11 results match your criteria: "Instituto Universitario de Sanidad Animal (IUSA)[Affiliation]"

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  • - The study investigates the presence of certain bacterial pathogens in fish from the Atlantic area of Macaronesia, focusing on their identification methods and health implications.
  • - Two identification techniques, the traditional API method and the more advanced MALDI-TOF MS method, were compared, revealing a high level of agreement between them, especially in identifying certain bacterial genera.
  • - Despite processing 59 samples, no targeted pathogens were found, which highlights the efficiency and accuracy of MALDI-TOF MS over the API technique, while also implying potential health risks from the identified bacteria.
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The increase in the reptile population has led to a rise in the number of zoonotic infections due to close contact with reptiles, with reptile-associated salmonellosis being particularly relevant. California kingsnake invasion not only threatens the endemic reptile population of the island of Gran Canaria (Spain) but also poses serious public health problems by spreading zoonotic pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to the environment. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess the occurrence, genetic diversity, and AMR among spp.

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Impact of genetic diversity and antibiotic-resistance of Salmonella isolated from feral cats: One Health approach.

Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis

October 2023

Departamento de Patología Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arucas, Spain; Instituto Universitario de Sanidad Animal (IUSA), Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arucas, Spain.

Free-living cats usually live in colonies in urban areas, especially close to parks and neighbourhoods where people feed them without any sanitary control. This can pose a human, animal and environmental health concern due to the close contact between uncontrolled colonies, the population and other domestic and/or wild animals. Thus, this study aimed to assess the genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among Salmonella enterica subsp.

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Background: Canine diabetes mellitus has mostly been studied in northern European, Australian and American populations, whereas other regions have received less attention.

Objectives: We evaluated the epidemiological, clinical and histopathological features of diabetic dogs in Gran Canaria, Spain.

Methods: Prevalence and incidence were estimated.

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Otitis caused by Malassezia pachydermatis is generally a common and recurrent disease in canine clinical pathology. The increased incidence of fungal resistant to antifungal in both humans and pets is a cause for concern and is associated with the indiscriminate use of antifungals. Finding the most effective disinfectants and antifungals has become essential.

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Mechanisms involved in quinolone resistance in Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri.

Vet J

June 2015

Unidad de Epidemiología y Medicina Preventiva, Instituto Universitario de Sanidad Animal (IUSA), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35413 Arucas, Spain; Microbiología, Departamento de Ciencias Clínicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35016 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri is a causative agent of contagious agalactia in goats. In this study, M.

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In vitro activity of tylvalosin against Spanish field strains of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae.

Vet Rec

November 2014

Unidad de Epidemiología y Medicina Preventiva, Instituto Universitario de Sanidad Animal (IUSA), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arucas, Spain.

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae is involved in the porcine enzootic pneumonia and respiratory disease complex; therefore, the search for new treatment options that contribute to the control of this organism is relevant. The minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and minimal bactericidal concentrations of tylvalosin and 19 other antimicrobial agents against 20 Spanish field isolates of M. hyopneumoniae were determined using the broth microdilution method, with the type strain (J) as a control strain.

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The mechanisms responsible for the increase in ceftazidime MIC in two Escherichia coli in vitro selected mutants, Caz/20-1 and Caz/20-2, were studied. OmpF loss and overexpression of acrB, acrD and acrF that were associated with acrR and marR mutations and sdiA overexpression, together with mutations A233T and I332V in FtSI (PBP3) resulted in ceftazidime resistance in Caz/20-2, multiplying by 128-fold the ceftazidime MIC in the parental clinical isolate PS/20. Absence of detectable β-lactamase hydrolytic activity in the crude extract of Caz/20-2 was observed, and coincided with Q191K and P209S mutations in AmpC and a nucleotide substitution at -28 in the ampC promoter, whereas β-lactamase hydrolytic activity in crude extracts of PS/20 and Caz/20-1 strains was detected.

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First report of Streptococcus iniae in red porgy (Pagrus pagrus, L.).

J Fish Dis

November 2010

Instituto Universitario de Sanidad Animal (IUSA), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35413 Arucas, Las Palmas, Spain.

This work describes the first isolation of Streptococcus iniae in red porgy, Pagrus pagrus (L.), and the first European isolation of this pathogen in gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata (L.).

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In vitro susceptibilities of Mycoplasma putrefaciens field isolates.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

September 2007

Unidad de Epidemiología y Medicina Preventiva, Instituto Universitario de Sanidad Animal (IUSA), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Trasmontaña s/n, 35416 Arucas, Spain.

MICs were determined for 15 antimicrobial agents against 37 Mycoplasma putrefaciens isolates. The most effective antimicrobial drug classes were the fluoroquinolones, the tetracyclines, the lincosamide lincomycin, and the macrolides. The susceptibility profile of the isolates correlated with the geographic origin.

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In vitro susceptibilities of field isolates of Mycoplasma agalactiae.

Vet J

September 2008

Unidad de Epidemiologi a y Medicina Preventiva, Instituto Universitario de Sanidad Animal (IUSA), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Arucas, Spain.

In order to determine how widespread antibiotic resistance has become to standard treatments, the in vitro susceptibilities of 28 Mycoplasma agalactiae Spanish field isolates to 16 antimicrobial agents were determined using a broth microdilution method. The most effective antimicrobials based on minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)(90) values were fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines and macrolides. Two strains were tetracycline resistant.

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