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ESVV-EPIZONE 2018, 11. International Congress for Veterinary Virology 12. Annual Meeting of EPIZONE

Communications in this event:

- Sequencing of the tandem repeat sequences (TRS) within the intergenic region between the multigene family 505 9R -10R genes: additional tool for subtyping genotype II African swine fever (ASF) isolates

- Viral infections of Swine 1.Oral session 4

- African swine fever: The biggest threat for the European swine industry - what can we do?

Epidemiological and molecular surveillance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in wild ungulates from southern Spain, 2011-2018

Poster communication in 13th Conference European Wildlife Disease Association. Wildlife Health and Conservation: Expectations in a challenging era

Genetic heterogeneity of dolphin morbilliviruses detected in the Spanish Mediterranean in inter-epizootic period

Investigation article published in BMC Veterinary Research

BACKGROUND: In the last 20 years, Cetacean Morbillivirus (CeMV) has been responsible for many die-offs in marine mammals worldwide, as clearly exemplified by the three dolphin morbillivirus (DMV) epizootics of 1990-1992, 2006-2008 and 2011 that affected Mediterranean striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba). Systemic infection caused by DMV in the Mediterranean has been reported only during these outbreaks. RESULTS: We report the infection of five striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) stranded on the Spanish Mediterranean coast of Valencia after the last DMV outbreak that ended in 2011… Read more

Development and Evaluation of a Serological Assay for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Alpacas and Llamas

Investigation article published in Frontiers in veterinary science

South American camelids are susceptible to tuberculosis, caused mainly by Mycobacterium bovis and M. microti. Despite the tuberculin skin test being the official test for tuberculosis, it has a very low sensitivity in these species (14–20%). Serological tests present the advantages of being rapid, easy to perform and facilitate analysis of large numbers of samples in a short period of time. Novel antigen discovery and evaluation would provide enhanced detection of specific antibodies against members of M. tuberculosis complex. Here, we describe the development and evaluation of an ELISA-type i… Read more

Máster Universitario en Sanidad y Producción Porcina. 2018 edition

Communications in this event:

- Vacunación en jabalí: aproximación para el control de PPA

- Animales de vida libre como reservorio de enfermedades

- Legislación sobre sanidad animal

- Epidemiología: teoría y práctica II

- Inmunología: vacunas de nueva generación

- Epidemiología: teoría y práctica I

- Visita al Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET)

- Inmunología. Inmunidad adaptativa I

- Inmunología. Introducción. Inmunidad natural

- Inmunología: Vacunas convencionales

Genes resistentes a los antibióticos

Interview in Planeta Vivo Radio of Planeta Vivo Radio

La resistencia a los antibióticos en más de 400 genes será el tema central del programa tras la publicación de un trabajo en Nature que desvela el gran problema que afrontamos. Entrevistaremos para ello a uno de los autores de dicho trabajo, Bruno González Zorn, investigador de la Facultad de Veterinaria y del Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET) de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. PLANETA VIVO RADIO es el programa radiofónico sobre divulgación científica y técnica de Canarias más longevo con más de 9 años de emisión semanal. Es una apuesta del Instituto Volcanológico de C… Read more

PROMANBOV, a new operative group for the promotion of prudent use of antimicrobials in cattle

The project is led by ASOPROVAC, Agropienso and the PORCSA-Grup de Sanejament Porcí de Lleida and has the collaboration of Novadays, UPM, VISAVET-UCM and AEMPS.

This group aims to improve the situation of bacterial resistance in animal health.… Read more

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Abundance and diversity of the faecal resistome in slaughter pigs and broilers in nine European countries

Investigation published in Nature microbiology

EFFORT Group Haitske Graveland2 , Alieda van Essen4, Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn8, Gabriel Moyano8, Pascal Sanders9, Claire Chauvin9, Julie David9, Antonio Battisti10, Andrea Caprioli10, Jeroen Dewulf11, Thomas Blaha12, Katharina Wadepohl12, Maximiliane Brandt12, Dariusz Wasyl13, Magdalena Skarzyńska13, Magdalena Zajac13, Hristo Daskalov14, Helmut W. Saatkamp4 and Katharina D. C. Stärk15 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria and associated human morbidity and mortality is increasing. The use of antimicrobials in livestock selects for AMR that can subsequently be transferred to humans. This… Read more

Antimicrobial Resistance in the Food Chain in the European Union

The book Biological Emerging Risks in Foods edited by Academic Press includes this chapter

Consumers require safety foods but without losing enough supply and low prices. Food concerns about antimicrobial residues and antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacteria are not usually appropriately separated and could be perceived as the same problem. The monitoring of residues of antimicrobials in animal food is well established at different levels (farm, slaughterhouse, and industry), and it is preceded by the legislation of veterinary medicines where maximum residues limits are required for medicines to be used in food animal. Following the strategy of the World Health Organization, one of th… Read more

Resistencia a Antibióticos: tiempo de actuar

Conference in Cursos de La Granda. Tecnología microbiana, salud y calidad de vida. Un homenaje al profesor Julio R. Villanueva (1928-2017)

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Exploring the oxidative, antimicrobial and genomic properties of Campylobacter jejuni strains isolated from poultry

Investigation article published in Research in Veterinary Science

Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of food-borne bacterial enteritis in humans, with contaminated poultry products considered the main source of infection. To survive the food chain, C. jejuni utilizes multiple defense mechanisms that counter oxidative and aerobic stresses. In this study, we phenotypically characterised 63 C. jejuni strains with oxidative stress survival and antimicrobial susceptibility testing to investigate correlations between these two phenotypes against the source of the strains and the presence of the MarR regulators RrpA and RrpB which have a role in regulating t… Read more

Evaluation of the use of a needle-free injection syringe as a cause of non-specific reactions in the intradermal tuberculin test used for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis

Investigation article published in Research in Veterinary Science

The objective of the study was to elucidate whether the use of the needle-free Dermojet syringe, which is based on a high pressure inoculation and is used to inject tuberculin in cattle in several countries, may, in itself, cause skin reactions that can be interpreted as positive reactions to the intradermal tests that are not, in fact, related to the real infection status of the animals. Forty-four cattle from an officially tuberculosis-free (OTF) herd were selected, and four single intradermal tuberculin (SIT) tests were performed on each animal, two on each side of the neck. Three differen… Read more

Temporal analysis of the interference caused by paratuberculosis vaccination on the tuberculosis diagnostic tests in goats

Investigation article published in Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Vaccination against paratuberculosis (PTB) in goats is a cost-effective control strategy, and is also effective as regards preventing the onset of clinical cases. However, it causes interference in the diagnostic tests used in the control of tuberculosis (TB). A group of 99 goats from a herd with no history of TB or PTB infection was vaccinated against PTB at seven months of age. They then underwent consecutive intradermal tests [single (SIT) and comparative (CIT) intradermal tuberculin tests), interferon-gamma release assays (IGRA) and two serological tests (p22_CE and DR-ELISA) every three m… Read more

Genetic dissection of the BRCA2 promoter and transcriptional impact of DNA variants

Breast cancer research and treatment publish this investigation article

Purpose Promoter mutations may affect transcription and can be associated with human diseases. However, the promoters of the breast cancer (BC) genes are not regularly screened. Our goal was to investigate the BRCA2 promoter in order to study a possible correlation between impaired transcription and disease. Methods The proximal and core promoter of the BRCA2 gene was sequenced in 95 high-risk BC patients. A BRCA2-promoter insert [− 938 to + 312 from the transcription start site (TSS)] was generated and cloned into the firefly luciferase vector pGL4.10. Promoter variants and del… Read more

Epidemiological situation of the exposure to agents causing Equine Piroplasmosis in Spanish Purebred Horses in Spain: seroprevalence and associated risk factors

Investigation published in Journal of Equine Veterinary Science

Equine piroplasmosis (EP) is a tick-borne disease caused by Babesia caballi (B. caballi) and Theileria equi (T. equi) which causes severe economic losses to the equine industry, represented by the Spanish Purebred (SP) horse in Spain. The seroprevalence of EP is known in certain regions of Spain but up to date there are no data in SP horses. The aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of EP in the SP breeding horse population in central Spain and to evaluate risk factors associated with the occurrence of the infection. A total of 536 horse serum samples were tested for antibodies… Read more