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Leon Cantas' doctoral research shows that the immune response of the host to a bacterial infection may have a significant effect on the development of bacteria's resistance to antibiotics.
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The number of disease events related to metabolism in dairy cattle that are reported to national registers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden varies and this impacts when comparing disease statistics between these countries.
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How are human and animal diseases in general affected by the climate becoming “wilder, wetter and warmer”?
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New research shows how the interaction between Atlantic salmon and the ISA virus leads to the development and spreading of the influenza-like disease ISA in fish. The new findings may be of interest to research on influenza generally.
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The stockperson is an important influence on farm animal welfare. In her PhD thesis, Karianne Muri has investigated some of the many ways in which stockpeople have an impact on the welfare of the animals under their care
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Feeding fish with plant-based raw materials has been shown to have a negative effect on Atlantic salmon’s ability to digest fats.
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FSH and LH are two important hormones which regulate the processes of puberty and maturation. These hormones are secreted by the pituitary gland and are transported in the blood to the genitalia, where they regulate maturation.
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Mycobacteriosis in fish is a disease that is difficult to detect and therefore often underdiagnosed. For the same reason, information about the effects of this disease on the fish farming industry has been limited.
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Food poisoning caused by Bacillus cereus can lead to diarrhea which is probably caused by a 3-component toxin which is produced by this bacteria strain and which perforates and kills cells.
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Stress affects the congenital immune defence system. New doctoral research has revealed how stress can lower the immunity of salmon and increase its susceptibility to viral infection.
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Changes in the breeding of pigs over the last 20 years has led to the size of litters increasing by on average two piglets.
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Staphylococcus aureus is the cause of a number of infections in humans and animals and a major cause of mastitis in cattle and sheep in Norway and other countries.
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Tanzania is one of the few African countries with a diversity of wildlife species and a network of protected areas for these animals. The mapping of genetic variations in wild animals can help to improve wildlife management in the country.
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Milk production is a major source of income for many farmers in Tanzania and therefore an important factor in combating poverty in the region. But the health and growth of the calves and the milk production rate is often poor.
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Tanzania has many different and diverse wildlife populations spread across a network of protected areas extending over the whole country.
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Little attention has been paid to the use of antibiotics in the aquaculture industry as one reason for the increase in bacteria resistant to antibiotics and the spread of such resistance to other bacteria.
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Sheep in the Norwegian counties of Rogaland and Hordaland have an increased risk of hosting gastrointestinal parasites which cannot be efficiently treated with benzimidazole – the most frequently used deworming agent for sheep in Norway.
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A research project has been studying the molecular epidemiological conditions relating to diseases caused by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria in the Mubende region of Uganda.
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Photo: Jens Sølvberg/Samfoto A PhD research project carried out at The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science has revealed that 50.7% of Norwegian standard bred horses of the same age suffer from loose bone fragments and defects in their joints....
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New findings on the interaction between an influenza-related virus and the host provide a significant contribution to understanding disease mechanisms behind the serious fish disease Infectious salmon anemia (ISA).
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Artificial insemination (using fresh or frozen semen) is an important method of improving the genetics of production animals.
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Transmission of infection from neighbouring fish farms is the main way that the viral disease Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) spreads during epidemics.
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Salmon exposed to algal-produced neurotoxins show changes in both their brain activity and general behaviour.
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Measuring immune responses with the help of a so-called interferon gamma test can help to diagnose paratuberculosis in goats.
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The ongoing debate about low carbohydrate diets is far from over. Research shows that a bad or inadequate diet can be at least as carcinogenic as smoking.
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Dogs and cats that are sterilised or castrated develop a stress response: inflammatory changes and an increased tendency to coagulation after the operation.
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Food allergies pose a serious and growing problem in the West.
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Following the E. coli case in 2006, when 17 people fell ill and one child died after eating mutton sausages, the meat industry introduced a number of measures in order to reduce the risk of food poisoning from meat.
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Doctoral research carried out by Mona Gjessing shows that pathological changes in cod differ from those found in diseased salmon, and cod that appear clinically healthy can nevertheless be affected by extensive changes due to disease.
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Hip dysplasia (HD) in dogs is affected to a larger degree than previously believed by the environment in which puppies grow up.
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It is well known that female sex hormones (oestrogens) that end up in rivers and lakes, primarily via spillage from sewers and livestock farming, pose a threat to the environment.
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Some bacteria can form spores (survival capsules) that are particularly resistant to heat. Since sporogenous bacteria can also cause food poisoning and a reduction in food quality, they constitute a significant threat to the food industry.
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March 6th - 8th, 2012 - Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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Zebrafish is a fantastic species for modelling of human disease, and offer advantages above model organisms lika mouse.
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Scrapie is a neurodegenerative disease which can function as a model for other diseases caused by an accumulation of proteins resulting in tissue malformations (proteinpathies), such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
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An increase in human activity is posing a threat to natural aquatic ecosystems in Tanzania and contributing to environmental damage and ecological changes.
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The lactation curve is a graphic presentation of variations in milk production throughout the lactation period. There are great variations in the shape of the lactation curve, disease incidence and fertility in cattle and in feeding strategy.
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Infections caused by mycobacteria (bacteria which are the cause of diseases such as tuberculosis in humans and animals) have a great impact on public health, animal health and the health of ecosystems in rural areas of Uganda.
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Zoonotic tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium bovis, occurs in a large range of hosts, including humans, wild animals and domestic animals.
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Infections caused by oomycetes (or water moulds) of the Saprolegnia family reappeared as a loss factor in the fish farming industry after the dye malachite green was prohibited for use as a water treatment agent.
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Several different mechanisms involved in the development of cold water vibriosis have been identified – a potentially important step towards the development of new treatment and vaccination strategies in fish farming.
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The mould fungus Penicillium crustosum occurs relatively frequently in food and animal fodder stored in temperate conditions.
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The growth of yeast and mould fungus often poses a threat to the quality of dry-cured meat and is a problem facing producers all over the world. Fungal growth can lead to bad quality products, increased production costs and health issues in...
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Morten F. Lukacs' doctoral research at The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science has identified and mapped a group of immune genes that are the key to warding off infectious agents such as viruses and bacteria in salmon.
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The polysaccharide (sugar substance) chitosan has a documented antibacterial effect. Hilde Mellegård's doctoral research shows that this antibacterial activity varies according to the chemical composition of the chitosan.
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As with their terrestrial counterparts, marine mammals are colonised by a range of bacteria, some of which are friendly and others which can cause disease.
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Seminar on reverse genetics on viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus on Friday 9 September, 10.00 in the Main Auditorum
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Courses of medical treatment must be taken as prescribed in order to achieve the desired result. But courses of treatment for both people and animals are seldom followed 100% correctly.
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The negative effects of releasing fish and the possible fragmentation of natural fish stocks in connection with hydropower regulations may be fewer than at first feared.
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Heredity is of more importance than environment when it comes to young, cold-blooded horses' chances of performing well in races.
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The most common tick-borne disease in humans is Lyme borreliosis.
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Lambs are likely to encounter a number of adverse events, starting from the fetal stage. In rodents and humans, it was shown that the mother can mitigate the effects of adverse experiences in her young.
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Malaria can complicate the course of disease in poor farmers with landmine injuries in underdeveloped countries, where both malaria and war injuries are frequent causes of illness and death.
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Russian women living in Northwest Russia are more exposed to environmental toxins than Norwegian women. In spite of this, Anuschka Polder in her doctoral research urges Russian women to breastfeed their babies.
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Neospora caninum is a unicellular parasite that induces miscarriages in cows in large parts of the world.
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Campylobacter is frequently the cause of diarrhoea in humans in Norway and chicken meat is thought to be one of the sources of infection.
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Researchers and the salmon industry have been debating whether fingerling (young fish) from freshwater farms can be a source of the virus that causes pancreas disease (PD): salmonid alfavirus (SAV).
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Infectious pancreatic necrosis is a serious disease that leads to enormous losses in the salmon industry each year. The virus that causes the disease, IPN, is very prevalent in farmed salmon and trout in Norway.
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Sandra Bravo’s doctoral thesis shows that the sea lice Caligus rogercresseyi, a Caligidae species not previously documented, occurs widely in both the South of Chile and Southern Argentina.
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As part of his doctoral research at The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Demelash Biffa has carried out extensive field and laboratory work on bovine tuberculosis (TB) in Ethiopia since 2007.
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Karin E Zimmer's PhD research shows that persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as PCB and mixtures of different POPs, affect the way the adrenal cortex functions and thereby the synthesis of the stress hormone cortisol.
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Through this discovery more tools will become available that will make it possible to control the disease and limit the spread and the impact of the disease.
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A high moose population density and mild autumn weather result in a higher prevalence of deer keds (louse fly parasite). A great deal of pine forest in the habitat of the moose has the same effect.
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