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VIII VETINDOC - VI PhDay Complutense

Communications in this event:

- Estudio del impacto del ser humano en las resistencias a antibióticos en ecosistemas silvestres de Costa Rica

- Nuevos hallazgos en la patogenia y transmisión de Brucella pinnipedialis en cetáceos

- Desarrollo de órganos linfoides terciarios (TLO) en jabalíes infectados con una cepa naturalmente atenuada de Peste Porcina Africana: ¿potencial mecanismo de protección tisular frente cepas altamente virulentas?

- Come Fly with Myc: MALDI-TOF para el diagnóstico de micobacteriosis animales

- Caracterización inmunohistoquímica de la respuesta inmune en lesiones tempranas y avanzadas del epidídimo causadas por Brucella ovis en carneros

Lina Mur, Premio Joven Talento: El veterinario español vale muchísimo y estamos muy bien formados

Premio Lina Mur

La veterinaria española Lina Mur, del equipo de Sanidad Animal de la EFSA, fue galardonada con el Premio Joven Talento en los Premios Salud Animal de España que organiza Animal’s Health…

Los investigadores españoles más influyentes en diferentes áreas de la Veterinaria

Investigadores influyentes en Veterinaria

Varios profesionales españoles figuran entre los primeros puestos de los rankings de Expertscape como los expertos más influyentes a nivel mundial en diferentes ámbitos de la sanidad animal…

Identifying high-risk areas for dog-mediated rabies using Bayesian spatial regression

Investigation article published in One Health

Despite ongoing control efforts, rabies remains an endemic zoonotic disease in many countries. Determining high-risk areas and the space-time patterns of rabies spread, as it relates to epidemiologically important factors, can support policymakers and program managers alike to develop evidence-based targeted surveillance and control programs. In this One Health approach which selected Thailand as the example site, the location-based risk of contracting dog-mediated rabies by both human and animal populations was quantified using a Bayesian spatial regression model. Specifically, a conditional … Read more

Endometritis in breeding mares from Spain: microbial prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility

Oral communication in 5th International Conference on Uterine Disorders in Farm animals: Endometritis as a cause of infertility in domestic animals

Environment and Offspring Surveillance in Porcine Brucellosis

Investigation published in Frontiers in veterinary science

Porcine brucellosis, caused by Brucella suis (B. suis), is a notifiable disease causing significant economic losses in production systems. Most infected pigs may act as carriers and shed B. suis even if asymptomatic. This can contribute to environmental persistence, thus hindering control efforts. Here, the environment and the offspring were investigated during and after a B. suis outbreak at a sow breeding farm. The diagnosis of B. suis in sows (n = 1,140) was performed by culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from vaginal swabs, indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (I-ELISA) from… Read more

A current global view of the asf situation

Conference in 26th international pig veterinary society congress. IPVS 2022

Visita al Centro VISAVET de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Oral communication in Agenda Misión Científico Técnica UCM-LAIS/UFRN

I3S International Symposium Salmonella and Salmonellosis. 2022 edition

Communications in this event:

- Factors associated with increased Salmonella positivity in the frame of National Control Plans (NCPSs) in poultry flocks. A case study of laying hen Spanish data

- Putting Salmonella Enteritidis in Spain in context using Whole Genome Sequencing: understanding persistence of specific strains and antimicrobial resistance determinants across hosts and over time

- Characterization of the emergence of multidrug resistant Salmonella Kentucky ST198 in poultry flocks in Spain

Españoles desarrollan nuevas vacunas orales contra las garrapatas en el ganado

Vacunas orales contra garrapatas

El Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos ha ensayado con éxito una vacuna oral en ganado bovino que combina antígenos de garrapata con micobacterias inactivadas…

La Hora Porcina con J. M. Sánchez Vizcaíno

Interview in Agrenews TV of Agrinews

XXXIII Reunión de la Sociedad Española de Anatomía Patológica Veterinaria

Communications in this event:

- Simulador virtual de un matadero: una herramienta útil en la enseñanza-aprendizaje en el grado de veterinaria

- Respuesta inmune pulmonar y eficacia protectora de una vacuna de Mycobacterium bovis inactivada por calor frente a la tuberculosis caprina

- Protección inespecífica de Mycobacterium bovis inactivado por calor frente a la infección por Salmonella Choleraesuis en cerdos

- Efecto protector de Mycobacterium bovis inactivado por calor frente a Leishmania

- Peste porcina africana en el jabalí: estudio histopatológico de las alteraciones del sistema linfoide

- Nocardiosis en cetáceos de vida libre del océano Atlántico medio-oriental y del mar Mediterráneo contiguo

- Identificación de Flavobacterium psychrophilum en esturiones siberianos y descripción de las principales lesiones histopatológicas

- Linfoma intestinal de células T (EATL-2) en una nutria asiática de uñas cortas (Aonyx cinereus)

- Grosspath 3D: Principales lesiones macroscópicas de decomiso en matadero en tres dimensiones

- Caracterización inmunohistoquímica de la respuesta inmune en lesiones tempranas y avanzadas del epidídimo causadas por Brucella ovis en carneros

- Brote por Aeromonas salmonicida en alevines de esturión siberiano (Acipenser baerii)

Feline Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Sclerosing Fibroplasia-Extracellular Matrix Proteins and TGF-β1 Immunoexpression

Veterinary sciences publish this investigation article

Feline gastrointestinal eosinophilic sclerosing fibroplasia (FGESF) has been described as an inflammatory disorder with an eosinophilic component with etiopathogenesis that is still unknown. Sixteen intestinal samples from two veterinary diagnostic services (2014–2017) were included in the study. A histopathological criterion classified the cases into three grades (mild, moderate, and severe) according to the distribution of the lesions and the course. An immunohistochemical study of collagen I, collagen III, fibronectin, and transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) was performed in ea… Read more

¿Está México preparado para la viruela del mono?

Interview in México of El País

Ante una cifra que supera las 700 personas infectadas en más de 20 países no endémicos, expertos descartan que esta zoonosis africana desemboque en pandemia… Read more

Seventh International Conference on Mycobacterium bovis

Communications in this event:

- Skin Test Reactions to Different Antigens in Guinea Pigs Sensitized with Non-Tuberculous and Tuberculous Bacteria

- Advances in the antibody-based diagnosis of caprine tuberculosis: Milk as an alternative sample

- One Health and Bovine Tuberculosis: The Long and Winding Road

- Direct PCR in Bovine Tissue Samples to Detect the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex: time for change

- The bTB eradication programme in Spain – the role of the EU Reference Laboratory

- Effect of the administration of anti-inflammatory substances on the diagnosis of caprine tuberculosis: dexamethasone and ketoprofen as examples

- P22 performance for TB serodiagnosis in multiple host species

- Evaluation of a new P22-based serodiagnostic test for tuberculosis in wild ungulates and pig reared under different management systems

- Identification of an IS6110-like insertion sequence in M. avium subsp. hominissuis: significance and perspectives in the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis

- Application of Whole Genome Sequencing to Assess Within‐herd Variation of M. bovis SB0121 Isolates in Spain

- Accuracy of Tests for Diagnosis of Animal Tuberculosis: Moving Away from the Golden Calf (and towards Bayesian Models)

- IFN-ƴ Assay for Granting and Maintenance of Officially Tuberculosis-Free Herd Status and Movement of Cattle within the EU

- TB Macroscopical Lesions and Spoligotyping Signature: Is there a pattern?

- Whole genome sequencing to unravel the genetic diversity of a prevalent Mycobacterium bovis spoligotype in a multi-host scenario in Spain

- Factors Associated with Increased Duration of Bovine Tuberculosis Breakdowns in Castilla Y Leon, Spain (2010-2017)

Seminars VISAVET 2022

Communications in this event:

- Trabajos relacionados con el diagnóstico del virus de la enfermedad de Borna presentados en el VI Congreso de la Asociación Europea de Veterinarios especialistas en Diagnóstico Laboratorial

- Trabajos relacionados con el diagnóstico y control de la tuberculosis caprina presentados en el I Congreso Internacional de Sanidad y Bienestar Animal

- A One Health Approach: antibiotics resistance patterns of Escherichia coli in food-producing animals in the Northern Region of Ghana

- Experimentación Animal. Congreso FELASA 2022

- When order matters: the importance of genome structure in V. cholerae

- Nanotoxicology in fish

- Discussion on curricula development and research topics in fish pathology

- Nanotechnology basics in fish pathology

- Introduction in fish pathology

- Malaria anaemia: Understanding the pathogenesis, significance and impact of co-infection

- Development of new therapeutic strategies for the control and prevention of bacterial infections in cattle

Zoonotic Transmission of Diphtheria from Domestic Animal Reservoir, Spain

Investigation article published in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans is as an emerging zoonotic agent of diphtheria. We describe the zoonotic transmission of diphtheria caused by toxigenic C. ulcerans from domestic animals in Spain, confirmed by core-genome multilocus sequence typing. Alongside an increasing number of recent publications, our findings highlight the public health threat posed by diphtheria reemergence. Diphtheria has been increasing in relevance because of increasing individual travel and surges in mass relocation events of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants from countries where diphtheria remains endemi… Read more

Potential for improved detection of bovine tuberculosis by targeting combined blood biomarkers in multi-test algorithms

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology publish this investigation article

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) control programs can be improved by combined use of tests for humoral and cell-mediated immune responses targeting multiple biomarkers of Mycobacterium bovis. To further the diagnostic benefits of this approach, we used Dual Path Platform (DPP) technology to test sera from cattle with naturally acquired bTB in the United States (US) and Spain for the presence of M. bovis antigen, IgM and/or IgG antibodies to MPB70/MPB83 fusion antigen in conjunction with tuberculin skin tests (TST) or interferon-gamma release assays (IGRA). When TST was complemented with detection of … Read more

Molecular detection of Tritrichomonas foetus in bovine samples: a novel real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay targeting EF1-alpha-Tf1 and a comparative study of published PCR techniques

Parasitology Research publish this investigation article

The parasite T. foetus causes trichomonosis in cattle but is generally asymptomatic in males. Thus, many bulls carrying the disease go unnoticed, making the detection of T. foetus in bulls an important aspect for its control. Due to drawbacks posed by its cultivation, PCR is a preferred option for diagnostic laboratories. Most published PCR protocols target the genomic region compring the 18S, 5.8S, and 28S rRNA genes and internal transcribed spacers 1 and 2 (rRNA-ITS region), homologous to that of other Tritrichomonas species. There is minimal information on alternative genetic targets and no… Read more

Permeability of artificial barriers (fences) for wild boar Sus scrofa in Mediterranean mixed landscapes

Investigation article published in Pest management science

Background: Fences are one of the most widespread manmade features in nature, constituting an artificial limitation to the movement of wildlife. To date, their effects on wildlife behaviour have been understudied but this knowledge is required to design effective management procedures. Using 21 GPS-monitored wild boar, we evaluated the permeability of different types of fences and described temporal patterns and spatial hotspots for crossing events. A fence`s permeability was inferred by the crossing success, i.e., the number of times that animals crossed a barrier vs the number of times they … Read more

Seguridad del candidato vacunal LV17/WB/RIE1 frente a la ppa en jabalíes: sobredosis y dosis repetidas

New article published in Porcinews

La peste porcina africana (PPA) es una enfermedad infecciosa altamente letal que afecta a los cerdos domésticos y a los jabalíes, estando su control dificultado por la falta de un tratamiento o vacuna eficaz. Teniendo en cuenta el importante papel del jabalí en la propagación del virus, la vacunación oral de estos animales sería una esperanza para hacer frente a este problema. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo evaluar la seguridad de un candidato vacunal (Lv17/WB/RIE1), con eficacia evaluada previamente, en términos de sobredosis (dosis alta) y dosis repetidas (revacunación) en jabalí… Read more