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Towards a greater understanding of Contagious Ovine Digital Dermatitis
Fund
Norman Hayward Fund
Grant
£200,000
Research Period
2011
Area of study
Sheep
Description
Investigator(s): Dr Jennifer Duncan
The aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiology of Contagious Ovine Digital Dermatitis in order to inform and develop science based treatment and control strategies for the condition. As a particularly severe and increasingly common cause of sheep lameness, this recently emerged disease poses a serious challenge to sheep welfare in the U.K. Project findings were disseminated through a planned programme of knowledge transfer activities to both the farming and veterinary professions. It was anticipated that vital improvements would be made in both the awareness of CODD and its future treatment and control.
Published articles
Severe foot lesions in dairy goats associated with digital dermatitis treponemes: clinical presentation, radiography, pathology and the role of treponemes
, Journal of Comparative Pathology, 2016
Whole-flock, metaphylactic tilmicosin failed to eliminate contagious ovine digital dermatitis and footrot in sheep: a cluster randomised trial,
Veterinary Record, 2016
In vitro susceptibility of contagious ovine digital dermatitis associated Treponema spp. isolates to antimicrobial agents in the UK
, Veterinary Dermatology, 2015
Histopathological Characterization of the Lesions of Contagious Ovine Digital Dermatitis and Immunolabelling of Treponema-like Organisms
, Journal of Comparative Pathology, 2015
Sheep and farm level factors associated with contagious ovine digital dermatitis: A longitudinal repeated cross-sectional study of sheep on six farms
, Preventative Veterinary Medicine, 2015
The Gastrointestinal Tract as a Potential Infection Reservoir of Digital Dermatitis-Associated Treponemes in Beef Cattle and Sheep,
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2015
High-Level Association of Bovine Digital Dermatitis Treponema spp. with Contagious Ovine Digital Dermatitis Lesions and Presence of Fusobacterium necrophorum and Dichelobacternodosus
, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2015
Farmer reported prevalence and factors associated with contagious ovine digital dermatitis in Wales: A questionnaire of 511 sheep farmers
, Preventative Veterinary Medicine, 2014
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