Maggie Lyons

An assessment of deer as hosts of livestock-associated pathogens in Northern Ireland and an exploration of meat juice serology as a future surveillance tool

Wildlife can act as sentinel species to monitor for the emergence and adaption of pathogenic diseases and related public and veterinary health and welfare threats, such as antimicrobial and anthelmintic resistance. As ruminants, deer are closely related to the domesticated livestock species raised in Northern Ireland,...