The Animal Health Research Centre (CRESA), with the collaboration of the INIA Biotechnology Department, has developed two new ELISAs for detecting antibodies against porcine circovirus, the etiological agent responsible several pig...
A research carried out by the Department of Animal Health and Anatomy at UAB's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine with the support of the Public Health Service of the Provincial Council of Barcelona
From the active TSE surveillance programme in Catalonia, the Priocat laboratory of animal health research centre (CReSA) has detected a noticeable lack of lymphotropsim as far as scrapie-associated prion protein deposition is concerned. Results described in the paper, where...
Metallothioneins (MT) play an important role in the pathological processes concerning the central nervous system. Due to their antioxidant properties, CReSA and UAB researchers intracerebrally inoculated...
This work analyzes almost 300 roe deer from different regions in Spain, in order to get information about risk factors on the host-parasite relationship by T. gondii (responsible of toxoplasmosis). The study concludes that environmental factors are important, and indicates high exposure to T....
Neonate foals frequently suffer a bacterial infection of the blood known as septicemia, which is usually detected when it has fatal consequences for the animals. After a complete study, the authors of this work have determined the usefulness of some protein fragments, known as...
Bird fancier's lung (BFL) affects between 4% and 8% of people who are fond of pigeon, and also people taking care of other types of birds. The current study is an in-depth research into the clinical characteristics of BFL in the largest series examined for this purpose by a...
