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Alternate routes of influenza A virus infection in Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Cited in Chinese-origin H7N9 avian influenza spread in poultry and human exposure by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2019.
Susceptibility to and transmission of H5N1 and H7N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses in bank voles (Myodes glareolus)
Referenced by the UK Government in Disease risk considerations supporting the definition of Avian Influenza Higher Risk Areas in England, Scotland and Wales, 2018. This policy document also cited our paper: Age is not a determinant factor in susceptibility of broilers to H5N2 clade 2.3.4.4 high pathogenicity avian influenza virus.
Review on the transmission porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus between pigs and farms and impact on vaccination
Mentioned in UK Parliament Briefing Notes, Reducing UK Antibiotic Use in Animals, 2018.
First case of chronic wasting disease in Europe in a Norwegian free-ranging reindeer
Cited by European Food Safety Authority, in Scientific opinion on chronic wasting disease (II), 2018 and Chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids, 2017, and by the UK Government in CWD risk assessments, 2018.
Mapping African Animal Trypanosomosis risk from the sky
Cited by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Intervening against bovine trypanosomosis in eastern Africa: mapping the costs and benefits, 2017.
Bridge hosts, a missing link for disease ecology in multi-host systems
Cited by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Global Animal Disease Intelligence Report, 2017.
Apramycin treatment affects selection and spread of a multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli strain able to colonize the human gut in the intestinal microbiota of pigs
Mentioned by the World Health Organisation in WHO guidelines on use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals: web annex A: evidence base, 2017.
Foot-and-mouth disease: past, present and future
Cited by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Final evaluation of the project Development of a Framework for the Progressive Control of Foot and Mouth Disease in Pakistan, 2016
Twenty year experience of the oral rabies vaccine SAG2 in wildlife: a global review
Referenced by European Food Safety Authority in Update on oral vaccination of foxes and raccoon dogs against rabies, 2015.
Experimental infection of Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas spat by ostreid herpesvirus 1: demonstration of oyster spat susceptibility
Referenced by European Food Safety Authority in Oyster mortality, 2015. This policy document also cited our papers:
· Ostreid herpesvirus type 1 replication and host response in adult Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas
· Genotyping of a microsatellite locus to differentiate clinical Ostreid herpesvirus 1 specimens