Diseases evolve constantly and research is needed to face emerging new threats. Evidences suggest that the impact of such threats will have its peak in the Mediterranean area. The FORE-Med, Foresight project for the Mediterranean, aims at identifying the future challenges on livestock health and...

Newcastle disease (ND) is one of the highly contagious disease responsible for devastating outbreaks and considerable economic losses to poultry industry in China. However, no information is available about NDV in Tibet region; the aim of this study was to determine the genetic characterization and ...

Nowadays, increasing social, political, and economic interdependence is occurring as a result of the rapid movement of people, images, values, and financial transactions across national borders. Another consequence of the increase in transnational trade, travelling, and migration is the greater...

In April 2011, in the USA, a new influenza virus type D (IDV) was isolated for the first time from pigs and then from cows. In the paper the data about the prevalence of this virus in humans and animals are described. It was evidenced that HE protein of IDV could bind to cellular receptors in the...

This paper will consider the Dutch experience with a relatively new disease, Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis), causing very serious problems (extremely painful cows) with serious consequences for farmer and practitioner (euthanizing cows). In all herds with M. bovis arthritis problems, mainly front legs ...

BACKGROUND: Avian infectious bronchitis (IB) is an economically important poultry disease. The emergence of new infectious bronchitis virus genotypes has complicated IB control programs. OBJECTIVES: This is the first comprehensive molecular analysis of the Nucleocapsid (N) gene of Iranian IBVs....

Wildlife is the fauna and flora that are out of the control of man, although over the years common usage, public perceptions and history have practically defined wildlife as undomesticated free ranging terrestrial vertebrates which include reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals excluding fishes....

A cross-sectional study was conducted during period of February, 2015 to May, 2015 with the objective of Salmonella isolation from poultry farms in and around Modjo town and to determine antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of the isolates. Accordingly, at total of 205 samples in which 100 cloacal ...

Necrotic enteritis (NE) is an emerging economically significant problem of poultry caused by a bacterium Clostridium perfringens. The rising incidence of Clostridium infections and development of NE in commercial chickens has been associated with the withdrawal of antibiotics. There is an urgent...

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a re-emerging infectious disease in Europe, which causes a classical One Health problem in certain regions of the Continent. European experiences related to the wild boar's role in the epidemiology of bTB suggest that this species can be a maintenance host of the...