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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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