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Perspectivas de futuro en diagnóstico de tuberculosis animal

Oral communication in Curso de actualización de tuberculosis bovina

Computer Vision Applied to Detect Lethargy through Animal Motion Monitoring: A Trial on African Swine Fever in Wild Boar

Investigation article published in Animals

Early detection of infectious diseases is the most cost-effective strategy in disease surveillance for reducing the risk of outbreaks. Latest deep learning and computer vision improvements are powerful tools that potentially open up a new field of research in epidemiology and disease control. These techniques were used here to develop an algorithm aimed to track and compute animal motion in real time. This algorithm was used in experimental trials in order to assess African swine fever (ASF) infection course in Eurasian wild boar. Overall, the outcomes showed negative correlation between motio… Read more

Bovine Tuberculosis Learning Material Database

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- Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection using the In Vitro Gamma-Interferon detection Assay

- DVR-spoligotyping: Direct Variable Repeat spacer oligonucleotide typing

A one health framework to estimate the cost of antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control publish this investigation article

Objectives/purpose: The costs attributable to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remain theoretical and largely unspecified. Current figures fail to capture the full health and economic burden caused by AMR across human, animal, and environmental health; historically many studies have considered only direct costs associated with human infection from a hospital perspective, primarily from high-income countries. The Global Antimicrobial Resistance Platform for ONE-Burden Estimates (GAP-ON€) network has developed a framework to help guide AMR costing exercises in any part of the world as a first step… Read more

¿Por qué es el coronavirus un virus tan extraño? ¿Es cierto que puede perdurar en la piel o en los congelados? ¿Cuál es realmente su origen?

Conference in Informe Covid

Conferencia Magistral. Obesidad y otras pandemias: contribución de la educación en la próxima década para su prevención

Oral communication in 1º Congreso Internacional de Medicina de la Obesidad (CIMO)

La tuberculosis en la interfaz entre ganado doméstico y fauna cinegética

Online communication in Técnicas innovadoras para el control integral de la tuberculosis en los ecosistemas extensivos

¿Qué es el coronavirus?

Interview in La ciencia frente al COVID of Radio Televisión Española

Jornada Complutense sobre Resistencia a Antibióticos

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- Retos en salud global. Se buscan investigadores

- Resistencia a antibióticos. Pasado presente y futuro

Premian a los mejores doctorados de veterinaria de la UCM

Premios doctorados de veterinaria de la UCM

La Facultad de Veterinaria de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, con el apoyo de Colvema, ha celebrado su VI Jornada VETINDOC-PhDay Complutense para promover la divulgación del trabajo desarrollado por sus doctorandos…

¿Usamos los antibióticos con responsabilidad? La lucha contra la resistencia antimicrobiana, un problema global

Interview in ucm.es Cultura Científica of Oficina de Transferencia de Resultados de Investigación. Universidad Complutense

¿Su proceso es vírico o bacteriano? Si la respuesta es “da igual pero por si acaso tomo antibiótico”, es un gran error que puede costarle la vida. El abuso de antibióticos sin conciencia convierte a las bacterias -su enemigo a batir- en súpervillanas a las que estos fármacos no les afectan. Es la llamada resistencia a los antimicrobianos, un problema de salud pública mundial. Del 18 al 24 de noviembre se celebra la Semana Mundial de Concienciación sobre el Uso de los Antibióticos y resolvemos algunas de las dudas más frecuentes entre la población sobre esta materia con la Doctora María Ugarte … Read more

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Resistencias antimicrobianas y One Health

REDRISA publish this article

En este artículo, y coincidiendo con el Día Europeo del Uso Prudente de los Antibióticos, se presentan las principales líneas de investigación en relación a la resistencia de antimicrobianos de investigadores del Centro VISAVET y de los Departamentos de Sanidad Animal y de Medicina y Cirugía Animal de la Facultad de Veterinaria de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid… Read more

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COVID-19 y Resistencia: ¿Cuál será el impacto de la COVID-19 en el uso de los antibióticos? ¿Puede el enfoque One Health prevenir otra pandemia?

Online communication in Jornada Online del Día Europeo para el Uso Prudente de los Antibióticos 2020

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Quantifying Antimicrobial Exposure in Dogs From a Longitudinal Study

Investigation article published in Frontiers in veterinary science

Bacterial resistance to antimicrobials (AMR) is a growing public health threat, and exposure to antimicrobials (AMs) is, on the whole, a major risk factor for the occurrence of AMR. During the past decade, a limited number of studies about AM exposure in dogs have been published, showing a noticeable diversity regarding numerators (AMU), denominators (population at risk), and indicators. The aim of this study is to show that metrics based on the most easily recorded data about treatments and a follow-up design are a promising method for a preliminary assessment of AM exposure in companion anim… Read more

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Veterinaria Forense en la sociedad actual. XX Semana de la Ciencia Madri+d

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- El centro VISAVET de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Actividades dentro de la Semana de la Ciencia

- Práctica de necropsia

- La técnica de necropsia

- Maltrato animal

- Veterinaria Forense

Nuevos formatos pero ilusiones intactas: la Semana de la Ciencia organizada con más incertidumbre sale reforzada

Semana de la Ciencia

Con mascarillas y guardando las distancias de seguridad en aulas y laboratorios o desde el sofá de casa, viéndonos las caras con un café en la mano. Escenarios diferentes pero el mismo sentimiento: la pasión por el conocimiento y la divulgación. Sin duda, en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid recordaremos la XX Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovación como la edición de la reinvención ante la incertidumbre. ¿Quieres saber cómo la vivimos?…

SEVEMUR y la Investigación. XX Semana de la Ciencia Madri+d

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- El centro VISAVET de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Visita a sus instalaciones de contención biológica

- Servicio Veterinario de Urgencia de Madrid (SEVEMUR)

- Zoonosis en mascotas

- Diagnóstico de zoonosis en centros de protección animal

Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium caprae in a camel (Camelus dromedarius)

Investigation article published in BMC Veterinary Research

Background Animal tuberculosis (TB) is distributed worldwide and has a wide range of wild and domestic reservoirs. Few studies concerning TB in camelids have been published in the last decade, particularly as regards Old World Camelids (OWC), but the increase in reports of TB outbreaks in these species in recent years suggests a high susceptibility to the infection. Case presentation We studied a dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) herd (n = 24) in which a Mycobacterium caprae infection was detected. The TB infection was confirmed in one animal at necropsy through the detectio… Read more

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Semana de la Ciencia en la Universidad Complutense. Actividades del Centro VISAVET

Interview in Buenos días Madrid of Telemadrid

Centro VISAVET-UCM: cómo trabajar en un laboratorio de alta seguridad biológica. XX Semana de la Ciencia Madri+d

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- Identificación y caracterización microbiana mediante espectrometría de masas

- Zoonosis de transmisión alimentaria y resistencias a antimicrobianos

- El centro VISAVET de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Visita a sus instalaciones de contención biológica

- Bioseguridad en laboratorios de contención biológica

Complementarity of selective culture and qPCR for colistin resistance screening in fresh and frozen pig caecum samples

Investigation published in Frontiers in Microbiology

Retrospective studies involving the screening of frozen stored collections of samples are commonplace when a new threat emerges, but it has been demonstrated that the freeze-thaw process can affect bacterial viability. The study of colistin-resistant bacteria in human and animal samples is an example of this issue. In this study we compared culture-based and PCR-based methods for analysing both relative occurrence and diversity of colistin-resistant bacteria in caecal samples to determine the most appropriate method for frozen samples. Thus, 272 isolates from the caecal contents of healthy pig… Read more

Grado de Veterinaria. 2019-2020 edition

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- Microbiología e inmunología

- Ictiopatología

- Rotatorio Clínico

- Diagnóstico clínico laboratorial

- Medicina interna I

- Enfermedades infecciosas

- Anatomía Patológica Especial

- Propedéutica

Forensic cases of suspected dog and cat abuse in the Community of Madrid (Spain), 2014-2019

Investigation article published in Forensic Science International

Companion animal abuse is an issue that concerns not only veterinarians and law enforcement agencies but also society in general. Animals that die under suspicious or violent circumstances should be submitted to reference laboratories for a postmortem examination by veterinary forensic pathologists trained to recognize animal abuse. Nevertheless, the low notification rate of such cases in Spain may explain the country’s lag in the development of veterinary forensics and the limited information available on animal abuse epidemiology in comparison with other countries. By sharing information amo… Read more

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Extensive antimicrobial resistance mobilization via multicopy plasmid encapsidation mediated by temperate phages

The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy publish this investigation article

Objectives: To investigate the relevance of multicopy plasmids in antimicrobial resistance and assess their mobilization mediated by phage particles. Methods: Several databases with complete sequences of plasmids and annotated genes were analysed. The 16S methyltransferase gene armA conferring high-level aminoglycoside resistance was used as a marker in eight different plasmids, from different incompatibility groups, and with differing sizes and plasmid copy numbers. All plasmids were transformed into Escherichia coli bearing one of four different lysogenic phages. Upon induction, encapsidati… Read more

Phylogenetic analysis and geographical distribution of Theileria equi and Babesia caballi sequences from horses residing in Spain

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases publish this investigation article

The intraerythrocytic protozoans Theileria equi and Babesia caballi are the causative agents of equine piroplasmosis (EP), one of the most important equine tick-borne diseases due to its significant impact on global international horse trade. Although EP is known to be endemic in Spain, previous phylogenetic studies have only been conducted for limited geographical regions. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the genetic diversity and distribution of these parasite species nationwide. This was performed by amplification of the 18S small subunit (SSU) rRNA gene from 100 … Read more

Dietary Supplementation with Fermented Defatted Alperujo Induces Modifications of the Intestinal Mucosa and Cecal Microbiota of Broiler Chickens

Investigation article published in Poultry science

Nutraceuticals are not only nutritionally beneficial for animals, but also their use as feed supplements may reduce environmental contamination. The effect of fermented defatted ‘alperujo’, an olive oil by-product, supplementation on the intestinal health of broiler chickens was assessed by analyzing the intestinal mucosal morphology of the duodenum and the cecum. The microbiota of the cecum was also characterized by analyzing the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene on days 7, 14, 21, 28, 35 and 42. Supplemented broilers from 14 to 35 days old showed an increase in villus height in the duodenum.… Read more

Was ancient Rome the perfect environment for zoonoses transmission?

Investigation published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Environmental and cultural factors driving the emergence and the maintenance of transmissible diseases are numerous. Those specific for the most common zoonoses have received little attention in historic studies, despite they were probably a heavy component of the total disease burden in antiquity and, therefore, a keystone of History. We want to provide a deductive approach to some of them, despite most of the possible associations between risk or predisposing factors and specific diseases are merely theoretical. However, since the most common zoonoses are still a heavy disease burden, they p… Read more