Learning about a Moving Target in Resource Management: Optimal Bayesian Disease Control [PDF]
Resource managers must often make difficult choices in the face of imperfectly observed and dynamically changing systems (e.g., livestock, fisheries, water, and invasive species).
Fackler, Paul L +2 more
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Human and bovine tuberculosis knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) among cattle owners in Ethiopia
Tuberculosis (TB) is a re-emerging disease occurring worldwide, resulting in multi-billion-dollar loss and human death annually. The situation is worse in developing countries like Ethiopia, where lower knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of the ...
Amare Bihon +3 more
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RNA-seq transcriptional profiling of peripheral blood leukocytes from cattle infected with Mycobacterium bovis [PDF]
Bovine tuberculosis, caused by infection with Mycobacterium bovis, is a major endemic disease affecting cattle populations worldwide, despite the implementation of stringent surveillance and control programs in many countries.
Browne, JA +12 more
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Pioneers in the Victorian provinces: veterinarians, public health and the urban animal economy [PDF]
From the 1850s in Britain, concerns were growing about the role of animals in transmitting disease to man, whether through the food chain or through infection.
Hardy, A
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Bovine tuberculosis is a chronic disease impacting both public health and the livestock industry. The interferon (IFN)-γ assay has been introduced as an ancillary test for diagnosing bovine tuberculosis to overcome limitations of the skin test.
Yun-Ho Jang +9 more
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DNA repair systems and the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: varying activities at different stages of infection [PDF]
Mycobacteria, including most of all MTB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), cause pathogenic infections in humans and, during the infectious process, are exposed to a range of environmental insults, including the host's immune response.
Adams +117 more
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A rhodanine agent active against non-replicating intracellular Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic therapy targeting chronic mycobacterial disease is often ineffective due to problems with the emergence of drug resistance and non-replicating persistent intracellular antibiotic resistant phenotypes.
Bull, TJ +3 more
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Prevalence and Direct Economic Losses from Bovine Tuberculosis in Makurdi, Nigeria
A retrospective study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis and direct economic losses (DEL) from tuberculosis in cattle slaughtered in Makurdi abattoirs from 2008 to 2012, using abattoir records obtained from the Ministry of
E. F. Ejeh +6 more
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Matrixlysis, an improved sample preparation method for recovery of Mycobacteria from animal tissue material. [PDF]
Mycobacterium caprae, a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, is the main causative agent of bovine tuberculosis in alpine regions. Bacterial culture is the gold standard in bovine tuberculosis diagnostic but takes up to twelve weeks.
Christoph Leth +6 more
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Bovine tuberculosis is endemic in Nigeria with control measures as provided by the laws of the country being minimally enforced mostly at the abattoirs only. This study focused on bovine tuberculosis in Adamawa and Gombe States. Tuberculosis lesions were
Sadiq Mohammed Damina +9 more
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