Pregnancy toxemia is a common disease, which occurs in older ewes that are pregnant with multiple lambs in the third trimester. Most of the sick goats die within a few days, which can seriously impact the economic benefits of goat breeding enterprises. The disease is believed to be caused by maln...
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a ubiquitous infectious agent that causes significant morbidity in immunosuppressed hosts and is the most common cause of neonatal congenital deafness.An infection acquired during pregnancy can be vertically transmitted to the fetus and cause permanent sequelae in the new...
Preterm birth (PTB) remains a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality, with no new preventive therapeutics introduced since the 1970s. Evidence increasingly implicates adverse vaginal microbiome-immune interactions in its aetiology. We report the effects of the live biotherapeutic, Lact...