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Genome Analysis of Clostridium difficile PCR Ribotype 014 Lineage in Australian Pigs and Humans Reveals a Diverse Genetic Repertoire and Signatures of Long-Range Interspecies Transmission

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype (RT) 014 is well-established in both human and porcine populations in Australia, raising the possibility that C. difficile infection (CDI) may have a zoonotic or foodborne etiology.
D. Knight, M. M. Squire, D. Collins, T. Riley   +3 more
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Efficient Masked Autoencoder for Birdsong Representation with Applications on Wild Bird Species Classification

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Research on mosquito feeding preferences and the malaria parasites they transmit is essential for understanding the interactions between hosts, vectors, and parasites. In this study, vertebrate hosts were identified in 72 mosquitoes. Most blood meals (58.7%) came from birds, representing 25 species, while 40.0% came from mammals (13 species), and 1.3 ...
Qin Zhang, Shipeng Hu, Hengrui Wang, Jizheng Yi, Guoxiong Zhou, Xiangyu Shen, Weixiong Peng, Zhishu Xiao, Aibin Chen   +8 more
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A Protein Misfolding Shaking Amplification-based method for the spontaneous generation of hundreds of bona fide prions

Nature Communications
Prion diseases are a group of rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disorders caused by the misfolding of the endogenous prion protein (PrPC) into a pathogenic form (PrPSc).
Hasier Eraña, Cristina Sampedro-Torres-Quevedo, Jorge M. Charco, Carlos M. Díaz-Domínguez, Francesca Peccati, Maitena San-Juan-Ansoleaga, Enric Vidal, Nuno Gonçalves-Anjo, Miguel A. Pérez-Castro, Ezequiel González-Miranda, Patricia Piñeiro, Leire Fernández-Veiga, Josu Galarza-Ahumada, Eva Fernández-Muñoz, Guiomar Perez de Nanclares, Glenn Telling, Mariví Geijo, Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés, Joaquín Castilla   +18 more
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Genomic epidemiology of Clostridioides difficile sequence type 35 reveals intraspecies and interspecies clonal transmission

Emerging Microbes and Infections
Clostridioides difficile sequence type (ST) 35 has been found in humans and animals worldwide. However, its genomic epidemiology and clonal transmission have not been explored in detail. In this study, 176 C.
Yun Luo, Yu Chen, Shan Lin, Hui Hu, Xiaojun Song, Qiao Bian, Weijia Fang, Huoyang Lv, Qin Wang, Jianmin Jiang, Yi-Wei Tang, Dazhi Jin   +11 more
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Decoding Dual Regulatory Layers: Integrating Differential Expression and Alternative Splicing Dynamics in the Evolution of Laryngeal Echolocation Across Chiropteran Lineages

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We integrated short‐read and long‐read RNA‐seq data from cochlear tissues of echolocating and non‐echolocating bats to disentangle transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation. Echolocating bats showed neural‐function enrichment among differentially expressed genes, while alternatively spliced genes were linked to epigenetic regulation. Overlaps
Jianyu Wu, Daoyuan Hu, Min Chen, Xiuguang Mao   +3 more
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Interspecies and intraspecies transmission of triple reassortant H3N2 influenza A viruses

Virology Journal, 2007
1. Abstract The triple reassortant H3N2 viruses were isolated for the first time from pigs in 1998 and are known to be endemic in swine and turkey populations in the United States.
Lee Chang-Won, Al-Natour Mohammad Q, Yassine Hadi M, Saif Yehia M   +3 more
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Absence of adaptive evolution is the main barrier against influenza emergence in horses in Asia despite frequent virus interspecies transmission from wild birds

PLoS Pathogens, 2019
Virus ecology and evolution play a central role in disease emergence. However, their relative roles will vary depending on the viruses and ecosystems involved.
Henan Zhu, B. Damdinjav, G. Gonzalez, L. Patrono, H. Ramírez-Mendoza, J. A. R. Amat, Joanna Crispell, Yasmin A. Parr, Toni-Ann Hammond, Enkhtuvshin Shiilegdamba, Y. C. Leung, M. Peiris, J. Marshall, J. Hughes, M. Gilbert, P. Murcia   +15 more
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Political Animals: To Live & Die in More‐Than‐Human Worlds

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations.
Luísa Reis‐Castro
wiley   +1 more source

Equine Influenza A(H3N8) Virus Infection in Cats

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
Interspecies transmission of equine influenza A(H3N8) virus has resulted in establishment of a canine influenza virus. To determine if something similar could happen with cats, we experimentally infected 14 cats with the equine influenza A(H3N8) virus ...
Shuo Su, Lifang Wang, Xinliang Fu, Shuyi He, Malin Hong, Pei Zhou, Alexander Lai, Gregory C. Gray, Shoujun Li   +8 more
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Carriage of antimicrobial‐resistant E. coli in urban stray cats (Felis catus)

Australian Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Escherichia coli is a growing concern in both human and veterinary medicine, driven by the inappropriate use of antimicrobials. Companion animals may act as community reservoirs and sentinels for antimicrobial‐resistant bacteria due to their close contact with humans and other animals.
JS Kuan, S Mukerji, D Hampson, S Abraham
wiley   +1 more source