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Bluetongue sentinel surveillance program and cross-sectional serological survey in cattle in Belgium in 2010-2011.
two sampling rounds of this BT sentinel surveillance program carried out in October-November 2010 and January-February 2011. In addition, the level of BTV-specific maternal antibodies in young ...
Evaluation of two different swab transport systems in the detection of avian influenza virus excretion from infected Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos).
equivalent or superior to wet swabs throughout the study. Although differences in detection between dry and wet swabs were observed, the qualitative bird-level results were unaffected, meaning that the ...
Characteristics of serology-based vaccine potency models for foot-and-mouth disease virus.
pass levels corresponded to 84-97% of protection, depending on the serological assay used. For logistic models that combine different serotypes, the model fit can be increased by inclusion of a serotype ...
Distribution, elimination, and toxicity of silver nanoparticles and silver ions in rats after 28-day oral exposure.
performed at day 29, and after a wash-out period of 1 or 8 weeks. Silver was present in all examined organs with the highest levels in the liver and spleen for all silver treatments. Silver concentrations in ...
Towards licensing of CP7_E2alf as marker vaccine against classical swine fever-Duration of immunity.
reaction, low level genome detection was seen in all vaccinated animals between days 4 and 10 post challenge infection, but no virus could be isolated from any samples of these animals. The OIE guidelines ...
Potential impact of fertilization practices on human dietary intake of dioxins in Belgium.
1 and 3 ng TEQ /m² and sludge or compost bring more than 3 ng TEQ /m². The use of solid fertilizers could potentially increase the dioxin levels in the 30 cm agricultural soil layer by 0 to ~1.5% per year ...
Original findings associated with two cases of bovine papular stomatitis.
DNA Sequence Homology Stomatitis Viral Proteins Abstract: Bovine papular stomatitis virus was isolated from two calves in an animal house with biosafety level 3 confinement. The hypotheses on the origin ...
Methodologies for Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica subtyping: gold standards and alternatives.
salmonellosis outbreaks require the use of methods that can fingerprint the causative strains at a taxonomic level far more specific than the one achieved by serotyping. During the last 2 decades, alternative ...
Nucleotide polymorphism-based single-tube test for robust molecular identification of all currently described Brucella species.
of such methods is their need to undergo technical revalidation each time a new marker is added to the system. Moreover, polymorphic markers cannot be assessed at the single-nucleotide level in these ...
Classical swine fever virus detection: results of a real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction ring trial conducted in the framework of the European network of excellence for epizootic disease diagnosis and control.
or without modifications. In conclusion, the ring trial showed reliability of classical swine fever diagnosis on an international level and helped to optimize CSFV-specific RT- PCR diagnostics. Health ...