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Attributing Ethiopian animal health losses to high-level causes using expert elicitation
class, and production system. Three-point questions were used to inform beta-pert distributions and capture uncertainty in estimates. Individual expert estimates were aggregated by quantile mean to produce ...
Global Burden of Animal Diseases: A novel approach to understanding and managing disease in livestock and aquaculture
question: what should a system to measure the animal disease burden on society look like and what value would it add? Moreover, it aims to do this in such a way as to be accessible by a wide audience, who are ...
Phylogeography of Human and Animal Strains: Genetic Fingerprinting of Q Fever in Belgium.
a different degree of apparent prevalence (1.93%, 9.19%, and 5.50%, respectively). In addition, and for the first time, it is detected in abortion of alpaca (), raising questions on the role of these animals as ...
The Assessment of African Swine Fever Virus Risk to Belgium Early 2014, using the Quick and Semiquantitative Pandora Screening Protocol.
posed by ASF to Belgium early 2014. A set of integrated risk scores was calculated within the Pandora framework. Experts scored the questions and uncertainty levels in the Pandora modules individually, ...
Next-generation sequencing in veterinary medicine: how can the massive amount of information arising from high-throughput technologies improve diagnosis, control, and management of infectious diseases?
(genomics), transcriptomes (transcriptomics), or proteomes (proteomics). Ultimately, the interaction between pathogen and host biological networks can be questioned by analytically integrating these levels ...
Long-term persistence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in entomopathogenic nematodes.
of antimicrobial compounds able to prevent the growth of competitors in the insect cadaver. The question addressed in this study was to investigate whether a mammalian pathogen taxonomically related to ...
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
determine in which situation deer can serve as a reservoir. These results also raise the question of the dynamics of HEV infection between wild fauna, domestic pigs and humans. An increasing number of animal ...
Bluetongue virus RNA detection by real-time rt-PCR in post-vaccination samples from cattle.
positive using BTV-specific real-time RT- PCR, raising questions about a possible low level of virus circulation. An interference of the BTV-8 inactivated vaccine on the result of the real-time RT- PCR was ...
The use of serosurveys following emergency vaccination, to recover the status of "foot-and-mouth disease free where vaccination is not practised".
this. The question therefore remains whether tests are sufficiently sensitive and specific to detect and eliminate infected animals, without excessive culling of uninfected animals, before vaccinated ...
Molecular characterization of Belgian pseudorabies virus isolates from domestic swine and wild boar.
swine strains showed that some isolates with identical sequences were present within both populations, raising the question whether these strains represent an increased risk for reintroduction of the ...