Cattle farming is an ancient practice, with roots in the early Neolithic era that has retained a
major status in the food industry, with global beef market revenue amounting to $385.7 B (as …

Simple Summary Digital dermatitis causes lameness in cattle. Numerous studies have
identified multiple bacteria associated with these painful lesions. Several types of a spiral …

Bovine digital dermatitis (DD) is the most important infectious disease associated with
lameness in cattle worldwide. Since the disease was first described in 1974, a series of …

Bovine digital dermatitis (DD) is a leading cause of lameness in dairy cattle throughout the
world. Despite 35 years of research, the definitive etiologic agent associated with the …

Although treponemes are consistently identified in tissue from bovine digital dermatitis (DD)
lesions, the definitive etiology of this debilitating polymicrobial disease is still unresolved. To …

The first article to describe the macroscopic appearance of a large number of DD lesions
was done on 10 California dairies by Read and Walker in 1998. 1 A majority of the lesions …

The aim of this study was to assess infectious foot diseases, including identification and
characterization of Dichelobacter nodosus and Treponema spp., in herds having problems …

The bacteria associated with the infectious claw disease bovine digital dermatitis (DD) are
spirochetes of the genus Treponema; however, their environmental reservoir remains …

Metagenomic methods amplifying 16S ribosomal RNA genes have been used to describe
the microbial diversity of healthy skin and lesion stages of bovine digital dermatitis (DD) and …

Detailed biological analyses (eg epidemiological, genetic) of animal health and fitness in the
field are limited by the lack of large-scale recording of individual animals. An alternative …