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Research Article 27 Mar 2026
Prevalence and Molecular Confirmation of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in Sheep Populations of Argentine Patagonia: Implications for Wildlife Conservation and One Health
Background: Caseous Lymphadenitis (CL) is a chronic infectious and contagious disease that affects sheep and small ruminants, whose prevalence in Argentine Patagonia has been demonstrated over the years. However, this di…
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Review Article 20 Sep 2025
Tail Biting in Pigs Behavioral Signs Welfare Impact Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies
Tail biting in pigs remains a persistent welfare and economic challenge in commercial pig production, despite decades of research. This harmful behavior is driven by a combination of genetic, environmental, and managemen…
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Research Article 25 Aug 2025
Development of a Fluorescence Isothermal Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Assay for Rapid Detection of Feline Calicivirus
Feline Calicivirus (FCV) is responsible for a highly contagious disease in domestic cats. FCV may cause multiple symptoms and even death to the infected cats. A simple and cost-effective real-time RPA assay was developed…
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Original Article 28 Jul 2025
A Mutational Pathway Leading to Thyroid Tumors During Medication for Feline Hyperthyroidism
Over 350 million cats worldwide live in homes with their human companions. An inexplicable phenomenon is affecting domestic cats (felis catus) - the global prevalence of feline hyperthyroidism has been increasing since t…
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Review Article 29 Dec 2024
Morphological Diversity and Distribution of New World Monkeys across Brazilian Biomes
The morphological diversity of New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) across Brazilian biomes represents a remarkable example of adaptive radiation in Neotropical primates. This review synthesizes current knowledge about morpho…
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Research Article 11 Oct 2023
Valuing the Relative Importance of Goat Farmers Trait Preferences: Implication for Designing Community Based Breeding Program
The success of a breed improvement programme depends on farmers' participation in the identification of breeding objective traits relevant to particular production environments. This study compared and contrasted two met…
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Review Article 12 Oct 2022
Hainan Gibbons (Nomascus hainanus), the Most Threatened and Rarest Primate in the World
Gibbons (Hylobatidae) are exclusively arboreal small apes only inhabiting in tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia [1]. Gibbons in Nomascus have 52 chromosomes and adult males and females are almost the same body size.…
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Review Article 29 Jan 2022
A Brief and Critical Review of Chronic Fluoride Poisoning (Fluorosis) in Domesticated Water Buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) in India: Focus on its Impact on Rural Economy
In the rural areas of India, fluoridated drinking water, industrial fluoride pollution and fluoride-rich feed phosphate supplements are the major sources of fluoride exposure for domesticated water buffaloes (Bubalus bub…
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Research Article 11 Jan 2022
Comparative Study of Different Methods for Viral Nervous Necrosis (VNN) Diagnosis in Fish
The consumption of fish as useful animal protein is on the rise around the world, and the transport of fish is being considered as a means of trade between countries around the world. Every year, the occurrence of the Vi…
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Research Article 15 Sep 2020
Canine Myiasis and its Causal Agents in India
Myiasis, the invasion of tissues of live humans and vertebrate animals with dipteran larvae is common throughout the tropical regions of the world. It is a real welfare problem of worldwide distribution and a matter of g…
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