Conveners
Epidemiology
- Uwe Rösler (Freie Universtität Berlin)
- Alessandro Bellato (Università di Torino)
Enterococci are one of the most frequent bacteria associated to hospital-acquired infections, so their antibiotic resistance and virulence characterization is important to prevent and treat these infections.
This study focusses on bacteria from four different sources: 34 environmental enterococci from the surfaces of a veterinary Biological Isolation and Containment Unit, 10 clinical...
Nontuberculous mycobacteria, including those in the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), are emerging pathogens of humans and animals. An outbreak of fatal disseminated mycobacteriosis caused by MAC was observed in eight Abyssinian cats in Italy in autumn 2024 and isolation of MAC strains was successful in three cats. This study focused on the genomic characterization of these strains....
Despite the official bovine tuberculosis free status, Mycobacterium bovis sporadically causes tuberculosis (TB) in non-bovine mammals in the Netherlands. In early 2023, two domestic cats from unrelated households were diagnosed with M. bovis following euthanasia due to severe respiratory symptoms. In one household, three additional cats were euthanized, with post-mortem confirmation of M....
Leptospirosis is a globally important animal infection and zoonosis caused by pathogenic Leptospira species. In Israel, Leptospira serovar Pomona emerged over the past two decades from undetected to endemic status, becoming the dominant cause of bovine leptospirosis. Incidence in cattle culminated in large-scale outbreaks in 2018, coinciding with an exceptional human outbreak. These events...
