A5072534105- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
- Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Parasitic infections in humans and animals
- Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
Universidad de Zaragoza
2011-2024
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
2024
University of Aveiro
2024
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2024
Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet
2019
Iowa State University
1994
Laboratoire de Recherches sur le Développement de l'Elevage
1977
Abstract Background The role of wildlife as a brucellosis reservoir for humans and domestic livestock remains to be properly established. aim this work was determine the aetiology, apparent prevalence, spatial distribution risk factors transmission in several Iberian wild ungulates. Methods A multi-species indirect immunosorbent assay (iELISA) using Brucella S-LPS antigen developed. In regions having livestock, individual serum samples were taken between 1999 2009 from 2,579 bovids, 6,448...
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) circulate between the environment, animals and humans entailing a double concern: their ability to interfere with tuberculosis diagnosis potential cause infections in hosts. However, published records on NTM are still scarce. The aims of present study were describe diversity circulating among wild domestic species from Spain analyze implications as pathogenic microorganisms or sources interferences bovine tuberculosis. Overall, 293 isolates 277 obtained...
During investigations into recent population decreases in Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica pyrenaica) 21 animals found dead or dying were necropsied. Immunohistochemistry revealed the presence of a pestivirus organs from two chamois. From one these was isolated spleen, skin and serum. The virus had better growth ovine than bovine cells neutralized most effectively by an anti-border disease (BDV) reference antiserum. Using panpestivirus genotype-specific primers selected 5′-untranslated...
The ongoing increase in wild boar populations across Europe has fostered human-wildlife conflicts, including the transmission of emerging pathogens with zoonotic importance. Blastocystis is a ubiquitous, faecal-oral transmitted protist that can cause gastrointestinal illnesses and observed humans animals worldwide. role wildlife epidemiology insufficiently understood. Thus, we investigated occurrence subtype diversity free-ranging boars from Iberian Peninsula using conventional PCR...
Swine brucellosis due to Brucella suis biovar 2 (bv2) is enzootic in wild boar and hare continental Europe may cause major economic losses the pig industry, mainly free-ranged farms. The high nucleotide identity found among B. isolates has long hindered full understanding of epidemiology phylogeography disease. Here, we used multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) whole-genome identify single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) order gain insights from largest bv2 dataset...
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus (CCHFV) is a tick-borne zoonotic pathogen that can cause lethal disease in humans. Although the appears to be endemically established Iberian Peninsula, CCHF an emerging Spain. Clinical signs of CCHFV infection are mainly manifested humans, but replicates several animal species. Understanding determinants exposure risk from models essential predicting high-risk hotspots for public health action. With this objective mind, we designed...
Between 2006 and 2008, an outbreak of Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis (IKC) affected Pyrenean chamois Rupicapra p. pyrenaica, endemic subspecies mountain ungulate that lives in the Pyrenees. The study focused on 14 massifs (180,000 ha) where species' population is stable. Cases IKC were detected ten and, five them, mortality was substantial. spread quickly from first location detected, with two peaks one (2007) three (2008) massifs. In latter, peak seasonal (spring to autumn) former,...
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) of domestic cats (ERV-DCs) are one the youngest feline ERV groups in (Felis silvestris catus); some members replication competent (ERV-DC10, ERV-DC18, and ERV-DC14), produce antiretroviral soluble factor Refrex-1 (ERV-DC7 ERV-DC16), or can generate recombinant leukemia virus (FeLV). Here, we investigated ERV-DC European wildcats silvestris) detected four loci: ERV-DC6, ERV-DC7, ERV-DC14, ERV-DC16. ERV-DC14 was at a high frequency wildcats; however, it defective...
Abstract Microsporidia comprises a diverse group of obligate, intracellular, and spore-forming parasites that infect wide range animals. Among them, Enterocytozoon bieneusi is the most frequently reported species in humans other mammals birds. Data on epidemiology E. wildlife are limited. Hence, was investigated eight wild ungulate present Spain (genera Ammotragus, Capra, Capreolus, Cervus, Dama, Ovis, Rupicapra, Sus) by molecular methods. Faecal samples were collected from free-ranging (n =...
Herein, we report the first incidence of systemic besnoitiosis in a male juvenile roe deer Capreolus capreolus. The animal was found dead an area where bovine is endemic and showed cachexia multiple skin erosions metacarpal metatarsal areas. Moreover, round elevated white structures suggestive Besnoitia spp. tissue cysts were also present. Twenty-eight samples from different anatomical locations collected for microscopic lesion parasite detection through histopathology PCR....
The chamois Rupicapra spp. is the most abundant mountain ungulate of Europe and Near East, where it occurs as two species, northern R. rupicapra southern pyrenaica . Here, we provide a state‐of‐the‐art overview research trends challenging issues in conservation, focusing on taxonomy systematics, genetics, life history, ecology behavior, physiology disease, management conservation. Research has longstanding history contributed substantially to biological ecological knowledge ungulates....
The first European cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free-ranging reindeer and wild elk were confirmed Norway 2016 highlighting the urgent need to understand transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) context deer species many individual populations throughout continent. genetics prion protein gene (PRNP) are crucial determining relative susceptibility TSEs. To establish PRNP sequence diversity for ruminants Northeast Spain, open reading frame was sequenced over 350 samples...
Schmallenberg disease (SBD) is an emerging vector-borne that affects domestic and wild ruminants. A long-term serosurvey was conducted to assess exposure virus (SBV) in all the ruminant species present mainland Spain. Between 2010 2016, sera from 1,216 animals were tested for antibodies against SBV using a commercial blocking ELISA. The overall prevalence of 27.1% (95%CI: 24.7–29.7). Statistically significant differences among observed, with significantly higher seropositivity found fallow...
Abstract Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic zoonosis caused by Toxoplasma gondii which infects warm‐blooded species worldwide. Humans can be infected through ingestion of tissue cysts from raw or undercooked meat, including game meat. A nationwide large‐scale cross‐sectional study was conducted to assess exposure T. in seven wild ruminant Spain. total 2,040 serum samples 77 sampling sites randomly distributed the five bioregions (BRs) covering mainland Spain were tested for antibodies against...
Animal tuberculosis remains a great source of socioeconomic and health concern worldwide. Its main causative agents, Mycobacterium bovis caprae, have been isolated from many different domestic wild animals. Naturally, occurring is extremely rare in rabbits, implication M. caprae has never reported earlier. This study describes severe outbreak caused by Spanish farm rabbits raised for meat human consumption. The disease was first identified cachectic dam, then it confirmed ten does with...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a zoonotic mycobacterial infection with great importance in human health, animal production, and wildlife conservation. Although an ambitious eradication programme cattle has been implemented for decades, TB-free status not yet achieved most of Spain, where TB persists multi-host system domestic wild hosts, including the red deer (Cervus elaphus). However, information on long time series trends prevalence scarce. The diagnosis often based gross pathology bacteriological...