School of Life and Environmental Sciences: Recent submissions
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Optimization of a whole blood gamma interferon assay for the detection of sheep infected with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis
Published 2010-01-01The capacity of a commercially available gamma interferon (IFNγ) assay to detect infected sheep early in the pathogenesis of Johne's disease enables the removal of such animals from the flock before bacterial shedding and ...Open AccessArticle -
Human Preferences for Conformation Attributes and Head-And-Neck Positions in Horses.
Published 2015-06-30Human preferences for certain morphological attributes among domestic animals may be entirely individual or, more generally, may reflect evolutionary pressures that favor certain conformation. Artificial selection for ...Open AccessArticle -
Dog bites in humans and estimating human rabies mortality in rabies endemic areas of Bhutan.
Published 2011-11-22Background Dog bites in humans are a public health problem worldwide. The issues of increasing stray dog populations, rabies outbreaks, and the risk of dogs biting humans have been frequently reported by the media in ...Open AccessArticle -
A retrospective study of admission trends of koalas to a rehabilitation facility over 30 years
Published 2013-01-01To identify threats to the survival of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in coastal New South Wales, Australia, we compared 3,781 admission records of koalas, admitted between 1 January 1975 and 31 December 2004 to a koala ...Open AccessArticle -
Assessment of the proportion of under-reporting during the 2007 equine influenza outbreak in New South Wales, Australia.
Published 2011-01-01During the 2007 equine influenza (EI) outbreak in Australia, there was no objective information about the possible under-reporting of cases by horse owners either so that they would avoid movement restrictions or because ...Open AccessArticle