Browsing Faculty Research by Department "Veterinary Pathobiology"
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Coccidian Parasites and Conservation Implications for the Endangered Whooping Crane (Grus americana) (PLOS, 2015-10-10)While the population of endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) has grown from 15 individuals in 1941 to an estimated 304 birds today, the population growth is not sufficient to support a down-listing of the species ...
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(PLOSOne, 2016-01-19)Rift Valley fever Virus (RVFV), a negative-stranded RNA virus, is the etiological agent of the vector-borne zoonotic disease, Rift Valley fever (RVF). In both humans and livestock, protective immunity can be achieved through ...
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Immunization with a Borrelia burgdorferi BB0172-Derived Peptide Protects Mice against Lyme Disease (PLOS ONE, 2014-02-05)Lyme disease is the most prevalent arthropod borne disease in the US and it is caused by the bacterial spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), which is acquired through the bite of an infected Ixodes tick. Vaccine development ...
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(Nature Publishing Group, 2014-07-28)We present a new transcriptome assembly of the Pacific whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), the species most farmed for human consumption. Its functional annotation, a substantial improvement over previous ones, is ...
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(PLOS ONE, 2014-01-08)Changes in the microbial populations on the skin of animals have traditionally been evaluated using conventional microbiology techniques. The sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes has revealed that the human skin is ...
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(American Society for Microbiology, 2014-02-04)To establish a replicative niche during its infectious cycle between the intestinal lumen and tissue, the enteric pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires numerous virulence genes, including genes for two ...
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(PLoS, 2013-12-09)Brucella melitensis causes the most severe and acute symptoms of all Brucella species in human beings and infects hosts primarily through the oral route. The epithelium covering domed villi of jejunal-ileal Peyer’s patches ...