The value of livestock abortion surveillance in Tanzania: identifying disease priorities and informing interventions
Working Paper
Lankester, F., Kibona, T. J., Allan, K. J., de Glanville, W., Buza, J. J., Katzer, F., …Cleaveland, S. (2024)
The value of livestock abortion surveillance in Tanzania: identifying disease priorities and informing interventions
Background: Lack of reliable data on the aetiology of livestock diseases, especially in Africa, is a major factor constraining the design of effective livestock health interve...
Seroprevalence and risk factors for Q-fever (Coxiella burnetii) exposure in smallholder dairy cattle in Tanzania
Journal Article
Festo Bwatota, S., Mkilema Shirima, G., Hernandez-Castro, L. E., Mark de Clare Bronsvoort, B., Wheelhouse, N., Joseph Mengele, I., …Cook, E. A. J. (2022)
Seroprevalence and risk factors for Q-fever (Coxiella burnetii) exposure in smallholder dairy cattle in Tanzania. Veterinary Sciences, 9(12), Article 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci9120662
Q fever is a zoonotic disease, resulting from infection with Coxiella burnetii. Infection in cattle can cause abortion and infertility, however, there is little epidemiologica...
Epidemiology of q-fever in domestic ruminants and humans in Africa: A systematic review
Journal Article
Festo Bwatota, S., Cook, E. A. J., Mark de Clare Bronsvoort, B., Wheelhouse, N., Hernandez-Castor, L. E., & Mkilema Shirima, G. (2022)
Epidemiology of q-fever in domestic ruminants and humans in Africa: A systematic review. CABI One Health, https://doi.org/10.1079/cabionehealth.2022.0008
Q-fever is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by the gram-negative, intracellular, spore-forming bacterium Coxiella burnetii. Infected ruminants (cattle, sheep, and goats) a...
Endemicity of Coxiella burnetii infection among people and their livestock in pastoral communities in northern Kenya
Journal Article
Muema, J., Nyamai, M., Wheelhouse, N., Njuguna, J., Jost, C., Oyugi, J., …Thumbi, S. (2022)
Endemicity of Coxiella burnetii infection among people and their livestock in pastoral communities in northern Kenya. Heliyon, 8(10), Article e11133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11133
Background
Coxiella burnetti can be transmitted to humans primarily through inhaling contaminated droplets released from infected animals or consumption of contaminated dairy ...
Modelling the Transmission of Coxiella burnetii within a UK Dairy Herd: Investigating the Interconnected Relationship between the Parturition Cycle and Environment Contamination
Journal Article
Patsatzis, D. G., Wheelhouse, N., & Tingas, E. (2022)
Modelling the Transmission of Coxiella burnetii within a UK Dairy Herd: Investigating the Interconnected Relationship between the Parturition Cycle and Environment Contamination. Veterinary Sciences, 9(10), Article 522. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci9100522
Q fever infection in dairy herds is introduced through the transmission of the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, resulting in multiple detrimental effects such as reduction of lact...
Editorial: New Approaches to Understanding Vector Borne Diseases in Domestic and Wild animals
Journal Article
Cook, E. A., Wheelhouse, N., Larska, M., & Obanda, V. (2022)
Editorial: New Approaches to Understanding Vector Borne Diseases in Domestic and Wild animals. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 1009751. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.1009751
Recent advances and public health implications for environmental exposure to Chlamydia abortus: from enzootic to zoonotic disease
Journal Article
Turin, L., Surini, S., Wheelhouse, N., & Silvia Rocchi, M. (2022)
Recent advances and public health implications for environmental exposure to Chlamydia abortus: from enzootic to zoonotic disease. Veterinary Research, 53(1), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13567-022-01052-x
Environmental transmission of Chlamydia abortus as a result of enzootic disease or disease outbreaks and the threats posed by this pathogen has been previously reported, howev...
Identification of Parachlamydiaceae DNA in nasal and rectal passages of healthy dairy cattle
Journal Article
Wheelhouse, N., Hearn, J., Livingstone, M., Flockhart, A., Dagleish, M., & Longbottom, D. (2022)
Identification of Parachlamydiaceae DNA in nasal and rectal passages of healthy dairy cattle. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 132(4), 2642-2648. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.15422
Aims
The order Chlamydiales comprises a broad range of bacterial pathogens and endosymbionts, which infect a wide variety of host species. Within this order, members of the fa...
Q fever and early pregnancy failure: a Scottish case control study
Journal Article
Wheelhouse, N., Kemp, S., Halliday, J. E. B., Tingas, E. A., Duncan, W. C., & Horne, A. W. (2022)
Q fever and early pregnancy failure: a Scottish case control study. Reproduction and Fertility, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1530/raf-21-0072
Efficacy of two Chlamydia abortus subcellular vaccines in a pregnant ewe challenge model for ovine enzootic abortion
Journal Article
Livingstone, M., Ranjan Wattegedera, S., Palarea-Albaladejo, J., Aitchison, K., Corbett, C., Sait, M., …Longbottom, D. (2021)
Efficacy of two Chlamydia abortus subcellular vaccines in a pregnant ewe challenge model for ovine enzootic abortion. Vaccines, 9(8), Article 898. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9080898
Chlamydia abortus, the aetiological agent of enzootic abortion of ewes, is a major cause of reproductive loss in small ruminants worldwide, accounting for significant economic...