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  1. Atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathies (BSEs), classified as H-type and L-type BSE based on the Western immunoblot profiles, are naturally occurring diseases in cattle, which are phenotypically different ...

    Authors: Timm Konold, Laura J Phelan, Derek Clifford, Melanie J Chaplin, Saira Cawthraw, Michael J Stack and Marion M Simmons
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:243
  2. Following infection and initial multiplication in the gut lumen, Salmonella Typhimurium crosses the intestinal epithelial barrier and comes into contact with cells of the host immune system. Mononuclear phagocyte...

    Authors: Kamila Kyrova, Hana Stepanova, Ivan Rychlik, Ondrej Polansky, Lenka Leva, Zuzana Sekelova, Martin Faldyna and Jiri Volf
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:244
  3. The intensive use of anthelmintics for the control of helminthic infections has resulted in the development of anthelmintic resistance, which has become a major practical problem in many countries. A variety o...

    Authors: Michaela Dolinská, Oksana Ivanišinová, Alžbeta Königová and Marián Várady
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:233
  4. Prednisolone was one of the first glucocorticoids to be synthesised, but it is still widely applied to cattle. Illegal uses of prednisolone include its uses for masking a number of diseases before animal sale ...

    Authors: Carlo Nebbia, Pierluigi Capra, Marta Leporati, Flavia Girolami, Gandolfo Barbarino, Stefano Gatto and Marco Vincenti
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:237
  5. Infection with Toxoplasma gondii in water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) is of epidemiological importance because of the risk for transmission to humans. We sought to determine the seroprevalence of T. gondii infect...

    Authors: Cosme Alvarado-Esquivel, Dora Romero-Salas, Zeferino García-Vázquez, Anabel Cruz-Romero, Álvaro Peniche-Cardeña, Nelly Ibarra-Priego, Mariel Aguilar-Domínguez, Adalberto A Pérez-de-León and Jitender P Dubey
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:232
  6. Evaluation of factors that might impact microbiota assessment is important to avoid spurious results, particularly in field and multicenter studies where sample collection may occur distant from the laboratory...

    Authors: J Scott Weese and Mohammad Jalali
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:230
  7. Canine mammary tumors (CMTs) are the most common type of cancer found in female dogs. Establishment and evaluation of tumor cell lines can facilitate investigations of the biological mechanisms of cancer. Diff...

    Authors: Yen-Ling Hsiao, Tai-Zu Hsieh, Chian-Jiun Liou, Yeong-Hsiang Cheng, Chung-Tien Lin, Chi-Yao Chang and Yu-Shen Lai
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:229
  8. Toxoplasmosis is a major public health concern in many countries of the world. A cross-sectional and follow up experimental study designs were used for seroepidemiological and bioassay studies, respectively fr...

    Authors: Endrias Zewdu Gebremedhin, Hasen Awel Yunus, Gebregergs Tesfamaryam, Tesfaye Sisay Tessema, Fufa Dawo, Getachew Terefe, Vincenzo Di Marco and Maria Vitale
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:222
  9. Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is an etiological agent of porcine circovirus diseases (PCVDs). Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) as the most important PCVD is considered a multifactorial dis...

    Authors: Michaela Vlasakova, Valeria Leskova, Ivan Sliz, Anna Jackova and Stefan Vilcek
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:221
  10. Inclined or slippery surfaces and various other types of obstacles are common demands in our environment. Dogs with impaired locomotion might have difficulties to manage rough terrain. Gait analyses using forc...

    Authors: Therese Strasser, Christian Peham and Barbara A Bockstahler
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:241
  11. Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic pathogen that can infect a range of animals and humans. Ingestion of T. gondii oocysts in soil is a significant transmission route for humans and animals acquiring toxoplasmosis. I...

    Authors: Meng Wang, Peng Meng, Qiang Ye, Yuan-Hua Pu, Xiao-Yu Yang, Jian-Xun Luo, Nian-Zhang Zhang and De-Lin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:238
  12. Canine angiostrongylosis is a nematode infection in domestic dogs and wild carnivores. The present report focuses on epidemiological, clinical and histopathological findings in a case of fatal disseminated ang...

    Authors: Laura Rinaldi, Laura Cortese, Leonardo Meomartino, Teresa B Pagano, Paola Pepe, Giuseppe Cringoli and Serenella Papparella
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:236
  13. Bovine herpes virus type 1 (BHV-1) still causes great economic loss to the livestock industry and trade because there aren’t any available drugs that proved to be fully effective against it. In this study, the...

    Authors: Ramzi Boubaker–Elandalousi, Marwa Mekni–Toujani, Belhassen Kaabi, Imen Larbi, Mohamed-Fethi Diouani, Mohamed Gharbi, Hafidh Akkari, Fatma B’chir and Abdeljelil Ghram
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:231
  14. In ruminants, lower ruminal pH causes massive disruption of ruminal epithelial structure during periods of feeding high-concentrate diets. However, the influence of excessive organic fatty acids in the lumen o...

    Authors: Shiyu Tao, Yongqian Duanmu, Haibo Dong, Jing Tian, Yingdong Ni and Ruqian Zhao
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:235
  15. Perosomus elumbis (PE) is a congenital defect that has been observed sporadically in Holstein cattle for many years. However, several cases have been reported in recent years and this may indicate an unrecogni...

    Authors: Jørgen S Agerholm, Wendy Holm, Mette Schmidt, Poul Hyttel, Merete Fredholm and Fintan J McEvoy
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:227
  16. The supplementation of fat to lactating dairy cows has long been used as a management tool to increase dietary energy density for improving cow production, reproduction and to alleviate negative energy balance...

    Authors: John R Otto, Bunmi S Malau-Aduli, Razaq O Balogun, Peter Nish and Aduli E O Malau-Aduli
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:224
  17. Endocardiosis is the most common heart disease in Dachshunds and is therefore an important cause of cardiac morbidity and death. In recent years we have observed an increasing interest in the development of ne...

    Authors: Magdalena Hulanicka, Magdalena Garncarz, Marta Parzeniecka-Jaworska and Michał Jank
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:205
  18. Mycoplasma synoviae is an avian pathogen that can lead to respiratory tract infections and arthritis in chickens and turkeys, resulting in serious economic losses to the poultry industry. Enolase reportedly plays...

    Authors: Shijun Bao, Xiaoqin Guo, Shengqing Yu, Jiabo Ding, Lei Tan, Fanqin Zhang, Yingjie Sun, Xusheng Qiu, Guanghua Chen and Chan Ding
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:223
  19. Since its initial detection in May 2013, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) has spread rapidly throughout the US swine industry. Recently, contaminated feed was confirmed as a vehicle for PEDV infection of...

    Authors: Scott Dee, Casey Neill, Travis Clement, Jane Christopher-Hennings and Eric Nelson
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:220
  20. Human breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease classified by molecular subtyping into luminal A, luminal B, HER2-overexpressing, basal-like, claudin-low and normal-breast like. The routinely applied and standa...

    Authors: Diego Caliari, Valentina Zappulli, Roberta Rasotto, Barbara Cardazzo, Federica Frassineti, Michael H Goldschmidt and Massimo Castagnaro
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:185
  21. Duck viral hepatitis (DVH) is an acute disease of young ducklings with few convenient and effective veterinary drugs to treat. In pathology, present study mainly focused on the immune mechanism, but very few s...

    Authors: Wen Xiong, Yun Chen, Yu Wang and Jiaguo Liu
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:226
  22. As the importance of chlamydial infections in pigs has become more obvious, a rapid and sensitive method to study the prevalence of Chlamydia suis in pig herds is required. Such a method should permit routine dia...

    Authors: Paweł Lis, Aleksandra Kumala, Mirosław Spalinski and Krzysztof Rypula
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:225
  23. Anatomical differences between humans and domestic mammals preclude the use of reported stereotactic approaches to the brainstem in animals. In animals, brainstem biopsies are required both for histopathologic...

    Authors: Anne Staudacher, Anna Oevermann, Michael H Stoffel and Daniela Gorgas
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:216
  24. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is the etiologic agent of caseous lymphadenitis, a common disease in small ruminant populations throughout the world and responsible for a significant economic impact for produc...

    Authors: Manuela Oliveira, Cynthia Barroco, Carla Mottola, Raquel Santos, Abdelhak Lemsaddek, Luis Tavares and Teresa Semedo-Lemsaddek
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:218
  25. The snatch-farrowed porcine-colostrum-deprived (SF-pCD) pig model, in which neonates are raised on commercially available bovine colostrum, is an alternative model for porcine infectious disease research. It i...

    Authors: Yanyun Huang, Andrea Ladinig, Carolyn Ashley, Deborah M Haines and John CS Harding
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:219
  26. Hybrid external fixation (HEF) is an emerging technique for fracture stabilization in veterinary orthopedics, but its use has been reported in few papers in the veterinary literature. The linear and circular e...

    Authors: María Jiménez-Heras, Gian Luca Rovesti, Gianluca Nocco, Massimo Barilli, Paolo Bogoni, Emilio Salas-Herreros, Matteo Armato, Francesco Collivignarelli, Federico Vegni and Jesus Rodríguez-Quiros
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:189
  27. The yst gene that encodes the production of Yst enterotoxins is one of the most important and reliable virulence markers. Its ability to produce Yst has been demonstrated in pathogenic strains isolated from clini...

    Authors: Agata Bancerz-Kisiel, Karolina Lipczyńska, Anna Szczerba-Turek, Eugenia Gospodarek, Aleksandra Platt-Samoraj and Wojciech Szweda
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:207
  28. Veterinary infection control for the management of Hendra virus (HeV), an emerging zoonosis in Australia, remained suboptimal until 2010 despite 71.4% (5/7) of humans infected with HeV being veterinary personn...

    Authors: Diana H Mendez, Jenny Kelly, Petra Buttner, Madeleine Nowak and Rick Speare
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:215
  29. Brucella ceti infections have been increasingly reported in cetaceans. Brucellosis in these animals is associated with meningoencephalitis, abortion, discospondylitis’, subcutaneous abscesses, endometritis and ot...

    Authors: Marcos Isidoro-Ayza, Nazareth Ruiz-Villalobos, Lola Pérez, Caterina Guzmán-Verri, Pilar M Muñoz, Fernando Alegre, Montserrat Barberán, Carlos Chacón-Díaz, Esteban Chaves-Olarte, Rocio González-Barrientos, Edgardo Moreno, José María Blasco and Mariano Domingo
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:206
  30. Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (A.pp.) is the causative agent of porcine pleuropneumonia leading to high economic losses in the pig industry. Infrared thermography (IRT) of the thorax might offer a new method to...

    Authors: Anne Menzel, Martin Beyerbach, Carsten Siewert, Melanie Gundlach, Doris Hoeltig, Robert Graage, Hermann Seifert, Karl-Heinz Waldmann, Jutta Verspohl and Isabel Hennig-Pauka
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:199
  31. Layer chickens are exposed to high risks of production losses and mortality with impact on farm profitability. The harsh tropical climate and severe disease outbreaks, poor biosecurity, sub-minimal vaccination...

    Authors: Aminu Shittu, Abdullahi Abdullahi Raji, Shuaibu A Madugu, Akinola Waheed Hassan and Folorunso Oludayo Fasina
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:214
  32. Free-range housing, in which pigs have access to both indoor and outdoor areas, is mandatory in organic pig production in Europe, but little is known about the effects of this housing on joint health in pigs. ...

    Authors: Pernille Engelsen Etterlin, Bjørnar Ytrehus, Nils Lundeheim, Eva Heldmer, Julia Österberg and Stina Ekman
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:208
  33. Canine distemper virus (CDV) has been associated with outbreaks of canine infectious respiratory disease in shelters and boarding kennel environments. POCKITTM Nucleic Acid Analyzer is a field-deployable device c...

    Authors: Rebecca P Wilkes, Yun-Long Tsai, Pei-Yu Lee, Fu-Chun Lee, Hsiao-Fen Grace Chang and Hwa-Tang Thomas Wang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:213
  34. A significant heritability has been documented for articular osteochondrosis. Selection against osteochondrosis has historically been based on macroscopic evaluation, but as computed tomography (CT) now is use...

    Authors: Kristin Olstad, Jørgen Kongsro, Eli Grindflek and Nils I Dolvik
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:212
  35. The weaning period is critical for stress-related diseases and infections. Currently, large amounts of therapeutic antimicrobials are used to treat infections in the livestock production, especially in piglets...

    Authors: Tobias Gräber, Holger Kluge, Sebastian Granica, Gert Horn, Corinna Brandsch and Gabriele I Stangl
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:210
  36. The ghrelin axis is involved in the regulation of metabolism, energy balance, and the immune, cardiovascular and reproductive systems. The manipulation of this axis has potential for improving economically val...

    Authors: Moira Menzies, Inge Seim, Peter Josh, Shivashankar H Nagaraj, Michael Lees, Carina Walpole, Lisa K Chopin, Michelle Colgrave and Aaron Ingham
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:211
  37. The recognition and measurement of pain in cattle are important in determining the necessity for and efficacy of analgesic intervention. The aim of this study was to record behaviour and determine the validity...

    Authors: Flávia Augusta de Oliveira, Stelio Pacca Loureiro Luna, Jackson Barros do Amaral, Karoline Alves Rodrigues, Aline Cristina Sant'Anna, Milena Daolio and Juliana Tabarelli Brondani
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:200
  38. Acute postsurgical pain is of great interest due to potential risk of becoming chronic if not treated properly, worsening patient's recovery and quality of life. Twenty-eight dogs with ruptured cruciate ligame...

    Authors: Larissa B Cardozo, Lourenço C Cotes, Marcia A P Kahvegian, Maria Fernanda CI Rizzo, Denise A Otsuki, Cassio RA Ferrigno and Denise T Fantoni
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:194
  39. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of a newly developed micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) system for the diagnosis of oral pathologies in small animals, using the rabbit as a model. The diagno...

    Authors: Hiroshi Sasai, Hiroyuki Iwai, Daisuke Fujita, Eiko Seto and Yuki Izumi
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:209
  40. Nasal secretion (NS) was investigated as a source of information regarding the mucosal and systemic immune status of cattle challenged by respiratory disease. A method for the collection of substantial volumes...

    Authors: M Faizal Ghazali, HH Caline Koh-Tan, Mark McLaughlin, Paul Montague, Nicholas N Jonsson and P David Eckersall
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:204
  41. The NSAID mavacoxib (Trocoxil™) is a recently described selective COX-2 inhibitor used for the management of inflammatory disease in dogs. It has a long plasma half-life, requiring less frequent dosing and sup...

    Authors: Lisa Y Pang, Sally A Argyle, Ayako Kamida, Katherine O’Neill Morrison and David J Argyle
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:184
  42. Splenic abscess is a rare disease with only few reports in small-animal practice as well as in human medicine. It has been mostly reported in immunocompromised patients or following penetrating foreign bodies....

    Authors: Ahmed Abdellatif, Charlotte Günther, Christine Peppler and Martin Kramer
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:201
  43. Feeding polyphenol-rich plant products has been shown to increase the gain:feed ratio in growing pigs. The reason for this finding has not yet been elucidated. In order to find the reasons for an increase of t...

    Authors: Anja Fiesel, Denise K Gessner, Erika Most and Klaus Eder
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:196
  44. Eating and rumination variables were recorded in ten healthy cows over 5 days (group A) to generate reference intervals for comparison with the same variables recorded in ten cows in advanced pregnancy from te...

    Authors: Ueli Braun, Theresa Tschoner and Michael Hässig
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:195
  45. In 2013, a novel H7N9 avian influenza virus (AIV) was isolated from ill humans in Shanghai and Anhui Province, China. Since then, the virus has spread quickly throughout China. Previous isolation of H7N2 virus...

    Authors: Pei Zhou, Malin Hong, Mary M Merrill, Huamei He, Lingshuang Sun and Guihong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:203
  46. The aim of the present study was to compare the osteogenic potential of mesenchymal stem cells extracted from the bone marrow (BM-MSCs) and adipose tissue (AD-MSCs) of young dogs. The following parameters were...

    Authors: Endrigo GL Alves, Rogéria Serakides, Jankerle N Boeloni, Isabel R Rosado, Natália M Ocarino, Humberto P Oliveira, Alfredo M Góes and Cleuza MF Rezende
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:190
  47. Periodontal disease (PD) is the most widespread oral disease in dogs and has been associated with serious systemic diseases. The disease is more prevalent in small breeds compared to large breeds and incidence...

    Authors: Mark D Marshall, Corrin V Wallis, Lisa Milella, Alison Colyer, Andrew D Tweedie and Stephen Harris
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:166

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