Spatial and temporal distribution of foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in Algeria from 2014 to 2022.

Background And Aim: Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a major transboundary animal ailment in Algeria, is a serious economic burden on the livestock sector. This study aimed to investigate the spatiotemporal distribution of FMD in Algeria and identifies the factors contributing to this phenomenon.

Materials And Methods: Data on FMD cases occurring in Algeria from 2014 to 2022 were collected from various sources, including archives at the Ministry of Agriculture, peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, reference laboratory reports, and unpublished scientific reports.

Epidemiological study of sausage in Algeria: Prevalence, quality assessment, and antibiotic resistance of isolates and the risk factors associated with consumer habits affecting foodborne poisoning.

Aim: The first aim was to assess the quality and determine the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of contamination of raw sausage sold in ten municipalities in the Northeast of Algeria. Second, a consumer sausage purchasing survey was designed to investigate potential risk factors that have a significant association with the occurrence of foodborne poisoning among sausage consumers' behavior and its relationship with independent variables.

Materials And Methods: A total of 230 butcheries from ten departments (Daira) of Algiers with more than 40 municipalities were included randomly in these studies to collect raw sausage samples and to distribute 700 structured questionnaires to meat consumers.

First-time serological and molecular detection of in milk from Algerian local-breed cows.

Aim: The present study was conducted to detect and identify within local cow breeds in the central region of Algeria.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred (n=200) cows from three provinces of the central region of Algeria were studied, between January 2016 and September 2017. Each cow was subject to stool, milk, and blood sampling.