Farmed fish welfare in Egypt: Surveying current practices and future directions for tilapia culture by Charlotte Flores, Christopher Bryant, Mohamed Bakr, Wasseem Emam

“…To this end, a survey was conducted of tilapia farmers across different regions, examining their level of training and knowledge as well as their farming practices including feeding, water changes and biosecurity measures.We found that just 11 % of the surveyed tilapia farmers had received any sort of training on the importance of animal welfare whilst 76 % said they could benefit from such training. …”
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Study on the multidrug resistance and transmission factors of Staphylococcus aureus at the ‘animal–environment–human’ interface in the broiler feeding cycle by Fangyuan Hu, Fangyuan Hu, Yaopeng Liu, Yaopeng Liu, Lin Wang, Juan Wang, Na Liu, Yan Li, Xiaoxiao Duan, Junwei Wang, Mingzhe Lu, Junhui Liu, Zhina Qu, Keguang Han

“…It highlighted the importance of the “One Health” approach and biosecurity measures and provided recommendations for the prevention of the spread of pathogens and resistance.…”
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Nucleic Acid Aptamers for Human Norovirus GII.4 and GII.17 Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) Exhibit Specific Binding and Inhibit VLPs from Entering Cells by Cheng C, Sun M, Li J, Xue Y, Cai X, Liu J, Wang X, Xu S, Xie Y, Zhang J

“…Chao Cheng,1,* Minjia Sun,1– 3,* Jingjing Li,1,* Yitong Xue,1 Xia Cai,4 Jing Liu,1 Xiaolian Wang,5 Shouhong Xu,2 Youhua Xie,1 Junqi Zhang1 1MOE/NHC/CAMS Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People’s Republic of China; 2Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Department of Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, People’s Republic of China; 3Zhejiang CONBA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, 310052, People’s Republic of China; 4Shanghai Medical College, Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Pathogeny Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Hexi University, Zhangye, 734000, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Junqi Zhang, Email junqizhang@fudan.edu.cn; Youhua Xie, Email yhxie@fudan.edu.cnPurpose: Human noroviruses (HuNoVs) are the main cause of non-bacterial acute gastroenteritis. …”
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