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Cattle, sheep and pigs vaccinated against foot and mouth disease: does trade in these animals and their products present a risk of transmitting the disease?
practical experience strongly indicate low risk, it is not possible to assert that the risk is zero for vaccinated animals or their products. In the absence of key factual data, risk analysis is only ...
Diagnostic performance and application of two commercial cell viability assays in foot-and-mouth disease research.
measures (1.00, 0.98 and 0.99, respectively) and Cohen kappa agreement indices (0.97, 0.97 and 0.96, respectively) for detecting CPE in cell cultures. Due to its performance, cost effectiveness and ease of ...
Qualitative risk assessment in a data-scarce environment: a model to assess the impact of control measures on spread of African Swine Fever.
control measures. This study demonstrated the advantages of a systematic framework to assist an expert panel to carry out a risk assessment as it helped experts to disassociate steps in the risk pathway and ...
Persistence of free-living protozoan communities across rearing cycles in commercial poultry houses.
information is available on the persistence of protozoan communities in these environments across consecutive rearing cycles and how it is affected by farm- and habitat-specific characteristics and management ...
Susceptibility of in vitro produced hatched bovine blastocysts to infection with bluetongue virus serotype 8.
serotype 8 (BTV-8), which caused an epidemic in ruminants in central Western Europe in 2006 and 2007, seems to differ from other bluetongue serotypes in that it can spread transplacentally and has been ...
The impact of naturally-occurring, trans-placental bluetongue virus serotype-8 infection on reproductive performance in sheep.
experimentally-infected sheep. Trans-placental transmission is potentially important in the ‘over-wintering’ of this virus and its subsequent impact on reproductive performance. This epidemiological study was carried out ...
Cross-reactivity of antibodies in some commercial deoxynivalenol test kits against some fusariotoxins.
results can be wrongly interpreted. Cross-reactivity does not allow checking the compliance with the legal norms, but it does allow an overall risk assessment for the consumers. Updating regularly the ...
Methodology of the biological risk classification of animal pathogens in Belgium.
World Health Organization, which cover the severity of the disease the micro-organism might cause, its ability to spread and the availability of prophylaxis or efficient treatment. Animal pathogens are ...
A duplex real-time RT-PCR for the detection of bluetongue virus in bovine semen.
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/a-duplex-real-time-rt-pcr-detection-bluetongue-virus-bovine-semen
was isolated. Based on varying real-time RT- PCR results of additional straws from cut-off samples it is highly recommended to analyse at least five straws per semen batch before declaring semen free of ...
Alien invasive birds.
Animals Behavior, Animal Birds Ducks Geese Humans Introduced Species Passeriformes Psittacula Starlings Abstract: A bird species is regarded as alien invasive if it has been introduced, intentionally or ...