Antibiotics have been administered to agricultural animals for disease treatment, disease
prevention, and growth promotion for over 50 y. The impact of such antibiotic use on the …

Simple Summary Digital dermatitis causes lameness in cattle. Numerous studies have identified
multiple bacteria associated with these painful lesions. Several types of a spiral shaped …

Leptospirosis is one of the most common zoonotic diseases in the world, resulting in high
morbidity and mortality in humans and affecting global livestock production. Most infections are …

Brucellosis is a worldwide disease of humans and livestock that is caused by a number of very
closely related classical Brucella species in the alpha-2 subdivision of the Proteobacteria. …

Disturbance of the beneficial gut microbial community is a potential collateral effect of antibiotics,
which have many uses in animal agriculture (disease treatment or prevention and feed …

Leptospires belong to a genus of parasitic bacterial spirochetes that have adapted to a broad
range of mammalian hosts. Mechanisms of leptospiral molecular evolution were explored …

Objective —To determine whether a monovalent Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar hardjo (type
hardjobovis) vaccine commercially available in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the …

Objective —To determine the extent of leptospirosis in persons exposed to infected swine,
confirm the source of disease, define risk factors for infection, and identify means for …

Antibiotics are used in livestock and poultry production to treat and prevent disease as well
as to promote animal growth. Carbadox is an in-feed antibiotic that is widely used in swine …

Four spirochete strains were isolated from papillomatous digital dermatitis (PDD) lesions in
Iowa dairy cattle and compared with two previously described spirochete strains isolated …