January, 2014 news
January 31st, 2014
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Detection of anti-Leishmania infantum antibodies in sylvatic lagomorphs from an epidemic area of Madrid using the indirect immunofluorescence antibody test
Investigation published in Veterinary Parasitology
An outbreak of human leishmaniosis was confirmed in the southwest of the province of Madrid, Spain, between July 2009 and December 2012. Incidence of Leishmania infection in dogs was unchanged in this period, prompting a search for alternative sylvatic infection reservoirs. We evaluated exposure to Leishmania in serum samples from animals in the area with an indirect immunofluorescence test (IFAT). Using promastigotes from six culture passages and a 1/25 threshold titer, we found anti-L. infantum seroreactivity in 9.3% of cats (4 of 43), 45.7% of rabbits (16/35) and 74.1% of hares…
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January 31st, 2014
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Enfermedades exóticas: riesgo de entrada de la PPA
Conference in XVI Jornadas de Porcino de la UAB y AVPC
January 31st, 2014
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Curso de Formación en los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de base legal en el diagnóstico de tuberculosis bovina. XVIII edition
Communications in this event:
- Actividades del EU-RL for Bovine Tuberculosis
- Epidemiología molecular de la tuberculosis. Aplicación práctica de la base de datos mycoDB.es
- Interferencia diagnóstica en la tuberculosis. Estudios de sensibilidad y especificidad
January 29th, 2014
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La amenaza biológica
Oral communication in X Curso de Experto Universitario en Prevención y Gestión de Crisis Internacionales
January 23rd, 2014
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Curso de Formación en los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de base legal en el diagnóstico de tuberculosis bovina. XVIII edition. especial E1 edition
Communications in this event:
- Actividades del EU-RL for Bovine Tuberculosis
- Epidemiología molecular de la tuberculosis. Aplicación práctica de la base de datos mycoDB.es
- Interferencia diagnóstica en la tuberculosis. Estudios de sensibilidad y especificidad
- Introducción a la tuberculosis (reseña histórica, etiología, sintomatología)
January 17th, 2014
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Seminars VISAVET 2014
Communications in this event:
- Curriculum Vitae del investigador
- Bioseguridad en el laboratorio
- Experiencia de un veterinario en Nepal
- Epidemiología espacial de la diarrea epidémica porcina en Norteamérica
- La resistencia a antibióticos: de la Naturaleza al Hospital
- Nuevas aplicaciones basadas en la técnica MALDI-TOF en la investigación biomédica
- Leishmania: nuevos reservorios para una vieja enfermedad
- Detección de carbapenemasas en efluentes urbanos: ¿un nuevo modelo de vigilancia epidemiológica?
- Actividades desarrolladas por los servicios de VISAVET ASISTENCIA: SEVEGAN Y SEVEMUR
- Bovine Tuberculosis and the EU-RL
- Introducción a la Histología Molecular mediante MALDI Imaging
January 13rd, 2014
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Risk factors associated with negative in-vivo diagnostic results in bovine tuberculosis-infected cattle in Spain
BMC Veterinary Research publish this investigation article
Background
Despite great effort and investment incurred over decades to control bovine tuberculosis (bTB), it is still one of the most important zoonotic diseases in many areas of the world. Test-and-slaughter strategies, the basis of most bTB eradication programs carried out worldwide, have demonstrated its usefulness in the control of the disease. However, in certain countries, eradication has not been achieved due in part to limitations of currently available diagnostic tests. In this study, results of in-vivo and post-mortem diagnostic tests performed on 3,614 animals from 152 bTB-infecte…
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January 13rd, 2014
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Identification and characterization of an emergent aminoglycoside resistance mechanism: the 16S rRNA methyltransferases
Laura Hidalgo del Rio defended the PhD Thesis at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid
The discovery of antibiotics at the beginning of the 20th century constituted one of the biggest revolutions in modern medicine. However, the euphoric feeling of overcoming the challenge of bacterial-caused diseases did not last. Shortly after the initiation of antibiotics use, bacteria started to develop diverse ways of resistance, so the higher usage of antibiotics, the higher incidence of resistant bacteria. Nowadays, antibiotic resistance is a race where the development of bacterial resistance mechanisms is faster than the discovery of new antibacterial molecules. Not for nothing, antibiot…
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January 13rd, 2014
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Máster en Microbiología y Parasitología: I+D
Communications in this event:
- Divulgación Científica. Asignatura de Gestión y Evaluación de la Investigación
January 10th, 2014
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Cambiamento climatico e guerra ambientale. Un nuovo terrorismo?
Geopolitica publish this article
I cambiamenti climatici sono sempre esistiti. Oggi assistiamo ad un cambiamento climatico globale senza precedenti, in cui le cause naturali giocano un ruolo secondario e dove la mano dell’uomo, attraverso il progresso tecnologico, può provocare enormi catastrofi. Il controllo climatico potrebbe diventare, in un futuro non molto lontano, un’arma di distruzione di massa, potendo essere utilizzata dagli Stati per conseguire i propri fini di sicurezza, di difesa o di potere. Così facendo si potrebbero verificare tutta una serie di effetti collaterali tali da influenzare la biosicurezza di animali…
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January 7th, 2014
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Supuestos Prácticos en Bioseguridad BIOSLab
Communications in this event:
- Ensayo de vacunas frente a la Lengua Azul en ovejas
- Bioseguridad en laboratorios
- Experiencia con brucelosis ovina en animalario
- Diagnóstico de tuberculosis bovina
January 6th, 2014
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Assessment of genetic diversity of zoonotic Brucella spp. recovered from livestock in Egypt using multiple locus VNTR analysis
BioMed Research International (Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology) publish this investigation article
Brucellosis is endemic in most parts of Egypt, where it is caused mainly by Brucella melitensis biovar 3, and affects cattle and small ruminants in spite of ongoing efforts devoted to its control. Knowledge of the predominant Brucella species/strains circulating in a region is a prerequisite of a brucellosis control strategy. For this reason a study aiming at the evaluation of the phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity of a panel of 17 Brucella spp. isolates recovered from domestic ruminants (cattle, buffalo, sheep, and goat) from four governorates during a period of five years (2002-2007) was c…
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January 1st, 2014
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Assessment of an Oral Mycobacterium bovis BCG Vaccine and an Inactivated M. bovis Preparation for Wild Boar in Terms of Adverse Reactions, Vaccine Strain Survival, and Uptake by Nontarget Species
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology publish this investigation article
Wildlife vaccination is increasingly considered an option for tuberculosis control. We combined data from laboratory trials and an on-going field trial to assess the risk of oral BCG vaccine and a prototype heat-inactivated Mycobacterium bovis preparation for Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa). We studied adverse reactions, BCG survival, BCG excretion, and bait uptake by non-target species. No adverse reactions were observed after administration of BCG (n = 27) or inactivated M. bovis (n = 21). BCG was not found at necropsy, 175 to 300 days post-vaccination (n = 27). No BCG excretion was detected…
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