Category: Animal Husbandry/Infectious Disease Posts

Another Shrimp FAD?

Posted On By Kayla Wells DVM, MPH, DACVPM3 Comments

In our last podcast, we introduced our listeners to the basics of farmed Pacific white shrimp.  But, with any commercial livestock operation comes increased risk of disease.  The first disease we discussed was infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV).  First reported this year, IHHNV was not the first shrimp FAD to occur in the […]

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Category: Biostats/Infectious Disease Posts/One Health

Conjugation, Transformation, and Transduction. Oh, my!

Posted On By Kayla Wells DVM, MPH, DACVPMcomment

Bacteria have evolved some very unique methods of transferring genes amongst themselves.  One trait that is of high concern is antibiotic resistance.  How is it that bacteria can so quickly develop resistance to a given antibiotic?  The answer lies in conjugation, transformation, and transduction.

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