Conveners
Diagnostics
- Francesco Pellegrini (University of Bari Aldo Moro)
- Felix Reich (BfR)
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common in companion animals. According to current guidelines, sporadic UTIs can typically be managed with a short course of antibiotics. However, recurrent UTIs are common and warrants closer follow-up. Assessing treatment efficacy typically requires a temporary suspension for culture to prevent false negative results, which may pose risks of infection...
Brucellosis is a zoonosis of major public health concern. However, its near-eradication in high-income countries has limited recent research, and the performance of diagnostic tests in livestock remains unclear due to the lack of a gold-standard.
This study evaluated the performance of bacteriological culture and qPCR for diagnosing brucellosis in buffaloes and cattle.
A total of 5,149...
Serovar detector is a new bioinformatic tool for determining the serovar of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae using whole genome sequencing. The composition of capsular polysaccharide (cps) genes of isolates is compared to those of the serovar reference strains and the serovar is determined both by the number of common genes as well as the similarities between the homologous genes. A...
Bacteria of the genus Borrelia are tick-borne pathogens divided into two groups: Lyme disease (LD) group and Relapsing Fever (RF) group. Both include numerous species and new ones are still being identified. Recent studies have also reported the presence of Borrelia spp. in different hosts and across different geographical areas, highlighting the existing gaps in knowledge regarding the...
Background and objectives: Blood cultures (BCs) are the gold standard for the diagnosis of sepsis, with rapid diagnostics being crucial for treatment. The current standard in veterinary medicine includes pathogen identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST). We aimed to accelerate BC diagnostics and compare its performance to the currently applied...
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing is important to predict the outcome of antimicrobial therapy. Therefore, the aim was to compare oxytetracycline 30µg disk and media lots for four reference strains as a pre-requisite to establish QC ranges. Eight laboratories tested Escherichia coli ATCC® 25922, Staphylococcus aureus ATCC® 25923, S. aureus ATCC® 29213, and Streptococcus pneumoniae...
