Publications by authors named "C Gortazar"
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- * Vaccinated cattle in Mbarara showed a 20% reduction in tick numbers, and there was a negative correlation between antibody levels and tick counts.
- * Additionally, a 40% decrease in CCHFV-seropositive cattle was observed in those vaccinated, suggesting that annual booster doses can effectively maintain protective antibody levels against tick-related diseases.
Outdoor farming contributes to biodiversity conservation and enhances animal welfare, but also raises biosafety concerns due to livestock contact with potentially infected wildlife. Thus, there is a need to assess the balance between vertebrate species richness on farms, visits by wildlife species posing a biosafety risk, and pathogen circulation in open-air farming systems. We explored these links in a pilot study involving 15 open-air hoofstock farms (6 cattle, 5 small ruminant, and 4 pig farms), where we conducted interviews and risk point inspections and used two noninvasive tools: short-term camera trap (CT) deployment and environmental nucleic acid detection (ENAD).
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- Animal tuberculosis (TB) affects both livestock and wild animals, and understanding how common it is requires accurate testing.
- This study explores how well different tests identify TB in wild animals like wild boars and deer, revealing that some tests work better than others for each type of animal.
- The research helps researchers figure out the real rate of TB in these wildlife populations, which can lead to better studies about how TB spreads in animals.
The Problem: Early and rapid diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis remains an issue of great interest.
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of synthetic lipid antigens for diagnosis of tuberculosis in red deer (Cervus elaphus). The proposition: Synthetic mycolic acid derivatives, identical to components of mycobacterial cells, bind to antibodies to lipids produced in active human tuberculosis.