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Food allergies pose a serious and growing problem in the West.
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Following the E. coli case in 2006, when 17 people fell ill and one child died after eating mutton sausages, the meat industry introduced a number of measures in order to reduce the risk of food poisoning from meat.
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Doctoral research carried out by Mona Gjessing shows that pathological changes in cod differ from those found in diseased salmon, and cod that appear clinically healthy can nevertheless be affected by extensive changes due to disease.
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Hip dysplasia (HD) in dogs is affected to a larger degree than previously believed by the environment in which puppies grow up.
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It is well known that female sex hormones (oestrogens) that end up in rivers and lakes, primarily via spillage from sewers and livestock farming, pose a threat to the environment.
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Some bacteria can form spores (survival capsules) that are particularly resistant to heat. Since sporogenous bacteria can also cause food poisoning and a reduction in food quality, they constitute a significant threat to the food industry.
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March 6th - 8th, 2012 - Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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Zebrafish is a fantastic species for modelling of human disease, and offer advantages above model organisms lika mouse.
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Scrapie is a neurodegenerative disease which can function as a model for other diseases caused by an accumulation of proteins resulting in tissue malformations (proteinpathies), such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
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An increase in human activity is posing a threat to natural aquatic ecosystems in Tanzania and contributing to environmental damage and ecological changes.
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The lactation curve is a graphic presentation of variations in milk production throughout the lactation period. There are great variations in the shape of the lactation curve, disease incidence and fertility in cattle and in feeding strategy.
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Infections caused by mycobacteria (bacteria which are the cause of diseases such as tuberculosis in humans and animals) have a great impact on public health, animal health and the health of ecosystems in rural areas of Uganda.
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Zoonotic tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium bovis, occurs in a large range of hosts, including humans, wild animals and domestic animals.
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Infections caused by oomycetes (or water moulds) of the Saprolegnia family reappeared as a loss factor in the fish farming industry after the dye malachite green was prohibited for use as a water treatment agent.
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Several different mechanisms involved in the development of cold water vibriosis have been identified – a potentially important step towards the development of new treatment and vaccination strategies in fish farming.
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The mould fungus Penicillium crustosum occurs relatively frequently in food and animal fodder stored in temperate conditions.
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The growth of yeast and mould fungus often poses a threat to the quality of dry-cured meat and is a problem facing producers all over the world. Fungal growth can lead to bad quality products, increased production costs and health issues in...
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Morten F. Lukacs' doctoral research at The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science has identified and mapped a group of immune genes that are the key to warding off infectious agents such as viruses and bacteria in salmon.
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The polysaccharide (sugar substance) chitosan has a documented antibacterial effect. Hilde Mellegård's doctoral research shows that this antibacterial activity varies according to the chemical composition of the chitosan.
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As with their terrestrial counterparts, marine mammals are colonised by a range of bacteria, some of which are friendly and others which can cause disease.
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Seminar on reverse genetics on viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus on Friday 9 September, 10.00 in the Main Auditorum
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Courses of medical treatment must be taken as prescribed in order to achieve the desired result. But courses of treatment for both people and animals are seldom followed 100% correctly.
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The negative effects of releasing fish and the possible fragmentation of natural fish stocks in connection with hydropower regulations may be fewer than at first feared.
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Heredity is of more importance than environment when it comes to young, cold-blooded horses' chances of performing well in races.
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The most common tick-borne disease in humans is Lyme borreliosis.
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Lambs are likely to encounter a number of adverse events, starting from the fetal stage. In rodents and humans, it was shown that the mother can mitigate the effects of adverse experiences in her young.
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Malaria can complicate the course of disease in poor farmers with landmine injuries in underdeveloped countries, where both malaria and war injuries are frequent causes of illness and death.
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Russian women living in Northwest Russia are more exposed to environmental toxins than Norwegian women. In spite of this, Anuschka Polder in her doctoral research urges Russian women to breastfeed their babies.
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Neospora caninum is a unicellular parasite that induces miscarriages in cows in large parts of the world.
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Campylobacter is frequently the cause of diarrhoea in humans in Norway and chicken meat is thought to be one of the sources of infection.
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Researchers and the salmon industry have been debating whether fingerling (young fish) from freshwater farms can be a source of the virus that causes pancreas disease (PD): salmonid alfavirus (SAV).
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Infectious pancreatic necrosis is a serious disease that leads to enormous losses in the salmon industry each year. The virus that causes the disease, IPN, is very prevalent in farmed salmon and trout in Norway.
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Sandra Bravo’s doctoral thesis shows that the sea lice Caligus rogercresseyi, a Caligidae species not previously documented, occurs widely in both the South of Chile and Southern Argentina.
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As part of his doctoral research at The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Demelash Biffa has carried out extensive field and laboratory work on bovine tuberculosis (TB) in Ethiopia since 2007.
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Karin E Zimmer's PhD research shows that persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as PCB and mixtures of different POPs, affect the way the adrenal cortex functions and thereby the synthesis of the stress hormone cortisol.
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Through this discovery more tools will become available that will make it possible to control the disease and limit the spread and the impact of the disease.
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