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An individual-based model to assess the spatial and individual heterogeneity of Brucella melitensis transmission in Alpine ibex (2020)
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Lambert, S., Gilot-Fromont, E., Toïgo, C., Marchand, P., Petit, E., Garin-Bastuji, B., Gauthier, D., Gaillard, J.-M., Rossi, S., & Thébault, A. (2020). An individual-based model to assess the spatial and individual heterogeneity of Brucella melitensis transmission in Alpine ibex. Ecological Modelling, 425, 109009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109009

Heterogeneity of infectious disease transmission can be generated by individual differences in the frequency of contacts with susceptible individuals, in the ability to transmit the infectious agent or in the duration of infection, and by spatial var... Read More about An individual-based model to assess the spatial and individual heterogeneity of Brucella melitensis transmission in Alpine ibex.

Minimally Invasive Markers of Stress and Production Parameters in Dairy Cows before and after the Installation of a Voluntary Milking System (2020)
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Jerram, L. J., Van Winden, S. C. L., & Fowkes, R. C. (2020). Minimally Invasive Markers of Stress and Production Parameters in Dairy Cows before and after the Installation of a Voluntary Milking System. Animals, 10(4), 589. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10040589

Automatic milking systems (AMS) are a low-labour alternative to conventional parlours, with previous studies demonstrating that cows vary in their ability to cope with the change to AMS. Cortisol expression can be combined with other measures to asse... Read More about Minimally Invasive Markers of Stress and Production Parameters in Dairy Cows before and after the Installation of a Voluntary Milking System.

Characterisation of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Disease in Pastoralist Flocks in Ngorongoro District of Northern Tanzania and Bluetongue Virus Co-Infection (2020)
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Jones, B. A., Mahapatra, M., Chubwa, C., Clarke, B., Batten, C., Hicks, H., Henstock, M., Keyyu, J., Kock, R. A., & Parida, S. (2020). Characterisation of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Disease in Pastoralist Flocks in Ngorongoro District of Northern Tanzania and Bluetongue Virus Co-Infection. Viruses, 12(4), 389. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12040389

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) disease was first confirmed in Tanzania in 2008 in sheep and goats in Ngorongoro District, northern Tanzania, and is now endemic in this area. This study aimed to characterise PPR disease in pastoralist small ruminant... Read More about Characterisation of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Disease in Pastoralist Flocks in Ngorongoro District of Northern Tanzania and Bluetongue Virus Co-Infection.

Structural Uncertainty in Onchocerciasis Transmission Models Influences the Estimation of Elimination Thresholds and Selection of Age Groups for Seromonitoring (2020)
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Hamley, J. I. D., Walker, M., Coffeng, C. E., Milton, P., De Vlas, S. J., Stolk, W. A., & Basáñez, M.-G. (2020). Structural Uncertainty in Onchocerciasis Transmission Models Influences the Estimation of Elimination Thresholds and Selection of Age Groups for Seromonitoring. Journal of Infectious Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz674

The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China (2020)
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Kraemer, M. U. G., Yang, C.-H., Gutierrez, B., Wu, C.-H., Klein, B., Pigott, D. M., du Plessis, L., Faria, N. R., Li, R., Hanage, W. P., Brownstein, J. S., Layan, M., Vespignani, A., Tian, H., Dye, C., Pybus, O. G., & Scarpino, S. V. (2020). The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China. Science, eabb4218. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb4218

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak expanded rapidly throughout China. Major behavioral, clinical, and state interventions have been undertaken to mitigate the epidemic and prevent the persistence of the virus in human populations in China and worldwide. I... Read More about The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China.

Serological Evaluation of Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Bakoye and Falémé foci, Mali (2020)
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Basáñez, M.-G., Walker, M., Nutman, T. B., Colebunders, R., Diarra, D., Coulibaly, M. E., Soumaoro, L., Diallo, A. A., Dicko, I., Sangare, M. B., Coulibaly, S. Y., Doumbia, S. S., Dembélé, M., Sow, M., Coulibaly, Y. I., & Dolo, H. (2020). Serological Evaluation of Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Bakoye and Falémé foci, Mali. Clinical Infectious Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa318

In Mali, ivermectin-based onchocerciasis elimination from the Bakoye and Falémé foci, reported in 2009–2012, was a beacon leading to policy shifting from morbidity control to elimination of transmission (EOT). These foci are also endemic for lymphati... Read More about Serological Evaluation of Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination in the Bakoye and Falémé foci, Mali.

Ethics, Genetic Technologies and Equine Sports: The Prospect of Regulation of a Modified Therapeutic Use Exemption Policy (2020)
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Campbell, M. L. H., & McNamee, M. J. (2020). Ethics, Genetic Technologies and Equine Sports: The Prospect of Regulation of a Modified Therapeutic Use Exemption Policy. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2020.1737204

This article critically reviews the current availability and selected use of genetic technologies for horses, before undertaking an ethical evaluation of current practice and regulatory positions in comparative relation to debates surrounding genetic... Read More about Ethics, Genetic Technologies and Equine Sports: The Prospect of Regulation of a Modified Therapeutic Use Exemption Policy.

Surgical management of a sinonasal angiomatous polyp and associated cyst involving the paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity via standing axial rhinotomy (2020)
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Rowley, K. J., Fiske-Jackson, A. R., Williams, J. M., Jones, A. L., & Townsend, N. B. (2020). Surgical management of a sinonasal angiomatous polyp and associated cyst involving the paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity via standing axial rhinotomy. Equine Veterinary Education, https://doi.org/10.1111/eve.13261

This case report describes the successful surgical management of a sinonasal angiomatous polyp involving the dorsal conchal bullae, dorsal conchal sinus, ventral conchal sinus, ventral conchal bullae and ventral conchal recess of the left nasal cavit... Read More about Surgical management of a sinonasal angiomatous polyp and associated cyst involving the paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity via standing axial rhinotomy.

Practising co-production and interdisciplinarity: Challenges and implications for one health research (2020)
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Barnett, A., Pfeiffer, D. U., Hoque, M. A., Giasuddin, M., Flora, M. S., Biswas, P. K., Debnath, N., & Fournié, G. (2020). Practising co-production and interdisciplinarity: Challenges and implications for one health research. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 177, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2020.104949

We review the nature of interdisciplinary research in relation to One Health, a perspective on human-animal health which would appear to merit close interdisciplinary cooperation to inform public health policy. We discuss the relationship between bio... Read More about Practising co-production and interdisciplinarity: Challenges and implications for one health research.

Detection of H3N8 influenza A virus with multiple mammalian-adaptive mutations in a rescued Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup (2020)
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Venkatesh, D., Bianco, C., Nunez, A., Collins, R., Thorpe, D., Reid, S. M., Brookes, S. M., Essen, S., McGinn, N., Seekings, J., Cooper, J., Brown, I. H., & Lewis, N. S. (2020). Detection of H3N8 influenza A virus with multiple mammalian-adaptive mutations in a rescued Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup. Virus Evolution, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veaa016

Avian Influenza A Viruses (IAV) in different species of seals display a spectrum of pathogenicity, from subclinical infection to mass mortality events. Here we present an investigation of avian IAV infection in a 3-4 month old Grey seal (Halichoerus... Read More about Detection of H3N8 influenza A virus with multiple mammalian-adaptive mutations in a rescued Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup.

Detection of H3N8 influenza A virus with multiple mammalian-adaptive mutations in a rescued Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup (2020)
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Venkatesh, D., Brown, I. H., Cooper, J., Seekings, J., McGinn, N., Essen, S., Brookes, S. M., Reid, S. M., Thorpe, D., Collins, R., Núñez, A., Bianco, C., & Lewis, N. S. (2020). Detection of H3N8 influenza A virus with multiple mammalian-adaptive mutations in a rescued Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup. Virus Evolution, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/ve/veaa016

Avian influenza A viruses (IAVs) in different species of seals display a spectrum of pathogenicity, from sub-clinical infection to mass mortality events. Here we present an investigation of avian IAV infection in a 3- to 4-month-old Grey seal (Halich... Read More about Detection of H3N8 influenza A virus with multiple mammalian-adaptive mutations in a rescued Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) pup.

A Genome-Wide Association Study for Calving Interval in Holstein Dairy Cows Using Weighted Single-Step Genomic BLUP Approach. (2020)
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Atashi, H., Salavati, M., De Koster, J., Crowe, M., Opsomer, G., Hostens, M., & Werling, D. (2020). A Genome-Wide Association Study for Calving Interval in Holstein Dairy Cows Using Weighted Single-Step Genomic BLUP Approach. Animals, 10(3),

The aim of the present study was to identify genomic region(s) associated with the length of the calving interval in primiparous (n = 6866) and multiparous (n = 5071) Holstein cows. The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) solutions were estimated us... Read More about A Genome-Wide Association Study for Calving Interval in Holstein Dairy Cows Using Weighted Single-Step Genomic BLUP Approach..

Mouse transcriptome reveals potential signatures of protection and pathogenesis in human tuberculosis (2020)
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Moreira-Teixeira, L., Tabone, O., Graham, C. M., Singhania, A., Stavropoulos, E., Redford, P. S., Chakravarty, P., Priestnall, S. L., Suarez-Bonnet, A., Herbert, E., Mayer-Barber, K. D., Sher, A., Fonseca, K. L., Sousa, J., Cá, B., Verma, R., Haldar, P., Saraiva, M., & O’Garra, A. (2020). Mouse transcriptome reveals potential signatures of protection and pathogenesis in human tuberculosis. Nature Immunology, 21(4), 464-476. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-020-0610-z

Although mouse infection models have been extensively used to study the host response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, their validity in revealing determinants of human tuberculosis (TB) resistance and disease progression has been heavily debated. Here... Read More about Mouse transcriptome reveals potential signatures of protection and pathogenesis in human tuberculosis.

Eradication of peste des petits ruminants virus and the wildlife-livestock interface (2020)
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Fine, A. E., Pruvot, M., Benfield, C. T. O., Caron, A., Cattoli, G., Chardonnet, P., Diolo, M., Dulu, T., Gilbert, M., Kock, R. A., Mariner, J. C., Ostrowski, S., Parida, S., Fereidouni, S., Shiilegdamba, E., Sleeman, J., Schulz, C., Soula, J.-J., Van Der Stede, Y., Tekola, B. G., …Njeumi, F. (2020). Eradication of peste des petits ruminants virus and the wildlife-livestock interface. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7(50), https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00050

Growing evidence suggests that multiple wildlife species can be infected with peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV), with important consequences for the potential maintenance of PPRV in communities of susceptible hosts, and the threat that PPRV may... Read More about Eradication of peste des petits ruminants virus and the wildlife-livestock interface.

Peste des Petits Ruminants at the Wildlife–Livestock Interface in the Northern Albertine Rift and Nile Basin, East Africa (2020)
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Fernandez Aguilar, X., Mahapatra, M., Begovoeva, M., Kalema-Zikusoka, G., Driciru, M., Ayebazibwe, C., Adwok, D. S., Kock, M., Lukusa, J.-P. K., Muro, J., Marco, I., Colom-Cadena, A., Espunyes, J., Meunier, N., Cabezón, O., Caron, A., Bataille, A., Libeau, G., Parekh, K., Parida, S., & Kock, R. A. (2020). Peste des Petits Ruminants at the Wildlife–Livestock Interface in the Northern Albertine Rift and Nile Basin, East Africa. Viruses, 12(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/v12030293

In the recent past, peste des petits ruminants (PPR) emerged in East Africa causing outbreaks in small livestock across different countries, with evidences of spillover to wildlife. In order to understand better PPR at the wildlife–livestock interfac... Read More about Peste des Petits Ruminants at the Wildlife–Livestock Interface in the Northern Albertine Rift and Nile Basin, East Africa.

Gene Expression Profiling of B Cell Lymphoma in Dogs Reveals Dichotomous Metabolic Signatures Distinguished by Oxidative Phosphorylation (2020)
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Wu, Y., Chang, Y. M., Polton, G., Stell, A. J., Szladovits, B., Macfarlane, M., Peters, L. M., Priestnall, S. L., Bacon, N. J., Kow, K., Stewart, S., Sharma, E., Goulart, M. R., Gribben, J., Xia, D., & Garden, O. A. (2020). Gene Expression Profiling of B Cell Lymphoma in Dogs Reveals Dichotomous Metabolic Signatures Distinguished by Oxidative Phosphorylation. Frontiers in Oncology, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.00307

Gene expression profiling has revealed molecular heterogeneity of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in both humans and dogs. Two DLBCL subtypes based on cell of origin are generally recognized, germinal center B (GCB)-like and activated B cell (A... Read More about Gene Expression Profiling of B Cell Lymphoma in Dogs Reveals Dichotomous Metabolic Signatures Distinguished by Oxidative Phosphorylation.

Potential of milk mid-infrared spectra to predict nitrogen use efficiency of individual dairy cows in early lactation (2020)
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Grelet, C., Froidmont, E., Foldager, L., Salavati, M., Hostens, M., Ferris, C. P., Ingvartsen, K. L., Crowe, M. A., Sorensen, M. T., Fernandez Pierna, J. A., Vanlierde, A., Gengler, N., & Dehareng, F. (2020). Potential of milk mid-infrared spectra to predict nitrogen use efficiency of individual dairy cows in early lactation. Journal of Dairy Science, https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2019-17910

Improving nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) at both the individual cow and the herd level has become a key target in dairy production systems, for both environmental and economic reasons. Cost-effective and large-scale phenotyping methods are required to... Read More about Potential of milk mid-infrared spectra to predict nitrogen use efficiency of individual dairy cows in early lactation.