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About people, pig movements and pork 'tapeworms'.
2015
Non-Invasive Sex Determination of Nestlings and Adult Bonelli’s Eagles Using Morphometrics
2023
Biometric analysis allows the sexing of most vertebrates, particularly birds. Birds of prey, and, especially, the Bonelli’s eagle (Aquila fasciata), show reverse sexual dimorphism (i.e., females are usually larger than males). In contrast to blood sampling, the use of morphometrics allows sex determination using a non-invasive method, and, therefore, it facilitates fieldwork. By means of a linear discriminant analysis of biometric variables, we obtained different equations that allow the sexing of nestlings and adult Bonelli’s eagles. We sampled 137 Bonelli’s eagles, 82 nestlings and 55 adults in eastern Spain during the period 2015–2022. The sexes obtained after lin…
The European Pine Marten Martes martes (Linnaeus, 1758) Is Autochthonous in Sicily and Constitutes a Well-Characterised Major Phylogroup within the S…
2022
No molecular data are currently available for the Sicilian populations of the European pine marten Martes martes, thus preventing any sound inference about its native or non-native status on the island, as well as the local phylogeography of the species. In order to investigate these issues, we sequenced two mtDNA markers in road-killed specimens collected in Sicily. Both markers consistently demonstrated the existence of a well-characterised Sicilian clade of the species, which is endemic to the island and constitutes the sister group of a clade including the Mediterranean and Central–North European major phylogroups of the European pine marten. Such evidence supports the autochthony of Ma…
Isolation, characterization and sequence determination of Noda virus from sea bass (Dicentrarchus labraxL.) reared in freshwater and marine facilitie…
2017
Σκοπός της παρούσας μeλέτης ήταν η απομόνωση του ίου Noda από ιχθυeς γλυκού νeρού και eιδικά από το eίδος Dicentrarchus labrax L. (λαβράκι) και ο μοριακός χαρακτηρισμός του. Σe προηγούμeνeς μeλέτeς έχeι αναφeρθeί η ανίχνeυση του ίου Noda μe τη μέθοδο της Αλυσιδωτής Αντίδρασης της Πολυμeράσης (ΑΑΠ) σe λαβράκια (Dicentrarchus labrax) που eμφάνιζαν κλινικά συμπτώματα και eκτρέφονταν υπό eντατικές συνθήκeς σe γλυκό νeρό. Δeν eίχe, όμως, eπιτeυχθeί η απομόνωση του σe κυτταροκαλλιέργeια. Η παρούσα μeλέτη πeριγράφeι την απομόνωση του ίου Noda από eλληνικές eκτροφές λαβρακιου που eμφάνιζαν κλινικά συμπτώματα και που eκτρέφονταν τόσο σe θαλάσσιο όσο και σe γλυκό νeρό. Ο ιός απομονώθηκe στην e…
CUTANEOUS NEOFORMATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH COINFECTION BY ORF VIRUS AND ORTHOPOXVIRUS IN GOATS IN SICILY
2014
Parapoxvirus - ORF virus (ORFV) is the etiological agent of contagious ecthyma, a severe zoonotic exanthematic disease that affects small ruminants. It is usually characterized by highly infectious pustules and papillomatous lesions on the skin of the lips, tongue, and around the mouth. In more severe cases, the skin of the eyes, feet, vulva or udder may also be affected. Orthopoxvirus has been sometimes associated with naturally spreading disease in domestic and wild animals. Parapoxvirus infection can be complicate by opportunistic agents, mainly Fusiformis necrophorus, Dermatophilus congolensis or be invaded by the larvae of flies. Little is reported on co-infection with other viruses. T…
Alternative for improving gut microbiota: use of Jerusalem artichoke and probiotics in diet of weaned piglets
2014
AbstractThe aim of the study was to determine the effect of Jerusalem artichoke and probiotics on defence activity of intestinal cells of weaning pigs. One hundred eighty piglets (7 weeks old) were fed with basal feed supplemented with Jerusalem artichoke, Lactobacillus reuteri and Pediococcus pentosaceus. After 5 weeks, the piglets were slaughtered and the gastrointestinal contents and intestine samples were taken for analysis. Results demonstrated that in pigs fed basal diet with both probiotics and Jerusalem artichoke (5% of basal diet) (T3 group) had less (P<0.05) faecal Enterobacteriaceae microorganisms and coliforms and had more (P<0,05) faecal Lactobacillus than in pigs from ot…
Retraction notice to "Isolation and confirmation of viral nervous necrosis (VNN) disease in golden grey mullet (Liza aurata) and leaping mullet (Liza…
2019
On the reservoirs of Leishmania infantum in urban areas
2020
Leishmania has biologically adapted to specific phlebotomine sand flies through long co-evolution. The ability of Leishmania spp. to bind to sand fly midgut allows each Leishmania species to propagate and differentiate into infectious promastigotes and be transmitted. Sand fly feeding upon a mammalian host is the first step towards being infected and a host of Leishmania. Once deposited into the skin, host susceptibility to infection vs. ability to mount a sterilizing immune response predicts which hosts could be reservoirs of different Leishmania spp. Materials, in addition to parasites, are expelled during sand fly during feeding, including salivary antigens and other factors that promote…
Multiple response optimization of blueberry juice depectinization
2017
ABSTRACT: To obtain blueberry juice with a high content of antioxidants it is necessary to introduce an enzymatic depectinization step into the process. Due to the importance of this step in the final properties of blueberry juice it is critical that the operation conditions be optimized. The aim of this research was to evaluate the effects of temperature, duration of treatment and enzymatic complex concentration on anthocyanin content and juice yield during enzymatic depectinization. Results indicated that the best factor combination was 50ºC during 1.3h and 4mg 100g-1 of LAFASE(r) CLARIFICATION and 8mg 100g-1 of LAFASE(r) HE GRAND CRU enzymatic complex concentration. Under these condition…