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• Epidemiology and control of maedi-visna virus: Curing the flock.

  Authors:Andrew W. Illius, Karianne Lievaart-Peterson, Tom N. McNeilly, Nicholas J. Savill, and Lucy C. OkellFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 10, 202010,173 words Report 1470LMaedi-visna (MV) is a complex lentiviral disease syndrome characterised by long immunological and clinical latencies and chronic progressive inflammatory pathology. Incurable at the individual level, it is widespread in...

• Peste des petits ruminants virus in vulnerable wild small ruminants, Iran, 20142016

  Authors:Mahmoud Marashi, Siamak Masoudi, Majid Kharazian Moghadam, Hossein Modirrousta, Mahyar Marashi, Masoumeh Parvizifar, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20171,367 words Report 1480LIn 2014-2016, >1,000 wild goats and sheep in 4 northern and central provinces of Iran died from peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) infection. Partial nucleoprotein sequencing of PPRV from 3 animals showed a close...

• Incidence of Peste des petits ruminants in nomadic sheep and goat of Jammu region

  Authors:Sumit Mahajan, Rajesh Agrawal, Mahesh Kumar, Anand Mohan, and Nishi PandeFrom:Veterinary World (Vol. 6, Issue 7)

  July 20132,672 words Report 1520LAim: The present study was planned with an aim to access the incidence of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in nomadic sheep and goat of Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state of India. Materials and Methods: A...

• Toxoplasma infection in sheep from south of Iran monitored by serological and molecular methods; risk assessment to meat consumers

  Authors:Belal Armand, Kavous Solhjoo, Manoochehr Shabani-Kordshooli, Mohammad Hasan Davami, and Mehdi SadeghiFrom:Veterinary World (Vol. 9, Issue 8)

  Aug. 20163,905 words Report 1360LAim: Toxoplasma gondii has a clinical and veterinary importance as it is known to cause congenital disease and abortion both in humans and livestock. Since the contaminated lamb is one of the sources of human infection,...

• The effect of Brachiaria brizantha cultivars on host-parasite-environment interactions in sheep naturally infected with gastrointestinal nematodes

  Authors:Francisca Fernanda da Silva Roberto, Gelson dos Santos Difante, Lilian Giotto Zaros, Joelma da Silva Souza, Antonio Leandro Chaves Gurgel, Pablo Ramon Costa, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 28, 20207,419 words Report 1290LThe objective was to evaluate the effect of different cultivars of Brachiaria brizantha on the dynamics and concentration of the larval stages of gastrointestinal nematodes in the soil and forage strata, as well as...

• Validation of the Unesp-Botucatu composite scale to assess acute postoperative abdominal pain in sheep (USAPS).

  Authors:Nuno Emanuel Oliveira Figueiredo Silva, Pedro Henrique Esteves Trindade, Alice Rodrigues Oliveira, Marilda Onghero Taffarel, Maria Alice Pires Moreira, Renan Denadai, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 14, 202010,023 words Report 1440LA scale with robust statistical validation is essential to diagnose pain and improve decision making for analgesia. This blind, randomised, prospective and opportunist study aimed to develop an ethogram to evaluate...

• Sheep farmers' attitudes towards lameness control: Qualitative exploration of factors affecting adoption of the lameness Five-Point Plan

  Authors:Caroline M. Best, Alison Z. Pyatt, Janet Roden, Malgorzata Behnke, and Kate PhillipsFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 9, 202111,914 words Report 1400LIn 2014, best-practice recommendations to treat and control lameness in sheep in the UK were consolidated into a national program, the Five-Point Plan (5PP). As recent evidence suggests that only the minority of sheep...

• Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus pseudotyped lentiviral vector-mediated gene transfer to fetal ovine lung

  Authors:M.G. Davey, P.W. Zoltick, C.A. Todorow, M.P. Limberis, E.D. Ruchelli, H.L. Hedrick, et al.From:Gene Therapy (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20126,896 words Report 1670LViral vector-mediated gene transfer to the postnatal respiratory epithelium has, in general, been of low efficiency due to physical and immunological barriers, non-apical location of cellular receptors critical for...

• Phylogenetic analysis of Dichelobacter nodosus serogroup-specific fimA gene from ovine footrot in Andhra Pradesh

  Authors:N. Vinod Kumar, A. Karthik, S. Vijayalakhsmi, and D. SreenivasuluFrom:Veterinary World (Vol. 8, Issue 5)

  May 20152,928 words Report 1400LAim: Identification of different serogroups of Dichelobacter nodosus prevailing in the region and to understand the degree of genetic heterogeneities among the different isolates of D. nodosus. Materials and Methods:...

• Expression of the Bovine NK-Lysin Gene Family and Activity against Respiratory Pathogens

  Authors:Junfeng Chen, Chingyuan Yang, Polyana C. Tizioto, Huan Huang, Mi O. K. Lee, Harold R. Payne, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 13, 20165,770 words Article 1680LUnlike the genomes of many mammals that have a single NK-lysin gene, the cattle genome contains a family of four genes, one of which is expressed preferentially in the lung. In this study, we compared the expression of...

• Diversity of gastrointestinal helminths in Dall's sheep and the negative association of the abomasal nematode, Marshallagia marshalli, with fitness indicators

  Authors:O. Alejadro Aleuy, Kathreen Ruckstuhl, Eric P. Hoberg, Alasdair Veitch, Norman Simmons, and Susan J. KutzFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 14, 20189,027 words Report 1530LAuthor(s): O. Alejadro Aleuy 1,*, Kathreen Ruckstuhl 1, Eric P. Hoberg 2, Alasdair Veitch 3, Norman Simmons 4, Susan J. Kutz 5 Introduction It is widely accepted that nematode parasites can have a subtle but...

• Peptide vaccines designed with the aid of immunoinformatic against Caseous Lymphadenitis promotes humoral and cellular response induction in mice.

  Authors:Daniela Droppa-Almeida, Glenda Amaral da Silva, Lívia Maria do Amorim Costa Gaspar, Beatriz Benny Sungaila Pereyra, Roberto José Meyer Nascimento, Sibele Borsuk, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 29, 20218,224 words Report 1520LCaseous Lymphadenitis (CLA) is a chronic disease that affects also small ruminants. CLA is caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis and is responsible for high economic losses due to the formation of superficial and...

• Dental enamel hypoplasias in Holocene bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in eastern Washington state, USA

  Author:R. Lee LymanFrom:Canadian Journal of Zoology (Vol. 96, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20185,947 words Report 1380LDental enamel hypoplasias have been documented in extant and fossil mammal species and attributed to several kinds of physiological stress. They have not previously been reported among bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis...

• Novel inflammatory cell infiltration scoring system to investigate healthy and footrot affected ovine interdigital skin

  Authors:Michael Agbaje, Catrin S. Rutland, Grazieli Maboni, Adam Blanchard, Melissa Bexon, Ceri Stewart, et al.From:PeerJ (Vol. 6) Peer-Reviewed

  July 2, 20186,003 words Report 1400LOvine footrot is a degenerative disease of sheep feet leading to the separation of hoof-horn from the underlying skin and lameness. This study quantitatively examined histological features of the ovine interdigital skin...

• Comprehensive RNA-Seq profiling of the lung transcriptome of Bashbay sheep in response to experimental Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae infection.

  Authors:Zhihui Du, Yanming Sun, Jixue Wang, Haiyan Liu, Yi Yang, and Ning ZhaoFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 8, 20206,492 words Report 1410LThe Bashbay sheep (Ovis aries), an indigenous breed of Xinjiang, China, has many excellent characteristics. It is resistant to Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae infection, the causative agent of mycoplasma ovipneumonia, a chronic...

• Evaluation of five treatments to control intestinal parasites in sheep in Ayapango, state of Mexico

  Authors:Rafael Heredia, Emma Aguilar, Camilo Romero, Linda Bautista, and German MendozaFrom:Veterinary World (Vol. 9, Issue 11)

  Nov. 20162,882 words Report 1540LAim: Intestinal parasites are one of the most common problems in sheep production systems. However, the strategies used to eliminate these parasites have not yielded satisfactory results. Therefore, the aim of this...

• Assessing respiratory pathogen communities in bighorn sheep populations: Sampling realities, challenges, and improvements

  Authors:Carson J. Butler, William H. Edwards, Jessica E. Jennings-Gaines, Halcyon J. Killion, Mary E. Wood, Douglas E. McWhirter, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 14, 20179,733 words Report 1660LRespiratory disease has been a persistent problem for the recovery of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), but has uncertain etiology. The disease has been attributed to several bacterial pathogens including Mycoplasma...

• Epidemiology and economic loss of fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis in Arak, Iran

  Authors:Mohsen Arbabi, Elnaz Nezami, Hossein Hooshyar, and Mahdi DelavariFrom:Veterinary World (Vol. 11, Issue 12)

  Dec. 20184,994 words Report 1340LAim: Fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis are important parasitic diseases worldwide, causing significant financial losses due to decrease in production and viscera condemnation in animals. We performed the current research...

• Schmallenberg virus infection in dogs, France, 2012

  Authors:Corinne Sailleau, Cassandre Boogaerts, Anne Meyrueix, Eve Laloy, Emmanuel Breard, Cyril Viarouge, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 19, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20131,238 words Letter to the editor 1250LTo the Editor: In 2011, Schmallenberg virus (SBV) emerged in Europe (1); the virus spread into France in January 2012 (2). During January March 2012, a total of >1,000 cases were reported in France, mainly in stillborn...

• Investigation of caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus in Sudan using competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

  Authors:Abdelghafar M. Elfahal, Mohammed O. Hussien, Khalid A. Enan, Khalid M. Taha, Diaeldin A. Salih, Rajaa H. Halfawi, et al.From:Veterinary World (Vol. 6, Issue 8)

  Aug. 20133,245 words Report 1430LAim: This seroprevalence study was carried out to detect anti Caprine Arthritis-Encephalitis Virus (CAEV) antibodies in goat sera in five States in Sudan during 2009 and 2010. Materials and Methods: In this study,...