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Genomic epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis infection in sympatric badger and cattle populations in Northern Ireland

bioRxiv, 2021
Background Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a costly, epidemiologically complex, multi-host, endemic disease. Pathogen whole genome sequencing can improve the resolution of epidemiological tracing.
Assel Akhmetova, Jimena Guerrero, P. McAdam, L. C. Salvador, J. Crispell, J. Lavery, E. Presho, R. Kao, R. Biek, F. Menzies, N. Trimble, R. Harwood, P. Pepler, K. Oravcová, J. Graham, R. Skuce, L. du Plessis, S. Thompson, L. Wright, A. Byrne, A. Allen   +20 more
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Protective immunity against tuberculosis in a free-living badger population vaccinated orally with Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG).

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2021
Vaccination of badgers with Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) has been shown to protect badgers against tuberculosis in experimental trials.
E. Gormley, Deirdre Ní Bhuachalla, Tara Fitzsimons, J. O'Keeffe, G. McGrath, J. Madden, Naomi Fogarty, K. Kenny, L. Messam, Denise Murphy, L. Corner   +10 more
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Estimation of badger abundance using faecal DNA typing [PDF]

, 2003
1.Wildlife management and conservation programmes often require accurate information on population density, but this can be difficult to obtain, particularly when the species in question is nocturnal or cryptic.
Burke, T., Cheeseman, C.L., Delahay, R.J., Frantz, A.C., Pope, L.C., Roper, T.J., Wilson, G.J.   +6 more
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Performance of an environmental test to detect Mycobacterium bovis infection in badger social groups [PDF]

, 2007
A study by Courtenay and others (2006) demonstrated that the probability of detecting Mycobacterium bovis by PCR in soil samples from the spoil heaps of main badger setts correlated with the prevalence of excretion (infectiousness) of captured ...
Cheeseman, C. L., Courtenay, Orin, Delahay, Richard J., Keeling, Matthew James, Macdonald, David W., Reilly, L. A., Sweeney, F. P., Wellington, E. M. H., Wilson, G. J.   +8 more
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Confirmation of low genetic diversity and multiple breeding females in a social group of Eurasian badgers from microsatellite and field data [PDF]

, 2003
The Eurasian badger ( Meles meles ) is a facultatively social carnivore that shows only rudimentary co-operative behaviour and a poorly defined social hierarchy.
Bijlsma R, Burke T, Chakraborty R, Cheeseman CL, Clutton-Brock TH, Creel SR, Creel SR, Cresswell WJ, da Silva J, Dallas JF, Davis CS, Domingo-Roura X, Duffy AJ, Estoup A, Evans PGH, Excoffier L, Excoffier L, Fisher R, Guo S, Harrison RJ, Kays RW, Kruuk H, Macdonald DW, Macdonald DW, Mace GM, Neal E, Nei M, Schneider S, Slatkin M, Weber JL, Wintero AK, Woodroffe R, Woodroffe R, Woodroffe R, Woodroffe R, Woodroffe R   +35 more
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Species composition of Trichinella in domestic and wild animals in Bulgaria [PDF]

Bulgarian Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2019
Four Trichinella species cause trichinellosis in Europe: Trichinella spiralis, Trichinella britovi, Trichinella nativа and Trichinella pseudospiralis. The aim of our study was to determine the prepon-derance of Trichinella species in Bulgaria.
N. Lalkovski
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Isolation of 39 polymorphic microsatellite loci and the development of a fluorescently labelled marker set for the Eurasian badger [PDF]

, 2003
We have isolated 78 microsatellite loci from the Eurasian badger (Meles meles). Of the 52 loci characterized, 39 were found to be polymorphic. A fluorescently labelled primer set was developed to enable individual-specific 17-locus genotypes to be ...
Burke, T., Carpenter, P.J., Cheeseman, C.L., Dawson, D.A., Greig, C., Parham, A.   +5 more
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Environmental monitoring of Mycobacterium bovis in badger feces and badger sett soil by real-time PCR, as confirmed by immunofluorescence, immunocapture, and cultivation [PDF]

, 2007
Real-time PCR was used to detect and quantify Mycobacterium bovis cells in naturally infected soil and badger faeces. Immunomagnetic capture, immunofluorescence and selective culture confirmed species identification and cell viability.
Sweeney, F. P., Courtenay, Orin, Hibberd, V., Hewinson, R. G., Reilly, L. A., Gaze, William H., Wellington, E. M. H.   +6 more
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Interspecific visitation of cattle and badgers to fomites: A transmission risk for bovine tuberculosis?

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
In Great Britain and Ireland, badgers (Meles meles) are a wildlife reservoir of Mycobacterium bovis and implicated in bovine tuberculosis transmission to domestic cattle. The route of disease transmission is unknown with direct, so‐called “nose‐to‐nose,”
Emma L. Campbell, Andrew W. Byrne, Fraser D. Menzies, Kathryn R. McBride, Carl M. McCormick, Michael Scantlebury, Neil Reid   +6 more
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Altitude shapes the environmental drivers of large‐scale variation in abundance of a widespread mammal species

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Aim Habitat quality and heterogeneity directly influence the distribution and abundance of organisms at different spatial scales. Determining the main environmental factors driving the variation in species abundance is crucial to understand the ...
Mickaël Jacquier, Clément Calenge, Ludovic Say, Sébastien Devillard, Sandrine Ruette   +4 more
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