Selected Papers by VLA Scientists
Statutory and Exotic Bacterial Diseases
Al-Momani W, Halablab MA,
Abo-Shehada MN, Miles K, McAuliffe L,
Nicholas RAJ 2006
Isolation and molecular identification of
small ruminant mycoplasmas in Jordan.
Small Ruminant Research 65 (1-2) 106-112.
Al-Momani W, Nicholas RAJ, Janakat S,
Abu-Basha E, Ayling RD 2006
The in vitro effect of six antimicrobials
against Mycoplasma putrefaciens,
Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides LC and Mycoplasma capricolum subsp.
capricolum isolated from sheep and goats in
Jordan.
Tropical Animal Health and Production (38)
1-7.
Ayling RD, Bisgaard-Frantzen S,
Nicholas RAJ 2006
The use of antimicrobials in controlling
Mycoplasma infections.
Paper presented at XVII SIPAOC Congress,
held 25-28 October 2006, Lamezia Terme,
Italy, 112-117.
Cadmus SIB, Ijagbone IF, Oputa HE,
Adesokan HK, Stack JA 2006
Serological survey of Brucellosis in livestock
animals and workers in Ibadan, Nigeria.
African Journal of Biomedical Research 9 (3)
163-168.
Cockle PJ, Gordon SV, Hewinson RG,
Vordermeier HM 2006
Field evaluation of a novel differential
diagnostic reagent for detection of
Mycobacterium bovis in cattle.
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology 13 (10)
1119-1124.
Commander NJ, Spencer SA, Wren BW,
Macmillan AP 2007
The identification of two protective DNA
vaccines from a panel of five plasmid
constructs encoding Brucella melitensis 16M
genes.
Vaccine 25 (1) 43-54.
Cutler SJ 2006
Possibilities for relapsing fever reemergence.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 12 (3) 369-
374.
Cutler SJ 2006
Brucellosis - new paradigms for classical
pathogen.
Culture 27 (1) 1-3.
Cutler SJ, Cutler RR 2006
Brucellosis the most common bacterial
zoonosis?
Biomedical Scientist April, 1-5.
Delahay RJ, Smith GC, Barlow AM,
Walker N, Harris A, Clifton-Hadley RS,
Cheeseman CL 2007
Bovine tuberculosis infection in wild
mammals in the south-west region of
England: a survey of prevalence and a semiquantitative
assessment of the relative risks
to cattle.
Veterinary Journal 173 (2) 287-301.
Diguimbaye-Djaibe C, Hilty M, Ngandolo R,
Mahamat HH, Pfyffer GE, Baggi F,
Hewinson G, Tanner M, Zinsstag J,
Schelling E 2006
Mycobacterium bovis isolates from
tuberculous lesions in Chadian zebu
carcasses.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 12 (5) 769-
771.
Ellis MD, Davies S, McCandlish IAP,
Monies R, Jahans K,
Rua-Domenech R de la 2006
Mycobacterium bovis infection in a dog.
Veterinary Record 159 (2) 46-48.
Goodchild T, Clifton-Hadley R 2006
The fall and rise of bovine tuberculosis in
Great Britain.
In: Thoen CO (ed); Steele JH (ed); Gilsdorf MJ
(ed), Mycobacterium bovis infection in
animals and humans, 2nd ed., Blackwell,
Ames, Iowa, 2006, 100-116.
Gopal R, Goodchild A, Hewinson G, Rua-Domenech R de la, Clifton-Hadley R 2006
Introduction of bovine tuberculosis to northeast
England by bought-in cattle.
Veterinary Record 159 (9) 265-271.
Hogarth PJ, Hewinson RG,
Vordermeier HM 2006
Development of vaccines against bovine
tuberculosis.
Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology 58
(6) 749-757.
Huebschle OJB, Ayling RD, Godinho K,
Lukhele O, Tjipura-Zaire G, Rowan TG,
Nicholas RAJ 2006
Danofloxacin (Advocin) reduces the spread
of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia to
healthy in-contact cattle.
Research in Veterinary Science 81 (3) 304-
309.
Jahans K, Worth D 2006
The laboratory diagnosis of bovine
tuberculosis.
Government Veterinary Journal 16 (1) 53-57.
Jalava K, Jones JA, Goodchild T,
Clifton-Hadley R, Mitchell A, Story A,
Watson JM 2007
No increase in human cases of
Mycobacterium bovis disease despite
resurgence of infections in cattle in the
United Kingdom.
Epidemiology and Infection 135 (1) 40-45.
Johnson L, Dean G, Rhodes S,
Hewinson G, Vordermeier M,
Wangoo A 2007
Low-dose Mycobacterium bovis infection in
cattle results in pathology indistinguishable
from that of high-dose infection.
Tuberculosis 87 (1) 71-76.
Johnson L, Gough J, Spencer Y,
Hewinson G, Vordermeier M,
Wangoo A 2006
Immunohistochemical markers augment
evaluation of vaccine efficacy and disease
severity in bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)
vaccinated cattle challenged with
Mycobacterium bovis.
Veterinary Immunology and
Immunopathology 111 (3-4) 219-229.
Kinne J, Johnson B, Jahans KL,
Smith NH, Ul-Haq A, Wernery U 2006
Camel tuberculosis - a case report.
Tropical Animal Health and Production 38 (3)
207-213.
Lesellier S, Palmer S, Dalley DJ,
Dave D, Johnson L, Hewinson RG,
Chambers MA 2006
The safety and immunogenicity of Bacille
Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine in European
badgers (Meles meles).
Veterinary Immunology and
Immunopathology 112 (1-2) 24-37.
Lin YC, Miles RJ, Nicholas RAJ, Wood AP
2006
A rapid chromogenic microtitre assay of
arginine aminopeptidase activity in
Mycoplasma strains.
Systematic and Applied Microbiology 29 (7)
589-592.
McDonald WL, Jamaludin R, Mackereth G,
Hansen M, Humphrey S, Short P, Taylor T,
Swingler J, Dawson CE, Whatmore AM,
Stubberfield E, Perrett LL, Simmons G
2006
Characterisation of a Brucella sp. strain as a
marine-mammal type despite isolation from
a patient with spinal osteomyelitis in New
Zealand.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 44 (12)
4363-4370.
McGiven JA, Stack JA, Perrett LL,
Tucker JD, Brew SD, Stubberfield E,
Macmillan AP 2006
Harmonisation of European tests for
serological diagnosis of Brucella infection in
bovines.
Revue Scientifique et Technique 25 (3) 1039-
1053.
Meri T, Cutler SJ, Blom AM, Meri S,
Jokiranta TS 2006
Relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia
recurrentis and B.duttonii acquire
complement regulators C4b-binding protein
and factor H.
Infection and Immunity 74 (7) 4157-4163.
Minas A, Stournara A, Minas M, Stack J,
Petridou E, Christodoulopoulos G, Krikelis V
2007
Validation of a fluorescence polarization
assay (FPA) performed in microplates and
comparison with other tests used for
diagnosing B.melitensis infection in sheep
and goats.
Journal of Immunological Methods 320 (1-2)
94-103.
Mitchell A 2006
Bovine TB: modelling and predicting its
distribution in GB using CTS data.
Government Veterinary Journal 16 (1) 46-52.
Mitchell AP, Green LE,
Clifton-Hadley R, Maudsley J,
Sayers R, Medley GF 2006
An analysis of single intradermal
comparative cervical test (sicct) coverage in
the GB cattle population.
Proceedings Society of Veterinary
Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine,
Exeter, 29-32 March 2006, 70-86.
Mustafa AS, Skeiky YA, Al-Attiyah R,
Alderson MR, Hewinson RG,
Vordermeier HM 2006
Immunogenicity of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis antigens in Mycobacterium
bovis BCG-vaccinated and M.bovis-infected
cattle.
Infection and Immunity 74 (8) 4566-4572.
Nicholas RAJ, Ayling RD, Woodger N,
Wessells ME, Houlihan MG 2006
Mycoplasmas in adult cattle: bugs worth
bothering about?
Irish Veterinary Journal 59 (10) 568-572.
Ozdemir U, Loria GR, Godinho KS,
Samson R, Rowan TG, Churchward C,
Ayling RD, Nicholas RAJ 2006
Effect of danofloxacin (advocin A180) on
goats affected with contagious caprine
pleuropneumonia.
Tropical Animal Health and Production 38
(7-8) 533-540.
Parham K, Churchward CP,
McAuliffe L, Nicholas RAJ, Ayling RD 2006
A high level of strain variation within the
Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae population of
the UK has implications for disease diagnosis
and management.
Veterinary Microbiology 118 (1) 83-90.
Rua-Domenech R de la, Goodchild AT,
Vordermeier HM, Hewinson RG,
Christiansen KH, Clifton-Hadley RS 2006
Ante mortem diagnosis of tuberculosis in
cattle: a review of the tuberculin tests,
gamma-interferon assay and other ancilliary
diagnostic techniques.
Research in Veterinary Science 81 (2) 190-
210.
Rua-Domenech R de la, Goodchild T,
Vordermeier M, Clifton-Hadley R 2006
Ante mortem diagnosis of bovine
tuberculosis: the significance of unconfirmed
test reactors.
Government Veterinary Journal 16 (1) 65-71.
Smith NH 2006
A re-evaluation of M.prototuberculosis.
PLoS Pathogens 2 (9) 98.
Smith NH, Gordon SV,
Rua-Domenech R de la,
Clifton-Hadley RS, Hewinson RG 2006
Bottlenecks and broomsticks: the molecular
evolution of Mycobacterium bovis.
Nature Reviews Microbiology 4 (9) 670-681.
Stadthagen G, Jackson M, Charles P,
Boudou F, Barilone N, Huerre M, Constant P,
Liav A, Bottova I, Nigou J, Brando T, Puzo G,
Daffe M, Benjamin P, Coade S, Buxton RS,
Tascon RE, Rae A, Robertson BD, Lowrie DB,
Young DB, Gicquel B, Griffin R 2006
Comparative investigation of the
pathogenicity of three Mycobacterium
tuberculosis mutants defective in the
synthesis of p-hydroxybenzoic acid
derivatives.
Microbes and Infection 8 (8) 2245-2253.
Stournara A, Minas A,
Bourtizi-Chatzopoulou E, Stack J,
Koptopoulos G, Petridou E, Sarris K 2007
Assessment of serological response of young
and adult sheep to conjunctival vaccination
with Rev-1 vaccine by flourescence
polarization assay (FPA) and other serological
tests for B.melitensis.
Veterinary Microbiology 119 (1) 53-64.
Thom ML, Hope JC, McAulay M,
Villarreal-Ramos B, Coffey TJ, Stephens S,
Vordermeier HM, Howard CJ 2006
The effect of tuberculin testing on the
development of cell-mediated immune
responses during Mycobacterium bovis infection.
Veterinary Immunology and
Immunopathology 114 (1-2) 25-36.
Vitale F, Reale S, Petrotta E, Caracappa S,
Barera A, La Manna MP, Macaluso P,
Caccamo N, Dieli F, Vordermeier HM,
Sireci G, Salerno A 2006
ESAT-6 peptide recognition by bovine CD8+
lymphocytes of naturally infected cows in
herds from southern Italy.
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology 13 (4) 530-
533.
Vordermeier HM, Hewinson RG 2006
Development of cattle TB vaccines in the UK.
Veterinary Immunology and
Immunopathology 112 (1-2) 38-48.
Vordermeier M, Whelan A, Ewer K,
Goodchild T, Clifton-Hadley R,
Williams J, Hewinson RG 2006
The BOVIGAM assay as ancillary test to the
tuberculin skin test.
Government Veterinary Journal 16 (1) 72-80.
Wakeley PR, Errington J, Hannon S,
Roest HIJ, Carson T, Hunt B, Sawyer J,
Heath P 2006
Development of a real time PCR for the
detection of Taylorella equigenitalis directly
from genital swabs and discrimination from
Taylorella asinigenitalis.
Veterinary Microbiology 118 (3-4) 247-254.
Waters WR, Palmer MV, Thacker TC,
Bannantine JP, Vordermeier HM,
Hewinson RG, Greenwald R, Esfandiari J,
McNair J, Pollock JM, Andersen P,
Lyashchenko KP 2006
Early antibody responses to experimental
Mycobacterium bovis infection of cattle.
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology 13 (6) 648-
654.
Whatmore AM, Shankster SJ,
Perrett LL, Murphy TJ, Brew SD,
Thirlwall RE, Cutler SJ, Macmillan AP 2006
Identification and characterisation of
variable-number tandem-repeat markers for
typing of Brucella spp.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 44 (6) 1982-
1993.
Winder CL, Gordon SV, Dale J,
Hewinson RG, Goodacre R 2006
Metabolic fingerprints of Mycobacterium
bovis cluster with molecular type:
implications for genotype-phenotype links.
Microbiology 152 (9) 2757-2765.
Woodroffe R, Donnelly CA, Jenkins HE,
Johnston WT, Cox DR, Bourne FJ,
Cheeseman CL, Delahay RJ,
Clifton-Hadley RS, Gettinby G, Gilks P,
Hewinson RG, McInerney JP, Morrison WI
2006
Culling and cattle controls influence
tuberculosis risk for badgers.
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 103 (40) 14713-14717.
Zarnke RL, Saliki JT, Macmillan AP,
Brew SD, Dawson CE, Ver Hoef JM,
Frost KJ, Small RJ 2006
Serologic survey for Brucella spp., Phocid
herpesvirus-1, Phocid herpesvirus-2, and
Phocine distemper virus in harbour seals
from Alaska, 1976-1999.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42 (2) 290-300.
