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Las Ratas y (luego) La Peste

Profesión Veterinaria publish this article

La peste es una zoonosis bacteriana causada por Yersinia pestis con una elevada tasa de letalidad en ausencia de tratamiento. En la percepción actual, la peste se asocia a las grandes pandemias de la historia, la plaga de Justiniano, la Peste Negra medieval y la pandemia asiática de finales del siglo XIX. Ya el libro de Samuel de la Biblia la menciona. A pesar de parecer algo del pasado, la peste es todavía endémica en muchos países y se notifican un buen número de casos cada año. Actualmente la República Democrática del Congo, Madagascar –con una epidemia activa- y Perú concentran la mayor pa… Read more

Listeria: history of hysteria

New article published in Profesión Veterinaria

In recent months, Listeriaha made newspaper headlines and news from our country, however, for veterinarians is not a new agent, this genre is an old well-known against which significant efforts have been invested in its prevention and control.… Read more

Hypervitaminosis D has no positive effects on goat tuberculosis and may cause chronic renal lesions

Investigation article published in The Veterinary Record

BACKGROUND: There is evidence for a link between vitamin D deficiency and active tuberculosis (TB). In human beings, several trials have evaluated the role of vitamin D supplementation in TB treatment with conflicting results. However, the role of vitamin D supplementation in animal TB control has received less attention. The authors evaluated the benefit of vitamin D supplementation for preventing mycobacterial infection or reducing TB lesions (TBL) in a controlled trial with goats naturally exposed to Mycobacterium caprae. METHODS: Two groups of goats, a vitamin D-supplemented group… Read more

70 científicos, detrás de la vacuna para la peste porcina

Vacuna contra la peste porcina africana

VACDIVA es el proyecto con más de 20 entidades de varios países para luchar contra el virus, teniendo en cuenta que España es el primer productor de este ganado de Europa. Su coordinador nos cuenta que habrá vacuna también para el covid-19…

- MSD anuncia su colaboración con el proyecto VACDIVA contra la PPA - animalshealth.es

- COAG será el nexo de unión del ganadero con el proyecto VACDIVA, que busca una vacuna contra la peste porcina - agroinformacion.com

- Ponen en marcha el proyecto Vacdiva para desarrollar una vacuna frente a la PPA - eurocarne.com

- Comienza el proyecto VACDIVA para desarrollar una vacuna contra la PPA - porcino.info

- Arranca el proyecto VACDIVA, una vacuna contra la peste porcina africana - animalshealth.es

- Arranca el proyecto VACDIVA, una vacuna contra la peste porcina africana - ucm.es

Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year 2020

The SUAT Viral Immunology and Preventive Medicine Unit stars the annual
christmas card of the VISAVET centre of the Complutense University of Madrid

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El grupo operativo Exportgen arranca con la celebración de su primera reunión

Exportgen

Antimicrobial susceptibility of Pasteurella multocida isolated from sheep and pigs in Spain - Short communication

Investigation published in Acta veterinaria Hungarica

Pasteurella multocida is responsible for economically important diseases in sheep and pigs. Antimicrobial susceptibility studies are essential for initiating rational and effective empirical therapy of P. multocida infections. In this study we investigated the antimicrobial susceptibility to 18 antimicrobial agents of 156 clinical isolates of P. multocida from sheep (n = 87) and pigs (n = 69) using the microdilution method. Both sheep and pig isolates exhibited low levels of resistance (≤ 15%) to ceftiofur, gentamicin, neomycin, spectinomycin, chlortetracycline, tulathromycin, florfenico… Read more

Grado de Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos

Communications in this event:

- Clinical and Surgical Pathology II

- Clinical and Medical Pathology II

Nace la Red de Investigación de Sanidad Animal-RISA

Red de Investigación de Sanidad Animal

Se ha constituido la Red de Investigación de Sanidad Animal, que optimizará recursos y fomentará la colaboración de los principales centros de investigación de España…

Grado de Veterinaria. 2019-2020 edition

Communications in this event:

- Microbiología e inmunología

- Ictiopatología

- Rotatorio Clínico

- Diagnóstico clínico laboratorial

- Medicina interna I

- Enfermedades infecciosas

- Anatomía Patológica Especial

- Propedéutica

Traumatología de pequeños animales

Communications in this event:

- Principales tumores óseos en pequeños animales

- Histología del músculo y tejido óseo

Tuberculosis Epidemiology and Badger (Meles meles) Spatial Ecology in a Hot-Spot Area in Atlantic Spain

Pathogens publish this investigation article

We provide a temporal overview (from 2012 to 2018) of the outcomes of tuberculosis (TB) in the cattle and badger populations in a hot-spot in Asturias (Atlantic Spain). We also study the badger’s spatial ecology from an epidemiological perspective in order to describe hazardous behavior in relation to TB transmission between cattle and badgers. Culture and single intradermal tuberculin test (SITT) were available for cattle as part of the National Program for the Eradication of TB. A field survey was also carried out in order to determine the paddocks and buildings used by each farm, and the in… Read more

Especialista en animales salvajes y de zoo

Communications in this event:

- Principales lesiones patológicas en peces de acuario

- Lesiones patológicas en aves salvajes y de zoo

- Principales zoonosis en animales salvajes y de zoo

- Técnica de necropsia en peces

Listeriosis. Toxiinfecciones alimentarias, ¿zoonosis reemergentes?

Oral communication in Jornadas Veterinarias Asaja

Association between results of diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis and Johne`s disease in cattle

Investigation published in The Veterinary Record

BACKGROUND: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) diagnosis is impaired by numerous factors including cross-reactivity with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, which causes Johne`s disease (JD). In addition, the effect of repeated bTB-intradermal testing on the performance of JD diagnostic tests is not fully understood. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of repeated bTB-intradermal tests under field conditions in Spain on the JD serological status of cattle. METHODS: bTB-positive herds (n=264) from Castilla-y-Leon region were selected and matched with officially tuberculosis-free co… Read more

Bioseguridad y visita guiada a las instalaciones de VISAVET

Conference in Master Universitario en Prevención de Riesgos Laborales

VISAVET Journal Club. 2019 edition

Communications in this event:

- Identification of Novel Mobilized Colistin Resistance Gene mcr-9 in a Multidrug-Resistant, Colistin-Susceptible Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium Isolate

- Sequencing of blaIMP-Carrying IncN2 Plasmids, and Comparative Genomics of IncN2 Plasmids Harboring Class 1 Integrons

- Predicting prolonged bovine tuberculosis breakdowns in Great Britain as an aid to control

- Genomic analysis of smooth tubercle bacilli provides insights into ancestry and pathoadaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Curso sobre Enfermedades Emergentes

Communications in this event:

- Enfermedades emergentes

- Bioseguridad

- Peste porcina africana. Ya casi en toda Europa. ¿estamos preparados?

- Ejemplos actuales de enfermedades emergentes: Virus Zika, Virus de la Enfermedad Hemorrágica de Crimea-Congo y Virus de la Hepatitits E

- Vigilancia de enfermedades emergentes y comunicación en crisis sanitarias

- Introducción o generalidades de enfermedades emergentes y enfermedades desatendidas

Selective Persulfide Detection Reveals Evolutionarily Conserved Antiaging Effects of S-Sulfhydration

Cell metabolism publish this investigation article

Life on Earth emerged in a hydrogen sulfide (H2S)-rich environment eons ago and with it protein persulfidation mediated by H2S evolved as a signaling mechanism. Protein persulfidation (S-sulfhydration) is a post-translational modification of reactive cysteine residues, which modulate protein structure and/or function. Persulfides are difficult to label and study due to their reactivity and similarity with cysteine. Here, we report a facile strategy for chemoselective persulfide bioconjugation using dimedone-based probes, to achieve highly selective, rapid, and robust persulfide labeling in bio… Read more

Use of a voluntary testing program to study the spatial epidemiology of Johne’s disease affecting dairy herds in Minnesota: a cross sectional study

Investigation article published in BMC Veterinary Research

One of the key steps in the management of chronic diseases in animals including Johne’s disease (JD), caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), is the ability to track disease incidence over space and time. JD surveillance in the U.S. dairy cattle is challenging due to lack of regulatory requirements, imperfect diagnostic tests, and associated expenses, including time and labor. An alternative approach is to use voluntary testing programs. Here, data from a voluntary JD testing program, conducted by the Minnesota Dairy Herd Improvement Association, were used to: a) explore w… Read more

Assessment of the sensitivity of the bovine tuberculosis eradication program in a high prevalence region of Spain using scenario tree modeling

Investigation published in Preventive Veterinary Medicine

In spite of the efforts invested to eradicate bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle, the disease is still present in several developed countries, including Spain. Among the factors related with disease persistence in high prevalence areas, the lack of sensitivity of the screening test for detection of infected herds [single intradermal tuberculin (SIT) test] can play a major role. Here, a scenario tree model mimicking the diagnostic test scheme in place in the region of Castilla y Leon (Spain) was developed to estimate the probability of detecting bTB in an infected-non detected officially tuber… Read more

Gene pool transmission of multidrug resistance among Campylobacter from livestock, sewage and human disease

Investigation published in Environmental Microbiology

The use of antimicrobials in human and veterinary medicine has coincided with a rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the food‐borne pathogens Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli. Faecal contamination from the main reservoir hosts (livestock, especially poultry) is the principal route of human infection but little is known about the spread of AMR among source and sink populations. In particular, questions remain about how Campylobacter resistomes interact between species and hosts, and the potential role of sewage as a conduit for the spread of AMR. Here we investigate the ge… Read more

Applied swine immunology: from vaccines to diagnosis

Suis publish this article

Immunology is an area of research, development and transfer, essential in pig health and pig production. Although its progress is based on the study of the basic concepts of the body`s defense mechanisms against foreign elements and pathogens, the highly applicable aspects of swine immunology for its use in prevention, diagnosis, control and eradication of swine infectious diseases have a decisive influence in its development as a science, which cannot make us forget the need to strengthen the basic investigation of the characteristic immune response of the pig, in many aspects, very distincti… Read more