Publications by authors named "Desbois A"

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  • * Aquaculture is an important yet underrepresented sector in NAPs, using significant antibiotics compared to human and terrestrial animal applications, and it requires tailored strategies due to its complexity and global trade implications.
  • * To enhance NAPs for aquaculture, it’s crucial to recognize its diversity and engage stakeholders across the value chain, including health services, while ensuring policies consider the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.
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  • A study compared the effectiveness and safety of infliximab and cyclophosphamide as induction therapies for severe Behçet's syndrome involving major vascular or CNS issues.
  • Infliximab showed a higher complete response rate (81%) compared to cyclophosphamide (56%), indicating it may be more effective.
  • Additionally, infliximab had fewer adverse events (29.6%) compared to cyclophosphamide (64%), suggesting it may also be safer for patients.
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) evolution and onward transmission of resistance genes is impacted by interrelated biological and social drivers, with evidence and impacts observed across human, animal and environmental One Health domains. Systems-based research examining how food production impacts on AMR in complex agrifood systems is lacking, with little written on management approaches in the UK that might prevent and respond to this challenge. One approach is the creation of a transdisciplinary network to enhance capacity, capability and collaboration between agrifood-focused disciplines and stakeholders.

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The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute has published epidemiological cut-off values for susceptibility data generated at 22°°C and read after 44-48 h for florfenicol, oxolinic acid and oxytetracycline against Aeromonas salmonicida. The cut-off values for the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and disc diffusion were derived from data obtained by 1 laboratory and 2 laboratories respectively. The present work reports the generation of susceptibility data from additional laboratories and the calculation of provisional cut-off values from aggregations of these data with previously published data.

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Aims: To compare the safety and efficacy of methotrexate (MTX), mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and azathioprine (AZA) in non-anterior sarcoidosis-associated uveitis.

Methods: Retrospective study including non-anterior sarcoidosis-associated uveitis according to the revised International Workshop on Ocular Sarcoidosis criteria. The primary outcome was defined as the median time to relapse or occurrence of serious adverse events leading to treatment discontinuation.

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. Noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) allow to interact with the external environment by naturally bypassing the musculoskeletal system. Making BCIs efficient and accurate is paramount to improve the reliability of real-life and clinical applications, from open-loop device control to closed-loop neurorehabilitation.

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is increasingly recognised to be an important pathogen responsible for disease losses in warm-water aquaculture and, similar to several other species, it can infect humans. Knowledge of is accumulating, but this species remains relatively under-investigated compared to its close relative, The significance of may have been overlooked in disease events of aquatic animals due to issues with reliable identification. Critical to appreciating the importance of this pathogen is the application of dependable molecular tools that enable accurate identification and discrimination from .

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Objective: To assess the prognosis and outcome of patients with isolated carotid vasculitis.

Methods: We performed a retrospective multicenter study of 36 patients (median age at diagnosis was 37 [IQR 27-45] years and 11 [31 %] patients were men) with initial presentation as isolated carotid vasculitis. Study endpoints included vascular complications, relapses, and progression to large vessel vasculitis (i.

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  • The condition can manifest as anterior, posterior, or panuveitis, with panuveitis being the most common type, especially in men, and may appear as an initial symptom in 20% of patients or several years later.
  • Management focuses on quickly resolving inflammation, preventing future episodes, achieving remission, and protecting vision, with recent advances in biologic therapies showing promise in treatment strategies.
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Uveitis in Behçet's disease (BD) is frequent (40% of cases) and is a major cause of morbidity. The age of onset of uveitis is between 20 and 30 years. Ocular involvement includes anterior, posterior, or panuveitis.

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Fish erythrocytes remain nucleated, unlike mammalian erythrocytes that undergo enucleation during maturation. Besides oxygen transport, fish erythrocytes are capable of several immune defence processes and thus these cells are candidates for carrying out ETotic responses. ETosis is an evolutionarily conserved innate immune defence process found in both vertebrates and invertebrates, which involves the extrusion of DNA studded with antimicrobial effector proteins into the extracellular space that traps and kills microorganisms.

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Neurosarcoidosis (NS) is a rare but severe form of sarcoidosis. NS is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Mortality is about 10% at 10 years with more than 30% of patients who have a significant disability.

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Introduction: Aeromonads are ubiquitous in aquatic environments and several species are opportunistic pathogens of fish. Disease losses caused by motile species, particularly , can be challenging in intensive aquaculture, such as at striped catfish () farms in Vietnam. Outbreaks require antibiotic treatments, but their application is undesirable due to risks posed by resistance.

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Background: Venetoclax is a first-in-class targeted therapy option that is an inducer of apoptosis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells. The open-label phase III CLL14 clinical trial showed that venetoclax combined with obinutuzumab (VEN+O) is superior to obinutuzumab combined with chlorambucil in newly diagnosed patients with CLL. The aim of this study was to assess the health economic value of VEN+O for the frontline treatment of CLL in Canada from a publicly funded healthcare system perspective.

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Flavobacterium psychrophilum is the causative agent of bacterial cold-water disease (CWBD) and rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS), which affect salmonids. To better understand this pathogen and its interaction with the host during infection, including to support the development of resistant breeds and new vaccines and treatments, there is a pressing need for reliable and reproducible immersion challenge models that more closely mimic natural routes of infection. The aim of this present study was to evaluate a challenge model developed previously for rainbow trout for use in Atlantic salmon.

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Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global crisis with long-term and unpredictable health, social and economic impacts, with which climate change is likely to interact. Understanding how to govern AMR amidst evolving climatic changes is critical. Scenario planning offers a suitable approach.

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Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease characterized by pulmonary involvement in most patients and more rarely by extrapulmonary involvement such as ocular, skin, salivary, lymph nodes and joints damages. Neurological and cardiac involvements are uncommon but are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Cardiac sarcoidosis affects 5 to 20% of patients depending on the studies and autopsy studies even report cardiac involvement in 25% of sarcoidosis patients.

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Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global crisis that evolves from a complex system of factors. Understanding what factors interact is key to finding solutions. Our objective was to identify the factors influencing AMR in the European food system and places to intervene.

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  • The study aimed to compare the relapse rates of sight-threatening noninfectious uveitis (NIU) in patients treated with either infliximab (IFX) or adalimumab (ADA).
  • It observed 330 patients, noting that 13% experienced a relapse within 6 months, with IFX showing significantly lower relapse risk compared to ADA.
  • Behçet disease was linked to better treatment outcomes, including higher complete response rates and lower relapse rates when treated with anti-TNF-α agents.
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Background And Objectives: Spinal cord sarcoidosis is a rare manifestation of sarcoidosis with a consequent risk of neurologic sequelae for the patient. We investigated prognostic factors and efficacy of immunosuppressive treatments in a longitudinal cohort.

Methods: We retrospectively studied patients with spinal cord sarcoidosis followed between 1995 and 2021 in 7 centers in France.

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In addition to copper and zinc, heme is thought to play a role in Alzheimer's disease and its metabolism is strongly affected during the course of this disease. Amyloid β, the peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease, was shown to bind heme in vitro with potential catalytic activity linked to oxidative stress. To date, there is no direct determination of the structure of this complex.

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  • The study aimed to investigate how effective biologic treatments (specifically anti-TNF-α agents and tocilizumab) are for patients with refractory uveitic macular edema, focusing on their ability to control inflammation and reduce corticosteroid use.
  • In total, 204 adult patients participated, with those treated using anti-TNF-α agents showing a 46.2% response rate compared to 58.5% for those receiving tocilizumab.
  • The results indicated that tocilizumab was significantly more likely to provide complete response, while both treatment options had similar relapse rates and adverse effects, with 20.6% of patients experiencing side effects.
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Essential genes in bacterial pathogens are potential drug targets and vaccine candidates because disrupting their function is lethal. The development of new antibiotics, in addition to effective prevention measures such as vaccination, contributes to addressing the global problem of bacterial antibiotic resistance. The aim of this present study was to determine the essential genes of , a bacterial pathogen of aquatic animals, as a means to identify putative targets for novel drugs and to assist the prioritisation of potential vaccine candidates.

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