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  1. There are limited data available on macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin (MLS) resistance of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) from bovine milk in China. To address this...

    Authors: Longping Li, Weiwei Feng, Zhiping Zhang, Huping Xue and Xin Zhao
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:168
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  2. Salmonella enterica serovar Pullorum (S. Pullorum) causes Pullorum disease (PD), a severe systemic disease of poultry and results in considerable economic losses in developing countrie...

    Authors: Junlei Yin, Zhao Cheng, Lijuan Xu, Qiuchun Li, Shizhong Geng, Zhiming Pan and Xinan Jiao
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:162
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  3. Laminitis is considered as the most important cause of hoof lameness in dairy cows, which causes abundant economic losses in husbandry. Through intense efforts in past decades, the etiology of laminitis is pre...

    Authors: Shu-Wei Dong, Shi-Dong Zhang, Dong-Sheng Wang, Hui Wang, Xiao-Fei Shang, Ping Yan, Zuo-Ting Yan and Zhi-Qiang Yang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:161
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  4. Among the coagulase-positive, potentially pathogenic staphylococci, Staphylococcus pseudintermedius has been frequently isolated from bitches’ milk. This organism colonizes the mammary gland or causes infection, ...

    Authors: Ada Rota, Michela Corrò, Ilenia Drigo, Alessio Bortolami and Stefan Börjesson
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:160
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  5. Mammary tumors are the most common tumor type in intact female dogs. Recently, the breast cancer 2 early onset (BRCA2) gene was proposed to be associated with tumorigenesis in dogs. The expression level of BRCA2 ...

    Authors: Yasunaga Yoshikawa, Masami Morimatsu, Kazuhiko Ochiai, Toshina Ishiguro-Oonuma, Seiichi Wada, Koichi Orino and Kiyotaka Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:159
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  6. Metallic phosphides are extremely toxic pesticides that are regulated in their usage. Information concerning the impact of metallic phosphides on human health is abundant. Data regarding the clinical pathology...

    Authors: Andras-Laszlo Nagy, Pompei Bolfa, Marian Mihaiu, Cornel Catoi, Adrian Oros, Marian Taulescu and Flaviu Tabaran
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:158
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  8. Brucellosis is a disease of worldwide public health and economic importance. Successful control is based on knowledge of epidemiology and strains present in an area. In developing countries, most investigation...

    Authors: C. Mathew, M. Stokstad, T. B. Johansen, S. Klevar, R. H. Mdegela, G. Mwamengele, P. Michel, L. Escobar, D. Fretin and J. Godfroid
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:156
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  9. Edwardsiella tarda, is a serious bacterial pathogen affecting a broad range of aquaculture fish species. The bacterium has also been reported as a human pathogen, however recent studie...

    Authors: Pantelis Katharios, Constantina Kokkari, Nancy Dourala and Maria Smyrli
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:155
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  10. Canine distemper virus (CDV) is a major pathogen of dogs and wild carnivores worldwide. In Switzerland, distemper in domestic dogs is rarely reported. In recent years, the import of dogs from Eastern Europe to...

    Authors: Barbara Willi, Andrea M. Spiri, Marina L. Meli, Felix Grimm, Laura Beatrice, Barbara Riond, Tim Bley, Rolf Jordi, Matthias Dennler and Regina Hofmann-Lehmann
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:154
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  11. Bartonellosis is an emerging zoonotic infection responsible for a variety of clinical syndromes in humans and animals. Members of the genus Bartonella exhibit high degrees of genetic diversity and ecologic plasti...

    Authors: Kai-Ling Kho, Fui-Xian Koh, Tariq Jaafar, Quaza Nizamuddin Hassan Nizam and Sun-Tee Tay
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:153
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  12. Treatment for horses with pythiosis of a limb is challenging. This study aims to evaluate the effects of administering amphotericin B in a 10 % solution of dimethylsulfoxide by intravenous regional limb perfus...

    Authors: Renata GS Dória, Mariana B Carvalho, Silvio H Freitas, Luciane M Laskoski, Edson M Colodel, Fábio S Mendonça, Marco AG Silva, Renan Grigoletto and Paulo Fantinato Neto
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:152
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  13. Canine mammary carcinoma is the most common cancer in female dogs and is often fatal due to the development of distance metastasis. The microenvironment of a tumour often contains abundant infiltrates of macro...

    Authors: Breno C.B. Beirão, Teresa Raposo, Lisa Y. Pang and David J. Argyle
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:151
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  14. Flavobacterium psychrophilum causes serious fish diseases such RTFS and BCWD, affecting the aquaculture industry worldwide. Commercial vaccines are not available and control of the dis...

    Authors: Patricia Apablaza, Øyvind J. Brevik, Svein Mjøs, Samuel Valdebenito, Pedro Ilardi, Juan Battaglia, Inger Dalsgaard and Are Nylund
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:150
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  15. This study focused on the descriptive analysis of cattle movements and farm-level parameters derived from cattle movements, which are considered to be generically suitable for risk-based surveillance systems i...

    Authors: Sara Schärrer, Stefan Widgren, Heinzpeter Schwermer, Ann Lindberg, Beatriz Vidondo, Jakob Zinsstag and Martin Reist
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:149
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  16. Brucella microti was first isolated from common vole (Microtus arvalis) in the Czech Republic in Central Europe in 2007. As B. microti is the only Brucella species known to live in soi...

    Authors: Zsuzsanna Rónai, Zsuzsa Kreizinger, Ádám Dán, Kevin Drees, Jeffrey T. Foster, Krisztián Bányai, Szilvia Marton, Levente Szeredi, Szilárd Jánosi and Miklós Gyuranecz
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:147
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  18. Neoplastic lesions of the mammary gland, lymph nodes, or oral cavity in African pygmy hedgehogs (Atelerix albiventris) are common in captive animals. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy protocols have not yet been esta...

    Authors: Anna Wozniak-Biel, Maciej Janeczek, Izabela Janus and Marcin Nowak
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:145
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  19. Fusarium infection with concurrent production of deoxynivalenol (DON) causes an increasing safety concern with feed worldwide. This study was conducted to determine the effects of varying level...

    Authors: Li Wu, Peng Liao, Liuqin He, Wenkai Ren, Jie Yin, Jielin Duan and Tiejun Li
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:144
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  20. Osteoarthritis is thought to be the most prevalent chronic and disabling joint disease in animals and humans. At present, there is no ideal treatment option. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of ...

    Authors: María Permuy, David Guede, Mónica López-Peña, Fernando Muñoz, Jose-Ramón Caeiro and Antonio González-Cantalapiedra
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:143
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  21. Over the last years, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) has caused devastating enteric diseases in the US and several countries in Asia, while outbreaks in Europe have only been reported sporadically since...

    Authors: Julia Stadler, Susanne Zoels, Robert Fux, Dennis Hanke, Anne Pohlmann, Sandra Blome, Herbert Weissenböck, Christiane Weissenbacher-Lang, Mathias Ritzmann and Andrea Ladinig
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:142
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  22. Studies in humans have shown that haemostatic and inflammatory pathways both play important roles in the pathogenesis of joint disease. The aim of this study was to assess mRNA expression of haemostatic and in...

    Authors: Stine Mandrup Andreassen, Lise C. Berg, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Annemarie T. Kristensen and Stine Jacobsen
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:141
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  23. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) vaccines are used for experimental immunotherapy of equine melanoma. The injection of complexed linear DNA encoding interleukin (IL)-12/IL-18 induced partial tumour remission in a c...

    Authors: Christiane L. Schnabel, P. Steinig, M. Koy, H.-J. Schuberth, C. Juhls, D. Oswald, B. Wittig, S. Willenbrock, H. Murua Escobar, C. Pfarrer, B. Wagner, P. Jaehnig, A. Moritz, K. Feige and J.-M. V. Cavalleri
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:140
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  24. In recent years, new neonatal porcine diarrhoea (NNPD) of unknown aetiology has emerged in Denmark. NNPD affects piglets during the first week of life and results in impaired welfare, decreased weight gain, an...

    Authors: Marie Louise Hermann-Bank, Kerstin Skovgaard, Anders Stockmarr, Mikael Lenz Strube, Niels Larsen, Hanne Kongsted, Hans-Christian Ingerslev, Lars Mølbak and Mette Boye
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:139
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  25. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the first intron of the myostatin gene (MSTN) is associated with aptness of elite Thoroughbreds to race over sprint, middle or long distances. This intronic marker (g.664...

    Authors: René van den Hoven, Emre Gür, Manuela Schlamanig, Martin Hofer, Ali Cesur Onmaz and Ralf Steinborn
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:138
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  26. Salmonellosis is of great economic concern in all phases of the poultry industry, from production to marketing, leading to severe economic losses. Monitoring the source of the bacterial contamination has funda...

    Authors: Anna Zaczek, Arkadiusz Wojtasik, Radosław Izdebski, Elzbieta Gorecka, Ewelina A. Wojcik, Tomasz Nowak, Piotr Kwiecinski and Jaroslaw Dziadek
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:137
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  27. Dietary supplement use in both human and animals to augment overall health continues to increase and represents a potential health risk due to the lack of safety regulations imposed on the manufacturers. Becau...

    Authors: Adrienne C. Bautista, Caroline E. Moore, Yanping Lin, Martha G. Cline, Noemi Benitah and Birgit Puschner
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:136
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  28. Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an economically devastating emerging viral disease of cattle caused by a virus associated with the Neethlig poxvirus in the genus Capripoxvirus of the family Poxviridae. A cross-sectio...

    Authors: Zelalem Abera, Hailu Degefu, Getachew Gari and Menbere Kidane
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:135
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  29. In horses, insights into the innate immune processes in acute systemic inflammation are limited even though these processes may be highly important for future diagnostic and therapeutic advances in high-mortal...

    Authors: Anne Mette L Vinther, Kerstin Skovgaard, Peter MH Heegaard and Pia H Andersen
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:134
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  30. African swine fever (ASF) is one of the major setbacks to development of the pig industry in Nigeria. It is enzootic in southwest Nigeria. We determined the sero-prevalence and factors associated with ASF amon...

    Authors: Emmanuel Jolaoluwa Awosanya, Babasola Olugasa, Gabriel Ogundipe and Yrjo Tapio Grohn
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:133
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  31. Equine melanoma has a high incidence in grey horses. Xenogenic DNA vaccination may represent a promising therapeutic approach against equine melanoma as it successfully induced an immunological response in oth...

    Authors: Kathrin Mählmann, Karsten Feige, Christiane Juhls, Anne Endmann, Hans-Joachim Schuberth, Detlef Oswald, Maren Hellige, Marcus Doherr and Jessika-MV Cavalleri
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:132
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  32. Spenic hemangiosarcoma (HSA) in dogs treated with surgery alone is associated with short survival times, and the addition of doxorubicin (DOX) chemotherapy only modestly improves outcome. The purpose of this s...

    Authors: Heather L. Gardner, Cheryl A. London, Roberta A. Portela, Sandra Nguyen, Mona P. Rosenberg, Mary K. Klein, Craig Clifford, Douglas H. Thamm, David M. Vail, Phil Bergman, Martin Crawford-Jakubiak, Carolyn Henry, Jennifer Locke and Laura D. Garrett
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:131
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  33. Rabbits are susceptible to infection by different species of the genus Mycobacterium. Particularly, development of specific lesions and isolation of Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium and Mycobacterium avium subsp....

    Authors: Rakel Arrazuria, Iker A Sevilla, Elena Molina, Valentín Pérez, Joseba M Garrido, Ramón A Juste and Natalia Elguezabal
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:130
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  34. The Loggerhead Shrike, Eastern subspecies (Lanius ludovicianus ssp.) (LOSH) is a predatory songbird native to Eastern North America. It is estimated that there are fewer than 55 breeding pairs of this subspecies ...

    Authors: E. Jane Parmley, David L. Pearl, Nadine A. Vogt, Stephanie Yates, G. Douglas Campbell, Jessica Steiner, Tara L. Imlay, Simon Hollamby, Ken Tuininga and Ian K. Barker
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:129
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  35. Fasciola hepatica is a parasite with a significant impact on ruminant livestock production. Previous studies in north-west Europe have described its geographical distribution and determined pot...

    Authors: Adam Novobilský, Jakub Novák, Camilla Björkman and Johan Höglund
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:128
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  36. African horse sickness (AHS) is a major, Culicoides-borne viral disease in equines whose introduction into Europe could have dramatic consequences. The disease is considered to be endemic in sub-Saharan Africa. R...

    Authors: C. Faverjon, A. Leblond, P. Hendrikx, T. Balenghien, C. J. de Vos, E.A.J. Fischer and A.A. de Koeijer
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:127
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  37. The prevalence of equine herpesvirus types-1 and -4 (EHV-1 and -4) in South African Thoroughbreds at auction sales is currently undefined. Commingling of young Thoroughbreds from various populations together w...

    Authors: Marcha Badenhorst, Patrick Page, Andre Ganswindt, Peter Laver, Alan Guthrie and Martin Schulman
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:126
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  38. Contagious Epididymitis (CE) due to Brucella ovis (B. ovis) is a contagious disease that impairs rams’ fertility due to epididymis, testicle and accessory sexual gland alterations. An increased incidence of CE ha...

    Authors: Nicole Picard-Hagen, Xavier Berthelot, Jean Luc Champion, Laure Eon, Faouzi Lyazrhi, Maxime Marois, Marceline Peglion, Aude Schuster, Christel Trouche and Bruno Garin-Bastuji
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:125
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  39. The aims of this study were to compare the pharmacokinetics of albendazole sulfoxide (ABZ-SO, ricobendazole) in goats and sheep at a dose of 5 mg/kg bodyweight (BW), after intravenous (IV) and subcutaneous (SC...

    Authors: Dilek Aksit, Hande Sultan Yalinkilinc, Selim Sekkin, Murat Boyacioğlu, Veli Yilgor Cirak, Erol Ayaz and Cengiz Gokbulut
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:124
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  40. Hepatic 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3β-HSD) plays an important role in steroid inactivation and catabolism. Serum concentrations of steroid hormones differ significantly between breeds in pigs, however th...

    Authors: Xian Li, Yimin Jia, Runsheng Li, Zhiyuan Sun, Xi Li, Shiyan Sui and Ruqian Zhao
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:123
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  41. Mites are one of the most common and widely distributed ectoparasites of small ruminants in Ethiopia, contributing to major hindrances in livestock productivity in the country. Despite of this fact, specific s...

    Authors: Ahmed Yasine, Bersissa Kumsa, Yacob Hailu and Dinka Ayana
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:122
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  42. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is characterized by severe reproductive failure and severe pneumonia in neonatal pigs and is caused by PRRS virus (PRRSV). Glycoprotein 5 (GP5) from PRRSV i...

    Authors: Dan Xiong, Li Song, Xianyue Zhai, Shizhong Geng, Zhiming Pan and Xinan Jiao
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:121
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  43. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals and causes significant economic losses to husbandry worldwide. The variable domain of heavy-chain antibodies (VHHs...

    Authors: Di Wang, Shunli Yang, Shuanghui Yin, Youjun Shang, Ping Du, Jianhong Guo, Jijun He, Jianping Cai and Xiangtao Liu
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:120
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  44. Cystic echinococcosis, which is caused by Echinococcus granulosus, is one of the most widespread zoonotic helminth diseases that affects humans and livestock. Dogs, which harbor adult worms in their small intesti...

    Authors: Ying Wang, Di Xiao, Yujuan Shen, Xiuming Han, Fei Zhao, Xiaohong Li, Weiping Wu, Hejun Zhou, Jianzhong Zhang and Jianping Cao
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:119
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  45. Brucellosis is the most common bacterial zoonosis, and serological tests are routinely used in brucellosis control and eradication programs. In order to improve the accuracy of serological diagnostic method us...

    Authors: Xiaolei Wang, Yan Wang, Limei Ma, Ran Zhang, Yanyan De, Xiaowen Yang, Chuanqing Wang and Qingmin Wu
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:118
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  46. Lesions related to working conditions and improper saddle design are a concern for a variety of working animals including elephants. The objectives of the present study were to determine the prevalence of cuta...

    Authors: Scarlett Magda, Olivia Spohn, Taweepoke Angkawanish, Dale A. Smith and David L. Pearl
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:117
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  47. Regular physical activity is beneficial to the health of both people and animals. The role of regular exercise undertaken together, such as dog walking, is a public health interest of mutual benefit. Explorati...

    Authors: Carri Westgarth, Hayley E. Christian and Robert M. Christley
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:116
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  48. Alexander disease is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that has not often been described in dogs. None of the existing descriptions include electrodiagnostic or magnetic resonance imaging workup. This is the f...

    Authors: Marcin Wrzosek, Elżbieta Giza, Marta Płonek, Przemysław Podgórski and Marc Vandevelde
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:115
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  49. Infections with carp edema virus, a pox virus, are known from Japanese koi populations since 1974. A characteristic clinical sign associated with this infection is lethargy and therefore the disease is called ...

    Authors: Verena Jung-Schroers, Mikolaj Adamek, Felix Teitge, John Hellmann, Sven Michael Bergmann, Heike Schütze, Dirk Willem Kleingeld, Keith Way, David Stone, Martin Runge, Barbara Keller, Shohreh Hesami, Thomas Waltzek and Dieter Steinhagen
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:114
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  50. Bovine parainfluenza 3 viruses (BPI3V) are respiratory pathogens of cattle that cause disease singly but are often associated with bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) in conjunction with other viral and ...

    Authors: John D. Neill, Julia F. Ridpath and Binu T. Valayudhan
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2015 11:112
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