Fernando Ferreira

TL;DR: In this article, a study aimed to evaluate the responsible pet ownership perception of public elementary school students and teachers after a four-year outreach educational program in the city of Pinhais, Southern Brazil.

TL;DR: The analysis of animal movement patterns may help identify farm premises with a potentially high risk of infectious disease introduction in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil as discussed by the authors, where there are three different biomes: the Amazon, Cerrado, and Pantanal.

TL;DR: Three hundred and fifty strains of E. coli isolated from septicemic poultry from seven states of Brazil were examined for presence of nine adhesion-encoding genes, hemagglutination and adherence to chicken tracheal cells (in vitro); none of APEC was positive for DA, afa, Bfp and Eae probes.

TL;DR: The finding of four clusters of M. avium infecting the swine population of the south region of Brazil, the possible existence of virulence differences among them, the role of the virulence in the transmission mechanisms of infections and the existence of reasonable doubts regarding the importance of horizontal transmission for swine micobacteriosis are investigated.

TL;DR: The error and bias of estimates of the total number of owned dogs using a two-stage cluster sampling design were accurate and the predefined compositions have an operational advantage (reduced sampling effort) and simplify the sampling design (calculation of sample composition is not needed).