Oral Vaccination of Free-Living Badgers (Meles meles) with Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) Vaccine Confers Protection against Tuberculosis [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 A field trial was conducted to investigate the impact of oral vaccination of free-living badgers against natural-transmitted Mycobacterium bovis infection.
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Differences in local immune response of bait Mycobacterium bovis heat-inactivated vaccinated badgers showing exacerbated tuberculous lesions after challenge [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEuropean badgers (Meles meles) are reservoirs for animal tuberculosis (TB) in some European countries, complicating TB control in cattle. Badger vaccination and a deeper understanding of the subsequent protection mechanisms are necessary for effective TB
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Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2019 European badgers (Meles meles) have been identified as wildlife reservoirs for Mycobacterium bovis in the UK and Ireland, and may also have a role in the epidemiology of animal tuberculosis in other European regions. Thus, detection of M.
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Metabolomic changes in the peripheral blood of wild trapped badgers (Meles meles) correlate with bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) infection status [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchBackground Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is the most significant infectious disease of UK cattle. Badgers (Meles meles) can also be infected by M. bovis and may act as a source of infection for cattle.
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Tuberculosis in found dead badgers at the edge of the expanding bovine tuberculosis epidemic [PDF]
Scientific ReportsBovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a major disease of cattle in the UK, placing a significant economic burden on the taxpayer. The causative agent, Mycobacterium bovis, has a wide host range, including the European badger (Meles meles). While badgers have been
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Bovine tuberculosis model validation against a field study of badger vaccination with selective culling. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a costly disease in Britain and Ireland shared by cattle and badgers (Meles meles), and to reduce the infection in cattle to low levels some form of badger management is considered necessary.
Graham C Smith, Richard Budgey
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Individual Mechanical Energy Expenditure Regimens Vary Seasonally with Weather, Sex, Age and Body Condition in a Generalist Carnivore Population: Support for Inter-Individual Tactical Diversity [PDF]
AnimalsDiverse individual energy-budgeting tactics within wild populations provide resilience to natural fluctuations in food availability and expenditure costs.
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Does Differential Habitat Selection Facilitate Coexistence Between Badgers and Hedgehogs? [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionPredicting the spatial and temporal responses of species exhibiting intraguild predation (IGP) relationships is difficult due to variation in potential interactions and environmental context.
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Genetic evidence further elucidates the history and extent of badger introductions from Great Britain into Ireland [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 The colonization of Ireland by mammals has been the subject of extensive study using genetic methods and forms a central problem in understanding the phylogeography of European mammals after the Last Glacial Maximum. Ireland exhibits a depauperate mammal
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Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, 2021 An optimized data-matching machine learning algorithm is developed to provide high-prediction accuracy of total burned areas for specific wildfire incidents.
David A. Wood
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