Alistair Legione

A 25-year retrospective study of Chlamydia psittaci in association with equine reproductive loss in Australia.

Rumana Akter, Fiona M Sansom, Charles M El-Hage, James R Gilkerson, Alistair R Legione, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Medical Microbiology

Introduction.Chlamydia psittaci is primarily a pathogen of birds but can also cause disease in other species. Equine reproductive ..

Development of a rapid technique for extraction of viral DNA/RNA for whole genome sequencing directly from clinical liver tissues

Kinza Asif, Denise O'Rourke, Alistair R Legione, Penelope A Steer-Cope, Pollob Shil, Marc S Marenda, Amir H Noormohammadi

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Virological Methods

Characterisation of the entire genome of Fowl aviadenoviruses (FAdV) requires isolation and propagation of the virus in chicken em..

Chlamydia psittaci: a suspected cause of reproductive loss in three Victorian horses

R Akter, AW Stent, FM Sansom, JR Gilkerson, C Burden, JM Devlin, AR Legione, CM El-Hage

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Veterinary Journal

Chlamydia psittaci was detected by PCR in the lung and equine foetal membranes of two aborted equine foetuses and one weak foal fr..

Detection of Coxiella burnetii and equine herpesvirus 1, but not Leptospira spp. or Toxoplasma gondii, in cases of equine abortion in Australia - a 25 year retrospective study

Rumana Akter, Alistair Legione, Fiona M Sansom, Charles M El-Hage, Carol A Hartley, James R Gilkerson, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Equine abortion is a cause of severe economic loss to the equine industry. Equine herpesvirus 1 is considered a primary cause of i..

Differential Response of the Chicken Trachea to Chronic Infection with Virulent Mycoplasma gallisepticum Strain Ap3AS and Vaxsafe MG (Strain ts-304): a Transcriptional Profile

Sathya N Kulappu Arachchige, Neil D Young, Pollob K Shil, Alistair R Legione, Anna Kanci Condello, Glenn F Browning, Nadeeka K Wawegama

Journal article  |  2020  |  Infection and Immunity

Mycoplasma gallisepticum is the primary etiological agent of chronic respiratory disease in chickens. Live attenuated vaccines are..

SURVEILLANCE FOR CHLAMYDIA SPP. WITH MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING ANALYSIS IN WILD AND CAPTIVE BIRDS IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA

Jemima Amery-Gale, Alistair R Legione, Marc S Marenda, Jane Owens, Paul A Eden, Barbara M Konsak-Ilievski, Pam L Whiteley, Elizabeth C Dobson, Elizabeth A Browne, Ron F Slocombe, Joanne M Devlin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Chlamydia psittaci typically infects birds and can cause outbreaks of avian chlamydiosis, but it also has the potential to cause z..

Bovine digital dermatitis in Victoria, Australia.

J Hesseling, AR Legione, MA Stevenson, CI McCowan, MF Pyman, C Finochio, D Nguyen, CL Roic, OL Thiris, AJ Zhang, G van Schaik, JE Coombe

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Veterinary Journal

AIMS: The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of digital dermatitis (DD) in Victoria, Australia, and to inves..

Disease surveillance in wild Victorian cacatuids reveals co-infection with multiple agents and detection of novel avian viruses

Michelle Sutherland, Subir Sarker, Paola K Vaz, Alistair R Legione, Joanne M Devlin, Patricia L Macwhirter, Pamela L Whiteley, Shane R Raidal

Journal article  |  2019  |  Veterinary Microbiology

Polychromophilus melanipherus and haemoplasma infections not associated with clinical signs in southern bent-winged bats (Miniopterus orianae bassanii) and eastern bent-winged bats (Miniopterus orianae oceanensis)

Peter H Holz, Linda F Lumsden, Alistair R Legione, Jasmin Hufschmid

Journal article  |  2019  |  International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

Detection and Differentiation of Two Koala Gammaherpesviruses Using High Resolution Melt (Hrm) Analysis Reveals Differences in Viral Prevalence and Clinical Associations in a Large Study of Free-Ranging Koalas

PK Vaz, AR Legione, CA Hartley, JM Devlin

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Clinical Microbiology

The iconic koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is host to two divergent gammaherpesviruses, phascolarctid gammaherpesviruses 1 and 2 (P..