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Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence (2024)
Journal Article

Ekphrasis has long been a topic of interest to literary scholars, but until quite recently medieval ekphrasis has existed on the periphery of most accounts of it. This article explores the distinctive nature of medieval ekphrasis in passages of descr... Read More about Chaucerian Ekphrasis: Craft, Intertext, Dispence.

The long and short of it: benchmarking viromics using Illumina, Nanopore and PacBio sequencing technologies (2024)
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Viral metagenomics has fuelled a rapid change in our understanding of global viral diversity and ecology. Long-read sequencing and hybrid assembly approaches that combine long- and short-read technologies are now being widely implemented in bacterial... Read More about The long and short of it: benchmarking viromics using Illumina, Nanopore and PacBio sequencing technologies.

Antimicrobial resistance in dairy slurry tanks: a critical point for measurement and control (2022)
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Waste from dairy production is one of the largest sources of contamination from antimicrobial resistant bacteria (ARB) and genes (ARGs) in many parts of the world. However, studies to date do not provide necessary evidence to inform antimicrobial res... Read More about Antimicrobial resistance in dairy slurry tanks: a critical point for measurement and control.

Hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome reveals a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism and virulence of veterinary pathogens (2021)
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Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, known to be crucial components of microbial ecosystems. However, there is little information on the viral community within agricultural waste. There are currently ~ 2.7 million dairy cattle... Read More about Hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome reveals a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism and virulence of veterinary pathogens.

Anthropogenic environmental drivers of antimicrobial resistance in wildlife (2018)
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The isolation of antimicrobial resistant bacteria (ARB) from wildlife living adjacent to humans has led to the suggestion that such antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is anthropogenically driven by exposure to antimicrobials and ARB. However, ARB have al... Read More about Anthropogenic environmental drivers of antimicrobial resistance in wildlife.

A model of persistent Salmonella infection: Salmonella pullorum modulates the immune response of the chicken from a Th17 towards a Th2-type response (2018)
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Salmonella enterica infection affects a wide range of animals and human and a small number of serovars cause typhoid-like infections, one characteristic of which is persistent infection in convalescents. The avian specific serovar S Pullorum produces... Read More about A model of persistent Salmonella infection: Salmonella pullorum modulates the immune response of the chicken from a Th17 towards a Th2-type response.

Novel inflammatory cell infiltration scoring system to investigate healthy and footrot affected ovine interdigital skin (2018)
Journal Article

Ovine footrot is a degenerative disease of sheep feet leading to the separation of hoofhorn from the underlying skin and lameness. This study quantitatively examined histological features of the ovine interdigital skin as well as their relationship w... Read More about Novel inflammatory cell infiltration scoring system to investigate healthy and footrot affected ovine interdigital skin.

The Uses of Medievalism in Early Modern England: Recovery, Temporality, and the “Passionating” of the Past (2018)
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The premodern past was desired and deployed in a myriad of different ways in sixteenth-century England. The period of the English Reformations produced a generative, complex, and paradoxical range of feelings for the premodern. Many sixteenth-century... Read More about The Uses of Medievalism in Early Modern England: Recovery, Temporality, and the “Passionating” of the Past.

Erratum for Aidley et al., “Nonselective Bottlenecks Control the Divergence and Diversification of Phase-Variable Bacterial Populations” (2017)
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© 2017 Aidley et al. Volume 8, no. 2, e02311-16, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02311-16. The byline and affiliation line of our article should appear as shown above. The following should also be added to the end of Acknowledgments: “M.A.J. was s... Read More about Erratum for Aidley et al., “Nonselective Bottlenecks Control the Divergence and Diversification of Phase-Variable Bacterial Populations”.

'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press 2017; all rights reserved. This article explores the ways in which mid-Tudor writing addressed and imagined the city of London. Scholarly reactions to mid-Tudor writing have been mixed: where ni... Read More about 'O London, London': Mid-Tudor literature and the city.

Nonselective Bottlenecks Control the Divergence and Diversification of Phase-Variable Bacterial Populations (2017)
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Phase variation occurs in many pathogenic and commensal bacteria and is a major generator of genetic variability. A putative advantage of phase variation is to counter reductions in variability imposed by nonselective bottlenecks during transmission.... Read More about Nonselective Bottlenecks Control the Divergence and Diversification of Phase-Variable Bacterial Populations.

High throughput method for analysis of repeat number for 28 phase variable loci of C. jejuni strain NCTC11168 (2016)
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Mutations in simple sequence repeat tracts are a major mechanism of phase variation in several bacterial species including Campylobacter jejuni. Changes in repeat number of tracts located within the reading frame can produce a high frequency of rever... Read More about High throughput method for analysis of repeat number for 28 phase variable loci of C. jejuni strain NCTC11168.

The genomic architecture of resistance to Campylobacter jejuni intestinal colonisation in chickens (2016)
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Campylobacter is the leading cause of foodborne diarrhoeal illness in humans and is mostly acquired from consumption or handling of contaminated poultry meat. In the absence of effective licensed vaccines and inhibitors, selection for chickens with i... Read More about The genomic architecture of resistance to Campylobacter jejuni intestinal colonisation in chickens.

Campylobacter jejuni PflB is required for motility and colonisation of the chicken gastrointestinal tract (2015)
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Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of foodborne bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. Although the mechanisms by which C. jejuni causes disease are not completely understood, the presence of functional flagella appears to be required for coloni... Read More about Campylobacter jejuni PflB is required for motility and colonisation of the chicken gastrointestinal tract.

Campylobacter jejuni gene cj0511 encodes a serine peptidase essential for colonisation (2014)
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According to MEROPS peptidase database, Campylobacter species encode 64 predicted peptidases. However, proteolytic properties of only a few of these proteins have been confirmed experimentally. In this study we identified and characterised a Campylob... Read More about Campylobacter jejuni gene cj0511 encodes a serine peptidase essential for colonisation.

Veterinary students' usage and perception of video teaching resources (2011)
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Background: The purpose of our study was to use a student-centred approach to develop an online video learning resource (called 'Moo Tube') at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, UK and also to provide guidance fo... Read More about Veterinary students' usage and perception of video teaching resources.

CapA, an Autotransporter Protein of Campylobacter jejuni, Mediates Association with Human Epithelial Cells and Colonization of the Chicken Gut (2007)
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Two putative autotransporter proteins, CapA and CapB, were identified in silico from the genome sequence of Campylobacter jejuni NCTC11168. The genes encoding each protein contain homopolymeric tracts, suggestive of phase variation mediated by a slip... Read More about CapA, an Autotransporter Protein of Campylobacter jejuni, Mediates Association with Human Epithelial Cells and Colonization of the Chicken Gut.