Nanopore MinION Sequencing Generates a White Spot Syndrome Virus Genome from a Pooled Cloacal Swab Sample of Domestic Chickens in South Africa [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2023 White spot syndrome virus is a highly contagious pathogen affecting shrimp farming worldwide. The host range of this virus is primarily limited to crustaceans, such as shrimps, crabs, prawns, crayfish, and lobsters; however, several species of non ...
Ravendra P Chauhan +2 more
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16S rRNA gene-based assessment of common broiler chicken sampling methods: Evaluating intra-flock sample size, cecal pair similarity, and cloacal swab similarity to other alimentary tract locations [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 16S rRNA gene sequencing for characterization of microbiomes has become more common in poultry research and can be used to both answer specific research questions and help inform experimental design choices.
Margaret D Weinroth +2 more
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Cloacal Swabs Are Unreliable Sources for Estimating Lower Gastro-Intestinal Tract Microbiota Membership and Structure in Broiler Chickens [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2020 The gastrointestinal microbiota of chickens plays a central role in health and performance. Cloacal swabs, due to their proximity to the ceca (a vital site of functional activity), are an alternative, non-invasive method used for assaying microbial ...
Travis John Williams, Giridhar Athrey
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Detection of multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from duck cloacal swab in Jombang, Indonesia [PDF]
Open Veterinary JournalBackground: Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria is one of the pathogens that are often found in poultry and can cause various diseases in animals and humans. Currently, there are many reports of increasing multidrug resistance (MDR) K.
Naomi Lan Noviana Thesia +11 more
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Detection of invA virulence gene of multidrug-resistant Salmonella species isolated from the cloacal swab of broiler chickens in Blitar district, East Java, Indonesia [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2021 Background and Aim: The increasing number of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella species on poultry farms in Indonesia has caused concern regarding human health.
Freshindy Marissa Wibisono +6 more
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Cloacal swabs and alcohol bird specimens are good proxies for compositional analyses of gut microbial communities of Great tits (Parus major) [PDF]
Animal Microbiome, 2020 Background Comprehensive studies of wild bird microbiomes are often limited by difficulties of sample acquisition. However, widely used non-invasive cloacal swab methods and under-explored museum specimens preserved in alcohol provide promising avenues ...
Kasun H. Bodawatta +4 more
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Multiple novel filamentous phages detected in the cloacal swab samples of birds using viral metagenomics approach [PDF]
Virology Journal, 2021 Members of the family Inoviridae (inoviruses) are characterized by their unique filamentous morphology and infection cycle. The viral genome of inovirus is able to integrate into the host genome and continuously releases virions without lysing the host ...
Jian Zeng +4 more
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Corvidae Feather Pulp and West Nile Virus Detection [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 We evaluated cloacal swab, vascular pulp of flight feather, and kidney and spleen pool samples from carcasses of members of the family Corvidae as sources of West Nile virus (WNV). The cloacal swab, kidney and spleen pool, and feather pulp, respectively,
Douglas E. Docherty +3 more
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Comparison of total immunoglobulin A levels in different samples in Leghorn and broiler chickens [PDF]
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2017 Objective: To standardize an ELISA protocol to quantify total immunoglobulin A (IgA) from different biological samples. Methods: Two independent experiments were conducted.
Rubén Merino-Guzmán +10 more
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Blood and cloacal swab sampling for avian influenza monitoring has no effect on survival rates of free‐ranging ducks [PDF]
Ibis, 2015 International audienceConcerns about the spread of avian influenza viruses ( AIVs ) have led to cloacal swab sampling of hundreds of thousands of birds worldwide as part of AIV surveillance schemes, but the effects of cloacal swabbing have not been ...
Matthieu Guillemain +2 more
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