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Fecal shedding and tissue infections demonstrate transmission of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in group-housed dairy calves

Overview of attention for article published in Veterinary Research, April 2017
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Title
Fecal shedding and tissue infections demonstrate transmission of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in group-housed dairy calves
Published in
Veterinary Research, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13567-017-0431-8
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Caroline S. Corbett, Jeroen De Buck, Karin Orsel, Herman W. Barkema, Jeroen Buck

Abstract

Current Johne's disease control programs primarily focus on decreasing transmission of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) from infectious adult cows to susceptible calves. However, potential transmission between calves is largely overlooked. The objective was to determine the extent of MAP infection in calves contact-exposed to infectious penmates. Thirty-two newborn Holstein-Friesian calves were grouped into 7 experimental groups of 4, consisting of 2 inoculated (IN) calves, and 2 contact-exposed (CE) calves, and 1 control pen with 4 non-exposed calves. Calves were group housed for 3 months, with fecal samples were collected 3 times per week, blood and environmental samples weekly, and tissue samples at the end of the trial. The IN calves exited the trial after 3 months of group housing, whereas CE calves were individually housed for an additional 3 months before euthanasia. Control calves were group-housed for the entire trial. All CE and IN calves had MAP-positive fecal samples during the period of group housing; however, fecal shedding had ceased at time of individual housing. All IN calves had MAP-positive tissue samples at necropsy, and 7 (50%) of the CE had positive tissue samples. None of the calves had a humoral immune response, whereas INF-γ responses were detected in all IN calves and 5 (36%) CE calves. In conclusion, new MAP infections occurred due to exposure of infectious penmates to contact calves. Therefore, calf-to-calf transmission is a potential route of uncontrolled transmission on cattle farms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 57 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 19%
Student > Bachelor 9 16%
Student > Master 9 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 7%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 10 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 28 48%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Mathematics 1 2%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 14 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 June 2017.
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#12,741,754
of 22,968,808 outputs
Outputs from Veterinary Research
#536
of 1,205 outputs
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#143,268
of 310,521 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Veterinary Research
#7
of 15 outputs
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