Ovine footrot
Mathematical modeling of ovine footrot in the UK: the effect of Dichelobacter nodosus and Fusobacterium necrophorum on the disease dynamics
... of ovine footrot, an infectious bacterial disease of sheep that causes ...of footrot on one UK farm, including quantitative PCR (qPCR) esti- mates of bacterial load of ...severe footrot (SFR)) ...
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Genomic Evidence for a Globally Distributed, Bimodal Population in the Ovine Footrot Pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus
... Geographic overview. (i) The Norwegian outbreak. An out- break of virulent ovine footrot occurred in Norway in 2008, prob- ably arising from a single point introduction of a virulent D. no- dosus strain. ...
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Persistence of Dichelobacter nodosus, the causal agent of ovine footrot
... Ovine footrot (FR) is an economically important disease that causes lameness and affects sheep flocks worldwide. It is characterized by interdigital skin inflammation (interdigital dermatitis [ID]) with, or ...
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First study of pathogen load and localisation of ovine footrot using fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH)
... of ovine footrot (FR); a debilitating bacterial disease that has significant economic impact on sheep farming ...severe footrot (SFR). Dichelobacter nodosus is the causative agent of ovine FR, ...
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How does reviewing the evidence change veterinary surgeons’ beliefs regarding the treatment of ovine footrot?: a quantitative and qualitative study
... for footrot changed following a review of the evidence (ii) to obtain a consensus opinion following group discussions (iii) to capture complementary qualitative data to place their beliefs within a broader ...
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A distinct bacterial dysbiosis associated skin inflammation in ovine footrot
... and footrot, the mRNA expression levels of IL1 β , IL6, CXCL8 and IL17 were analysed in 53 visually healthy, 55 ID samples and 83 footrot ...and footrot alone, but may relate to bacte- rial ...
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Survival of the ovine footrot pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus in different soils
... Dichelobacter nodosus (D. nodosus) is the causative agent of footrot in sheep; one of the most important health and welfare issues of sheep worldwide. For control programmes to be effective, it is essential that ...
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The role of Fusobacterium necrophorum in sheep and the environment in the severity and persistence of footrot
... Human periodontal disease is a well-studied example of a polymicrobial disease, with differences seen in the periodontal microbial community between healthy and diseased states (Moore et al., 1982; Abusleme et al., ...
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A recently introduced Dichelobacter nodosus strain caused an outbreak of footrot in Norway
... Before the outbreak in 2008, the last registered case of ovine footrot in Norway was in 1948 [21]. The restricted movement of animals across counties for the last 40 years means that it is unlikely that the ...
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Novel inflammatory cell infiltration scoring system to investigate healthy and footrot affected ovine interdigital skin
... Ovine footrot is a degenerative disease of sheep feet leading to the separation of hoof- horn from the underlying skin and ...the ovine interdigital skin as well as their relationship with ...
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The dispersal, survival and genetic variability within Dichelobacter nodosus strains, the causal agent of ovine foot disease
... Ovine footrot is an infectious disease of sheep that is caused by the aero-tolerant anaerobic bacterium Dichelobacter nodosus ...UK, footrot is the main cause of lameness in sheep (Kaler and Green, ...
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Multiple locus VNTR analysis highlights that geographical clustering and distribution of Dichelobacter nodosus, the causal agent of footrot in sheep, correlates with inter country movements
... of footrot (GB, Australia) and those where footrot has recently been reported (Scandinavia, ...ground ovine hoof horn (ovine hoof material was removed from sheep feet post-mortem and ground to ...
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Activin A induces ovine follicle stimulating hormone beta using -169/-58 bp of its promoter and a simple TATA box
... The ovine FSHBLuc plasmid used throughout this study (-4741 bp of 5' promoter plus intron 1 linked to a luciferase reporter gene in a pGL3 plasmid) was the same as that reported earlier ...
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Construction of a molecular clone of ovine enzootic nasal tumor virus
... assembles within an intracellular compartment before transport to the plasma membrane and release [2]. Several studies have demonstrated that protein conformation/ dimerization [4, 7–9] and oxidation [10, 11] play an ...
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Quantifying the beliefs of key players in the UK sheep industry on the efficacy of two treatments for footrot
... The proportion of farmers using treatment A increased between 2004 (Kaler and Green, 2009) and 2013 (Winter, et al., 2015), but the majority of farmers were still not following the recommended treatment protocol; 24% of ...
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Increased zinc and manganese in parallel with neurodegeneration, synaptic protein changes and activation of Akt/GSK3 signaling in ovine CLN6 neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
... It should be noted that sub-cellular or localized metal concentrations also vary substantially. Synaptic zinc concentra- tions are reported to reach 300 m M [41] while major intracellular storage sites for zinc, such as ...
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Variation in the ovine WFIKKN2 gene
... of ovine WFIKKN2 were investigated, using Polymerase Chain Reaction-Single Stranded Conformational Polymorphism ...the ovine WFIKKN2 ...that ovine WFIKKN2 is poly- morphic and suggest that further ...
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Replication and cytopathic effects of ovine lentivirus strains in alveolar macrophages correlate with in vivo pathogenicity.
... In contrast, ovine lentivirus isolate 85/34 produced early peak virus titers and caused rapid fusion and lysis of both macrophages and synovial cells.. Ovine lentivirus isolates which we[r] ...
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Nanostructure and physical properties of collagen biomaterials : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
... As hides and skins are processed to produce leather, chemical and physical changes take place that affect the strength and other physical properties of the material. The structural basis of these changes at the level of ...
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Ovine pedomics : the first study of the ovine foot 16S rRNA based microbiome
... for each flock but the bacterial populations for diseased sheep in flocks B and C were more.. similar, irrespective of flock of origin Cluster 2.[r] ...
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