2026 October - 131 articles
Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (SP) is an important opportunistic pathogen in companion animals, and the increasing prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant strains highlights the need for alternative approaches to local infection control. This study e...
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae causes sporadic, often fatal septicaemia in cetaceans; published cases rest almost entirely on cultured isolates, and none has included post-mortem imaging. We investigated a juvenile male short-beaked common dolphin (Del...
This study evaluated the long-term effects of transitioning from traditional practical teaching to Team-Based Learning (TBL) in veterinary anatomy education. A longitudinal analysis was conducted across thirteen student cohorts at the Faculty of Vete...
Failure of passive transfer (FPT) is an important determinant of survival in neonatal puppies. Practical indirect indicators that could serve as alternatives to measuring serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) have not yet been adequately characterized. In thi...
Precision nutrition in modern mammalian production aims to transition from static feeding regimens toward dynamic and customized strategies by unraveling complex interactions among genetics, environment, the gut microbiome, and host physiology. Machi...
During general anesthesia in dogs, vasopressor-induced increases in mean arterial pressure (MAP) may be partly opposed by reflex sinus slowing. Subsequent administration of atropine or another antimuscarinic may cause an abrupt increase in sinus rate...
Feline chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is common and difficult to manage, and the relationship between computed tomography (CT) findings and clinical severity remains unclear. This exploratory retrospective pilot study included 10 cats with chronic uppe...
Rapid advances in antiviral therapeutics, targeted biologics, RNA medicines, and precision veterinary medicine are generating unprecedented scientific opportunities for veterinary healthcare, yet translation of these innovations into approved veterin...
Haemaphysalis longicornis is a three-host tick of cattle and other livestock in East Asia. We surveyed ticks in 19 counties of the Changbai Mountain forest area, northeastern China, from March to October 2023–2025. Ticks were collected by flagg...
Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) is a major health and economic concern in cattle production worldwide, resulting in substantial losses through reduced productivity, mortality, and treatment and veterinary service costs. This study aimed to estimate...
Oxidative stress and intestinal health are critical factors that are closely linked to the production performance and physiological status of laying hens. This work assessed how dietary incorporation of Pieris japonica leaf powder (PJP) shapes egg qu...
In broiler breeder flocks, mating may cause traumatic skin lesions in hens, yet their biological significance remains insufficiently understood. This study aimed to investigate associations between mating-related lesions and physical and physiologica...
A 7-month-old, 3.6-kg, intact male Dachshund was presented with a lifelong history of chronic respiratory signs. Multiple courses of antimicrobial therapy resulted in partial or complete clinical improvement, followed by recurrence after treatment di...
African swine fever (ASF) continues to disrupt pig production in Southeast Asia. Control measures and conditions for recovery vary across production systems. This qualitative multiple-case study examined 24 purposively selected production units in Vi...
Platelet-based blood products, including platelet-rich plasma, platelet concentrate, and platelet lysate, are increasingly investigated in veterinary medicine as biological preparations with proposed regenerative, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulat...
Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a rare, paediatric, mesenchymal, pulmonary neoplasm that can be highly aggressive. To date, there are only two reports of PPB in animals. We describe the finding of pulmonary neoplasms with PPB-like features in two u...
Chronic asymptomatic orchitis (CAO) in dogs lacks effective treatment options. To elucidate the involvement of prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase 2 (PTGS2), associated with inflammation and physiological steroidogenesis, testicular PTGS2 and StAR ge...
This study assessed serological exposure to influenza A virus (IAV) in swine backyard production systems (BPS) across 14 regions of Chile. Sera originated from official surveillance for exotic swine diseases in 2020. Database reconciliation identifie...
The gut microbiota is increasingly recognized as an important regulator of cattle health and productivity, particularly in shaping lactation performance. This review synthesizes current research on how gut microbial communities influence milk yield,...
Canine insulinomas are functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors that typically cause hypoglycemia, but blood glucose may fluctuate before surgery and increase after resection. This report describes the diagnostic evaluation, surgical treatment, an...
Seneca Valley virus (SVV), also referred to as Senecavirus A (SVA), is an emerging pathogen within the Picornaviridae family. Since its initial identification, SVV has been implicated in the onset of porcine idiopathic vesicular disease (PIVD) across...
Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) threatens small-ruminant production in Pakistan, particularly where livestock grazing overlaps with wildlife habitats. In this exploratory cross-sectional study (January–June 2024), 1939 sera from goats (n = 132...
Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infection constrains equid production, and benzimidazole (BZ) resistance is widespread. Xinjiang is a major donkey-breeding region of China, yet anthelmintic-resistance data for donkeys are scarce. This study combined...
Inlet design assumes that supply air from side-wall inlets mixes with house air over several metres, but whether this holds in a densely caged multi-tier house, where cages and birds obstruct the jet, is untested. The bird-zone environment of a comme...
Involvement of the female reproductive tract is rare in canine lymphoma. A 9-year-old spayed female Maltese dog was presented with generalized lymphadenopathy. Cytology of a mandibular lymph node aspirate indicated large cell lymphoma, whereas PCR fo...
Solid lesions of the mandibular–sublingual salivary gland complex are rare in dogs. We report the case of an 11-year-old, 5 kg, intact female Maltese dog that presented with a non-painful, 2–3 cm left cervical swelling, soft at the surfac...
Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC), a subgroup of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC), causes infections in poultry and may pose a public health risk. Although previous reviews have examined the epidemiology, genotypes, pathogenicity, an...
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), particularly the long-chain n-3 PUFAs (eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)), are integral to the dietary management of canine atopic dermatitis (CAD). However, the fatty acid profiles of com...
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a major pathogen responsible for diarrhea and mortality in piglets, causing substantial economic losses to the swine industry. Its pathogenicity relies on the synergistic action of colonization factors and e...
Advanced periodontal disease can compromise the recipient tissues available for flap fixation during oronasal fistula repair. This report describes double-layer repair of an acquired periodontal oronasal fistula in an eight-year-old castrated male Be...
Reliable molecular detection of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) depends on RT-qPCR performance and pre-analytical factors, including sample matrix, RNA extraction method, carrier RNA supplementation, and storage conditions. This study compared si...
African swine fever virus (ASFV) antibody detection is an important component of serological surveillance and retrospective investigations. DP238L was recently identified by proteome-wide serum-antibody profiling as a frequently recognized ASFV antig...
Getah virus (GETV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus within the Togaviridae family, produces distinct pathological outcomes in different hosts, highlighting that viral and host molecular interactions determine disease phenotypes. For instance, horses typi...
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) poses a significant threat to the global swine industry, underscoring the urgent need for effective vaccines. In this study, a self-assembling ferritin-based nanoparticle vaccine displaying the PDCoV spike receptor-bi...
(1) Background: To address formaldehyde-related health hazards and cadaver scarcity in anatomy education, silicone plastination offers a biosafe alternative, yet organ-specific structural responses at each stage remain inadequately characterized. (2)...
This study establishes a rapid detection method for Yersinia pestis that combines recombinase-aided amplification with a lateral flow dipstick (RAA-LFD) and targets the pla gene. Based on the pla gene sequences of six representative strains from NCBI...
Mycoplasma spp. are wall-less bacteria classified as hemotropic (hemoplasmas) and non-hemotropic that can cause disease and death in immunosuppressed hosts. While hemoplasmas have been described in cetaceans of the Americas, their presence in cetacea...
Granulosa cells (GCs) critically govern follicular development through the coordinated regulation of proliferation, apoptosis, and steroidogenesis. Neuromedin B (NMB), a local regulatory peptide, has been implicated in female reproductive processes....
Fowl typhoid, caused by Salmonella Gallinarum (SG), remains an important poultry disease. We characterized 136 SG isolates, one per farm, from diagnostic submissions of diseased chickens to the national veterinary laboratory in South Korea from 2002...
Capripoxviruses are important viral pathogens of domestic ruminants and include lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV), sheeppox virus (SPPV), and goatpox virus (GTPV). In recent years, the spread of LSDV into Southeastern Europe has renewed interest in its...
Prednisolone acetate (PA) ophthalmic solution is used to treat post-cataract surgery uveitis. In humans, studies comparing difluprednate (DFBA) and PA ophthalmic solutions have reported the usefulness of DFBA. Herein, we compared the effects of PA an...
Potassium permanganate treatment can adversely affect fish physiology despite its usefulness in aquaculture. This study evaluated the protective effects of dietary curcumin against potassium permanganate-induced disturbances in common carp (Cyprinus...
Reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV) is an oncogenic retrovirus that threatens the global poultry industry through immunosuppression and neoplastic diseases. However, functional studies on field isolates have long been hampered by co-infections with oth...
Knowledge of farmed animals’ behavior and productive traits is essential to ensure the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of pastoral activities in a climate change scenario. However, limited information is available on breed di...
Background: Caprine tuberculosis (cTB), caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) represents a significant concern for animal and public health. Antibody-based diagnostic tests have emerged as promising tools to complement an...
Basal serum testosterone may help determine reproductive status in tomcats with an uncertain surgical history, but interpretation of a single result is limited by episodic secretion and reduced analytical precision at very low concentrations. We eval...
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The parrots, a highly intelligent avian species, possesses distinctive characteristics including remarkable cognitive abilities, strong mimetic capacity, and significant economic value as companion pets, with the scale of commercial captive breeding...
Anthelmintic resistance (AHR) in gastrointestinal nematodes (GINs) threatens sustainable parasite control in small ruminants worldwide. This study estimated the global prevalence of AHR and its associated factors through a PRISMA-compliant systematic...
Ticks are obligate hematophagous arthropods and important vectors of various pathogens. This study identified tick species parasitizing goats in Guide County, Qinghai Province, China, and screened for Theileria and Anaplasma species. Tick specimens w...
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