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  1. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a chronic zoonotic disease that is endemic in China. Current in-vitro tests for bTB are mainly based on blood assays. Collection of samples results in some stress to the sampled cattl...

    Authors: Yingyu Chen, Shuang Cheng, Yu Wang, Guiqiang Wang, Xijuan Wu, Ian D. Robertson and Aizhen Guo
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2023 3:8
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  2. Mosquito-borne infections are of global health concern because of their rapid spread and upsurge, which creates a risk for coinfections. chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus disease transmitted by Aedes aegypt...

    Authors: Peter Asaga Mac, Philomena E. Airiohuodion, Shaistha Zubair, Markos Tadele, Jude, O. Aighobahi, Chukwuma Anyaike, Axel Kroeger and Marcus Panning
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2023 3:7
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  4. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) can replicate in the macrophage by interfering with many host protein functions. While it is far from known these host proteins for controlling M. tuberculosis infecti...

    Authors: Aikebaier Reheman, Xiaojian Cao, Yifan Wang, Xi Nie, Gang Cao, Wei Zhou, Bing Yang, Yingying Lei, Weipan Zhang, Muhammad Ahsan Naeem and Xi Chen
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2023 3:5
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  6. Doxycycline hydrochloride and florfenicol combination (DoxHcl&FF) is an effective treatment for respiratory diseases. In the study, our objective was to evaluate the activity of DoxHcl&FF against Actinobacillus p...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Yuan, Boyu An, Shuyu Xie, Wei Qu, Haihong Hao, Lingli Huang, Wanhe Luo, Jixiang Liang and Dapeng Peng
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2023 3:3
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  8. The risk of pathogen transmission continues to increase significantly in the presence of tick vectors due to the trade of livestock across countries. In Ghana, there is a lack of data on the incidence of tick-...

    Authors: Seth Offei Addo, Ronald Essah Bentil, Kevin Nii Yartey, Jane Ansah-Owusu, Eric Behene, Philip Opoku-Agyeman, Selassie Bruku, Victor Asoala, Suzanne Mate, John Asiedu Larbi, Philip Kweku Baidoo, Michael David Wilson, Joseph W. Diclaro II and Samuel K. Dadzie
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2023 3:1
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  9. Salmonella is a significant foodborne zoonotic pathogen that endangers both human and animal health. The goal of this research is to gain a preliminary understanding of Salmonella contamination and antimicrobial ...

    Authors: Cuirong Wu, Lihui Liu, Yuxin Sui, Lulu Huang, Yang Chen, Haihong Hao, Yuanhu Pan, Zhenli Liu and Guyue Cheng
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:31
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Animal Diseases 2023 3:2

  10. This report describes an outbreak and treatment of pneumonia and enteritis in a snake farm with more than 3000 snakes containing Elaphe carinata (one-year-old) and Ptyas mucosus (three-month-old) seedlings in Hua...

    Authors: Ying Xia, Siyu Long, Yuxuan Peng, Songkang Qin and Yaoqin Shen
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:30
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  11. Lymnaeid snails are key intermediate hosts for the development and survival of Fasciola spp., the causative agent of Fascioliasis which are economically important parasites infecting humans and livestock globally...

    Authors: Lily Tran, Vignesh A. Rathinasamy and Travis Beddoe
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:29
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  12. Mycoplasma synoviae (M. synoviae) infections have become an increasingly serious concern in China because they cause huge economic losses to the poultry industry. Antibiotic treatment is one of control strategies...

    Authors: Chun Wang, Naiji Zhou, Haopeng Liu, Rongkun Yang, Weitao Cui, Qingrong Xu, Yuncai Xiao, Sishun Hu, Rui Zhou, Zili Li and Zutao Zhou
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:28
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  13. Fasciolosis and hydatidosis are the world’s most common zoonotic major parasitic ailments of domesticated animals with financial and public health implications. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 384 ran...

    Authors: Haben Fesseha and Isayas Asefa
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:27
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  15. Influenza viruses not only cause respiratory illness, but also have been reported to elicit neurological manifestations following acute viral infection. The central nervous system (CNS) has a specific defense...

    Authors: Doaa Higazy, Xianwu Lin, Tanghui Xie, Ke Wang, Xiaochen Gao and Min Cui
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:25
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  16. Brucellosis is an important zoonosis that results in substantial economic losses to the livestock industry through abortions and reduced milk yield. This study investigated an abortion outbreak in a dairy herd...

    Authors: Yu Wang, Yan Wang, Qingjie Peng, Zhijie Xiang, Yingyu Chen, Guiqiang Wang, Xijuan Wu, Aizhen Guo and Ian D. Robertson
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:24
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  18. The acidic leucine-rich nuclear phosphoprotein 32 kDa (ANP32) family consists of evolutionarily conserved proteins of 220–291 amino acids characterized by an N-terminal leucine-rich repeat domain (LRR) and a C...

    Authors: Mengmeng Yu, Yuxing Qu, Haili Zhang and Xiaojun Wang
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:22
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  19. The feasibility of a commercially available assay for C-reactive protein (CRP, CRP for humans: hCRP, and CRP for dogs: vCRP) and a trial reagent of serum amyloid A (SAA, vSAA for animals) were applied to the m...

    Authors: Tohru Kimura
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:21
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  20. Toxoplasma gondii is a widespread parasitic pathogen that infect humans and all warm-blooded animals, causing abortion and stillbirth in pregnant women and animals, as well as life threatening toxoplasmosis in i...

    Authors: Jinling Chen, Lilan Xue, Hongxia Hu, Xiaoyan Yin, Hui Cao and Bang Shen
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:20
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  21. Natural killer T (NKT) cells activated with the glycolipid ligand α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) stimulate a wide variety of immune cells that enhance vaccine-mediated immune responses. Several studies have u...

    Authors: Bianca L. Artiaga, Igor Morozov, Russell Ransburgh, Taeyong Kwon, Velmurugan Balaraman, Sabarish V. Indran, Darling Melany De Carvalho Madrid, Weihong Gu, Jamie Henningson, Wenjun Ma, Jürgen A. Richt and John P. Driver
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:19
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  23. This experiment was conducted with lactating Chinese Holstein cows to study the nutritional value of local protein feed resources. A three-step method (TSP) and a modified three-step method (MTSP) were used to...

    Authors: Shuai Han, Fan Zhang, Yanli Zhao, Xiaoyu Guo, Xiaowei Zhu and Sumei Yan
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:17
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  24. Feline calicivirus (FCV) is an important feline pathogen mainly causing upper respiratory tract disease, conjunctivitis, and stomatitis, and it is classified into genotype I and genotype II. To investigate the p...

    Authors: Longlong Cao, Qiuyan Li, Kaituo Shi, Liting Wei, Hehao Ouyang, Zijun Ye, Wenguang Du, Jiawen Ye, Xiaochen Hui, Jiakang Li, Shengbo Cao and Dengyuan Zhou
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:16
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  26. African swine fever (ASF) is a highly lethal disease of domestic and wild swine caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV). The disease currently circulates in Africa, Europe, Asia and on the island of Hispani...

    Authors: Daniel W. Madden, Sun-Young Sunwoo, Natasha N. Gaudreault, Jessie D. Trujillo, Igor Morozov, Carmina Gallardo and Juergen A. Richt
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:14
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  27. African swine fever virus (ASFV) is an important pathogen causing acute infectious disease in domestic pigs and wild boars that seriously endangers the global swine industry. As ASFV is structurally complex an...

    Authors: Mingyang Cheng, Jiawei Luo, Yuetong Duan, Yu Yang, Chunwei Shi, Yu Sun, Yiyuan Lu, Junhong Wang, Xiaoxu Li, Jianzhong Wang, Nan Wang, Wentao Yang, Yanlong Jiang, Guilian Yang, Yan Zeng, Chunfeng Wang…
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:13
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  28. Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum (Mcc) is an important etiological agent of contagious agalactia (CA). CA affects small ruminants and is characterized by inducing mastitis, arthritis, kerato-conjunctivitis...

    Authors: Noha Semmate, Zaid Zouagui, Zouhair Elkarhat, Zahra Bamouh, Siham Fellahi, Noursaid Tligui, Zineb Boumart, Ouafaa Fassi Fihri and Mehdi El Harrak
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:12
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  29. Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the main causative agent of porcine circovirus-associated diseases, and it causes substantial economic losses in the swine industry each year. It is crucial to develop an ef...

    Authors: Ying Lu, Zehui Liu, Yingxiang Li, Zhuofan Deng, Weihuan Fang and Fang He
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:11
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  31. The H9N2 subtype avian influenza virus (AIV) inactivated vaccine has been used extensively in poultry farms, but it often fails to stimulate a sufficiently high immune response in poultry in the field, althoug...

    Authors: Xue Pan, Xin Su, Pingyun Ding, Jinhua Zhao, Hongrui Cui, Dawei Yan, Qiaoyang Teng, Xuesong Li, Nancy Beerens, Haitao Zhang, Qinfang Liu, Mart C. M. de Jong and Zejun Li
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:9
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  32. Mangrove forests are productive ecosystems, acting as a sink for CO2, a habitat for a diverse array of terrestrial and marine species, and as a natural barrier to coastline erosion. The species that reside within...

    Authors: Jamie Bojko, Amy L. Burgess, Thomas W. Allain, Erica P. Ross, Devon Pharo, Jan F. Kreuze and Donald C. Behringer
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:8
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  33. The objective of this study was to provide the characteristics of hepatic computed tomography images and optimize their transition delay with a bolus-tracking technique for triple-phase hepatic computed tomogr...

    Authors: Bin Li, Mingli Ren, Mahmoud M. Abouelfetouh, Panpan Guo, Ming Xing Ding, Diqi Yang, Yanqing Wu and Yi Ding
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:7
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  35. Globally, arboviruses are public health problems. Pakistan has seen a fast-paced increase in mosquito-borne Flavivirus diseases such as dengue because of deforestation, climate change, urbanization, poor sanitati...

    Authors: Muhammad Imran, Jing Ye, Muhammad K. Saleemi, Iqra Shaheen, Ali Zohaib, Zheng Chen and Shengbo Cao
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:5
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  36. Non-human primates (NHPs) serve as necessary reservoir hosts of parasites that create diseases to human. A close interaction between human and NHP can make a pathway for transmission of zoonotic diseases. To p...

    Authors: Taniza Tabasshum, Fahmida Tasnim Liza, Md. Fazle Rabbe, Mandira Mukutmoni, Md. Mahabub Alam and Aleya Begum
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:4
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  37. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an acute, highly infectious and pathogenic animal disease. In recent years, with the rapid development of the swine breeding industry in China, pig farms have shown a trend of l...

    Authors: Huarong Ren, Zhen Jin, Xin Pei, Mingtao Li, Youming Wang and Juan Zhang
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:3
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  38. Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (APP) is the major pathogen of porcine contagious pleuropneumoniae (PCP). The QseB/QseC two-component system (TCS) consists of the regulator QseB and the kinase QseC, which relates...

    Authors: Benzhen Duan, Wei Peng, Kang Yan, Feng Liu, Jia Tang, Fengming Yang, Huanchun Chen, Fangyan Yuan and Weicheng Bei
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2022 2:2
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  40. Tumors are one of the leading causes to death in pet dogs among diseases. The tumor incidence of pet dogs has been increasing, raising widespread concern. In this study, retrospective analysis was performed wi...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Weihui Li, Dianfeng Chu, Jinlian Hua, Xinke Zhang, Dezhang Lu, Yan Wang and Shiqiang Zhang
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:30
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  41. Comprehensive identification of conditionally essential genes requires efficient tools for generating high-density transposon libraries that, ideally, can be analysed using next-generation sequencing methods s...

    Authors: Janine T. Bossé, Yanwen Li, Leon G. Leanse, Liqing Zhou, Roy R. Chaudhuri, Sarah E. Peters, Jinhong Wang, Gareth A. Maglennon, Matthew T. G. Holden, Duncan J. Maskell, Alexander W. Tucker, Brendan W. Wren, Andrew N. Rycroft and Paul R. Langford
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:29
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  42. Sheep pox, goat pox, and lumpy skin diseases are economically significant and contagious viral diseases of sheep, goats and cattle, respectively, caused by the genus Capripoxvirus (CaPV) of the family Poxviridae....

    Authors: Girma Zewdie, Getaw Derese, Belayneh Getachew, Hassen Belay and Mirtneh Akalu
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:28
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), as the main causative pathogen of viral diarrhea in pigs, has been reported to result in high morbidity and mortality in neonatal piglets and cause significant economic ...

    Authors: Siyi Zou, Lei Wu, Gan Li, Juan Wang, Dongni Cao, Tao Xu, Aiqing Jia and Yong Tang
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:27
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  44. Pasteurella multocida is a leading cause of respiratory disorders in pigs. This study was designed to understand the genotypical and antimicrobial resistant characteristics of P. multocida from pigs in China. To ...

    Authors: Songtao Liu, Lin Lin, Hao Yang, Wenqing Wu, Long Guo, Yue Zhang, Fei Wang, Xueying Wang, Wenbo Song, Lin Hua, Wan Liang, Xibiao Tang, Huanchun Chen, Zhong Peng and Bin Wu
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:26
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

  46. Coronaviruses (CoVs) are a group of related enveloped RNA viruses that have severe consequences in a wide variety of animals by causing respiratory, enteric or systemic diseases. Porcine epidemic diarrhea viru...

    Authors: Shasha Li, Fan Yang, Caina Ma, Weijun Cao, Jinping Yang, Zhenxiang Zhao, Hong Tian, Zixiang Zhu and Haixue Zheng
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:24
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  47. Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2), which serves as a major causative agent of PCV2-associated diseases and causes severe loss to the pig industry worldwide, can dysregulate the immune response and induce immuno...

    Authors: Ruihan Shi, Lei Hou and Jue Liu
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  48. Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) caused by the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), is a severe infectious and devastating swine disease that leads to serious economic losses in the swine industry worldwide....

    Authors: Leqiang Sun, Yajie Tang, Keji Yan, Huanchun Chen and Huawei Zhang
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:22
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Animal Diseases 2021 1:25

  49. Globally swine influenza is one of the most important diseases of the pig industry, with various subtypes of swine influenza virus co-circulating in the field. Swine influenza can not only cause large economic...

    Authors: Yin Li and Ian Robertson
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:21
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and SARS-CoV-2 are thought to transmit to humans via wild mammals, especially bats. However, evidence for direct bat-to-human transmission is lacking. I...

    Authors: Luciano Rodrigo Lopes, Giancarlo de Mattos Cardillo, Natália Carvalho de Lucca Pina, Antonio Carlos da Silva Junior, Silvana Kertzer Kasinski and Paulo Bandiera-Paiva
    Citation: Animal Diseases 2021 1:20
    Content type: Short Communication Published on:
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