Instituto Interuniversitario de Desarrollo Social y Paz (WHO Collaborating Centre on Social Inclusion and Health), Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, España Departamento de Enfermería Comunitaria, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, e Historia de la Ciencia, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, España CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), España UNGA, Asociación Gitana de Asturias, ...

A case of inflammatory pseudotumour of the lung in a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome due to infection by Corynebacterium equi is described. Patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) may develop a wide range of opportunist infections as a consequence of altered host defences. The course of AIDS is also complicated by malignant diseases, including aggressive ...

We report a comparative study of 29 representative genomes of the animal pathogen Rhodococcus equi The analyses showed that R. equi is genetically homogeneous and clonal, with a large core genome accounting for ≈80% of an isolates' gene content. An open pangenome, even distribution of accessory genes among the isolates, and absence of significant core-genome recombination, indicated that gene g...

Apicomplexa tick-borne hemoparasites, including Babesia bovis, Babesia microti, and Theileria equi are responsible for bovine and human babesiosis and equine theileriosis, respectively. These parasites of vast medical, epidemiological, and economic impact have complex life cycles in their vertebrate and tick hosts. Large gaps in knowledge concerning the mechanisms used by these parasites for ge...

Rhodococcus equi is a gram-positive coco-bacillus and an intracellular opportunistic pathogen which causes pneumonia in foals. It is widely detected in environment and has been isolated from several sources, as soil, feces and gut from health and sick foals. The goal of this study was to characterize the epidemiological status (endemic, sporadic or no infection) of horse breeding farms from Bag...