Browsing by Author "Berghman, Luc"
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House, Gabrielle Marie (2022-08-15)As duck production becomes more prevalent on a global scale, modern duck housing systems must maximize duck productivity. The welfare of an animal influences its productivity, and is therefore useful in evaluating which ...
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Alsadwi, Akhil (2018-12-05)The goal of this dissertation was to evaluate silver ion as a potential antibiotic alternative in broiler chickens. For this purpose, four experiments were conducted to evaluate silver ion in terms of in vitro antimicrobial ...
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Mashoof, Sara (2014-04-15)Despite a large number of studies during the last decade that investigated mucosal immunity in humans, very few works have been done on this immune compartment in lower vertebrates. In the following two studies we focused ...
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Supak, Tiffany Marie (2009-06-02)Infectious agents such as bacteria or viruses can grow rapidly. If a microorganism invades a host, it must be recognized rapidly and destroyed before it overwhelms the immune system. Limiting infection to a minimum in the ...
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Kundinger, Megan Mary (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)In order to determine the effects that Maillard Reaction Products (MRP) have on Salmonella Typhimurium, growth rates and virulence expression, in the presence of Maillard reaction products, were observed, using the ...
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Behl, Michelle A (2016-06-17)The outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI) in 2014- 2015 was by far the largest animal disease outbreak in United States history. The turkey industry was the most affected as nearly 70% of the ...
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Lokhandwala, Shehnaz; Waghela, Suryakant; Bray, Jocelyn; Martin, Cameron; Sangewar, Neha; Charendoff, Chloe; Shetti, Rashmi; Ashley, Clay; Chen, Chang-Hsin; Berghman, Luc; Mwangi, Duncan; Dominowski, Paul; Foss, Dennis; Rai, Sharath; Vora, Shaunak; Gabbert, Lindsay; Burrage, Thomas; Brake, David; Neilan, John; Mwangi, Waithaka (Clinical and Vaccine Immunology - CVI, 2016)
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Soni, Kamleshkumar A. (2009-05-15)Autoinducer 2 (AI-2) molecules produced by bacterial cells are thought to be involved in controlling a variety of bacterial cellular processes by coordinated gene and protein expression. Previous work in our laboratory has ...
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Epperson, Kaitlin McKenzie (2023-04-27)The relationship between the immune and reproductive systems can influence reproductive success in beef cattle. Although the use of pre-breeding vaccination is invaluable for preventing against disease induced loss, negative ...
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Pollard, Dana Alicia (2017-01-19)The hemoparasite Cytauxzoon felis causes cytauxzoonosis, an emerging infectious disease of cats in the United States. Its life cycle involves sexual reproduction in the tick vector and asexual reproduction (schizogonous ...
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Mwangi, Waithaka; Waghela, Surya; Berghman, Luc (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2019-09-10)The present invention describes compositions and methods for priming protective immunity in the presence of pre-existing maternal antibody. In some embodiments, the invention contemplates simultaneously masking vaccines ...
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Mwangi, Waithaka; Waghela, Surya; Berghman, Luc (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2020-11-17)The present invention describes compositions and methods for priming protective immunity in the presence of pre-existing maternal antibody. In some embodiments, the invention contemplates simultaneously masking vaccines ...
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Mwangi, Waithaka; Waghela, Surya; Berghman, Luc (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 6/7/2022)The present invention describes compositions and methods for priming protective immunity in the presence of pre-existing maternal antibody. In some embodiments, the invention contemplates simultaneously masking vaccines ...
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Villarreal, Dorissa (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Theiler??s murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) can infect the central nervous system (CNS) and cause neurological damage. The exact route by which TMEV enters the CNS remains unknown. Two hypotheses suggest that TMEV ...
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Hassan, Wisam Salim (2019-07-09)Lyme disease (LD) is the most prevalent tick-borne disease in the US. The disease in humans is characterized by the development of a characteristic skin rash (erythema migrans), arthritis, cardiac and neurological signs. ...
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McKelvey, Jessica A. (2014-05-22)Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is a major etiologic agent of non-typhoid salmonellosis, which causes 1.028 million cases with approximately 400 deaths in the United States. S. Enteritidis persistently ...
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Villanueva, Itamar D. (2010-07-14)There are many pathogens that infect birds and perhaps many more that researchers have not yet identified. Of all potential pathogens, the research presented in this manuscript focuses on two avian RNA viruses. First, a ...
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Saggese, Miguel Daniel (2009-05-15)We investigated the molecular epidemiology, differential susceptibility to infection and disease, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of avian mycobacteriosis in captive ringneck doves (Streptopelia risoria) and in the ...
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Berghman, Luc; Bottje, Walter; Hargis, Billy; Layton, Sherryll (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2015-02-17)Provided herein are vaccine vectors including an antigenic polypeptide and an HMGB1 polypeptide present on the surface of the vaccine vector. Compositions comprising the vaccine vectors are also provided and include a ...
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Berghman, Luc; Bottje, Walter; Hargis, Billy; Layton, Sherryll (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2018-03-13)Provided herein are vaccine vectors including an antigenic polypeptide and an HMGB1 polypeptide present on the surface of the vaccine vector. Compositions comprising the vaccine vectors are also provided and include a ...