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Antimicrobial Properties of Basidiomycota Macrofungi to Mycobacterium abscessus Isolated from Patients with Cystic Fibrosis

Millar, Beverley Cherie; Nelson, David W. V. A.; Moore, Rachel E.; Rao, Juluri R.; Moore, John E. (Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, 2019-03-12)

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has now emerged as a global public health crisis. Of particular concern is AMR associated with the genus Mycobacterium, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the nontuberculous ...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): significance to food quality and safety

Nelson, David W. V. A.; Moore, John E.; Rao, Juluri R. (Oxford University Press, 2019-04-09)

Antibiotic resistance presents a significant challenge to clinical, veterinary, and plant health and is now recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a major emerging problem of global significance. As yet, ...
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 ...
Bovine Tuberculosis in Britain and Ireland – A Perfect Storm? the Confluence of Potential Ecological and Epidemiological Impediments to Controlling a Chronic Infectious Disease

Allen, Adrian; Skuce, Robin A.; Byrne, A.W. (Frontiers Media, 2018-06-05)

Successful eradication schemes for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) have been implemented in a number of European and other countries over the last 50 years. However, the islands of Britain and Ireland remain a significant ...
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 ...
Characterisation of Cellulose Nanofibres Derived from Chemical and Mechanical Treatments

Muhamad, Martini; Hornsby, Peter; Carmichael, Eugene; Zakaria, Muhammad; Seok, Yew Been; Mohamed, Saiful; Sharma, Shekhar (EDP Sciences, 2019-01-14)

Optimised routes have been established to obtain high aspect ratio cellulose microfibrils derived from plant feedstocks, involving a combination of a chemical and mechanical treatment using a high pressure microfluidizer. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Determination of nucleotide and enzyme degradation in haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and herring (Clupea harengus) after high pressure processing

Karim, Nurul Ulfah; Kennedy, James Terence; Linton, Mark; Patterson, Margaret; Watson, Sally; Gault, Norman (Peer J, 2019-08-27)

Background The degradation of nucleotides and their enzymes had been widely used to evaluate fish freshness. Immediately after fish death, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) degrades into inosine-5-monophosphate (IMP) via ...
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 ...
Drought decreases incorporation of recent plant photosynthate into soil food webs regardless of their trophic complexity

Chomel, Mathilde; Lavallee, Jocelyn M.; Alvarez‐Segura, Nil; De Castro, Francisco; Rhymes, Jennifer M.; Caruso, Tancredi; Vries, Franciska T. de; Baggs, Elizabeth M.; Emmerson, Mark C.; Bardgett, Richard D.; Johnson, David (Wiley, 2019-07-13)

Theory suggests that more complex food webs promote stability and can buffer the effects of perturbations, such as drought, on soil organisms and ecosystem functions. Here, we tested experimentally how soil food web trophic ...
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 ...
Editorial: Bovine Tuberculosis—International Perspectives on Epidemiology and Management

Byrne, Andrew W.; Allen, Adrian; O'Brien, Daniel J.; Miller, Michele A. (Frontiers Media, 2019-06-25)

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) remains a prominent zoonotic pathogen on the world stage, with significant impacts on animal and human health, and economic well-being. Eradication is hampered by a complex epidemiology, which in ...
Editorial: Developments in Campylobacter, Helicobacter & Related Organisms Research – CHRO 2019

Corcionivoschi, Nicolae (Frontiers Media, 2021-01-08)
The effect of an antimicrobial mixture on Cryptosporidium

Sima, Filip (University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, 2019-06)

Cryptosporidium is an enteric protozoan parasite that causes gastrointestinal disorders in humans and in a wide range of animals, mainly in calves. As there is no available efficient treatment for cryptosporidiosis, in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Emergence of a non-sporulating secondary phenotype in Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile ribotype 078 isolated from humans and animals

Connor, M. C.; McGrath, J. W.; McMullan, G.; Marks, N.; Guelbenzu, M.; Fairley, D. J. (Nature Research, 2019-09-23)

Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile is a Gram positive, spore forming anaerobic bacterium that is a leading cause of antibiotic associated diarrhoea in the developed world. C. difficile is a genetically diverse species ...

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