Carina L. Carvalho

TL;DR: A review of the main features of the Francisella tularensis agent, its biology, immunology and epidemiology, with special focus on zoonotic aspects of the disease, as tularaemia outbreaks in human populations have been frequently associated with disease in animals.

TL;DR: The assay was proven a valuable tool to diagnose most of RDVH2 circulating strains, and may be also useful to monitor viral loads, and consequently, disease progression and vaccination efficacy.

TL;DR: Bayesian and maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses disclosed that Azorean strains are more closely related to a few strains from Southern Portugal than with any others presently known, and four new single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) were identified that may constitute putative molecular geographic markers for Azorean RHDV2 strains, if they persist in the future.

TL;DR: To the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of FLEs in free-living small mammals as well as the first detection of F. hispaniensis-like sequences in a natural setting.

TL;DR: It is proved that RHDV2 vaccine-RNA is not detected by the RT-qPCR as early as 15days post-vaccination, an important fact in assisting results interpretation for diagnosis, and emphasises the importance of adapting kitten R HDV2 vaccination schedules to circumvent this interference phenomenon.