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		<title>&#8220;Pig&#8221; MRSA &#8211; are the pigs really to blame?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a strain of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) that has been tracked passing from pigs to humans.  It was always thought that the MRSA initially came from the pigs, but new research published in mBio (open access) suggests that pigs might not be the original source.  Instead it looks like the strain may have originated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=390&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bovine TB and badgers &#8211; why it all matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about bovine TB for some time.  The news in December that there will be a badger cull trial in England has finally spurred me into actually doing so.  Before I start I should mention that this post will not be about the political aspects of the cull decision.  Nor will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=373&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick note</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that you have all had a good holiday season. I&#8217;m just updating quickly with a shameless plug for the January edition of the Molecular Biology Carnival which I&#8217;m thrilled to be in &#8211; there are some fantastic posts linked so it&#8217;s well worth checking out. For anyone going to the American Society for Microbiology conference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=368&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using a parasite as a vaccine&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of researchers (see reference below) have been looking at a very interesting new method of vaccine delivery: using trypanosomes. T. (megatrypanum) theileri  is found infecting cattle worldwide.  It is transmitted by flies and gains entry to the animal either through broken skin or via mucous membranes and once the animal is infected it tends to carry low [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=356&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So in Part 1 I discussed the set of guidelines, or postulates, designed by Robert Koch (and his colleagues) that helps scientists get the evidence they need to establish that a specific infectious agent causes a specific infectious disease. 1) Establish association of the organism with the disease. 2) Isolate the organism and grow in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=342&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know (or could guess given the spectacularly unimaginative naming) that salmonellosis (a type of food poisoning) is caused by Salmonella (a species of bacteria).  We know that because scientists say it is.  But how do they know? A more general question: How do scientists prove that infectious disease &#8216;A&#8217; is caused by bacterium [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=328&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phew!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last my desk has gone from this: &#160; to: &#160; I have handed in my first year report, got through my first year viva/presentation thingy, presented a poster at an international conference and got the next set of experiments pretty much ready to go so I can finally get back to looking at zoonoses.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=316&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darn it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only is there a paper out discussing the characterisation of the latest E.coli bug (see posts here, here and here) but the use of badger culling to prevent bovine tuberculosis cases in cattle is also back in the news - all stuff I want to blog about but I MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE SOME RESULTS!!! (only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=312&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An unusual case of orf</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diseases don&#8217;t always behave exactly as we expect them too.  Sometimes, even when we think we&#8217;ve worked out most things about them, they can surprise us. A case study published in Dermatology Online Journal &#8211; Orf parapoxvirus infection from a cat scratch by J Frandsen et al (see below for full ref) &#8211; is a nice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=275&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new zoonosis?</title>
		<link>http://zoonotica.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/a-new-zoonosis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been estimated that 3 out of every 4 emerging human diseases comes from animals and today has brought news of what has the potential to be another one.  Scientists in California have published in PLoS Pathogens their research on: Cross-Species Transmission of a Novel Adenovirus Associated with a Fulminant Pneumonia Outbreak in a New World Monkey Colony [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zoonotica.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19609150&amp;post=278&amp;subd=zoonotica&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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