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Publications - Epidemiology

 

Allan et al. 2015. Epidemiology of Leptospirosis in Africa: A Systematic Review of a Neglected Zoonosis and a paradigm for ‘One Health’ in Africa. PLoS Neglect Trop Dis (in press)

Bae, J.K., Wieland, B., Sait, M., Longbottom, D., Smith, D.G.E., Alarcon, P., and Wheelhouse, N. (2013) Risk factors associated with Lawsonia intracellularis in English pig farms. Veterinary Journal, 197(3), pp. 707-711. (doi:10.1016/j.tvjl.2013.03.020) 

Baily, J. L. et al. (2015) Evidence of land-sea transfer of the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter to a wildlife marine sentinel species. Molecular Ecology, 24(1), pp. 208-221. (doi:10.1111/mec.13001) 

Bessell, P.R., Orton, R., O'Hare, A., Mellor, D.J., Logue, D., and Kao, R.R. (2013) Developing a framework for risk-based surveillance of tuberculosis in cattle: a case study of its application in Scotland. Epidemiology and Infection, 141(02), pp. 314-323. (doi:10.1017/S0950268812000635)

Bexiga, R., Rato, M. G., Lemsaddek, A., Semedo-Lemsaddek, T., Carneiro, C., Pereira, H., Mellor, D. J., Ellis, K. A., and Vilela, C. L. (2014) Dynamics of bovine intramammary infections due to coagulase-negative staphylococci on four farms. Journal of Dairy Research, 81(02), pp. 208-214. (doi:10.1017/S0022029914000041)  

Delannoy, C.M.J., Crumlish, M., Fontaine, M.C., Pollock, J., Foster, G., Dagleish, M.P., Turnbull, J.F., and Zadoks, R.N. (2013) Human Streptococcus agalactiae strains in aquatic mammals and fish. BMC Microbiology, 13, p. 41. (doi:10.1186/1471-2180-13-41)  

De Visscher, A., Supré, K., Haesebrouck, F., Zadoks, R. N., Piessens, V., Van Coillie, E., Piepers, S., and De Vliegher, S. (2014) Further evidence for the existence of environmental and host-associated species of coagulase-negative staphylococci in dairy cattle.Veterinary Microbiology, 172(3-4), pp. 466-474.(doi:10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.06.011)

Godfray, H.C.J., Donnelly, C.A., Kao, R.R., Macdonald, D.W., McDonald, R.A., Petrokofsky, G., Wood, J.L.N., Woodroffe, R., Young, D.B., and McLean, A.R. (2013) A restatement of the natural science evidence base relevant to the control of bovine tuberculosis in Great Britain. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 280(1768), Art. 20131634. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1634)

Graham, E., and Taylor, D. (2012) Bacterial reproductive pathogens of cats and dogs. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 42(3), pp. 561-582. (doi:10.1016/j.cvsm.2012.01.013) 

Halliday, J. E. B., Allan, K. J., Ekwem, D., Cleaveland, S., Kazwala, R. R., and Crump, J. A. (2015) Endemic zoonoses in the tropics: a public health problem hiding in plain sight. Veterinary Record, 176(9), pp. 220-225;

Halliday, J.E.B. et al. (2013) Urban leptospirosis in Africa: a cross-sectional survey of Leptospira infection in rodents in the Kibera Urban Settlement, Nairobi, Kenya. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 89(6), pp. 1095-1102. (doi:10.4269/ajtmh.13-0415)

Halliday, J. E.B., Knobel, D. L., Agwanda, B. F., Bai, Y., Breiman, R. F.,Cleaveland, S., Njenga, M.K., and Kosoy, M. (2015) Prevalence and diversity of small mammal-associated Bartonella species in rural and urban Kenya. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(3), e0003608.(doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003608) (PMID:25781015)(PMCID:PMC4362764)

Hampson, K. et al. (2011) Predictability of anthrax infection in the Serengeti, Tanzania. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48(6), pp. 1333-1344. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02030.x) 

He M, Miyajima F, Roberts P, Ellison L, Pickard DJ, Martin MJ, Connor TR, Harris SR, Fairley D, Bamford KB, D'Arc S, Brazier J, Brown D, Coia JE, Douce G, Gerding D, Kim HJ, Koh TH, Kato H, Senoh M, Louie T, Michell S, Butt E, Peacock SJ, Brown NM, Riley T, Songer G, Wilcox M, Pirmohamed M, Kuijper E, Hawkey P, Wren BW, Dougan G, Parkhill J, Lawley TD. (2013) Emergence and global spread of epidemic healthcare-associated clostridium difficile. Nature Genetics, 45(1), pp. 109-113. (doi:10.1038/ng.2478) 

Herbert, L. J. et al. (2014) E. coli O157 on Scottish cattle farms: evidence of local spread and persistence using repeat cross-sectional data. BMC Veterinary Research, 10(1), p. 95. (doi:10.1186/1746-6148-10-95) 

Holt KE, Baker S, Weill FX, Holmes EC, Kitchen A, Yu J, Sangal V, Brown DJ, Coia JE, Kim DW, Choi SY, Kim SH, da Silveira WD, Pickard DJ, Farrar JJ, Parkhill J, Dougan G, Thomson NR. Shigella sonnei genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis indicate recent global dissemination from Europe. Nature Genetics 2012 44(9):1056-9.

Lembo, T. et al. (2011) Serologic surveillance of anthrax in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania, 1996–2009. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17(3), pp. 387-394. (doi:10.3201/eid1703.101290)

Mather AE, Reid SW, Maskell DJ, Parkhill J, Fookes MC, Harris SR, Brown DJ, Coia JE, Mulvey MR, Gilmour MW, Petrovska L, de Pinna E, Kuroda M, Akiba M, Izumiya H, Connor TR, Suchard MA, Lemey P, Mellor DJ, Haydon DT, Thomson NR. Distinguishable epidemics of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 in different hosts. Science. 2013 Sep 27;341(6153):1514-7.

Matthews, L. et al. (2013) Predicting the public health benefit of vaccinating cattle against Escherichia coli O157. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(40), pp. 16265-16270. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1304978110)

Miao He, et.al. (2013).Emergence and global spread of epidemic healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile. Nature Genetics 45:109-13.

O’Connor, C.M., Haydon, D.T., and Kao, R.R. (2012) An ecological and comparative perspective on the control of bovine tuberculosis in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 104(3-4), pp. 185-197. (doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.11.010) 

O'Hare, A., Orton, R. J., Bessell, P. R., and Kao, R. R. (2014)Estimating epidemiological parameters for bovine tuberculosis in British cattle using a Bayesian partial-likelihood approach.Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 281(1783), p. 20140248. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0248)

Rubach, M.P., Halliday, J.E.B., Cleaveland, S., and Crump, J.A. (2013) Brucellosis in low-income and middle-income countries. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 26(5), pp. 404-412. (doi:10.1097/QCO.0b013e3283638104)  

Vanderburg, S., Rubach, M. P., Halliday, J. E.B., Cleaveland, S., Reddy, E. A., and Crump, J. A. (2014) Epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii infection in Africa: a OneHealth systematic review. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 8(4), e2787.(doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002787)

Viora, L., Graham, E.M., Mellor, D.J., Reynolds, K., Simoes, P.B.A., and Geraghty, T.E. (2014) Evaluation of a culture-based pathogen identification kit for bacterial causes of bovine mastitis. Veterinary Record, 175(4), p. 89. (doi:10.1136/vr.102499) 

Zadoks, R. N., Tassi, R., Martin, E., Holopainen, J., McCallum, S., Gibbons, J., and Ballingall, K. T. (2014) Comparison of bacteriological culture and PCR for detection of bacteria in ovine milk—Sheep are not small cows. Journal of Dairy Science, 97(10), pp. 6326-6333. (doi:10.3168/jds.2014-8351) (PMID:25108858)