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VLA Annual Review 03/04
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Selected papers by VLA Scientists
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Cows in field
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Statutory and Exotic Bacterial Diseases
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Abdullah AI, Commander NJ, Woodward MJ, Spencer S, Hart CA, Winstanley C 2003
Type III secretion homologs are present in Brucella melitensis, B.ovis, and B.suis biovars 1, 2, and 3.
Current Microbiology (46) 241-245

Banu S, Gordon SV, Palmer S, Islam R, Ahmed S, Alam KM, Cole ST, Brosch R 2004
Genotypic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bangladesh and prevalence of the Beijing strain.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42 (2) 674-682

Black GF, Weir RE, Chaguluka SD, Warndorff D, Crampin AC, Mwaungulu L, Sichali L, Floyd S, Bliss L, Jarman E, Donovan L, Andersen P, Britton W, Hewinson G, Huygen K, Paulsen J, Singh M, Prestidge R, Fine PEM, Dockrell HM 2003
Gamma interferon responses induced by a panel of recombinant and purified mycobacterial antigens in healthy, non-
Mycobacterium bovis BCG-vaccinated Malawian young adults.
Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 10 (4) 602-611

Buddle BM, McCarthy AR, Ryan TJ, Pollock JM, Vordermeier HM, Hewinson RG, Andersen P, Lisle GW de 2003
Use of mycobacterial peptides and recombinant proteins for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis in skin test-positive cattle.
Veterinary Record 153 (20) 615-620

Carr MD, Bloemink MJ, Dentten E, Whelan AO, Gordon SV, Kelly G, Frenkiel TA, Hewinson RG, Williamson RA 2003
Solution structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex protein MPB70.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 (44) 43736-43743

Chambers MA, Wright DC, Brisker J, Williams A, Hatch G, Gavier-Widen D, Hall G, Marsh PD, Hewinson RG 2004
A single dose of killed Mycobacterium bovis BCG in a novel class of adjuvant (Novasome TM) protects guinea pigs from lethal tuberculosis.
Vaccine 22 (8) 1063-1071

Clifton-Hadley RS, Hewinson RG 2003
Tuberculosis vaccination: the long road to a better BCG.
Veterinary Journal 166 (1) 1-2

Cutler SJ, Talbert A 2003
Tick-borne relapsing fever in Tanzania.
Microbiology Today 30 (4) 167

Cutler S, Whatmore A 2003
Progress in understanding brucellosis.
Veterinary Record 153 (21) 641-642

Garnier T, Eiglmeier K, Camus JC, Medina N, MANSOOR H, Pryor M, Duthoy S, Grondin S, Lacroix C, Monsempe C, Simon S, Harris B, Atkin R, Doggett J, Mayes R, Keating L, Wheeler PR, Parkhill J, Barrell BG, Cole ST, Gordon SV, Hewinson RG 2003
The complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium bovis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (13) 7877-7882

Greenwald R, Esfandiari J, Lesellier S, Houghton R, Pollock J, Aagaard C, Andersen P, Hewinson RG, Chambers M, Lyashchenko K 2003
Improved serodetection of Mycobacterium bovis infection in badgers (Meles meles) using multiantigen test formats.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectous Disease (46) 197-203

Hewinson RG, Vordermeier HM, Buddle BM 2003
Use of the bovine model of tuberculosis for the development of improved vaccines and diagnostics.
Tuberculosis 83 (1-3) 119-130

Hope JC, Whelan AO, Hewinson RG, Vordermeier M, Howard CJ 2003
Maturation of bovine dendritic cells by lipopeptides.
Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 95 (1-2) 21-31

Inwald J, Hinds J, Palmer S, Dale J, Butcher PD, Hewinson RG, Gordon SV 2003
Genomic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains used for production of purified protein derivative.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41 (8) 3929-3932

Inwald J, Jahans K, Hewinson RG, Gordon SV 2003
Inactivation of the Mycobacterium bovis homologue of the polymorphic RD1 gene Rv3879c (Mb3909c) does not affect virulence.
Tuberculosis 83 (6) 387-393

Kampfer S, Dallley D, Hewinson RG, Chambers MA, Singh M 2003
Multi-antigen ELISA for enhanced diagnosis of tuberculosis in badgers.
Veterinary Record 153 (13) 403-404

Kutalik Z, Inwald J, Gordon SV, Hewinson RG, Butcher P, Hinds J, Cho KH, Wolkenhauer O 2004
Advanced significance analysis of microarray data based on weighted resampling: a comparative study and application to gene deletions in Mycobacterium bovis.
Bioinformatics 20 (3) 357-363

Loria GR, Sammartino C, Nicholas RAJ, Ayling RD 2003
In vitro susceptibilities of field isolates of Mycoplasma agalactiae to oxytetracycline, tylosin, enrofloxacin, spiramycin and lincomycin-spectinomycin.
Research in Veterinary Science 75 (1) 3-7

Marobela-Raborokgwe C, Nicholas R, Ayling R, Bashiruddin JB 2003
Comparison of complement fixation test, immunoblotting, indirect ELISA, and competitive ELISA for detecting antibodies to Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides small colony (SC) in naturally infected cattle from the 1995 outbreak in Botswana.
Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 70 (1) 21-27

Mbulu RS, Tjipura-Zaire G, Lelli R, Frey J, Pilo P, Vilei EM, Mettler F, Nicholas RAJ, Huebschle OJB 2004
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) caused by vaccine strain T1/44 of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC.
Veterinary Microbiology 98 (3-4) 229-234

McAuliffe L, Ellis RJ, Ayling RD, Nicholas RAJ 2003
Differentiation of Mycoplasma species by 16S ribosomal DNA PCR and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis fingerprinting.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41 (10) 4844-4847

McGiven JA, Tucker R JD, Perrett LL, Stack JA, Brew SD, MacMillan AP 2003
Validation of FPA and cELISA for the detection of antibodies to Brucella abortus in cattle sera and comparison to SAT, CFT, and iELISA.
Journal of Immunological Methods 278 (1-2) 171-178

Michell SL, Whelan AO, Wheeler PR, Panico M, Easton RL, Etienne AT, Haslam SM, Dell A, Morris HR, Reason AJ, Harrmann JL, Young DB, Hewinson RG 2003
The MPB83 antigen from Mycobacterium bovis contains O-linked mannose and (1 - 3)-mannobiose moieties.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 278 (18) 16423-16432

Rhodes SG, Terry LA, Hope J, Hewinson RG, Vordermeier HM 2003
1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 and development of tuberculosis in cattle.
Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 10 (6) 1129-1135

Scholvinck E, Wilkinson KA, Whelan AO, Martineau AR, Levin M, Wilkinson RJ 2004
Gamma interferon-based immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis: comparison between whole-blood and enzyme-linked immunospot methods.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42 (2) 829-831

Skinner MA, Buddle BM, Wedlock DN, Keen D, Lisle GW de, Tascon RE, Ferraz JC, Lowrie DB, Cockle PJ, Vordermeier HM, Hewinson RG 2003
A DNA prime-Mycobacterium bovis BCG boost vaccination strategy for cattle induces protection against bovine tuberculosis.
Infection and Immunity 71 (9) 4901-4907

Smith NH, Dale J, Inwald J, Palmer S, Gordon SV, Hewinson RG, Smith JM 2003
The population structure of Mycobacterium bovis in Great Britain: clonal expansion.
Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences 100 (25) 15271-15275

Stefanova T, Chouchkova M, Hinds J, Butcher PD, Inwald J, Dale J, Palmer S, Hewinson RG, Gordon SV 2003
Genetic composition of Mycobacterium bovis BCG substrain Sofia.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41 (11) 5349

Vordermeier M, Whelan AO, Hewinson RG 2003
Recognition of mycobacterial epitopes by T cells across mammalian species and use of a program that predicts human HLA-DR binding peptides to predict bovine epitopes.
Infection and Immunity 71 (4) 1980-1987

Vordermeier HM, Lowrie DB, Hewinson RG 2003
Improved immunogenicity of DNA vaccination with mycobacterial HSP65 against bovine tuberculosis by protein boosting.
Veterinary Microbiology 93 (4) 349-359

Wedlock DN, Skinner MA, Parlane NA, Vordermeier HM, Hewinson RG, De Lisle GW, Buddle BM 2003
Vaccination with DNA vaccines encoding MPB70 or MPB83 or a MPB70 DNA prime-protein boost does not protect cattle against bovine tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis 83 (6) 339-349

Wheeler PR 2003
Leprosy - clues about the biochemistry of Mycobacterium leprae and its host-dependency from the genome.
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (19) 1-16

Whelan AO, Hope JC, Howard CJ, Clifford D, Hewinson RG, Vordermeier HM 2003
Modulation of the bovine delayed-type hypersensitivity responses to defined mycobacterial antigens by a synthetic bacterial lipopeptide.
Infection and Immunity 71 (11) 6420-6425

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