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van Dixhoorn IDE, te Beest DE, Bolhuis JE, Parmentier HK, Kemp B, van Mourik S, Stockhofe-Zurwieden N, van Reenen CG, Rebel JMJ. Corrigendum: Animal-based factors prior to infection predict histological disease outcome in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus- and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae-infected pigs. Front Vet Sci 2024; 11:1350387. [PMID: 38414652 PMCID: PMC10897753 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1350387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024] Open
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2021.742877.].
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- Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Farm Technology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Wageningen Livestock Research, Department of Animal Health and Welfare, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Wageningen Livestock Research, Department of Animal Health and Welfare, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Wenker ML, Verwer CM, Bokkers EAM, te Beest DE, Gort G, de Oliveira D, Koets A, Bruckmaier RM, Gross JJ, van Reenen CG. Effect of Type of Cow-Calf Contact on Health, Blood Parameters, and Performance of Dairy Cows and Calves. Front Vet Sci 2022; 9:855086. [PMID: 35498756 PMCID: PMC9039747 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2022.855086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Prolonged cow-calf contact (CCC) could potentially improve dairy calf welfare. However, it is currently unknown how different types of CCC affect animals' biological functions. We evaluated health and performance parameters of dairy calves and their dams, where calves: (i) had no contact with their dam (NC), in which the calf was removed from the dam directly after birth (n = 10); (ii) were allowed to have partial contact (PC) with their dam, in which the calf was housed in a calf pen adjacent to the cow area allowing physical contact on the initiative of the dam but no suckling (n = 18); (iii) were allowed to have full contact (FC) with their dam, including suckling, in which calves were housed together with their dams in a free-stall barn (n = 20). Throughout the first 7 weeks postpartum, data were collected on the health status, fecal microbiota, hematological profile, immune and hormonal parameters, and growth rates of calves, and on the health status, metabolic responses, and performance of dams. Overall, FC calves had more health issues (P = 0.02) and a tendency for higher antibiotic usage (P = 0.07) than NC calves. Additionally, FC calves showed elevated levels of erythrocytes, hematocrit, hemoglobin, and leukocytes on day 49 compared to NC calves (P < 0.001). Calf fecal microbiota changed over time, and we found preliminary evidence that fecal microbiota is affected by the type of CCC, as reflected by differences in relative abundances of taxa including Lactobacillus in FC calves compared to NC and PC calves except on days 7 and 66. The FC calves had a greater average daily gain in body weight than NC and PC calves (P = 0.002). Cow health was not affected by the type of CCC, although in the first 7 weeks of lactation FC cows had a lower machine-gained milk yield accompanied by a lower fat percentage than NC and PC cows (P < 0.001). These results indicate that full contact posed a challenge for calf health, presumably because the housing conditions of FC calves in this experimental context were suboptimal. Secondly, ad libitum suckling leads to higher weight gains and negatively affected milk fat content besides machine-gained yields. More research into strategies to improve cow-calf housing and management in CCC systems is warranted.
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- Margret L. Wenker
- Animal Production Systems Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
- Livestock Research, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Animal Production Systems Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Biometris, Wageningen Plant Research, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Biometris, Wageningen Plant Research, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Bacteriology, Host-Pathogen Interaction and Diagnostics, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Lelystad, Netherlands
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- Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Animal Production Systems Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
- Livestock Research, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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van Dixhoorn IDE, te Beest DE, Bolhuis JE, Parmentier HK, Kemp B, van Mourik S, Stockhofe-Zurwieden N, van Reenen CG, Rebel JMJ. Animal-Based Factors Prior to Infection Predict Histological Disease Outcome in Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus- and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae-Infected Pigs. Front Vet Sci 2021; 8:742877. [PMID: 34869719 PMCID: PMC8635501 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2021.742877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 10/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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A large variety of clinical manifestation in individual pigs occurs after infection with pathogens involved in porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC). Some pigs are less prone to develop respiratory disease symptoms. The variation in clinical impact after infection and the recovery capacity of an individual animal are measures of its resilience. In this paper, we examined which ones of a range of animal-based factors (rectal temperature, body weight, skin lesion scores, behavior, natural antibody serum levels, serum levels of white blood cells, and type of T and granulocyte subsets) when measured prior to infection are related to disease severity. These animal-based factors and the interaction with housing regimen of the piglets (conventional or enriched) were modeled using linear regression to predict disease severity using a dataset acquired from a previous study using a well-established experimental coinfection model of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae. Both PRRSV and A. pleuropneumoniae are often involved in PRDC. Histological lung lesion score of each animal was used as a measure for PRDC severity after infection. Prior to infection, higher serum levels of lymphocytes (CD3+), naïve T helper (CD3+CD4+CD8-), CD8+ (as well as higher relative levels of CD8+), and memory T helper (CD3+CD4+CD8+) cells and higher relative levels of granulocytes (CD172a) were related to reduced disease severity in both housing systems. Raised serum concentrations of natural IgM antibodies binding to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) were also related to reduced disease severity after infection. Increased levels of skin lesions at the central body part (after weaning and before infection) were related to increased disease severity in conventional housing systems only. High resisters showed a lower histological lung lesion score, which appeared unrelated to sex. Body temperature, behavior, and growth prior to infections were influenced by housing regimen but could not explain the variation in lung lesion scores after infection. Raised basal lymphocyte counts and lower skin lesion scores are related to reduced disease severity independent of or dependent on housing system, respectively. In conclusion, our study identifies intrinsic animal-based measures using linear regression analysis that predicts resilience to infections in pigs.
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- Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Farm Technology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Wageningen Livestock Research, Department of Animal Health and Welfare, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Wageningen Livestock Research, Department of Animal Health and Welfare, Wageningen, Netherlands
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te Beest DE, de Bruin E, Imholz S, Koopmans M, van Boven M. Heterosubtypic cross-reactivity of HA1 antibodies to influenza A, with emphasis on nonhuman subtypes (H5N1, H7N7, H9N2). PLoS One 2017; 12:e0181093. [PMID: 28715468 PMCID: PMC5513445 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2016] [Accepted: 06/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Epidemics of influenza A vary greatly in size and age distribution of cases, and this variation is attributed to varying levels of pre-existing immunity. Recent studies have shown that antibody-mediated immune responses are more cross-reactive than previously believed, and shape patterns of humoral immunity to influenza A viruses over long periods. Here we quantify antibody responses to the hemagglutinin subunit 1 (HA1) across a range of subtypes using protein microarray analysis of cross-sectional serological surveys carried out in the Netherlands before and after the A/2009 (H1N1) pandemic. We find significant associations of responses, both within and between subtypes. Interestingly, substantial overall reactivity is observed to HA1 of avian H7N7 and H9N2 viruses. Seroprevalence of H7N7 correlates with antibody titers to A/1968 (H3N2), and is highest in persons born between 1954 and 1969. Seroprevalence of H9N2 is high across all ages, and correlates strongly with A/1957 (H2N2). This correlation is most pronounced in A/2009 (H1N1) infected persons born after 1968 who have never encountered A/1957 (H2N2)-like viruses. We conclude that heterosubtypic antibody cross-reactivity, both between human subtypes and between human and nonhuman subtypes, is common in the human population.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral/immunology
- Birds
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cross Reactions
- Humans
- Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype/immunology
- Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype/immunology
- Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype/isolation & purification
- Influenza A Virus, H7N7 Subtype/immunology
- Influenza A Virus, H7N7 Subtype/isolation & purification
- Influenza A Virus, H9N2 Subtype/immunology
- Influenza A Virus, H9N2 Subtype/isolation & purification
- Influenza in Birds/pathology
- Influenza in Birds/virology
- Influenza, Human/pathology
- Influenza, Human/virology
- Middle Aged
- Young Adult
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- Dennis E. te Beest
- Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
- Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
- Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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Martens-de Kemp SR, Brink A, van der Meulen IH, de Menezes RX, te Beest DE, Leemans CR, van Beusechem VW, Braakhuis BJ, Brakenhoff RH. The FA/BRCA Pathway Identified as the Major Predictor of Cisplatin Response in Head and Neck Cancer by Functional Genomics. Mol Cancer Ther 2016; 16:540-550. [DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-16-0457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Revised: 11/18/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Influenza epidemics in temperate regions show a characteristic seasonal pattern with peak incidence occurring in winter. Previous research has shown that low absolute humidity and school holidays can both affect influenza transmission. During an epidemic, transmission is strongly influenced by the depletion of susceptibles (i.e., increase in the number of those immune). To assess how much variability in influenza transmission intensity is due to each of these driving factors, we used a long time series of the number of weekly visits to general practitioners for influenzalike illness in the Netherlands from 1970-2011 and transformed this into a time series of weekly influenza reproduction numbers, which are a measure of transmission intensity. We used statistical regression techniques to quantify how the reproduction numbers were affected by each driving factor. We found a clear ranking of importance of driving factors in explaining the variation in transmission intensity. Most of the variation (30%) was explained by the depletion of susceptibles during the season, 27% was explained by between-season effects, and 3% was explained by absolute humidity. School holidays at the Christmas period did not have a statistically significant effect on influenza transmission. Although the influence of absolute humidity was small, its seasonal fluctuations may determine when sustained influenza transmission is possible and may thus drive influenza seasonality.
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te Beest DE, Hagenaars TJ, Stegeman JA, Koopmans MPG, van Boven M. Risk based culling for highly infectious diseases of livestock. Vet Res 2011; 42:81. [PMID: 21714865 PMCID: PMC3160900 DOI: 10.1186/1297-9716-42-81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2010] [Accepted: 06/29/2011] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The control of highly infectious diseases of livestock such as classical swine fever, foot-and-mouth disease, and avian influenza is fraught with ethical, economic, and public health dilemmas. Attempts to control outbreaks of these pathogens rely on massive culling of infected farms, and farms deemed to be at risk of infection. Conventional approaches usually involve the preventive culling of all farms within a certain radius of an infected farm. Here we propose a novel culling strategy that is based on the idea that farms that have the highest expected number of secondary infections should be culled first. We show that, in comparison with conventional approaches (ring culling), our new method of risk based culling can reduce the total number of farms that need to be culled, the number of culled infected farms (and thus the expected number of human infections in case of a zoonosis), and the duration of the epidemic. Our novel risk based culling strategy requires three pieces of information, viz. the location of all farms in the area at risk, the moments when infected farms are detected, and an estimate of the distance-dependent probability of transmission.
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- Dennis E te Beest
- Department of Farm Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Yalelaan 7, 3584 CL, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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te Beest DE, van Boven M, Bos MEH, Stegeman A, Koopmans MPG. Effectiveness of personal protective equipment and oseltamivir prophylaxis during avian influenza A (H7N7) epidemic, the Netherlands, 2003. Emerg Infect Dis 2011; 16:1562-8. [PMID: 20875281 PMCID: PMC3294382 DOI: 10.3201/eid1610.091412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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We analyzed the effectiveness of personal protective equipment and oseltamivir use during the 2003 avian influenza A (H7N7) epidemic in the Netherlands by linking databases containing information about farm visits, human infections, and use of oseltamivir and personal protective equipment. Using a stringent case definition, based on self-reported conjunctivitis combined with a positive hemagglutination-inhibition assay, we found that prophylactic treatment with oseltamivir significantly reduced the risk for infection per farm visit from 0.145 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.078-0.233) to 0.031 (95% CI 0.008-0.073). The protective effect was ≈79% (95% CI 40%-97%). These results are comparable with the reported effect of prophylactic treatment with oseltamivir on human seasonal influenza. No significant protective effect was found for use of respirators or safety glasses, possibly because of limitations of the data.
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van Boven M, Donker T, van der Lubben M, van Gageldonk-Lafeber RB, te Beest DE, Koopmans M, Meijer A, Timen A, Swaan C, Dalhuijsen A, Hahné S, van den Hoek A, Teunis P, van der Sande MAB, Wallinga J. Transmission of novel influenza A(H1N1) in households with post-exposure antiviral prophylaxis. PLoS One 2010; 5:e11442. [PMID: 20628642 PMCID: PMC2898802 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2009] [Accepted: 05/26/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Despite impressive advances in our understanding of the biology of novel influenza A(H1N1) virus, little is as yet known about its transmission efficiency in close contact places such as households, schools, and workplaces. These are widely believed to be key in supporting propagating spread, and it is therefore of importance to assess the transmission levels of the virus in such settings. Methodology/Principal Findings We estimate the transmissibility of novel influenza A(H1N1) in 47 households in the Netherlands using stochastic epidemic models. All households contained a laboratory confirmed index case, and antiviral drugs (oseltamivir) were given to both the index case and other households members within 24 hours after detection of the index case. Among the 109 household contacts there were 9 secondary infections in 7 households. The overall estimated secondary attack rate is low (0.075, 95%CI: 0.037–0.13). There is statistical evidence indicating that older persons are less susceptible to infection than younger persons (relative susceptibility of older persons: 0.11, 95%CI: 0.024–0.43. Notably, the secondary attack rate from an older to a younger person is 0.35 (95%CI: 0.14–0.61) when using an age classification of ≤12 versus >12 years, and 0.28 (95%CI: 0.12–0.50) when using an age classification of ≤18 versus >18 years. Conclusions/Significance Our results indicate that the overall household transmission levels of novel influenza A(H1N1) in antiviral-treated households were low in the early stage of the epidemic. The relatively high rate of adult-to-child transmission indicates that control measures focused on this transmission route will be most effective in minimizing the total number of infections.
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- Michiel van Boven
- Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
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