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  1. Stoned olive pomace (SOP), which represents approximately 50% of the conversion process of olive in oil, is largely not-utilized and creates costs for its disposal and problems related to environmental impact. In...

    Authors: Grazia Pallara, Arianna Buccioni, Roberta Pastorelli, Sara Minieri, Marcello Mele, Stefano Rapaccini, Anna Messini, Mariano Pauselli, Maurizio Servili, Luciana Giovannetti and Carlo Viti
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:271
  2. Cadherins are calcium-dependent cell-to-cell adhesion glycoproteins playing a critical role in the formation and maintenance of normal tissue architecture. In normal mammary gland, E-cadherin is expressed by l...

    Authors: Ana Catarina Figueira, Catarina Gomes, Joana Tavares de Oliveira, Hugo Vilhena, Júlio Carvalheira, Augusto JF de Matos, Patrícia Dias Pereira and Fátima Gärtner
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:270
  3. Pasteurella multocida causes numerous economically relevant diseases in livestock including rabbits. Immunisation is only variably effective. Prophylactic antibiotics are used in some species but are contra-indic...

    Authors: Orsolya Palócz, János Gál, Paul Clayton, Zoltán Dinya, Zoltán Somogyi, Csaba Juhász and György Csikó
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:276
  4. Campylobacter jejuni is commonly found in the gastrointestinal tract of many food-animals including sheep without causing visible clinical symptoms of disease. However, C. jejuni has been implicated in ovine abor...

    Authors: Yasser M Sanad, Kwonil Jung, Isaac Kashoma, Xiaoli Zhang, Issmat I Kassem, Yehia M Saif and Gireesh Rajashekara
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:274
  5. Infection pathways of S. aureus udder infections in heifers are still not well understood. One hypothesis is that calves become infected with S. aureus via feeding mastitis milk. Especially on small-scale farms, ...

    Authors: Katharina Abb-Schwedler, Ariane Maeschli, Renate Boss, Hans U Graber, Adrian Steiner and Peter Klocke
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:267
  6. In the first phase of life, in which the immune system is primed and the bacterial colonization of epithelial surfaces takes place, foals are highly susceptible to bacterial infections. Next to strategies to o...

    Authors: Johannes Cornelis Vendrig, Luc Edgar Coffeng and Johanna Fink-Gremmels
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:278
  7. Axial osteitis of the proximal sesamoid bones and desmitis of the intersesamoidean ligament has been described in Friesian horses as well as in other breeds. The objectives of this study were to review the out...

    Authors: Harold Brommer, Margreet Voermans, Stefanie Veraa, Antoon JM van den Belt, Annette van der Toorn, Margreet Ploeg, Andrea Gröne and Willem Back
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:272
  8. Sporotrichosis is a mycotic infectious disease that is generally acquired by traumatic inoculation of contaminated materials especially from plant debris or through bites and scratches from diseased animals, s...

    Authors: Hildebrando Montenegro, Anderson Messias Rodrigues, Maria Adelaide Galvão Dias, Elisabete Aparecida da Silva, Fernanda Bernardi and Zoilo Pires de Camargo
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:269
  9. Cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) rupture is a very common cause of pelvic limb lameness in dogs. Few studies, using objective and validated outcome evaluation methods, have been published to evaluate long-term ...

    Authors: Sari H Mölsä, Heli K Hyytiäinen,, Anna K Hielm-Björkman and Outi M Laitinen-Vapaavuori
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:266
  10. Acquired equine polyneuropathy (AEP) is an emerging disease in horses in Sweden, Norway and Finland since 1995. Affected horses show bilateral pelvic limb knuckling and weakness, sometimes progressing to recum...

    Authors: Cecilia Wolff, Agneta Egenvall, Siv Hanche-Olsen and Gittan Gröndahl
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:265
  11. Gastrointestinal nematodes are an important cause of reduced performance in cattle. Previous studies in Europe showed that after anthelmintic treatment an average gain in milk production of around 1 kg per day...

    Authors: Sien H Verschave, Jozef Vercruysse, Andrew Forbes, Geert Opsomer, Miel Hostens, Luc Duchateau and Johannes Charlier
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:264
  12. Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), also known as Goat Plague, occurs in goats, sheep and related species. It is caused by a morbillivirus in the family Paramyxoviridae. In Bangladesh PPR is endemic and it causes s...

    Authors: Emdadul Haque Chowdhury, Ataur Rahman Bhuiyan, Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman, Mohammad Sahinur Alam Siddique and Mohammad Rafiqul Islam
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:263
  13. As a consequence of the increasing levels of anthelmintic resistance in cyathostomes, new strategies for equine parasite control are being implemented. To assess the potential risks of these, the occurrence of...

    Authors: Stephanie Schneider, Kurt Pfister, Anne M Becher and Miriam C Scheuerle
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:262
  14. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is a costly feature of modern cattle production. Early and accurate detection of BRD may prove useful in the successful management of this disease. The primary objective of the...

    Authors: Charles A Hinds, Andrew J Niehaus, Christopher Premanandan, Paivi J Rajala-Schultz, Donald M Rings and Jeffrey Lakritz
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:261
  15. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility of using a telephone survey in gaining an understanding of the possible herd and management factors influencing the performance (i.e. safety and eff...

    Authors: Heiko Nathues, Johanna Meyer-Hamme, Petra Maass, Ruediger Goessl, Wibke Stansen, Rolf Steens and Elisabeth grosse Beilage
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:260
  16. The efficacy, acceptability and tolerability of the new oral phosphate binder Lenziaren® (SBR759) were evaluated in a randomized parallel-group design study in 36 healthy cats (n = 6 per group). Five groups we...

    Authors: Jonathan N King, Heidi L Erasmus, Peet C Delport, Ina CJ Bester and Wolfgang Seewald
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:258
  17. Since 2009, large-scale Streptococcus agalactiae infections have broken out in cultured tilapia farms in China, resulting in considerable economic losses. Screening of the surface proteins is required to identify...

    Authors: Guangjin Liu, Wei Zhang, Yongjie Liu, Huochun Yao, Chengping Lu and Pao Xu
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:259
  18. Schmallenberg virus (SBV) was first detected in November 2011 in Germany and then rapidly spread throughout Europe. In beef suckler farms, clinical signs are mainly associated with reproductive disorders, part...

    Authors: Didier Raboisson, Agnès Waret-Szkuta, Jonathan Rushton, Barbara Häsler and Pablo Alarcon
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:254
  19. Mycoplasma bovis is a worldwide pathogen, causative agent of pneumonia, mastitis, arthritis, and a variety of other symptoms in cattle. The economic losses due to mycoplasma pneumonia could be reduced by antibiot...

    Authors: Kinga M Sulyok, Zsuzsa Kreizinger, Lilla Fekete, Veronika Hrivnák, Tibor Magyar, Szilárd Jánosi, Nóra Schweitzer, Ibolya Turcsányi, László Makrai, Károly Erdélyi and Miklós Gyuranecz
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:256
  20. Various antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) are used for the management of canine idiopathic epilepsy (IE). Information on their clinical efficacy remains limited. A systematic review was designed to evaluate existing ...

    Authors: Marios Charalambous, David Brodbelt and Holger A Volk
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:257
  21. In order to characterize the functional properties of canine protein C (CnPC), the zymogen needs to be purified from plasma. The goals of this study were (1) to purify protein C from fresh frozen canine plasma...

    Authors: Valerie M Wong, Dorothee Bienzle, M Anthony Hayes, Paul Taylor and R Darren Wood
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:251
  22. Opioid-induced immobilization is associated with severe respiratory depression in the white rhinoceros. We evaluated the efficacy of butorphanol and oxygen insufflation in alleviating opioid-induced respirator...

    Authors: Anna Haw, Markus Hofmeyr, Andrea Fuller, Peter Buss, Michele Miller, Gregory Fleming and Leith Meyer
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:253
  23. A variety of analgesic agents are available, and which one can be used in dogs and cats is a highly controversial issue, existing however a fear in the use of opiates due to possible adverse effects that these...

    Authors: Marina C Evangelista, Rodrigo A Silva, Larissa B Cardozo, Marcia A P Kahvegian, Thais C Rossetto, Julia M Matera and Denise T Fantoni
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:252
  24. Sonographic ophthalmic examinations have become increasingly important in veterinary medicine. If the velocity of ultrasound in ocular tissues is known, the A-mode ultrasound method may be used to determine th...

    Authors: Ulrike Meister, Bernhard Ohnesorge, Daniel Körner and Michael H Boevé
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:250
  25. The Schmallenberg virus (SBV) emerged in Europe in 2011 and caused a widespread epidemic in ruminants.

    Authors: Morgane Dominguez, Kristel Gache, Anne Touratier, Jean-Baptiste Perrin, Alexandre Fediaevsky, Eric Collin, Emmanuel Bréard, Corinne Sailleau, Cyril Viarouge, Gina Zanella, Stephan Zientara, Pascal Hendrikx and Didier Calavas
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:248
  26. Right ventricular (RV) volume and function are important diagnostic and prognostic factors in dogs with primary or secondary right-sided heart failure. The complex shape of the right ventricle and its retroste...

    Authors: Anne K Sieslack, Peter Dziallas, Ingo Nolte, Patrick Wefstaedt and Stephan O Hungerbühler
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:242
  27. Active surveillance of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) should ease prevention and control of this disease widely present across Africa, Middle East, central and southern Asia. PPR is now present in Turkey at ...

    Authors: Ataur Rahman Bhuiyan, Emdadul Haque Chowdhury, Olivier Kwiatek, Rokshana Parvin, Mushfiqur M Rahman, Mohammad R Islam, Emmanuel Albina and Geneviève Libeau
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:247
  28. Regional anaesthetic techniques have been used in combination with systemic analgesics during small animal surgery to provide multimodal analgesia. Brachial plexus nerves block using local anaesthetics provide...

    Authors: Peter Kimeli, Eddy M Mogoa, Willy E Mwangi, Ambrose N Kipyegon, Gilbert Kirui, Daniel W Muasya, John D Mande, Edward Kariuki and Dominic Mijele
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:249
  29. Bovine Neonatal Pancytopenia (BNP) is a disease of calves characterised by bone marrow trilineage hypoplasia, mediated by ingestion of alloantibodies in colostrum. Suspected subclinical forms of BNP have been ...

    Authors: Charlotte R Bell, Morag G Kerr, Philip R Scott, W Ivan Morrison and Helen Brown
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:245
  30. Concern has been raised regarding the potential contributions of veterinary antimicrobial use to increasing levels of resistance in bacteria critically important to human health. Canine pyoderma is a frequent,...

    Authors: Jennifer F Summers, Anke Hendricks and David C Brodbelt
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:240
  31. Thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) is a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) precursor enzyme and a proliferation biomarker used for prognosis and treatment monitoring of breast cancer in humans. The aim was to determine if seru...

    Authors: Kiran Kumar Jagarlamudi, Sara Westberg, Henrik Rönnberg and Staffan Eriksson
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:228
  32. Mastitis is still considered to be the most economically important infectious disease in dairy cattle breeding. The immune response in mammary gland tissues could help in developing support strategies to comba...

    Authors: Ewa M Kościuczuk, Paweł Lisowski, Justyna Jarczak, Józef Krzyżewski, Lech Zwierzchowski and Emilia Bagnicka
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:246
  33. Taenia solium is a zoonotic helminth with the potential to cause life threatening epilepsy in people through the aberrant larval infection of the brain called Neurocysticercosis (NCC). The pig is the intermediate...

    Authors: Zachary Nsadha, Lian F Thomas, Eric M Févre, George Nasinyama, Lonzy Ojok and Charles Waiswa
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2014 10:239
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. 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

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