Pathogens that are transmitted between the environment, wildlife, livestock and humans
represent major challenges for the protection of human and domestic animal health, the …

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are paradigmatic colonizers of the total environment,
circulating at the interfaces of the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and …

The house fly, Musca domestica L.(Diptera: Muscidae), is a global pest of humans and
animals that carries scores of pathogens and costs up to $1 billion per year in the United …

Certain pathogens, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, survive within the hostile
intracellular environment of a macrophage. To identify host factors required for …

In a previous longitudinal study, Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis survived for
55 weeks in fecal material in the shade, but for much shorter periods in exposed locations. In …

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (M. paratuberculosis) infects domestic cattle,
sheep, goats, deer, camelids and wild ruminants leading to chronic enteritis known as …

Paratuberculosis (PTB) is a disease which causes considerable economic losses to
producers of livestock, particularly dairy cows. Nowadays PTB is one of the most prevailing …

Paratuberculosis (PTB) is an infectious granulomatous enteritis caused by Mycobacterium
avium paratuberculosis (MAP) causing significant economic losses in livestock. However …

Mycobacteria are able to enter into a state of non-replication or dormancy, which may result
in their chronic persistence in soil, aquatic environments, and permissive hosts. Stresses …

In early 1999, there was an increased incidence of tuberculous lesions in the lymph nodes
of slaughtered pigs in the Czech Republic. In part 1 of this study, tuberculous lesions were …