Managing marine disease emergencies in an era of rapid change

ML Groner, J Maynard, R Breyta… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Infectious marine diseases can decimate populations and are increasing among some taxa
due to global change and our increasing reliance on marine environments. Marine diseases …

The two-step Fagan's nomogram: ad hoc interpretation of a diagnostic test result without calculation

CGB Caraguel, R Vanderstichel - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, 2013 - ebm.bmj.com
In 1975, Fagan published a nomogram to help practitioners determine, without the use of a
calculator or computer, the probability of a patient truly having a condition of interest given a …

[HTML][HTML] Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) disease diagnosed on a British Columbia salmon farm through a longitudinal farm study

E Di Cicco, HW Ferguson, AD Schulze, KH Kaukinen… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) is an emerging disease of marine-farmed
Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), first recognized in 1999 in Norway, and later also reported in …

[HTML][HTML] Trichomoniasis in finches from the Canadian Maritime provinces—an emerging disease

MJ Forzán, R Vanderstichel… - The Canadian …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Trichomoniasis was diagnosed in multiple incidents of mortality in wild purple finch
(Carpodacus purpureus) and American goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) in the Canadian …

[BOOK][B] Report on the performance evaluation of the Fluidigm BioMark platform for high-throughput microbe monitoring in salmon

KM Miller, IA Gardner, R Vanderstichel, T Burnley… - 2016 - researchgate.net
Over 90% of juvenile salmon migrating from freshwater into the ocean will die before
returning to freshwater to spawn. Although mortality is believed to be highest during the first …

Comparison of mark-resight methods to estimate abundance and rabies vaccination coverage of free-roaming dogs in two urban areas of south Bhutan

T Tenzin, JS McKenzie, R Vanderstichel, BD Rai… - Preventive veterinary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract In Bhutan, Capture-Neuter-Vaccinate-Release (CNVR) programs have been
implemented to manage the dog population and control rabies, but no detailed evaluation …

Litterbox size preference in domestic cats (Felis catus)

NC Guy, M Hopson, R Vanderstichel - Journal of Veterinary Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate the response of healthy housebound domestic
cats to the simultaneous provision of 2 litterboxes of differing sizes by recording the average …

Histopathological and novel high-throughput molecular monitoring data from farmed salmon (Salmo salar and Oncorhynchus spp.) in British Columbia, Canada, from …

E Laurin, D Jaramillo, R Vanderstichel, H Ferguson… - Aquaculture, 2019 - Elsevier
The purpose of the study was to describe spatial and time-at-sea patterns of endemic and
new infectious agents and histopathologically-identified lesions in dead-and-dying farmed …

Causes of mortality of harbor porpoises Phocoena phocoena along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada

H Fenton, PY Daoust, MJ Forzán… - Diseases of aquatic …, 2017 - int-res.com
There is increasing public interest in the overall health of the marine environment. Harbor
porpoises Phocoena phocoena have a coastal distribution, and stranded animals function …

Evaluation of anti-Ostertagia ostertagi antibodies in individual milk samples as decision parameter for selective anthelmintic treatment in dairy cows

J Charlier, J Vercruysse, J Smith… - Preventive veterinary …, 2010 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to explore whether anti-Ostertagia ostertagi antibody levels
measured by ELISA in individual milk samples hold promise as a decision parameter for …