-
Article
First complete genome sequence of lumpy skin disease virus directly from a clinical sample in South India
Lumpy skin disease (LSD), a notifiable disease listed by the World Organization for Animal Health and a fast fast-moving transboundary viral disease infecting cattle and buffaloes, was reported in India in 201...
-
Article
Open AccessGenome sequencing and comparative genomic analysis of bovine mastitis-associated Staphylococcus aureus strains from India
Bovine mastitis accounts for significant economic losses to the dairy industry worldwide. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common causative agent of bovine mastitis. Investigating the prevalence of virulence fac...
-
Reference Work Entry In depth
The Role of Vaccines in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance
Besides sanitation, vaccines and antimicrobials (AMs) have been central to improvements in public health. However, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) appears to have been hastened by the introduction of antibiotic...
-
Living Reference Work Entry In depth
The Role of Vaccines in Combating Antimicrobial Resistance
Besides sanitation, vaccines and antimicrobials (AMs) have been central to improvements in public health. However, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) appears to have been hastened by the introduction of antibiotic...
-
Article
Open AccessA visualisation tool to understand disease prevention and control practices of stakeholders working along the poultry supply chain in southern India
In this paper, we show how we developed a visualisation tool to challenge perceived notions about biosecurity on poultry farms. Veterinarians and veterinary public health professionals tend to present biosecur...
-
Article
COVID-19: A Veterinary and One Health Perspective
Interface with animals has been responsible for the occurrence of a major proportion of human diseases for the past several decades. Recent outbreaks of respiratory, haemorrhagic, encephalitic, arthropod-borne...
-
Article
Open AccessMolecular fingerprinting of bovine mastitis-associated Staphylococcus aureus isolates from India
Staphylococcus aureus is a major etiological agent of clinical and subclinical bovine mastitis. Owing to the mostly backyard dairy practices, we hypothesized that genetic diversity among mastitis-associated S. au...
-
Chapter
Bluetongue: Aetiology, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Control
Bluetongue (BT) is an emerging and re-emerging vector-borne viral disease of domestic and wild ruminants, caused by viruses classified within the species bluetongue virus (BTV), genus Orbivirus, family Reoviridae
-
Article
Limit of detection of genomic DNA by conventional PCR for estimating the load of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli associated with bovine mastitis
Detection of mastitis-associated bacteria can be accomplished by culturing or by molecular techniques. On the other hand, rapid and inexpensive methods to enumerate bacterial load without culturing can be bett...
-
Article
Type-specific seroprevalence of bluetongue in Andhra Pradesh, India, during 2005–2009
Bluetongue (BT) is an infectious, arthropod-borne viral disease of domestic and wild ruminants caused by bluetongue virus (BTV), which is a double-stranded segmented RNA virus. Of the 26 confirmed BTV serotype...
-
Article
Comparative immunogenicity of two peste des petitis ruminants (PPR) vaccines in South Indian sheep and goats under field conditions
Peste des petitis ruminants (PPR) is an economically important endemic viral disease of sheep and goats in India, where several different homologous PPR vaccine candidates have been developed. We evaluated the...
-
Article
The persistence of biofilm-associated antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from clinical bovine mastitis cases in Australia
The aim of this investigation was to determine the persistence of biofilm-associated antibiotic resistance developed by methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), of different capsular types, during biof...
-
Article
Incidence of Subclinical Mastitis and Prevalence of Major Mastitis Pathogens in Organized Farms and Unorganized Sectors
Subclinical mastitis (SCM) represents a major proportion of the burden of mastitis. Determining somatic cell count (SCC) and electrical conductivity (EC) of milk are useful approaches to detect SCM. In order t...
-
Article
Evidence of bluetongue virus serotype 21 (BTV-21) divergence
Bluetongue virus serotype 21 (BTV-21) was originally isolated from Australia, but has now been reported from India, Indonesia, China and Japan. We report the isolation, and sequencing of BTV-21 from India. The...
-
Article
Genetic characterization of bluetongue virus serotype 9 isolates from India
Recent incursions of bluetongue virus (BTV) into previously naive geographical areas have emphasised the need to better understand virus movement and epidemiology. Several bluetongue virus (BTV) serotypes are ...
-
Article
RETRACTED ARTICLE: The complete nucleotide sequences of serotype ‘O’ and ‘A’ Indian vaccine strains of foot-and-mouth disease virus
-
Article
Reasons to include viruses in the tree of life
-
Article
Cytomegalovirus US2 destroys two components of the MHC class II pathway, preventing recognition by CD4+ T cells
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous herpesvirus that causes life-threatening disease in patients who are immunosuppressed for bone marrow or tissue transplantation or who have AIDS (ref. 1). HCMV establi...
-
Article
The Use of Bovine MHC Class I Allele-Specific Peptide Motifs and Proteolytic Cleavage Specificities for the Prediction of Potential Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Epitopes of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus
Cell mediated immunity (CMI) is crucial for the defense against viruses. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) play a major role in CMI. They recognize endogenous antigenic peptides presented by antigen presenting ce...
-
Article
Prediction of potential cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitopes of bovine herpesvirus 1 based on allele-specific peptide motifs and proteolytic cleavage specificities
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules present endogenous peptides to cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CLTs). Elucidation of CTL epitopes of intracellular pathogens helps in designing better vaccines...
