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Quantification of the animal tuberculosis multi-host community offers insights ...
Santos, Nuno; Richomme, Céline; Nunes, Telmo; Vicente, Joaquín; Alves, Paulo C.; de la Fuente, José; Correia-Neves, M; Boschiroli, María-LauraAnimal tuberculosis (TB) is a multi-host zoonotic disease whose prevalence in cattle herds in Europe has been increasing, despite a huge investment in eradication. The composition of the host community is a fundamental driver of pathogen transmission, and yet this has not been formally quantified for animal TB in Europe. We quantified multi-host communities of animal TB, using stochastic models to estimate the ...
Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) for predicting glucocorticoid met...
Santos, João P. V.; Vicente, Joaquín; Villamuelas, Miriam; Albanell, Elena; Serrano, Emmanuel; Carvalho, João; Fonseca, Carlos; Gortázar, ChristianInterest in measuring faecal glucocorticoid metabolites (FGM) as indicators of physiological homeostasis and performance in wildlife is increasing. However, current reference techniques, specifically enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) and radioimmunoassays (RIAs), are expensive, time-consuming, reagent-based, and the samples are destroyed during their application. Conversely, near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIR...
Optimizing the sampling effort to evaluate body condition in ungulates: a case ...
Santos, João P. V.; Fernández-De-Mera, Isabel G.; Acevedo, Pelayo; Boadella, Mariana; Fierro, Yolanda; Vicente, Joaquín; Gortázar, ChristianBody condition is a useful measure of the nutritional status and performance in ungulates. The most widely used indicators of body condition are based on fat reserves, mainly those surrounding the kidneys. To estimate the body condition in large herbivores, researchers often collect and pool the data from both kidneys and their perirenal fat in order to compensate for potential differences between the body cond...