Hjortaas, Monika J.; Fringuelli, Elena; Monjane, Aderito L.; Mikalsen, Aase B.; Jonassen, Christine M.; Savage, Paul D.(MDPI, 2021-08-06)
Pancreas disease (PD) and sleeping disease (SD), caused by an alphavirus, are endemic in European salmonid aquaculture, causing significant mortality, reduced growth and poor flesh quality. In 2010, a new variant of salmonid ...
Bakre, Abhijeet A.; Duffy, Catherine; Abdullah, Hani’ah; Cosby, S. Louise; Tripp, Ralph A.(Frontiers Media, 2012-09-03)
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or measles virus (MeV) infection modifies host
responses through small non-coding RNA (sncRNA) expression. We show that RSV
or MeV infection of neuronal cells induces sncRNAs including ...
Lopez Corrales, Jesús; Cwiklinski, Krystyna; De Marco Verissimo, Carolina; Dorey, Amber; Lalor, Richard; Jewhurst, Heather; McEvoy, Amanda; Diskin, Michael; Duffy, Catherine; Cosby, S. Louise; Keane, Orla M.; Dalton, John Pius(Elsevier, 2021-07-06)
Fasciolosis, a global parasitic disease of agricultural livestock, is caused by the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica.
Management and strategic control of fasciolosis on farms depends on early assessment of the extent of ...
Gaughran, Aoibheann; Mullen, Enda; MacWhite, Teresa; Maher, Peter; Kelly, David J.; Kelly, Ruth; Good, Margaret; Marples, Nicola M.(PLOS ( Public Library of Science), 2021-09-03)
Road ecology has traditionally focused on the impact of in-situ and functional roads on wildlife.
However, road construction also poses a major, yet understudied, threat and the implications
for key aspects of animal ...
The addition of cattle health and immunity traits to genomic selection indices holds promise to increase individual animal longevity and productivity, and decrease economic losses from disease. However, highly variable ...
O'Hare, Anthony; Balaz, Daniel; Wright, David M.; McCormick, Carl; McDowell, Stanley W.J.; Trewby, Hannah; Skuce, Robin A.; Kao, Rowland r.(Public Library of Science, 2021-06-25)
For single host pathogens, pathogen genetic data have been transformative for understanding the transmission and control of many diseases, particuarly rapidly evolving RNA
viruses. However garnering similar insights where ...
The preparation of unique wet and dry wound dressing products derived from
unprocessed human amniotic membrane (UP-HAM) is described. The UP-HAM was
decellularized, and the constituent proteins were cross-linked and ...
The Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) has important roles relating to bacterial
antagonism, subversion of host cells, and niche colonisation. Campylobacter jejuni
is one of the leading bacterial causes of human gastroenteritis ...
Balta, Igori; Marcu, Adela; Linton, W. Mark R.; Kelly, Carmel A.; Gundogdu, Ozan; Stef, Lavinia; Pet, Ioan; Ward, Patrick; Deshales, Myriam; callaway, Todd; Sopharat, Phittawat; Gradisteanu-Pircalabioru, Gratiela; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae(Springer, 2021-06-07)
Background: The classification of natural antimicrobials as potential antibiotic replacements is still hampered by the
absence of clear biological mechanisms behind their mode of action. This study investigated the ...
Trewby, Hannah; Wright, David M.; Skuce, Robin A.; McCormick, Carl; Mallon, Thomas R.; Presho, Eleanor L.; Kao, Rowland R.; Haydon, Daniel T.; Biek, Roman(BMC, 2017-08-22)
Background: The patterns of relative species abundance are commonly studied in ecology and epidemiology to
provide insights into underlying dynamical processes. Molecular types (MVLA-types) of Mycobacterium bovis, the
causal ...
Background
To address a lack of information on the control of ovine helminth parasites in Northern Ireland (NI), a number of research projects have been undertaken, dealing with gastrointestinal nematodes, tapeworms and ...
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 ...