• Detection and characterization of chicken astrovirus associated with hatchery disease in commercial day‑old turkeys in southwestern Nigeria 

  Adebiyi, Adebowale I.; Mcilwaine, Kerry; Oluwayelu, Daniel O.; Smyth, Victoria J. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-03-23)

  Infectious diseases are a major obstacle to profitable poultry production in Nigeria due to the mortality and severe economic losses they cause. In particular, they are a potent threat to attainment of the food security ...
• ATAC-Seq identifies regions of open chromatin in the bronchial lymph nodes of dairy calves experimentally challenged with bovine respiratory syncytial virus 

  Johnston, Dayle; JaeWoo, Kim; Taylor, Jeremy F.; Earley, Bernadette; McCabe, Matthew S.; Lemon, Ken; Duffy, Catherine; McMenamy, Michael; Cosby, S. Louise; Waters, Sinéad M. (BMC (Springer nature), 2021-01-06)

  Background: Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV) is a cause of Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD). DNA-based biomarkers contributing to BRD resistance are potentially present in non-protein-coding regulatory regions ...
• A Bayesian analysis of a Test and Vaccinate or Remove study to control bovine tuberculosis in badgers (Meles meles) 

  Arnold, Mark E.; Courcier, Emily A.; Stringer, Lesley A.; McCormick, Carl M.; Pascual-Linaza, Ana V.; Collins, Shane F.; Trimble, Nigel A.; Ford, Tom; Thompson, Suzan; Corbett, David; Menzies, Frazer D. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-01-28)

  A novel five year Test and Vaccinate or Remove (TVR) wildlife research intervention project in badgers (Meles meles) commenced in 2014 in a 100km2 area of Northern Ireland. It aimed to increase the evidence base around ...
• Does Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. bovis survival in the environment confound bovine tuberculosis control and eradication? A literature review 

  Allen, Adrian; Ford, Tom; Skuce, Robin A. (Hindawi, 2021-02-05)

  Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is one of the globe’s most common, multihost zoonoses and results in substantial socioeconomic costs for governments, farming industries, and tax payers. Despite decades of surveillance and ...
• Dysbiosis in the Development of Type I Diabetes and Associated Complications: From Mechanisms to Targeted Gut Microbes Manipulation Therapies 

  Pircalabioru, Gratiela Gradisteanu; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae; Gundogdu, Ozan; Chifiriuc, Mariana-Carmen; Marutescu, Luminita Gabriela; Ispas, Bogden; Savu, Octavian (MDPI, 2021-03)

  Globally, we are facing a worrying increase in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) incidence, with onset at younger age shedding light on the need to better understand the mechanisms of disease and step-up prevention. Given ...
• The First Whole Genome Sequence and Characterisation of Avian Nephritis Virus Genotype 3 

  Lagan Tregaskis, Paula; Devaney, Ryan; Smyth, Victoria (MDPI, 2021-02-03)

  Avian nephritis virus (ANV) is classified in the Avastroviridae family with disease associations with nephritis, uneven flock growth and runting stunting syndrome (RSS) in chicken and turkey flocks, and other avian ...
• Co-infection status of novel parvovirus’s (PPV2 to 4) with porcine circovirus 2 in porcine respiratory disease complex and porcine circovirus-associated disease from 1997 to 2012 

  Lagan Tregaskis, Paula; Staines, Anthony; Gordon, Alan; Sheridan, Pauline; McMenamy, Michael; Duffy, Catherine; Collins, P. J.; Mooney, Mark H.; Lemon, Ken (Wiley, 2020-10-18)

  As global pig health diseases, porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC) and porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD) generate substantial economic losses despite pigs been vaccinated against the primary causative ...
• Pestivirus Apparent Prevalence in Sheep and Goats in Northern Ireland: A Serological Survey 

  Campbell, Emma; McConville, James; Clarke, Joe; Donaghy, Aoibheann; Moyce, Asa; Byrne, Andrew W.; Verner, Sharon; Strain, Sam; McKeown, Ignatius M.; Borne, Paul; Guelbenzu-Gonzalo, Maria (British Veterinary Association, 2021-01-12)

  Background: Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) and border disease virus (BDV) can cause significant health problems in ruminants and economic impacts for farmers. The aim of this study was to evaluate pestivirus exposure ...
• Editorial: Developments in Campylobacter, Helicobacter & Related Organisms Research – CHRO 2019 

  Corcionivoschi, Nicolae (Frontiers Media, 2021-01-08)
• Effect of space allowance and mixing on growth performance and body lesions of grower-finisher pigs in pens with a single wet-dry feeder 

  Camp Montoro, Jordi; Boyle, Laura Ann; Sola-Oriol, David; Muns, Ramon; Gasa, Josep; Garcia Manzanilla, Edgar (Springer Science and Business Media, 2021-01-06)

  Background: Low space allowance (SA) and mixing may result in reduced growth performance (GP) and animal welfare issues because of adverse social behaviours directed to pen mates. This could be exacerbated in pens ...
• Challenges and Opportunities for Management of Crop and Tree Diseases in Northern Ireland 

  Rao, Juluri R.; Moore, John; Martin, Trevor; Nelson, David; Fleming, Colin (Scholars.Direct, 2020-10-24)

  Phytopathogens have beleaguered the island of Ireland since the 19th century great famine caused by the potato blight oomycete, Phytophthora infestans and in recent times by cohorts of serious bacterial wilt diseases such ...
• The effect of natural antimicrobials against Campylobacter spp. and its similarities to Salmonella spp, Listeria spp., Escherichia coli, Vibrio spp., Clostridium spp. and Staphylococcus spp. 

  Balta, Igori; Linton, W. Mark R.; Pinkerton, Laurette; Kelly, Carmel A.; Stef, Lavinia; Pet, Ioan; Stef, Ducu; Criste, Adriana; Gundogdu, Ozan; Corcionivoschi, Nicolae (Elsevier, 2020-11-13)

  The increased resistance of campylobacters to antibiotics required the identification and isolation of novel antimicrobials able to inhibit its virulence, to cause less or no resistance and display no host toxicity. Acquiring ...
• Impact of endophyte inoculation on the morphological identity of cultivars of Lolium perenne (L) and Festuca arundinacea (Schreb.) 

  Patterson, John; Lafaillette, F.; Woster, S.; Roulund, N.; Charrier, S.; Gilliland, T.J. (Nature Research, 2020-05-07)

  Grass endophytes have been shown to confer enhanced environmental resilience to symbiont cultivars with reports of modified growth. If inoculating with an endophyte (E+) made an accession morphologically distinct from its ...
• Microbiological assessments in a cut flower crop polytunnel field trial adopting soil covering and microbiocides for Fusarium wilt suppression 

  Rao, Juluri R.; Nelson, David W.V.A.; Fleming, Colin Craig; Martin, Trevor J.G. (Europa Publishing, 2020-09-04)

  Cut flower Matthiola incana were raised by local commercial cultivators in a polytunnel. The field soil beds were either left uncovered as normal or covered with polythene sheets (except a hole for plant plug space). ...
• Farm Diversification: Drivers, Barriers and Future Growth Potential 

  Jack, Claire; Ashfield, Austen; Adenuga, Adewale; Mullan, Conall (Wiley, on behalf of the Agricultural Economics Society and the European Association of Agricultural Economists, 2020-10)

  Family farm businesses throughout Europe are facing new economic, environmental and social challenges. In order to deliver a more resilient primary agriculture sector national and regional governments are identifying ...
• Transcriptome and secretome analysis of intra-mammalian life-stages of the emerging helminth pathogen, Calicophoron daubneyi reveals adaptation to a unique host environment. 

  Huson, Kathryn M.; Atcheson, Erwan; Oliver, Nicola A.M.; Best, Philip; Barley, Jason; Hanna, Robert E.B.; McNeilly, Tom N.; Fang, Yongxiang; Haldenby, Sam; Paterson, Steve; Robinson, Mark W. (The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc., 2020-10-20)

  Paramphistomosis, caused by the rumen fluke, Calicophoron daubneyi, is a parasitic infection of ruminant livestock which has seen a rapid rise in prevalence throughout Western Europe in recent years. Following ingestion ...
• Grazing cattle exposure to neighbouring herds and badgers in relation to bovine tuberculosis risk 

  Campbell, Emma; Menzies, Frazer D.; Byrne, Andrew W.; Porter, Siobhán; McCormick, Carl M.; McBride, Kathryn R.; Scantlebury, D. Michael; Reid, Neil (Elsevier, 2020-09-30)

  Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) can be spread between and among cattle and wildlife hosts e.g. European badger (Meles meles). The majority of cattle in the UK and Ireland are grazed during the summer, potentially exposing them ...
• The Effect of Beef Production System on the Health, Performance, Carcass Characteristics, and Meat Quality of Holstein Bulls 

  Rutherford, Naomi; Gordon, Alan Wesley; Arnott, Gareth; Lively, Francis (MDPI, 2020-10-19)

  The aim of this study was to evaluate the e ect of production system on the health, performance, carcass characteristics, and meat quality of autumn born (AB) and spring born (SB) Holstein bulls. The study involved a ...
• Northern Ireland farm-level management factors for prolonged bovine tuberculosis herd breakdowns. 

  Doyle, L.P.; Courcier, E.A.; Gordon, Alan Wesley; O'Hagan, M.J.H.; Johnston, P.; McAleese, E.; Buchanan, J.R.; Stegeman, J.A.; Menzies, F.D. (Cambridge University Press, 2020-09-28)

  This study determined farm management factors associated with long-duration bovine tuberculosis (bTB) breakdowns disclosed in the period 23 May 2016 to 21 May 2018; a study area not previously subject to investigation in ...
• VectorNet Data Series 3: Culicoides Abundance Distribution Models for Europe and Surrounding Regions 

  Balenghien, Thomas; Alexander, Neil; Arnþórsdóttir, Auður Lilja; Bisia, Marina; Blackwell, Alison; Bødker, René; Bourquia, Maria; Boutsini, Sofia; Carpenter, Simon; Colenutt, Claire; Culverwell, Lorna; Cvetkovikj, Aleksandar; Dascălu, Lenuța; Regge, Nick De; Dhollander, Sofie; Elbers, Armin; England, Marion; Filatov, Serhii; Garros, Claire; Goffredo, Maria; Haddad, Nabil; Høye, Toke Thomas; Hristescu, Doru; Khallaayoune, Khalid; Kočišová, Alica; Larska, Magdalena; Lucientes, Javier; Mathieu, Bruno; Miranda, Miguel Angel; Murchie, Archie K.; Nițescu, Cristina; Ozoliņa, Zanda; Fonseca, Isabel Pereira da; Petrić, Dušan; Pudar, Dubravka; Ramilo, David; Richardson, Jane; Seglina, Zanda; Sghaier, Soufien; Stefanovska, Jovana; Stougiou, Despoina; Sviland, Ståle; Tchakarova, Simona; Bortel, Wim Van; Castello, Marta Verdun; Veronesi, Eva; Versteirt, Veerle; Wint, William G.R. (Ubiquity Press, 2020-09-16)

  Introduction/Study Description VectorNet [1] is a joint initiative of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which started in May 2014. The project ...

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