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Emerging Equine Infectious Diseases: Control and Biosecurity
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Emerging Equine Infectious Diseases: Control and Biosecurity

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Equids".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2023) | Viewed by 3013

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Gary Muscatello

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Guest Editor
Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Interests: infectious diseases; disease management; diagnostics; microbiology; epidemiology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

With a changing climate and increased frequency of national and international equine travel the horse has never been more vulnerable to emerging infectious disease events. In this issue, we will focus on recent emerging disease events that have impacted horses. This issue will present research that will improve our understanding of pathogens and the interactions between the pathogen, horses and the environment. It is hoped that the findings presented in this issue can inform and educate the various equine industries globally on an emerging infectious disease that threatens the health and wellbeing of horses and result in enhanced biosecurity and control measures to help safeguard horses from the impact of future emerging disease events.

Dr. Gary Muscatello
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • pathogens
  • climate
  • behaviour
  • interactions
  • biosecurity
  • equine

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Equine Psittacosis and the Emergence of Chlamydia psittaci as an Equine Abortigenic Pathogen in Southeastern Australia: A Retrospective Data Analysis
by Charles El-Hage, Alistair Legione, Joanne Devlin, Kristopher Hughes, Cheryl Jenkins and James Gilkerson
Animals 2023, 13(15), 2443; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13152443 - 28 Jul 2023
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Chlamydia psittaci is an important zoonotic pathogen. Although primarily a pathogen of birds, from which infection can spillover into humans and other mammalian hosts, the importance of C. psittaci as a cause of equine reproductive loss and the risk of infection to humans [...] Read more.
Chlamydia psittaci is an important zoonotic pathogen. Although primarily a pathogen of birds, from which infection can spillover into humans and other mammalian hosts, the importance of C. psittaci as a cause of equine reproductive loss and the risk of infection to humans in contact with infected horses are increasingly being recognised in Australia and elsewhere. Despite the risks to both human and equine health, C. psittaci infection in horses is incompletely understood. This study aimed to update and summarise cases of equine psittacosis in Australia in the period 2018–2022, thus addressing a knowledge gap relating to recent cases in this country. These cases were identified from the examination of records held by state and federal veterinary authorities and from a review of published cases. A total of 31 cases were identified. Spatial and temporal trends were identified, with cases being more prevalent in winter and spring and geographically restricted to Victoria and New South Wales. The results show that cases of equine reproductive loss due to C. psittaci are consistent and ongoing and demonstrate the importance of routinely considering C. psittaci in diagnostic investigations. The need for ongoing study to better understand this important zoonotic pathogen is evident. Full article
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A Cold Case of Equine Influenza Disentangled with Nanopore Sequencing
by Francesco Pellegrini, Alessio Buonavoglia, Ahmed H. Omar, Georgia Diakoudi, Maria S. Lucente, Amienwanlen E. Odigie, Alessio Sposato, Raffaella Augelli, Michele Camero, Nicola Decaro, Gabriella Elia, Krisztián Bányai, Vito Martella and Gianvito Lanave
Animals 2023, 13(7), 1153; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13071153 - 24 Mar 2023
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Massive sequencing techniques have allowed us to develop straightforward approaches for the whole genome sequencing of viruses, including influenza viruses, generating information that is useful for improving the levels and dimensions of data analysis, even for archival samples. Using the Nanopore platform, we [...] Read more.
Massive sequencing techniques have allowed us to develop straightforward approaches for the whole genome sequencing of viruses, including influenza viruses, generating information that is useful for improving the levels and dimensions of data analysis, even for archival samples. Using the Nanopore platform, we determined the whole genome sequence of an H3N8 equine influenza virus, identified from a 2005 outbreak in Apulia, Italy, whose origin had remained epidemiologically unexplained. The virus was tightly related (>99% at the nucleotide level) in all the genome segments to viruses identified in Poland in 2005–2008 and it was seemingly introduced locally with horse trading for the meat industry. In the phylogenetic analysis based on the eight genome segments, strain ITA/2005/horse/Bari was found to cluster with sub-lineage Florida 2 in the HA and M genes, whilst in the other genes it clustered with strains of the Eurasian lineage, revealing a multi-reassortant nature. Full article
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