A5036608272- Animal health and immunology
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
Ghent University
2021-2024
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) continues to be a leading cause of economic loss, hampered animal welfare, and intensive antimicrobial use in cattle operations worldwide. Reduction is hindered because it still unclear which clinical signs are best monitored reliably detect pneumonia. Also, these may vary according age between breeds. The objective this cross-sectional study was identify associated with ultrasound-confirmed pneumonia (lung consolidation ≥1 cm depth) pre- postweaning...
Quick thoracic ultrasonography (qTUS) is increasingly used as an on-farm method to diagnose clinical and subclinical pneumonia in dairy calves. The primary objective of this prospective cohort study was describe dynamics lung consolidation a purchase-dependent production system for male calves relation antimicrobial therapy respiratory diagnostics. In addition, we studied the association cured uncured with average daily gain (ADG) cold carcass weight (CCW). third determine effects arriving...
Sepsis is a life-threatening disease for which critically important antimicrobials (CIA) frequently are used. Diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines sepsis ill calves largely lacking.Identify factors associated with mortality in describe bacteria obtained from blood cultures of their antimicrobial resistance.Two-hundred thirty calves, mainly Belgian Blue beef cattle.Retrospective cohort study. Logistic regression, survival analysis, decision tree analysis were used to determine mortality.Of...
Abstract Background Thoracic ultrasonography (TUS) is a commonly used tool for on‐farm detection of pneumonia in calves. Different scanning methods have been described, but the performance novice practitioners after training has not documented. Methods In this study, 38 performed quick TUS (qTUS) on 18–23 calves each. Pneumonia was defined as lung consolidation 1 cm or more depth. Diagnostic parameters (accuracy [Acc], sensitivity [Se] and specificity [Sp]) were compared to those an...
The high degree of commingling and accumulation stressors during after transport makes prevention bovine respiratory disease (BRD) extremely challenging in the veal dairy beef industry. Upon arrival, vaccination for agents involved BRD is practically most achievable, but its efficacy under such conditions calves unknown. Given prevalence subclinical pneumonia these settings, primary objective present study was to determine effect 2 protocols administered upon arrival against syncytial virus...
Purchase dependent calf rearing systems, such as the white veal industry, systematically rely on antimicrobial mass medication (metaphylaxis) to counter respiratory tract infections. Despite mounting criticism, industry fears that without metaphylaxis, mortality would drastically increase. This randomized clinical trial aimed compare efficacy of a quick thoracic ultrasonography (qTUS) individualized treatment length between oxytetracycline (OTC) and florfenicol (FF). Regression maximum...
Respiratory tract infections remain a major problem during calf rearing, especially among milk (formula)-fed veal. Preconditioning of calves through appropriate colostrum management and vaccination could be helpful to address this issue. The objective study was investigate whether the presence serum antibodies against respiratory pathogens (bovine syncytial virus, parainfluenza 3 bovine coronavirus, Mycoplasmopsis bovis, Histophilus somni, Pasteurella multocida, Mannheimia haemolytica) total...
To what extent veterinarians active in the dairy or beef sector follow antimicrobial therapy guidelines made available different European countries for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) outbreaks, and whether differences therapeutic preventive preferences BRD management exist, is currently unknown. Therefore, objectives of this cross-sectional study were to compare vaccination coverage primary anti-inflammatory treatment on dairy, mixed-breed farms northern Belgium, determine their compliance...