to ...
Intestinal microbe-host interactions can affect the feed efficiency (FE) of chickens. As inconsistent findings for FE-associated bacterial taxa were reported across studies, the present objective was to identify whether ...
Vendrami, David L.J.; Telesca, Luca; Weigand, Hannah; Weiss, Martina; Fawcett, Katie; Lehman, Katrin; Clark, M.S.; Leese, Florian; McMinn, Carrie; Moore, Heather M.; Hoffman, Joseph Il(Royal Society Publishing, 2017-02-01)
The field of molecular ecology is transitioning from the use of small panels of classical genetic markers such as microsatellites to much larger panels of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) generated by approaches like ...
Tsairidou, Smaragda; Allen, Adrian; Banos, Georgios; Coffey, Mike; Anacleto, Osvaldo; Byrne, Andrew W.; Skuce, Robin; Glass, Elizabeth J.; Woolliams, John A.; Doeschl-Wilson, Andrea B.(Frontiers Media, 2018-12-07)
Host resistance and infectivity are genetic traits affecting infectious disease transmission.
This Perspective discusses the potential exploitation of genetic variation in cattle
infectivity, in addition to resistance, ...
Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of food-borne bacterial enteritis in humans, with contaminated poultry
products considered the main source of infection. To survive the food chain, C. jejuni utilizes multiple ...
The population genetic structure of free-ranging
species is expected to reflect
landscape-level
effects. Quantifying the role of these factors and their relative contribution
often has important implications for wildlife ...
Jin, Ding Xing; Zou, Hua Wei; Liu, Si Qiang; Wang, Li Zhi; Xue, Bai; Wu, De; Tian, Gang; Cai, Jingyi; Yan, Tianhai; Wang, Zhi Sheng; Peng, Quan Hui(Nature Research, 2018-08-21)
Epizootic rabbit enteropathy (ERE) is reproduced successfully in the present study by feeding rabbits a
low-fibre diet, and high-throughput sequencing and quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) analysis were
applied to examine ...
Siegerstetter, Sina-Catherine; Petri, Renée M.; Magowan, Elizabeth; Lawlor, Peadar G.; Zebeli, Qendrim; O’Connell, Niamh E.; Metzler-Zebel, Barbara U.(Frontiers Media, 2018-11-19)
There is a great interest to understand the impact of the gut microbiota on host’s
nutrient use and FE in chicken production. Both chicken’s feed intake and gut bacterial
microbiota differ between high and low-feed ...
Downs, Sara H.; More, Simon J.; Goodchild, Anthony V.; Whelan, Adam O.; Abernethy, Darrell A.; Broughan, Jennifer M.; Cameron, Angus; Cook Alasdair J.; de la Rua-Domenech, R. Ricardo; Greiner, Matthias; Gunn, Jane; Nunez-Garcia Javier; Rhodes, Shelley; Rolfe, Simon; Sharp, Michael; Upton, Paul; Watson, Eamon; Welsh, Michael; Woolliams, John A.; Clifton-Hadley, Richard S.; Parry, Jessica E.(Elsevier, 2017-03-22)
There has been little assessment of the methodological quality of studies measuring the performance (sensitivity and/or specificity) of diagnostic tests for animal diseases. In a systematic review, 190 studies of tests for ...
Tratalos, Jamie A.; Thulke, Hans-Hermann; Graham, David A.; Guelbenzu Gonzalo, Maria; More, Simon J.(Elsevier, 2018-04-11)
Surveillance and management of livestock diseases is often evaluated with reference to expected sector-wide costs. In contrast, we calculate losses or savings for individual herd owners of a change in monitoring strategy ...
Gray, Darren W.; Welsh, Michael D.; Mansoor, Fawad; Doherty, Simon; Chevallier, Olivier P.; Elliott, Christopher T.; Mooney, Mark H.(Public Library of Science, 2018-04-05)
Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) is a major source of economic loss within the agricultural industry. Vaccination against BRD-associated viruses does not offer complete immune protection and vaccine failure animals present ...
Background: Agriculture and farming are valued contributors to local economy in Northern Ireland (NI). There is
limited knowledge about farmers’ behaviours and attitudes towards disease biosecurity measures. As part of a ...
Dunn, Amanda; Welsh, Michael; Gordon, Alan Wesley; Arguello, Anastasio; Morrison, Steven J.; Earley, Bernadette(Taylor & Francis, 2018-01-09)
The study objectives were to: 1) examine how calves of divergent immune status respond to BRSV vaccination at 3 weeks of age; 2) trace glycoprotein E negative BoHV-1 antibodies from vaccinated dams to calf sera and to ...
Genetic selection of cattle more resistant to bovine tuberculosis (bTB) may offer a complementary control strategy. Hypothesising underlying non-additive genetic variation, we present an approach using genome-wide high ...