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One Health awareness month
At STAR IDAZ IRC, our One Health Working Group has been busy working on how to improve and better utilise existing funding mechanisms for research that embeds a One Health approach. The One Health Working Group members include expertise across human health, animal health, plant health, health of the environment and social sciences. Since 2022,…
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Modified live vaccine protects against bovine anaplasmosis
Bovine anaplasmosis caused by Anaplasma marginale is an economically important tick-borne disease of cattle in tropical and subtropical regions throughout the world. Killed vaccines have been used for control of this disease with limited success. To create a novel vaccine, a team led by Roman Ganta genetically modified A. marginale by targeted gene deletion method….
United States
Biting flies on dairy farms can spread bovine mastitis
Bovine mastitis is a disease which causes inflammation of the mammary glands, resulting in abnormal or reduced milk production in cattle. It can be fatal if left untreated. Bovine mastitis can be caused by pathogenic bacteria, and other microbes, though the exact mechanism of transmission was previously well understood. In a recent study published in…
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