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Methods for differentiating prion types in food-producing animals (2015)
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Prions are an enigma amongst infectious disease agents as they lack a genome yet confer specific pathologies thought to be dictated mainly, if not solely, by the conformation of the disease form of the prion protein (PrPSc). Prion diseases affect hum... Read More about Methods for differentiating prion types in food-producing animals.

Objects in contact with classical scrapie sheep act as a reservoir for scrapie transmission (2015)
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Classical scrapie is an environmentally transmissible prion disease of sheep and goats. Prions can persist and remain potentially infectious in the environment for many years and thus pose a risk of infecting animals after re-stocking. In vitro studi... Read More about Objects in contact with classical scrapie sheep act as a reservoir for scrapie transmission.

Evidence for a novel Kit adhesion domain mediating human mast cell adhesion to structural airway cells (2015)
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Background: Human lung mast cells (HLMCs) infiltrate the airway epithelium and airway smooth muscle (ASM) in asthmatic airways. The mechanism of HLMC adhesion to both cell types is only partly defined, and adhesion is not inhibited by function-blocki... Read More about Evidence for a novel Kit adhesion domain mediating human mast cell adhesion to structural airway cells.

Applications and limitations of measuring environmental DNA as indicators of the presence of aquatic animals (2015)
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1. In Rees et al. (2014b), we reviewed the current status of environmental DNA (eDN A) tomonitor aquatic populations. Our aim was to focus on discus sion of methodologies used,application of eDNA analysis as a survey tool in ecology, and to include s... Read More about Applications and limitations of measuring environmental DNA as indicators of the presence of aquatic animals.

Does the Presence of Scrapie Affect the Ability of Current Statutory Discriminatory Tests To Detect the Presence of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy? (2015)
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Current European Commission (EC) surveillance regulations require discriminatory testing of all transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE)-positive small ruminant (SR) samples in order to classify them as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or... Read More about Does the Presence of Scrapie Affect the Ability of Current Statutory Discriminatory Tests To Detect the Presence of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy?.

Incubation of ovine scrapie with environmental matrix results in biological and biochemical changes of PrPSc over time (2015)
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Ovine scrapie can be transmitted via environmental reservoirs. A pool of ovine scrapie isolates were incubated on soil for one day or thirteen months and eluted prion was used to challenge tg338 mice transgenic for ovine PrP. After one-day incubation... Read More about Incubation of ovine scrapie with environmental matrix results in biological and biochemical changes of PrPSc over time.

Sensitive recovery of recombinant antibody clones after their in silico identification within NGS datasets (2015)
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Recently the analytical power of the latest high throughput next generation DNA sequencing platforms has been used to analyse phage that have been selected from the panning of large combinatorial libraries displaying either peptide or antibody ligand... Read More about Sensitive recovery of recombinant antibody clones after their in silico identification within NGS datasets.

Circulation of prions within dust on a scrapie affected farm (2015)
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Prion diseases are fatal neurological disorders that affect humans and animals. Scrapie of sheep/goats and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) of deer/elk are contagious prion diseases where environmental reservoirs have a direct link to the transmission o... Read More about Circulation of prions within dust on a scrapie affected farm.

Persistence of scrapie infectivity within a farm environment after cleaning and decontamination (2015)
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Scrapie of sheep/goats and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) of deer/elk are contagious prion diseases where environmental reservoirs are directly implicated in the transmission of disease. In this study the effectiveness of recommended scrapie farm deco... Read More about Persistence of scrapie infectivity within a farm environment after cleaning and decontamination.

Prebiotic and probiotic agents enhance antibody-based immune responses to Salmonella Typhimurium infection in pigs (2014)
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Salmonellosis causes significant economic losses to the pig industry and contaminated pork products are an important source of Salmonella for humans. The EU ban on the use of antibiotic growth promoters in pig production, and the emergence of antibio... Read More about Prebiotic and probiotic agents enhance antibody-based immune responses to Salmonella Typhimurium infection in pigs.

The application of eDNA for monitoring of the great crested newt in the UK (2014)
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Current ecological surveys for great crested newts are time-consuming and expensive and can only be carried out within a short survey window. Additional survey methods which would facilitate the detection of rare or protected species such as the grea... Read More about The application of eDNA for monitoring of the great crested newt in the UK.

Highly sensitive detection of small ruminant bovine spongiform encephalopathy within transmissible spongiform encephalopathy mixes by serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification (2014)
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It is assumed that sheep and goats consumed the same bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)-contaminated meat and bone meal that was fed to cattle and precipitated the BSE epidemic in the United Kingdom that peaked more than 20 years ago. De- spite i... Read More about Highly sensitive detection of small ruminant bovine spongiform encephalopathy within transmissible spongiform encephalopathy mixes by serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification.

The detection of aquatic animal species using environmental DNA – a review of eDNA as a survey tool in ecology (2014)
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1. Knowledge of species distribution is critical to ecological management and conservation biology. Effective management requires the detection of populations, which can sometimes be at low densities and is usually based on visual detection and count... Read More about The detection of aquatic animal species using environmental DNA – a review of eDNA as a survey tool in ecology.

Recombinant plants provide a new approach to the production of bacterial polysaccharide for vaccines (2014)
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Bacterial polysaccharides have numerous clinical or industrial uses. Recombinant plants could offer the possibility of producing bacterial polysaccharides on a large scale and free of contaminating bacterial toxins and antigens. We investigated the f... Read More about Recombinant plants provide a new approach to the production of bacterial polysaccharide for vaccines.