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Welfare-Adjusted Life Years (WALY): A novel metric of animal welfare that combines the impacts of impaired welfare and abbreviated lifespan.

animal welfare, the probability of an incident case developing and impaired welfare weights, representing the degree of impaired welfare. The years of life lost are calculated using the standard expected ...

Role of wildlife and domestic pigs as reservoirs for hepatitis E virus (HEV): study of the infection in suids and cervids and of the susceptibility of pigs to HEV originating from wild boa

seroprevalences can be found in European pig and wild boar populations. The aims of the first study of this thesis were to obtain prevalence data on HEV infection in swine in Belgium and to phylogenetically compare ...

False-positive results in metagenomic virus discovery: a strong case for follow-up diagnosis.

control strategy and follow-up diagnostic tests in any viral metagenomic study. Health Topics:  Animal health Category:  A1 FOS Classification:  4.03 Veterinary science ...

Intra-host variation structure of classical swine fever virus NS5B in relation to antiviral therapy.

(CSF) is one of most important diseases of the Suidea with severe social economic consequences in case of outbreaks. Antivirals have been demonstrated, in recent publications, to be an interesting ...

Can horses be clinically screened for West Nile Fever?

Volume 172, Issue 4, p.101 (2013) Keywords: Animals Case-Control Studies Diagnosis, Differential Disease Outbreaks Europe Female Horse Diseases Horses Male Mass Screening Nervous System Diseases Sentinel ...

The reduction of CSFV transmission to untreated pigs by the pestivirus inhibitor BPIP: a proof of concept.

towards the reduction of virus transmission was observed. Since sentinel animals were left untreated in this exploratory trial, the study can be regarded as a worst case scenario and gives therefore an ...

Uncertainty of measurement for competitive and indirect ELISAs.

Source: Rev Sci Tech, Volume 26, Issue 3, p.649-56 (2007) Keywords: Analysis of Variance Animals Data Interpretation, Statistical Diagnosis, Differential Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Evaluation Studies ...

Association of myocarditis with high viral load of porcine circovirus type 2 in several tissues in cases of fetal death and high mortality in piglets. A case study.

without myocarditis (N = 14) (average age 20.0 days), and control animals from a different herd (N = 5) (newborn). Statistically significant differences were observed in the mean porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) ...

Factors related to the incidence of clinical encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) infection on Belgian pig farms.

Animals Belgium Cardiovirus Infections Case-Control Studies Disease Outbreaks Encephalomyocarditis virus Female incidence Logistic Models mice Multivariate Analysis Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires ...

Transmission of encephalomyocarditis virus in pigs estimated from field data in Belgium by means of R0.

Animals Belgium Cardiovirus Infections Disease Reservoirs Disease Transmission, Infectious Encephalomyocarditis virus Housing, Animal Seroepidemiologic Studies Swine Swine Diseases Abstract: Transmission of ...

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