Sentences with phrase «infectious animal diseases»
Working with government and industry, we're protecting our agricultural industries from emerging infectious animal diseases entering and establishing in our waters and on our land.
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Is it a good idea to build an infectious animal disease lab in an agricultural area in Kansas that is within the nation's Tornado Alley?
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With 75 % of all new human pathogens originating from animals, vaccines are key to limiting the future spread of infectious diseases between animals to people around the world» she added.
He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne disease emergence for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.
Researchers like Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, have found at least 868 human pathogens that infect both animals and humans, although some are not as fearsome as they seem.
This pattern of cross-infection from animals to humans is par for the course in emerging infectious disease.
Morse is credited with creating the term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness.
By studying the literature, Franco has assessed techniques aimed at improved animal welfare in infectious disease and neurodegenerative disorder research.
Wild boar and red deer are key hosts of bovine tuberculosis — a chronic, infectious disease mainly caused by Mycobacterium bovis — in southern Europe, with the incidence of TB in these animals particularly high in certain areas of Spain.
The researchers from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health ranked the top 100 pathogens affecting humans and the top 100 affecting domestic animals using a system which, they believe, will help governments across the continent plan for risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases, including as a result of climate change, and for biosecurity.
Blood - sucking flies can act as «flying syringes» to detect emerging infectious diseases in wild animals before they spread to humans, according to research published in the journal eLife.
In a further step, the researchers used mathematical models to predict how an infectious disease would spread considering the changes in behaviour of the sick animals.
Small - animal imaging has become an important research tool for preclinical studies of infectious diseases, according to senior author Thomas M. Bocan, Ph.D., of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (infectious diseases, according to senior author Thomas M. Bocan, Ph.D., of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID).
«Traditional methods of infectious disease research using animal models have provided limited information about disease progression until the study's endpoint, when investigators could analyze tissues from those animals,» he said.
In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functions.
The internet - based outbreak reporting system — which reports on human, animal, and plant disease outbreaks — operates under the auspices of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
The researchers compared the role of veterinarian movements on diseases spread with those of animal exchange between farms, which is recognized as the most effective transmission route for livestock infectious diseases.
«What's impressive is that, unlike in a mouse or rabbit, you can actually see the organism producing disease in the live animal,» said John R. Perfect, M.D., chief of the division of infectious diseases at Duke University School of Medicine.
When they do die, the cause is often an attack — hit by acar or mauled by a raccoon — or one of a number of infectious diseasesthat kill these turtles at all ages in seemingly equal proportions.While certain ailments, such as cancer and heart disease, strike olderhumans more often than they do younger ones, Congdon's animals don'tseem to become more vulnerable to disease as they grow older.
However, data from animal studies of Ebola, as well as studies of patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, provide a sound basis for initial recommendations.
Additional cancer and infectious diseases studies in diverse animal models are in progress.
One of the challenges in fighting infectious disease is that researchers can not watch individual pathogens inside living animals.
Kanta Subbarao of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, said her group has had to stop its efforts to adapt the MERS virus to mice to develop an animal model for the disease.
More than half of emerging human infectious diseases — including SARS and Ebola — originate in animals
By JUDITH HAMPSON In the 1880s, Louis Pasteur carried out what must be one of the most unpleasant series of animal experiments in the history of the fight against infectious disease.
«Therefore, by understanding how gill immunity works, we hope to find better ways to deliver vaccines into the gills of these animals and induce protective immunity to infectious diseases.»
While the causes of many human infectious diseases have been «pretty well characterized,» he said, researchers have «only touched the tip of the iceberg» with respect to pathogens that have the potential to pass from animals to humans.
More than half of the new infectious diseases that plague humanity — including avian influenza, West Nile virus, SARS, and even Ebola — originated from animals.
«It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion,» predicts Linfa Wang, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong.
The team found that in large animal models, the capsule safely stayed in the stomach, slowly releasing the drug for up to 14 days, and potentially providing a new way to combat malaria and other infectious diseases.
The two infected moose were older animals, suggesting that these were cases of spontaneous disease, which are less likely to be infectious.
My research combines the use of mathematical models and statistical methods to understand the transmission dynamics and control of a range of infectious diseases of humans and animals.
In the paper, the authors stressed that understanding the genetic makeup of these molluscs is important because many «freshwater snails are intermediate hosts for flatworm parasites and transmit infectious diseases» to humans and other animals.
IDMIT is an infrastructure for preclinical research in infectious diseases and immunology which is certified ISO9001 and which includes 1) A large animal facility with capacity to host NHP in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, 2) State - of - the - art laboratories for cell biology, immunology, molecular biology, flow cytometry and mass cytometry (CyTof), cell - sorting and confocal microscopy in BSL3 containment; 3) A biological resources centre with high storage capacity; 4) Highly innovative technologies for in vivo imaging of large animals in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, including a two - photon microscope, a PET - CT facility, and several optic based technologies (fibered endo - microscopy, near infra - red imaging).
We carry out translational research programmes to develop infectious disease vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics using animal models of tuberculosis, influenza, HIV / AIDS, Clostridium difficile, meningococcal disease, chlamydia, burkholderia and anthrax, as well as emerging viral diseases such as Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever.
WBVR contributes to the prevention, eradication and control of animal infectious diseases through research, diagnostics and consultancy.
At BPRC non-human primate (NHP) models of infectious diseases are available in high quality, using purpose - bred and MHC - typed animals.
Animal models are also available for the most relevant infectious veterinary diseases in pigs, poultry and ruminants.
My goals include the development of novel molecular diagnostic methods in companion animal cancer and infectious disease.
Three quarters of all emerging infectious diseases of humans emanate from animals - Avian Flu, Ebola and SARS are just some.
The department has an active clinical research program including the analysis of immune responses to vaccination or different infectious diseases e.g. M. tuberculosis in humans and animals.
This parasite causes schistosomiasis, an infectious disease of global importance for human and animals.
PFIE works according to the certification ISO 9001 and is open to the whole research community, from either academic or private sectors, studying farm animal and zoonotic diseases, testing new diagnostic tools or vaccines against infectious diseases.
«In animal experiments, we found that the two strains differed greatly in their virulence potential,» says Britta Björkholm, of the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control in Solna, who led the research.
The Committee has been investigating the use of GM insect technologies to fight infectious disease and to control agricultural pests as the technology now exists to render insects unable to transmit diseases, and to reduce insect populations to minimise their threat to animals and crops.
«It's a perfect storm for infectious disease,» he says: «You have young animals in stressful conditions — like being moved from kennel to pet store — and often they're being mingled together in close quarters.»
Living in close proximity to animals has led to some of the most serious infectious diseases we humans have ever encountered, diseases such as smallpox, measles, bird flu, and tuberculosis.
Another animal study using mice, from the October 2009 issue of the «Journal of Medicinal Food,» found that spirulina had a beneficial effect on intestinal immune cells, helping these cells fight off infectious agents in the digestive tract and prevent disease.
Some farmers have had success with using GSE in animal feed and water to reduce the spreading of infectious diseases.