Within-Flock Population Dynamics of .

Footrot causes 70-90% of lameness in sheep in Great Britain. With approximately 5% of 18 million adult sheep lame at any one time, it costs the UK sheep industry £24-84 million per year. The Gram-negative anaerobe is the causative agent, with disease severity influenced by bacterial load, virulence, and climate.

Survival of the ovine footrot pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus in different soils.

Dichelobacter nodosus (D. nodosus) is the causative agent of footrot in sheep; one of the most important health and welfare issues of sheep worldwide. For control programmes to be effective, it is essential that the transmission cycle of D.

The role of the environment in transmission of Dichelobacter nodosus between ewes and their lambs.

Dichelobacter nodosus (D. nodosus) is the essential causative agent of footrot in sheep. The current study investigated when D.