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Effects of Eimeria tenella infection on chicken caecal microbiome diversity, exploring variation associated with severity of pathology (2017)
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Macdonald, S. E., Nolan, M. J., Harman, K., Boulton, K., Hume, D. A., Tomley, F. M., Stabler, R. A., & Blake, D. P. (2017). Effects of Eimeria tenella infection on chicken caecal microbiome diversity, exploring variation associated with severity of pathology. PLoS ONE, 12(9), e0184890. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184890

Eimeria species cause the intestinal disease coccidiosis, most notably in poultry. While the direct impact of coccidiosis on animal health and welfare is clear, its influence on the enteric microbiota and by-stander effects on chicken health and prod... Read More about Effects of Eimeria tenella infection on chicken caecal microbiome diversity, exploring variation associated with severity of pathology.

Infections by human gastrointestinal helminths are associated with changes in faecal microbiota diversity and composition (2017)
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Jenkins, T. P., Rathnayaka, Y., Perera, P. K., Peachey, L. E., Nolan, M. J., Krause, L., Rajakaruna, R. S., & Cantacessi, C. (2017). Infections by human gastrointestinal helminths are associated with changes in faecal microbiota diversity and composition. PLoS ONE, 12(9), e0184719. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184719

Investigations of the impact that patent infections by soil-transmitted gastrointestinal nematode parasites exert on the composition of the host gut commensal flora are attracting growing interest by the scientific community. However, information col... Read More about Infections by human gastrointestinal helminths are associated with changes in faecal microbiota diversity and composition.

Bactericidal and Anti-biofilm Effects of Polyhexamethylene Biguanide in Models of Intracellular and Biofilm of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Bovine Mastitis (2017)
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Kamaruzzaman, N. F., Chong, S. Q. Y., Edmondson-Brown, K. M., Ntow-Boahene, W., Bardiau, M., & Good, L. (2017). Bactericidal and Anti-biofilm Effects of Polyhexamethylene Biguanide in Models of Intracellular and Biofilm of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Bovine Mastitis. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11(8), 1518. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01518

Staphylococcus aureus infection is a common cause of mastitis, reducing milk yield, affecting animal welfare and causing huge economic losses within the dairy industry. In addition to the problem of acquired drug resistance, bacterial invasion into u... Read More about Bactericidal and Anti-biofilm Effects of Polyhexamethylene Biguanide in Models of Intracellular and Biofilm of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Bovine Mastitis.

Cultural Practices Shaping Zoonotic Diseases Surveillance: The Case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Thailand Native Chicken Farmers (2017)
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Delabouglise, A., Antoine-Moussiaux, N., Tatong, D., Chumkaeo, A., Binot, A., Fournié, G., Pilot, E., Phimpraphi, W., Kasemsuwan, S., Paul, M. C., Duboz, R., Salem, G., & Peyre, M. (2017). Cultural Practices Shaping Zoonotic Diseases Surveillance: The Case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Thailand Native Chicken Farmers. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 64(4), 1294-1305. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12506

Effectiveness of current passive zoonotic disease surveillance systems is limited by the under-reporting of disease outbreaks in the domestic animal population. Evaluating the acceptability of passive surveillance and its economic, social and cultura... Read More about Cultural Practices Shaping Zoonotic Diseases Surveillance: The Case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Thailand Native Chicken Farmers.

Drivers for Rift Valley fever emergence in Mayotte: A Bayesian modelling approach (2017)
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Métras, R., Fournié, G., Dommergues, L., Camacho, A., Cavalerie, L., Mérot, P., Keeling, M. J., Cêtre-Sossah, C., Cardinale, E., & Edmunds, W. J. (2017). Drivers for Rift Valley fever emergence in Mayotte: A Bayesian modelling approach. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(7), e0005767. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005767

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a major zoonotic and arboviral hemorrhagic fever. The conditions leading to RVF epidemics are still unclear, and the relative role of climatic and anthropogenic factors may vary between ecosystems. Here, we estimate the mos... Read More about Drivers for Rift Valley fever emergence in Mayotte: A Bayesian modelling approach.

Mice lacking NF-κB1 exhibit marked DNA damage responses and more severe gastric pathology in response to intraperitoneal tamoxifen administration (2017)
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Burkitt, M. D., Williams, J. M., Townsend, T., Hough, R., & Pritchard, D. M. (2017). Mice lacking NF-κB1 exhibit marked DNA damage responses and more severe gastric pathology in response to intraperitoneal tamoxifen administration. https://doi.org/10.1038/cddis.2017.332

Tamoxifen (TAM) has recently been shown to cause acute gastric atrophy and metaplasia in mice. We have previously demonstrated that the outcome of Helicobacter felis infection, which induces similar gastric lesions in mice, is altered by deletion of... Read More about Mice lacking NF-κB1 exhibit marked DNA damage responses and more severe gastric pathology in response to intraperitoneal tamoxifen administration.

Economic factors influencing zoonotic disease dynamics: demand for poultry meat and seasonal transmission of avian influenza in Vietnam (2017)
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Delabouglise, A., Choisy, M., Phan, T. D., Antoine-Moussiaux, N., Peyre, M., Vu, T. D., Pfeiffer, D. U., & Fournié, G. (2017). Economic factors influencing zoonotic disease dynamics: demand for poultry meat and seasonal transmission of avian influenza in Vietnam. Scientific Reports, 7, 5905. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06244-6

While climate is often presented as a key factor influencing the seasonality of diseases, the importance of anthropogenic factors is less commonly evaluated. Using a combination of methods-wavelet analysis, economic analysis, statistical and disease... Read More about Economic factors influencing zoonotic disease dynamics: demand for poultry meat and seasonal transmission of avian influenza in Vietnam.

The macrofilaricidal efficacy of repeated doses of ivermectin for the treatment of river blindness (2017)
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Walker, M., Pion, S. D. S., Fang, H., Gardon, J., Kamgno, J., Basáñez, M.-G., & Boussinesq, M. (2017). The macrofilaricidal efficacy of repeated doses of ivermectin for the treatment of river blindness. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 65(12), 2026-2034. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix616

Background: Mass drug administration (MDA) with ivermectin is the cornerstone of efforts to eliminate human onchocerciasis by 2020 or 2025. The feasibility of elimination crucially depends on the effects of multiple ivermectin doses on Onchocerca vol... Read More about The macrofilaricidal efficacy of repeated doses of ivermectin for the treatment of river blindness.

Herd-level animal management factors associated with the occurrence of bovine neonatal pancytopenia in calves in a multicountry study (2017)
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Sauter-Louis, C., Jones, B. A., Henning, J., Stoll, A., Nielen, M., Van Schaik, G., Smolenaars, A., Schouten, M., den Uijl, I., Fourichon, C., Guatteo, R., Madouasse, A., Nusinovici, S., Deprez, P., De Vliegher, S., Laureynes, J., Booth, R., Cardwell, J. M., & Pfeiffer, D. U. (2017). Herd-level animal management factors associated with the occurrence of bovine neonatal pancytopenia in calves in a multicountry study. PLoS ONE, 12(7), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179878

Since 2007, mortality associated with a previously unreported haemorrhagic disease has been observed in young calves in several European countries. The syndrome, which has been named ‘bovine neonatal pancytopenia’ (BNP), is characterised by thrombocy... Read More about Herd-level animal management factors associated with the occurrence of bovine neonatal pancytopenia in calves in a multicountry study.

Eimeria tenella protein trafficking: differential regulation of secretion versus surface tethering during the life cycle (2017)
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Marugan-Hernandez, V., Long, E., Blake, D. P., Crouch, C., & Tomley, F. M. (2017). Eimeria tenella protein trafficking: differential regulation of secretion versus surface tethering during the life cycle. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04049-1

Eimeria spp. are intracellular parasites that have a major impact on poultry. Effective live vaccines are available and the development of reverse genetic technologies has raised the prospect of using Eimeria spp. as recombinant vectors to express ad... Read More about Eimeria tenella protein trafficking: differential regulation of secretion versus surface tethering during the life cycle.

Optimising cluster survey design for planning schistosomiasis preventive chemotherapy (2017)
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Knowles, S. C. L., Sturrock, H. J. W., Turner, H., Whitton, J. M., Gower, C. M., Jemu, S., Phillips, A. E., Meite, A., Thomas, B., Kollie, K., Thomas, C., Rebollo, M. P., Styles, B., Clements, M., Fenwick, A., Harrison, W. E., & Fleming, F. M. (2017). Optimising cluster survey design for planning schistosomiasis preventive chemotherapy. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005599

We used baseline schistosomiasis mapping surveys from three countries (Malawi, Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia) to generate spatially realistic gold standard datasets, against which we tested alternative two-stage cluster survey designs. We assessed how sa... Read More about Optimising cluster survey design for planning schistosomiasis preventive chemotherapy.

Recommendations for approaches to meticillin-resistant staphylococcal infections of small animals: diagnosis, therapeutic considerations and preventative measures (2017)
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Morris, D. O., Loeffler, A., Davis, M. F., Guardabassi, L., & Weese, J. S. (2017). Recommendations for approaches to meticillin-resistant staphylococcal infections of small animals: diagnosis, therapeutic considerations and preventative measures. Veterinary Dermatology, 28(3), 304. https://doi.org/10.1111/vde.12444

Socio-demographic determinants of Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in migrant workers of Peninsular Malaysia (2017)
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Sahimin, N., Lim, Y. A. L., Ariffin, F., Behnke, J. M., Basáñez, M.-G., Walker, M., Lewis, J. W., Noordin, R., Abdullah, K. A., & Mohd Zain, S. N. (2017). Socio-demographic determinants of Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in migrant workers of Peninsular Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2167-8

The number of migrants working in Malaysia has increased sharply since the 1970’s and there is concern that infectious diseases endemic in other (e.g. neighbouring) countries may be inadvertently imported. Compulsory medical screening prior to enteri... Read More about Socio-demographic determinants of Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in migrant workers of Peninsular Malaysia.

Brugia malayi microfilariae adhere to human vascular endothelial cells in a C3-dependent manner (2017)
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Schroeder, H., McCarthy, D., Szestak, T., Cook, D. A., Taylor, M., Craig, A. G., Lawson, C., & Lawrence, R. A. (2017). Brugia malayi microfilariae adhere to human vascular endothelial cells in a C3-dependent manner. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11(5), e0005592. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005592

Brugia malayi causes the human tropical disease, lymphatic filariasis. Microfilariae (Mf) of this nematode live in the bloodstream and are ingested by a feeding mosquito vector. Interestingly, in a remarkable co-evolutionary adaptation, Mf appearance... Read More about Brugia malayi microfilariae adhere to human vascular endothelial cells in a C3-dependent manner.