Protection, systemic IFNγ, and antibody responses induced by an ISCOM-based vaccine against a recent equine influenza virus in its natural host     21
Romain Paillot, Humphrey Grimmett, Debra Elton and Janet M. Daly
Published Online: 7 February 2008
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Geostatistical visualisation and spatial statistics for evaluation of the dispersion of epidemic highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype H5N1     22
Michael P. Ward, Daniel Maftei, Cristian Apostu and Andrian Suru
Published Online: 7 February 2008
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Association between Coxiella burnetii shedding in milk and subclinical mastitis in dairy cattle     23
John Barlow, Brad Rauch, Frank Welcome, Sung Guk Kim, Edward Dubovi and Ynte Schukken
Published Online: 7 February 2008
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Intramuscular vaccination of young calves with a Salmonella Dublin metabolic-drift mutant provides superior protection to oral delivery     26
Tetsuo Mizuno, Malcolm McLennan and Darren Trott
Published Online: 15 February 2008
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Identification and characterization of a type III secretion system in Chlamydophila psittaci     27
Delphine Sylvie Anne Beeckman, TomGeens, Jean-Pierre Timmermans, Patrick Van Oostveldt and Daisy C.G. Vanrompay
Published Online: 15 February 2008
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CD44 is highly expressed on milk neutrophils in bovine mastitis and plays a role in their adhesion to matrix and mammary epithelium     29
Erez Gonen, Shlomo Nedvetzki, David Naor and Nahum Y. Shpigel
Published Online: 15 February 2008
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Influence of contact heterogeneity on TB reproduction ratio R₀ in a free-living brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula population     31
Thibaud Porphyre, Mark Stevenson, Ron Jackson and Joanna McKenzie
Published Online: 15 February 2008
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An experimentally induced Chlamydia suis infection in pigs results in severe lung function disorders and pulmonary inflammation     35
Petra Reinhold, Nathalie Kirschvink, Dirk Theegarten and Angela Berndt
Published Online: 26 February 2008
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Slc11a1 (formerly Nramp1) and susceptibility to canine visceral leishmaniasis     36
Elisenda Sanchez-Robert, Laura Altet, Mireia Utzet-Sadurni, Urs Giger, Armand Sanchez and Olga Francino
Published Online: 29 February 2008
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A comparison of the active surveillance of scrapie in the European Union     37
Victor Javier Del Rio Vilas, Dankmar Böhning and Ronny Kuhnert
Published Online: 29 February 2008
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A homolog of the O157 urease-encoding O island 48 is present in porcine O149:H10 enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli     38
Valeria R. Parreira, Jing Hua Liao, Sang-Hyun Kim and Carlton L. Gyles
Published Online: 4 March 2008
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