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A histopathological study in road-killed European badgers (Meles meles) from the English midlands with isolation of novel non-tuberculous atypical mycobacteria (2024)
Journal Article
Corbetta, D., Grau-Roma, L., Rees, C., Swift, B. M. C., O’Cathail, C., Barron, E. S., Verin, R., Morey-Matamalas, A., Sorley, M., & Bennett, M. (2024). A histopathological study in road-killed European badgers (Meles meles) from the English midlands with isolation of novel non-tuberculous atypical mycobacteria. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 70(6), Article 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01866-4

European badgers (Meles meles) play an important role in the epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis (caused by Mycobacterium bovis) in England, but little is known about the prevalence of atypical mycobacteriosis. Badgers are also known to be infected b... Read More about A histopathological study in road-killed European badgers (Meles meles) from the English midlands with isolation of novel non-tuberculous atypical mycobacteria.

Relationships between soil and badger elemental concentrations across a heterogeneously contaminated landscape (2023)
Journal Article
Sartorius, A., Cahoon, M., Corbetta, D., Grau-Roma, L., Johnson, M. F., Sandoval Barron, E., Smallman-Raynor, M., Swift, B. M., Yon, L., Young, S., & Bennett, M. (2023). Relationships between soil and badger elemental concentrations across a heterogeneously contaminated landscape. Science of the Total Environment, 869, Article 161684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161684

Understanding the links between environmental and wildlife elemental concentrations is key to help assess ecosystem functions and the potential effects of legacy pollutants. In this study, livers from 448 European badgers (Meles meles) collected acro... Read More about Relationships between soil and badger elemental concentrations across a heterogeneously contaminated landscape.

Tuberculosis in badgers where the bovine tuberculosis epidemic is expanding in cattle in England (2021)
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Swift, B. M. C., Barron, E. S., Christley, R., Corbetta, D., Grau-Roma, L., Jewell, C., O’Cathail, C., Mitchell, A., Phoenix, J., Prosser, A., Rees, C., Sorley, M., Verin, R., & Bennett, M. (2021). Tuberculosis in badgers where the bovine tuberculosis epidemic is expanding in cattle in England. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 20995. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00473-6

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an important animal health and economic problem for the cattle industry and a potential zoonotic threat. Wild badgers (Meles meles) play a role on its epidemiology in some areas of high prevalence in cattle, particularly... Read More about Tuberculosis in badgers where the bovine tuberculosis epidemic is expanding in cattle in England.

The development and use of Actiphage® to detect viable mycobacteria from bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease-infected animals (2019)
Journal Article
Swift, B. M., Meade, N., Barron, E. S., Bennett, M., Perehenic, T., Hughes, V., Stevenson, K., & Rees, C. E. (2020). The development and use of Actiphage® to detect viable mycobacteria from bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease-infected animals. Microbial Biotechnology, 13(3), 738-746. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13518

© 2019 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology. Here, we describe the development of a method that exploits bacteriophage D29 as a lysis agent for efficient DNA extraction from lo... Read More about The development and use of Actiphage® to detect viable mycobacteria from bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease-infected animals.

A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area (2018)
Journal Article
Sandoval Barron, E., Swift, B., Chantrey, J., Christley, R., Gardner, R., Jewell, C., McGrath, I., Mitchell, A., O’Cathail, C., Prosser, A., Ridout, S., Sanchez-Cabezudo, G., Smith, N., Timofte, D., Williams, N., & Bennett, M. (2018). A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 17206. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35652-5

The role of badgers in the geographic expansion of the bovine tuberculosis (bTB) epidemic in England is unknown: indeed there have been few published studies of bTB in badgers outside of the Southwest of England where the infection is now endemic in... Read More about A study of tuberculosis in road traffic-killed badgers on the edge of the British bovine TB epidemic area.