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El brote de Influenza A H1N1 en 2009 y la Gripe Porcina

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Vigilancia y control de Zoonosis. Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria-VISAVET U.C.M.

Conference in XXIII Ciclo de conferencias del Centro Militar de Veterinaria de la Defensa

Sexo, drogas y R&R

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Integrones: agentes de la evolucion bacteriana

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Antimicrobianos y antibiorresistencia en Salud Publica

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Emergencia mundial de la resistencia transmisible a fluoroquinolonas

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Drogodependencia en bacterias

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

¿Como puede afectar el uso de antibioticos en animales a la resistencia bacteriana en humanos?

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Estafilococos resistentes a meticilina: importancia clinica y aspectos epidemiologicos

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

The role of wild fauna in the emergent diseases

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Zoonotic emergent infectious diseases have become one of the most serious threats for public health. Approximately 75 % of the diseases that have occurred during the last two decades originated in the wild fauna. SARS, West Nile virus or influenza recent epidemics, that will be treated in this article, show the importance of emerging diseases in the whole world and the relevant role of the veterinary services. Monitoring these diseases requires a multidisciplinary work team, with professionals formed in medicine, epidemiology, virology, zoology and veterinary sciences, because of the gre… Read more

Dinámica de integrones de Escherichia coli en la balsa de purines de una granja de cerdos de ciclo cerrado

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Development of an epidemiological model for the assessment of the spread of the Classical Swine fever in Segovia

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

The aim of this study was to develop an epidemiological model to analyze the spread patterns of the classical swine fever virus in Segovia and to assess the areas and farm types with more epidemiological risk. The model used was a state-transition stochastic and spatial model. As a result it was obtained a mean (95% IP) of 28 (1-98) infected farms, 15 (0-70) depopulated and 71 (2-279) quarantined farms in the protection zone. The average duration of the epidemic was 63 (1-168) days and the average time to detection was 14 (6-39) days. The areas at higher risk of spread of CSF in Segovia … Read more

Waking up of Classical Swine Fever

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

African Swine Fever (ASF) is one of the most important infectious diseases of the pigs; that also in the last years has undergoing an expansion in its distribution. The main objective of this work has been to perform an epidemiological analysis of the disease evolution, that contributes to understand its epidemiology and helps in the revision of preventive and control measures of ASF. The analysis of the notified ASF-outbreaks from January 1998 to march 2009 confirms the expansion of the virus to eight new countries and a significant (70% outbreaks notified in 2007 and 2008) increase of… Read more

Analisis de un ataque bioterrorista con anthrax

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Ebola-Reston Virus. Pig, a new host?

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Ebola-Reston is species of the Ebola virus that was identified for the first time in 1989 in the United States. Several outbreaks have happened since then, affecting monkeys and humans in contact with these, without producing any disease or death in the latter. At the end of 2008 this virus was detected for the first time in pigs of two farms in the Philippines. The main objective of this work has been to analyze the unique outbreak of Ebola-Reston in pigs, and to perform an epidemiological analysis that could help to raise hypothesis about the origin of the virus.. The study of this out… Read more

Influenza A H1N1. Gripe porcina

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Molecular study of a new strain of cetacean morbillivirus from a shortfin pilot whale

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) is the most pathogenic virus in cetaceans. It includes three strains whose names refer to the species of odontocete from which it was initially isolated: Dolphin morbillivirus (DMV), Porpoise morbillivirus (PMV) and Pilot Whale morbillivirus (PWMV). The aim of this work was to complete a molecular characterization of a new strain of CeMV obtained from the brain of a short finned pilot whale stranded dead around Canary Islands with lesions compatible with morbilliviral disease. Phylogenetic trees including sequences of all the morbillivirus species have shown… Read more

Application of the thermography for the valuation of the fertility in eggs of Falco naumanni

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Usually the evaluation of eggs fertility is done with ovoscopy. The principal inconvenient is the need to manipulate the egg, this prevents its application in wildlife. This is why it was studied to substitute this method for termography, analizing the termic patterns of 190 eggs of Falco naumanni. The obtained results show that thermography allows us to differentiate the fertile eggs, from unfertile, and aborted ones thanks to its different termic patters and cooling speeds since 3 days after the lay. Its possible to use it both during the artificial incubation and in nature with different e… Read more

“Swine flu”. Human cases due to H1N1 Influenza virus, an issue that so far only affects Public Health

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Swine Influenza (also known as “swine flu”) is an acute respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A Influenza virus. Its characteristic symptoms are cough, respiratory problems, fever and depression, and although the disease usually has a sudden start animals rapidly recover from the disease. Typically, mortality levels are very low. Swine influenza was first described as an animal disease during the 1918-1919 pandemic known as “Spanish flu”… Read more

Application of thermography for the study of koalas

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

There has been a study of thermography in koalas to establish the anatomic point of reference of the general temperature of this species, the normal thermal patters depend on environment temperature and the different changes during the females heat period, the gestation and the development period of the joey at the marsupium. Also an inflammation of superficial nodes and a chronic lameness were studied.The results indicate that the eye is a good reference point of the general temperature due to its stability and easy measurement. It has also been observed an increase of temperature in the ar… Read more

Impact of vaccination in the control of the bluetongue virus

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

The bluetongue virus (BTV) is a reemerging worldwide disease transmitted by insects of the genus Culicoides that affects domestic and some wild ruminants. Currently, it is a disease of great importance in Europe due to the economic losses it causes. Since 2002 in Spain, there have been outbreaks of 4 different serotypes of BTV, each with a different behaviour in terms of distribution, population and pathogenicity. Control in Spain has been possible through the use of different prophylactic measures, but the main tool for the eradication is vaccination. The aim of this work is to assess t… Read more

Clinical study of a trial on VLP vaccine for bluetongue virus serotypes 1 & 1+4 in sheep

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Bluetongue Virus disease is an infectous disease submitted to a sanitary control composed by several measures of prevention, and one of these measures is the vaccination of the sensible species. In the development of vaccines opposite to this disease, a new trend is the production of polyvalent vaccines by VLP`s technology (virus like particles). This work has had as aim to value by clinical survey, 2 VLP vaccines, for serotypes 1 and 1+4. The results confirm the lack of fever, clinical signs and pathologic injuries in vaccinated animals opposite to control animals, which indicates that … Read more

Sanidad confirma el primer caso de Influenza A H1N1 en España

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Entrevista telefónica al Profesor Lucas Domínguez tras la confirmación del primer caso en España de influenza A H1N1 en humana… Read more

Fauna silvestre y las enfermedades infecciosas emergentes

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Cytokines gene expression detection by real time RT-PCR in sheep

Oral communication in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

Cytokines are protein molecules that cells from the immune system secrete in response to immune stimulation. There are different techniques to study their production and their action on individuals. This study consists of the development of a real time RT-PCR method for the detection of the expression of mRNA coding for six cytokines (TNF-α, IFNγ, IL-4, IL2, IL- 10, IL-12). The preliminary results were obtained from the study of lymphocites stimulated with Con A and LPS, showing the detection of ARNm, IL-4, IL-2, IFNγ and TNF-α, IL-12, IL-10, respectively. Its subsequ… Read more

Evaluation of the antibody production of a trial on VLP vaccines for bluetongue 1 and 4 serotypes

Conference in VIII Congreso de Ciencias Veterinarias y Biomedicas

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate by a competitive ELISA test the VP7 antibodies in response to VLPs vaccines for bluetongue serotypes 1 & 1+4, and after the virus challenge, to assess the humoral immune response produced by these VLPs. The three vaccinated groups showed positive results 35 days after the vaccination. However, in non vaccinated animals antibodies were not detected before day 10 post virus challenge. The presence of antibodies in vaccinated animals implies that VLP Vaccines are able to stimulate a humoral response… Read more

Jornada sobre Amenaza Biológica: Enfermedades de Transmisión Vectorial ¿Casualidad o Bioterrorismo?

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El 12 de mayo de 2009, en la Sala de Grados de la Facultad de Veterinaria de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, tendrá lugar la Jornada sobre Amenaza Biológica: Enfermedades de Transmisión Vectorial ¿Casualidad o Bioterrorismo?. La Jornada está organizada por el Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria VISAVET con el patrocinio del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos del Ministerio de Defensa … Read more

CYTALIA XIV Jornadas Anuales de Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos

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Del 22 al 24 de abril de 2009 se celebrará la XIV edición de CYTALIA: Jornadas Anuales de Ciencia y tecnología de los Alimentos, que este año tendrán como sede el Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Veterinaria de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid… Read more

VIII Congress of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

The Congress is based on the guidelines of Bologna and the European Higher Education Area by using the typical format of a scientific conference

The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of UCM organized during the 27th, 28th and 29th April, the eighth edition of the Congress of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences… Read more

Julio Alvarez, prize for best doctoral thesis in Animal Health

Syva award 2009

The doctoral thesis of VISAVET Researcher entitled Mycobacterium avium complex: diagnosis, molecular characterization and interference with the diagnosis of tuberculosis, was awarded with the Syva XII Prize to the best thesis on Animal Health.… Read more

Risk assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis of Aujeszky´s disease virus introduction through breeding and fattening pig movements into Spain

Investigation published in Preventive veterinary medicine

Movement of infected animals is considered the most likely route of Aujeszky´s disease virus (ADV) introduction into free areas and the main obstacle to eradicating Aujeszky´s disease (AD) in those areas, which have achieved a low prevalence (>0 and </=10%) status. For this reason, the Spanish AD control and eradication program has established measures to enhance security in animal movements in an attempt to protect areas with free or low prevalence status; however, no studies have quantified the effectiveness of the current or alternative ADV introduction prevention measures. We perform… Read more

Moraxella pluranimalium sp. nov., isolated from animal specimens

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Four unusual Gram-negative, catalase-positive, oxidase-positive, coccus-shaped bacteria isolated from one sheep and three pigs were characterized using phenotypic and molecular genetic methods. On the basis of cellular morphology and biochemical criteria, the isolates were tentatively assigned to the genus Moraxella, although the organisms did not appear to correspond to any recognized species. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequencing studies demonstrated that the isolates represent a novel subline within the genus Moraxella. The most closely related species in phylogenetic terms was Moraxella cun… Read more

Origen, diseminación y consecuencias de la resistencia a antimicrobianos

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El descubrimiento de los antibióticos supuso una de las mayores revoluciones en la medicina moderna. La penicilina, que pertenece a la familia de los Beta-lactámicos, fue el primer antibiótico descubierto… Read more

Risk of introduction of H5N1 HPAI from Europe to Spain by wild water birds in autumn

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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype H5N1 continues to circulate across Eurasia and Africa since its unprecedented rapid spread in 2005. Diffusion by wild bird movements has been evidenced in the European Union in 2006 and 2007. Spain is an important wintering quarter for aquatic birds from northern latitudes, so identifying the critical areas and species where an outbreak is prone to happen is necessary. This work presents an assessment of the risk of introduction of H5N1 HPAI in Spain by aquatic wild birds estimating a relative risk value per province. For this purpose, an assess… Read more

ParaTBTools: Herramientas para el diagnóstico de la Paratuberculosis

New article published in Albéitar

La paratuberculosis, o enfermedad de Johne, es una enfermedad crónica granulomatosa que afecta al aparato digestivo de rumiantes domésticos, aunque la infección puede presentarse además en rumiantes y animales salvajes como ciervos,conejos y zorros. El agente etiológico está incluido en el complejo Mycobacterium avium y se denomina Mycobacterium avium subespecie paratuberculosis (M. a. paratuberculosis).… Read more

Rapid and sensitive detection of African horse sickness virus by real-time PCR

Investigation article published in Research in veterinary science

A highly sensitive and specific TaqMan-MGB real-time RT-PCR assay has been developed and standardised for the detection of African horse sickness virus (AHSV). Primers and MGB probe specific for AHSV were selected within a highly conserved region of genome segment 7. The robustness and general application of the diagnostic method were verified by the detection of 12 AHSV isolates from all of the nine serotypes. The analytical sensitivity ranged from 0.001 to 0.15 TCID(50) per reaction, depending on the viral serotype. Real-time PCR performance was preliminarily assessed by analysing a panel of… Read more