4 results match your criteria: "Centre of Athens Veterinary Institutes[Affiliation]"

Background: Increased density and distribution of wild boar populations are likely to promote interactions and transmission of certain pathogens, not only among wild boar but also from wild boar to livestock or humans and vice versa.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine seroprevalence against seven selected pathogens in wild boar living in four different areas in Greece.

Animals And Methods: In total, 359 serum samples were collected from extensively farmed wild boar (Sus scrofa scrofa) originating from four distinct geographical areas throughout Greece from April 2012 to August 2013.

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The epidemiology of sheep pox in Greece from 1987 to 2007.

Rev Sci Tech

December 2008

Centre of Athens Veterinary Institutes, Institute of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Virology Department, 25 Neapoleos Street, 15310 Agia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece.

The authors reviewthe epidemiology of sheep pox outbreaks in Greece between 1987 and 2007. It is believed that sheep pox is introduced into Greece principally from neighbouring countries to the east, and is associated with the movements of infected sheep flocks close to the border and contacts between humans and animals. Disease foci have appeared in several central and north-eastern areas of the country.

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Thirteen orf virus isolates obtained during the time period between 1995 and 2004 from crusted scab lesions of nine sheep and four goats from different geographical areas of Greece and Italy with suspected contagious ecthyma infection were analyzed. DNA of all isolates was successfully amplified by PCR with the primers 045F-045R and identified them as parapox virus. Partial DNA sequence of orf virus interferon resistant (VIR) gene, phylogenetic analysis of the available isolates and amino acid comparison of the interferon resistance protein encoded by this genomic region was carried out.

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Culicoides imicola in Greece.

Vet Ital

May 2010

Department of Parasitology, Centre of Athens Veterinary Institutes, Athens, Greece.

Culicoides imicola, the major vector of bluetongue virus in Africa and the Middle East, was recorded in Greece for the first time in 1982 following an outbreak of the disease on the island of Lesbos (October 1979). Since then, many hundreds of Culicoides trappings have been made and thousands of Culicoides have been collected from the islands and from mainland Greece. Culicoides imicola is now present on most of the eastern Aegean islands and in northern, central and south-eastern mainland Greece.

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