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Ingestion of rabbit faeces by livestock – potential for inter-species disease transmission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

J. Judge ,
M. R. Hutchings ,
I. Kyriazakis  and
A. Greig
J. Judge*
Affiliation:
Animal Nutrition and Health Department, Scottish Agricultural College, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG
M. R. Hutchings
Affiliation:
Animal Nutrition and Health Department, Scottish Agricultural College, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG
A. Greig
Affiliation:
Animal Nutrition and Health Department, Scottish Agricultural College, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG
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In grazing systems livestock contact with faeces and the faecal-oral route is a common mode of parasite transmission (Hutchings et al. 2003). Quantifying the faecal-oral route of transmission is thus central to predicting the force of infection of numerous diseases experienced by grazing livestock. Here our overall aim is to quantify the rate of faeces ingestion and thus disease risk by grazing herbivores using the example of rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and the risk of paratuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis) they pose to ruminants. The study had the secondary aims of determining the effects of level of contamination and sward height on the rate of faeces ingestion.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2004 , 2004 , pp. 53
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2004

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Hutchings, M.R., Athanasiadou, S., Kryiazakis, I. and Gordon, I.J. (2003) Can animals use foraging behaiour to combat parasites? Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 62, 361–370.CrossRefGoogle Scholar