List of works by Douglas J Begg

A Rapid Method for Quantifying Viable Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Cellular Infection Assays

scientific article published on July 2016

A longitudinal study to evaluate the diagnostic potential of a direct faecal quantitative PCR test for Johne's disease in sheep

scientific article published on 05 August 2010

Antigenicity of recombinant maltose binding protein-Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis fusion proteins with and without factor Xa cleaving

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Apoptosis of lymph node and peripheral blood cells in ovine Johne's disease

scientific article published on 13 September 2013

Can early host responses to mycobacterial infection predict eventual disease outcomes?

scientific article published on 24 August 2013

Case definition terminology for paratuberculosis (Johne's disease).

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Cellular and humoral immune responses in sheep vaccinated with candidate antigens MAP2698c and MAP3567 from Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

scientific article published on 16 July 2014

Comparative immunological and microbiological aspects of paratuberculosis as a model mycobacterial infection.

scientific article published on 29 March 2011

Defining resilience to mycobacterial disease: Characteristics of survivors of ovine paratuberculosis.

scientific article published on 24 November 2017

Development and validation of a liquid medium (M7H9C) for routine culture of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis to replace modified Bactec 12B medium.

scientific article published on 18 September 2013

Does a Th1 over Th2 dominancy really exist in the early stages of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infections?

scientific article published on 22 December 2010

Efficient, validated method for detection of mycobacterial growth in liquid culture media by use of bead beating, magnetic-particle-based nucleic acid isolation, and quantitative PCR.

scientific article published on 21 January 2015

Enhancement of the interferon gamma assay to detect paratuberculosis using interleukin-7 and interleukin-12 potentiation

scientific article published on 09 June 2012

Environmental survival of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in different climatic zones of eastern Australia.

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

Enzyme-linked immunospot: an alternative method for the detection of interferon gamma in Johne's disease.

scientific article published in March 2009

Evaluation of the limitations and methods to improve rapid phage-based detection of viable Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the blood of experimentally infected cattle.

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Experimental infection model for Johne's disease in sheep

scientific article published on September 2005

Experimental infection model for Johne's disease using a lyophilised, pure culture, seedstock of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis.

scientific article published on 11 September 2009

Experimental infection of New Zealand Merino sheep with a suspension of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (Map) strain Telford: Kinetics of the immune response, histopathology and Map culture

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Expression of genes associated with cholesterol and lipid metabolism identified as a novel pathway in the early pathogenesis of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis-infection in cattle

scientific article published on 18 April 2014

Expression of genes associated with the antigen presentation and processing pathway are consistently regulated in early Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection.

scientific article published on 10 January 2012

High-throughput direct fecal PCR assay for detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in sheep and cattle

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Histopathological Characterization of Cutaneous Delayed-type Hypersensitivity and Correlations with Intestinal Pathology and Systemic Immune Responses in Sheep with Paratuberculosis.

scientific article published on 8 July 2015

Identification of differentially expressed genes in ileum, intestinal lymph node and peripheral blood mononuclear cells of sheep infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis using differential display polymerase chain reaction

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Immune profiles in sheep following experimental infection with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis

2005 doctoral thesis by Douglas Begg at University of Otago

Immunoreactivity of protein tyrosine phosphatase A (PtpA) in sera from sheep infected with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

scientific article published on 3 April 2014

In silico identification of epitopes in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis proteins that were upregulated under stress conditions

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In silico screened Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) recombinant proteins upregulated under stress conditions are immunogenic in sheep

scientific article published on 07 July 2012

Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, tryptophan catabolism, and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis: a model for chronic mycobacterial infections

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Lymphoproliferative and gamma interferon responses to stress-regulated Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis recombinant proteins

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Macrophage polarization in cattle experimentally exposed to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

Normal levels of immunocompetence in possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) exposed to different laboratory housing conditions post capture

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Optimization of a whole blood gamma interferon assay for the detection of sheep infected with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

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Specific faecal antibody responses in sheep infected with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis.

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The early lymphocyte proliferation response in sheep exposed to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis compared to infection status

scientific article published on 04 March 2009

The interleukin 10 response in ovine Johne's disease.

scientific article published on 7 August 2010

Tissue localisation of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis following artificially induced intracellular and naked bacteraemia.

scientific article published on 13 March 2012

Toll-like receptor (TLR)6 and TLR1 differentiation in gene expression studies of Johne's disease

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Toll-like receptor genes are differentially expressed at the sites of infection during the progression of Johne's disease in outbred sheep.

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Vaccination of sheep against M. paratuberculosis: immune parameters and protective efficacy

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Variation in susceptibility of different breeds of sheep to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis following experimental inoculation

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