All Veterinary Medicine & Zoonoses articles – Page 3
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Study reveals how gut microbes can distinguish prion disease in deer
A new collaborative study sheds light on how chronic wasting disease in deer impacts the gut microbiome and provides a potential tool for disease surveillance.
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Researchers to probe how Zika virus replicates and transmits from mother to fetus
Nearly $6 million in new NIH grants will enable researchers to investigate how Zika virus replicates and crosses the placenta to infect unborn children.
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Virus ancestry could aid bid to predict next pandemic, study finds
Virus family history could help scientists identify which strains have potential to become the so-called Disease X that causes the next global pandemic.
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New purpose-built insectary will tackle spread of deadly diseases
Keele University is to create a new purpose-built insect research laboratory on its campus – where scientists will carry out vital research to tackle the spread of deadly diseases and reduce crop losses to pests.
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Green alternative for treating Streptococcus iniae bacteria in hybrid striped bass
Scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have developed a green antibiotic alternative to treat the deadly pathogen Streptococcus iniae in hybrid striped bass, the fourth most farmed finfish in the United States, according to a recent study. Source: Matt McEntire, ...
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Probiotics promote weight loss in obese dogs
Researchers have identified two strains of probiotics that can be used to reduce weight in obese dogs.
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Researchers create safer form of Coxiella burnetii for scientific use
Scientists have unexpectedly discovered that the weakened form of the bacteria Coxiella burnetii (C. burnetii) not typically known to cause disease, has naturally acquired an ability to do so.
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MIddle East foot-and-mouth disease patterns underline need for unified strategies
A comprehensive study highlights repeated incursions of foot-and-mouth virus in Israel and neighbouring areas, suggesting a pattern of transmission.
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Many more infected by TBE virus than previously known
The number of infections by the tick-borne TBE virus that are not detected by health services is far higher than previously assumed.
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First-in-human vaccine trial for deadly Nipah virus launched
The University of Oxford has launched a new clinical trial to test a vaccine to protect people against deadly Nipah virus. The first clinical trial participants received doses of the ChAdOx1 NipahB vaccine over the last week.
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Zika virus is effective when used to treat a type of childhood cancer in mice
Injecting neuroblastoma tumors with Zika virus shrank or eliminated those tumors in studies with mice, suggesting that the virus could someday serve as an effective cancer therapy, according to a new study.
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Scientists reveal why chicken farms are a breeding ground for AMR bacteria
Scientists are one step closer to understanding how bacteria, such as E. coli and Salmonella enterica, share genetic material which makes them resistant to antibiotics.
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Dr Ben Swift named as winner of Basil Jarvis Prize
Dr Ben Swift of the Royal Veterinary College in the UK has been named as this year’s winner of the Basil Jarvis Prize for microbiology.
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Project investigates how biodiversity loss contributes to zoonosis risks
A newly launched project, titled ’Zoonosis Emergence across Degraded and Restored Forest Ecosystems’ (ZOE), is receiving about four million euros in funding from the European Commission for a period of four years.
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Is climate change driving an increase in cases of anthrax?
The anthrax outbreak in Africa could be a harbinger of more to come, with climate change creating opportunities for the emergence of more cross-over strains capable of causing anthrax-like infections.
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Researchers report detailed analysis of heart injury caused by yellow fever virus
The study is the first-ever demonstration of the anatomical substrate for the cardiac arrhythmias that occur in human yellow fever.
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Deadly chicken disease: ancient DNA reveals evolution of virulence
Using genetic analyses, an international team has revealed the evolutionary history of the pathogen of a fatal disease in chickens.
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$1.3 million fund helps to introduce high school students to virus surveillance
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received more than $1.3 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand the New York City Virus Hunters program.
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EMA gives positive opinion to first oral treatment of acute form of sleeping sickness
The EMA Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive scientific opinion of Fexinidazole Winthrop as first oral treatment of acute form of sleeping sickness (rhodesiense).
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Mink discovery challenges standard understanding of COVID-19 infection
Researchers studying zoonosis — the interspecies transmission of pathogens — in mink have found that TMPRSS2, an enzyme critical for viral fusion entry of SARS-CoV-2 in humans, is not functional in mink.