• Analysing nonsynonymous mutations between two Mycobacterium bovis strains with contrasting pathogenic profiles 

      Bigi, María Mercedes; Vazquez, Cristina Lourdes; Castelão, Ana Beatriz C.; Garcia, Elizabeth Andrea; Cataldi, Angel Adrian; Jackson, Mary; McNeil, Michael; Soria, Marcelo Abel; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Cabruja, Matias; Gago, Gabriela; Blanco, Federico Carlos; Nishibe, Christiane; Almeida Junior, Nalvo Franco de; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de; Bigi, Fabiana (Elsevier, 2019-12)
      Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) is the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis, a chronic infectious disease that can affect cattle, other domesticated species, wild animals and humans. This disease produces important economic ...
    • Epidemiology of Babesia, Anaplasma and Trypanosoma species using a new expanded reverse line blot hybridization assay 

      Paoletta, Martina; Lopez Arias, Ludmila Sol; De La Fourniere, Sofia; Guillemi, Eliana Carolina; Luciani, Carlos; Sarmiento, Nestor Fabian; Mosqueda Gualito, Juan Joel; Farber, Marisa Diana; Wilkowsky, Silvina Elizabeth (2018-02)
      Vector-borne hemoparasitic infections are a major problem that affects livestock industries worldwide, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. In this work, a reverse line blot (RLB) hybridization assay was ...
    • Identification of bovine tuberculosis biomarkers to detect tuberculin skin test and IFNγ release assay false negative cattle 

      Klepp, Laura Ines; Eirin, Maria Emilia; Garbaccio, Sergio Gabriel; Soria, Marcelo Abel; Bigi, Fabiana; Blanco, Federico Carlos (Elsevier, 2019-02)
      Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an important animal and zoonotic disease, which causes severe economic losses. The main focus of this study was to assess the predictive power of previously identified biomarkers of bTB in ...
    • Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry identification of mycobacterium bovis in bovinae 

      Bacanelli, Gisele; Olarte, Larissa C.; Silva, Marcio Roberto; Rodrigues, Rudielle A.; Carneiro, Paulo A. M.; Kannene, John B.; Pasquatti, Taynara N.; Takatani, Haruo; Zumarraga, Martin Jose; Etges, Rodrigo N.; Araujo, Flabio Ribeiro de; Verbisck, Newton V. (The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science, 2019-10)
      In this study, Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time-of-Flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry was used to identify Mycobacterium bovis from cattle and buffalo tissue isolates from the North and South regions of ...