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  1. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is the etiologic agent of caseous lymphadenitis (CL), a chronic disease that affects goats and sheep. CL is characterized by the formation of granulo...

    Authors: Vera Lúcia Costa Vale, Marcos da Costa Silva, Andréia Pacheco de Souza, Soraya Castro Trindade, Lília Ferreira de Moura-Costa, Ellen Karla Nobre dos Santos-Lima, Ivana Lucia de Oliveira Nascimento, Hugo Saba Pereira Cardoso, Edson de Jesus Marques, Bruno Jean Adrien Paule and Roberto José Meyer Nascimento
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:195
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  2. Streptococcosis is an important disease of tilapia throughout the world. In Malaysia, streptococcosis outbreak was commonly reported during the 3-month period of high water temperature between April and July. ...

    Authors: M. S. Ismail, A. Siti-Zahrah, M. R. M. Syafiq, M. N. A. Amal, M. Firdaus-Nawi and M. Zamri-Saad
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:194
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  3. Arthritis is an economically significant disease in lambs and is usually the result of a bacterial infection. One of the known agents of this disease is Chlamydia pecorum, a globally recognised livestock pathogen...

    Authors: Evelyn Walker, Cecily Moore, Patrick Shearer, Martina Jelocnik, Sankhya Bommana, Peter Timms and Adam Polkinghorne
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:193
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  4. African swine fever (ASF), caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV), is a severe haemorrhagic disease of pigs, outbreaks of which can have a devastating impact upon commercial and small-holder pig production...

    Authors: Lian F. Thomas, Richard P. Bishop, Cynthia Onzere, Michael T. Mcintosh, Karissa A. Lemire, William A. de Glanville, E. Anne J. Cook and Eric M. Fèvre
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:192
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  5. Regenerative and anti-inflammatory effects on tendinopathies have been attributed to blood-derived biologicals. To date the evidence for the efficacy of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment of natur...

    Authors: Florian Geburek, Moritz Gaus, Hans T. M. van Schie, Karl Rohn and Peter M. Stadler
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:191
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  6. The present study was undertaken to gain knowledge on the role of bile components and lecithin on development of aberrations in digestive functions which seemingly have increased in Atlantic salmon in parallel...

    Authors: Trond M. Kortner, Michael H. Penn, Ingemar Bjӧrkhem, Kjell Måsøval and Åshild Krogdahl
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:190
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  7. Colonisation of the environment of nursery units by pathogenic micro-organisms is an important factor in the persistence and spread of endemic diseases in pigs and zoonotic pathogens. These pathogens are gener...

    Authors: K. Luyckx, S. Millet, S. Van Weyenberg, L. Herman, M. Heyndrickx, J. Dewulf and K. De Reu
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:189
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  8. Canine ventral atlantoaxial (AA) stabilization is most commonly performed in very small dogs and is technically challenging due to extremely narrow bone corridors. Multiple implantation sites have been suggest...

    Authors: Guillaume Leblond, Luis Gaitero, Noel M. Moens, Alex zur Linden, Fiona M. K. James, Gabrielle Monteith and John Runciman
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:188
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  9. Surveillance measures can only be effective if key players in the system accept them. Acceptability, which describes the willingness of persons to contribute, is often analyzed using participatory methods. Par...

    Authors: Katja Schulz, Clémentine Calba, Marisa Peyre, Christoph Staubach and Franz J. Conraths
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:187
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  10. The quinoxaline 1,4-di-N-oxides (QdNOs) were known as potent antibacterial agents. For the purpose of evaluating the bioactivity of existing animal-used QdNOs drugs against representative pathogenic microorganism...

    Authors: Yan Zhao, Guyue Cheng, Haihong Hao, Yuanhu Pan, Zhenli Liu, Menghong Dai and Zonghui Yuan
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:186
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  11. To optimize antimicrobial dosing in different animal species, pharmacokinetic information is necessary. Due to the plethora of cephalosporin antimicrobials and animal species in which they are used, assessment...

    Authors: Femke J. Taverne, Ingeborg M. van Geijlswijk, Dick J. J. Heederik, Jaap A. Wagenaar and Johan W. Mouton
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:185
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  12. Diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus) is challenging and might require combining cellular and humoral diagnostic tests. Repeated skin-testing with mycobacterial purified protein derivat...

    Authors: Azlan Che-Amat, Maria Ángeles Risalde, David González-Barrio, Jose Antonio Ortíz and Christian Gortázar
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:184
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  13. Dirofilaria repens is a mosquito-transmitted, filarial nematode parasitizing dogs, cats and other carnivores. Recently, this parasite has spread in central Europe, including Poland. Th...

    Authors: Anna Bajer, Anna Rodo, Ewa J. Mierzejewska, Katarzyna Tołkacz and Renata Welc-Faleciak
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:183
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  14. The increasing popularity gained by pet birds over recent decades has highlighted the role of avian medicine and surgery in the global veterinary scenario; such a need for speciality avian medical practice ref...

    Authors: Irene A. Veladiano, Tommaso Banzato, Luca Bellini, Alessandro Montani, Salvatore Catania and Alessandro Zotti
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:182
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  15. Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a pathogen of domestic and wildlife animals worldwide and is associated with several diseases. In China, there are many reports about genotyping of BVDV strains originated...

    Authors: Li Mao, Wenliang Li, Leilei Yang, Jianhui Wang, Suping Cheng, Yong Wei, Qiusheng Wang, Wenwen Zhang, Fei Hao, Yonglong Ding, Yinhua Sun and Jieyuan Jiang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:181
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  16. As fish eaters bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in human care need to receive daily vitamin supplementation, because whole thawed fish lacks certain vitamins. However, the exact concentration of supplemen...

    Authors: Angela Emilia Ricarda Gimmel, Katrin Baumgartner and Annette Liesegang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:180
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  18. Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses (EEHVs) can cause acute haemorrhagic disease in young Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) and clinical EEHV infections account for the majority of their fatalities. The anti-...

    Authors: Akbar Dastjerdi, Katharina Seilern-Moy, Karin Darpel, Falko Steinbach and Fieke Molenaar
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:178
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  19. This paper examines the use of Bulk Milk antibody (BM Ab), Youngstock (YS) serology (Check Tests) and Bulk Milk PCR (BM PCR) for determining the presence or absence of animals persistently infected (PI) with B...

    Authors: Richard E. Booth and Joe Brownlie
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:177
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  20. Screening Atlantic cetacean populations for Cetacean Morbillivirus (CeMV) is essential to understand the epidemiology of the disease. In Europe, Portugal and Spain have the highest cetacean stranding rates, mo...

    Authors: Maria Carolina Rocha de Medeiros Bento, Catarina Isabel Costa Simões Eira, José Vitor Vingada, Ana Luisa Marçalo, Marisa Cláudia Teixeira Ferreira, Alfredo Lopez Fernandez, Luís Manuel Morgado Tavares and Ana Isabel Simões Pereira Duarte
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:176
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  21. Porcine cirovirus type 1 (PCV1) and type 2 (PCV2) are circulating in Chinese pig herds and the infected pigs develop antibodies to both viruses. Current commercial available ELISA kits cannot differentiate PCV...

    Authors: Shuizhong Han, Yan Xiao, Dingding Zheng, Yanli Gu, Yajie Xuan, Yudan Jin, Wenqiang Pang, Yuxin Huang, Xiangdong Li, Junhua Deng and Kegong Tian
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:175
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  22. Canine atopic dermatitis (cAD) is a common chronic and pruritic skin disease in dogs. The development of cAD involves complex interactions between environmental antigens, genetic predisposition and a number of...

    Authors: Alicja Majewska, Małgorzata Gajewska, Kourou Dembele, Henryk Maciejewski, Adam Prostek and Michał Jank
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:174
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  23. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious, fatal prion disease affecting cervids in a growing number of regions across North America. Projected deer population declines and concern about potential spread o...

    Authors: F. D. Uehlinger, A. C. Johnston, T. K. Bollinger and C. L. Waldner
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:173
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  24. Hereditary bisalbuminemia is a relatively rare anomaly characterized by the occurrence of two albumin fractions on serum protein separation by electrophoresis. In human medicine, it is usually revealed by chan...

    Authors: Claudia Gili, Federico Bonsembiante, Renzo Bonanni, Alessia Giordano, Sabina Ledda, Giorgia Beffagna, Saverio Paltrinieri, Matteo Sommer and Maria Elena Gelain
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:172
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  25. In recent decades there has been a growing concern about animal stress on intensive pig farms due to the undesirable consequences that stress produces in the normal physiology of pigs and its effects on their ...

    Authors: Silvia Martínez-Miró, Fernando Tecles, Marina Ramón, Damián Escribano, Fuensanta Hernández, Josefa Madrid, Juan Orengo, Silvia Martínez-Subiela, Xavier Manteca and José Joaquín Cerón
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:171
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Mycoplasma sp. 1220 can induce inflammation primarily in the genital and respiratory tracts of waterfowl, leading to serious economic losses. Adequate housing and appropriate antibioti...

    Authors: Dénes Grózner, Zsuzsa Kreizinger, Kinga M. Sulyok, Zsuzsanna Rónai, Veronika Hrivnák, Ibolya Turcsányi, Szilárd Jánosi and Miklós Gyuranecz
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:170
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  27. In addition to their value as livestock, pigs are susceptible to classical swine fever virus (CSFV) and can serve as reservoirs for CSFV, allowing it to develop into an epizootic. CSFV, a pestivirus of the Fla...

    Authors: Yicheng Zhao, Tiedong Wang, Li Yao, Bo Liu, Chunbo Teng and Hongsheng Ouyang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:169
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  28. Local anesthetics are an important component of perioperative pain management, but the duration of action of available products is limited. We hypothesized that a single local infiltration of a novel bupivacai...

    Authors: B. Duncan X. Lascelles, Lesley C. Rausch-Derra, Jessica A. Wofford and Margie Huebner
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:168
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  29. Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) causes avian colibacillosis, which results in economic and welfare costs in the poultry industry worldwide. The pathogenesis of avian pathogenic E. coli strains is not wel...

    Authors: Yaxin Li, Jianjun Dai, Xiangkai Zhuge, Haojin Wang, Lin Hu, Jianluan Ren, Ling Chen, Dezhi Li and Fang Tang
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:167
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  30. The aim of this review is to study the main spectrophotometric methods used to evaluate total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in serum samples of dogs. Total antioxidant capacity (TAC) is an analyte frequently used...

    Authors: Camila Peres Rubio, Josefa Hernández-Ruiz, Silvia Martinez-Subiela, Asta Tvarijonaviciute and José Joaquin Ceron
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:166
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  31. Hippocampal necrosis in cats has been reported to be associated with epileptic seizures. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of temporal lobe (TL) abnormalities in epileptic cats have been described but ...

    Authors: Anne Christine Claßen, Sibylle Kneissl, Johann Lang, Alexander Tichy and Akos Pakozdy
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:165
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  32. Current studies report that aberrations in epigenetic regulators or chromatin modifications are related to tumor development and maintenance. EZH2 (Enhancer of zeste homolog 2) is one of the catalytic subunits...

    Authors: Hyun-Ji Choi, Sungwoong Jang, Jae-Eun Ryu, Hyo-Ju Lee, Han-Byul Lee, Woo-Sung Ahn, Hye-Jin Kim, Hyo-Jin Lee, Hee Jin Lee, Gyung-Yub Gong and Woo-Chan Son
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:164
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  33. Postbiotics (metabolic products by lactic acid bacteria) and prebiotics have been established as substitute to antibiotics in order to enhance immunity and growth performance in broiler chickens. Nonetheless, ...

    Authors: Karwan Yaseen Kareem, Teck Chwen Loh, Hooi Ling Foo, Henny Akit and Anjas Asmara Samsudin
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:163
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  34. Grape and blueberry extracts are known to protect against age-related cognitive decline. However, beneficial effects achieved by mixing grape and blueberry extracts have yet to be evaluated in dogs, or their b...

    Authors: Anne-Sophie Martineau, Véronique Leray, Anne Lepoudere, Géraldine Blanchard, Julien Bensalem, David Gaudout, Khadija Ouguerram and Patrick Nguyen
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:162
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  35. The anatomy of the adrenal glands has been widely studied in many species of domestic and wild mammals. However, there are no available literature reports describing the morphology and morphometry of the adren...

    Authors: Karolina Barszcz, Helena Przespolewska, Katarzyna Olbrych, Michał Czopowicz, Joanna Klećkowska-Nawrot, Karolina Goździewska-Harłajczuk and Marta Kupczyńska
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:161
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  36. In 2008, an outbreak of canine distemper virus (CDV) infection in monkeys was reported in China. We isolated CDV strain (subsequently named Monkey-BJ01-DV) from lung tissue obtained from a rhesus monkey that d...

    Authors: Na Feng, Yuxiu Liu, Jianzhong Wang, Weiwei Xu, Tiansong Li, Tiecheng Wang, Lei Wang, Yicong Yu, Hualei Wang, Yongkun Zhao, Songtao Yang, Yuwei Gao, Guixue Hu and Xianzhu Xia
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:160
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  37. Adjunctive use of nutraceuticals in human cancer has shown promise, but little work has been done in canine neoplasia. Previous human research has shown that polyphenols and carotenoids can target multiple pat...

    Authors: Corri B. Levine, Julie Bayle, Vincent Biourge and Joseph J. Wakshlag
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:159
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  38. Mastitis resistance is a complex and multifactorial trait, and its expression depends on both genetic and environmental factors, including infection pressure. The objective of this research was to determine th...

    Authors: Marco Tolone, Cristian Larrondo, José M. Yáñez, Scott Newman, Maria Teresa Sardina and Baldassare Portolano
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:158
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  39. Perioperative lidocaine treatment is commonly used in horses that undergo surgical treatment of colic, to prevent or treat postoperative ileus and reduce the effects of intestinal ischaemia-reperfusion injury....

    Authors: Shebl E. Salem, Chris J. Proudman and Debra C. Archer
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:157
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  40. Sarcoptic mange, a parasitic disease caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei, is regularly reported on wolves Canis lupus in Scandinavia. We describe the distribution and transmission of this parasite within the sma...

    Authors: Boris Fuchs, Barbara Zimmermann, Petter Wabakken, Set Bornstein, Johan Månsson, Alina L. Evans, Olof Liberg, Håkan Sand, Jonas Kindberg, Erik O. Ågren and Jon M. Arnemo
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:156
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  41. The artificial colloid, hydroxyethyl starch (HES), is recommended for intravascular volume expansion and colloid-osmotic pressure enhancement in dogs and cats. A well-known side effect of HES solutions in huma...

    Authors: Nathalie A. Albrecht, Judith Howard, Alan Kovacevic and Katja N. Adamik
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:155
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  42. Rift Valley fever is an emerging zoonotic viral disease, enzootic and endemic in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, which poses a significant threat to both human and animal health. The disease is most severe i...

    Authors: S. Daouam, F. Ghzal, Y. Naouli, K. O. Tadlaoui, M. M. Ennaji, C. Oura and M. EL Harrak
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:154
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  44. Expanding lead-based bullets, commonly used for hunting of big game, produce a scattering of lead particles in the carcass around the wound channel. Trimmings around this channel, which are sometimes fed to do...

    Authors: Helga R. Høgåsen, Robin Ørnsrud, Helle K. Knutsen and Aksel Bernhoft
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:152
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  45. Samples for diagnostic procedures often require some form of pre-analytical preparation for preservation or safe handling during transportation prior to analysis in the laboratory. This is particularly importa...

    Authors: Funmilola C. Thomas, Andre M. Santana, Mary Waterston, Hayley Haining and Peter David Eckersall
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:151
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  46. Conventional Newcastle disease (ND) vaccination strategies in village chicken production settings is impractical due to shortage of cold-chain, unsuitability of vaccine administration routes and demanding trai...

    Authors: Reta D. Abdi, Kasahun Amsalu, Olana Merera, Yilkal Asfaw, Eseyas Gelaye, Marta Yami and Teshale Sori
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:150
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  47. It has been proposed that sildenafil citrate can increase ocular blood flow, and that this property can be used to treat ocular disorders that involve reflex vasoconstriction. This study therefore proposes to ...

    Authors: Ana Paula Araujo Costa, Aline Maria Vasconcelos Lima, Luiz Henrique da Silva, Rosângela de Oliveira Alves Carvalho, Andréia Vitor Couto do Amaral and Naida Cristina Borges
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:149
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  48. Canine reticulated platelets (r-PLTs) i.e., juvenile PLTs reflecting thrombopoiesis can be measured automatically with the hematology analyzer Sysmex XT-2000iV using manual gating options. However, the impact ...

    Authors: Dana E. Oellers, Natali Bauer, Melanie Ginder, Sigrid Johannes, Iris Pernecker and Andreas Moritz
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:148
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  49. Papillomaviruses can cause proliferative skin lesions ranging from benign hyperplasia to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). However, asymptomatic infection is also possible. Several groups have detected Felis domesti...

    Authors: Marco Geisseler, Christian E. Lange, Claude Favrot, Nina Fischer, Mathias Ackermann and Kurt Tobler
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:147
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  50. Congenital sensorineural deafness (CSD) is the most common type of deafness in dogs and it occurs in numerous canine breeds including the English bull terrier. This study estimates prevalence, heritability and...

    Authors: Luisa De Risio, Julia Freeman and Thomas Lewis
    Citation: BMC Veterinary Research 2016 12:146
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