Prof Neil Sargison
Personal Chair of Farm Animal Practice

Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Availability
Willingness to take Ph.D. students: Yes
Background
Neil Sargison is Professor of Farm Animal Practice at the R(D)SVS. He qualified with BA and VetMB degrees from Cambridge University and its Veterinary School in 1984 and has subsequently gained substantial practical experience of farm animal veterinary practice, in particular working with beef cattle and small ruminants in the north east of Scotland, New Zealand and Midlothian. He has developed a specialist interest in the subject of small ruminant health and production.
Neil Sargison has interests in planned ruminant livestock health and production and has published many clinically-relevant papers and articles in this field. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons on the basis of a thesis describing the importance of reticular groove closure to anthelmintic drug pharmacokinetics, and holds the RCVS Diploma in Sheep Health and Production, partly based on a dissertation describing clinical studies of sheep scab. He is vice president of the European College of Small Ruminant Health Management (proposed as President from May 2017) and a former president of the Sheep Veterinary Society special interest division of the British Veterinary Association. He is the Scientific organiser of the 9th International Sheep Veterinary Congress, May 2017. He has written a textbook, 'Sheep Flock Health - A Planned Approach', which outlines a practical and rational approach to the diagnosis and management of sheep diseaes, and has contributed papers to other sheep, cattle, animal welfare and veterinary parasitology textbooks.
Neil Sargison's principal research interests and primary undergraduate teaching responsibilities are in the field of veterinary parasitology, due to the fact that parasitic diseases are amongst the most important production limiting problems of ruminant livestock, and he has published widely in this field. He was awarded a PhD in 2009 by the University of Edinburgh for studies of anthelmintic resistance in sheep nematode parasites. Current projects include: the use of deep amplicon sequencing approaches to study nematode parasite diversity and co-infections; study of the performance of different sheep breeds and selected lines in a harsh hill environment; studies of the changing epidemiology of fluke parasites; study of the population genetics of aleles conferring resistance to anthelmintic drugs in nematode parasites; Haemonchus contortus and Teladorsagia circumcincta genomics; and development of train-the-trainer livestock helath education in poor agricultural economies.
Responsibilities & affiliations
AB2 Parasitology
BVM&S and postgraduate supervision
Postdoc on LoLa grant
Research summary
Use of deep amplicon sequencing approaches to study nematode parasite diversity and co-infections. Performance of different sheep breeds and selected lines in a harsh hill environment. Changing epidemiology of trematode parasites. Population genetics of anthelmintic resistance in nematodes. Haemonchus contotus and Teladorsagia circumcincta genomics. Train-the-trainer livestock health education.
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A novel metabarcoded deep amplicon sequencing tool for disease surveillance and determining the species composition of Trypanosoma in cattle and other farm animals
In:
Acta Tropica, vol. 230
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106416
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Current methods for the detection of Plasmodium parasite species infecting humans
In:
Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpvbd.2022.100086
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Changing patterns of Nematodirus battus infection in sheep
In:
Livestock
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Determining the influence of socio-psychological factors on the adoption of individual ‘best practice’ parasite control behaviours from Scottish sheep farmers.
In:
Preventive Veterinary Medicine, vol. 200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2022.105594
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of benzimidazole resistance in reciprocal genetic crosses of Haemonchus contortus
(11 pages)
In:
International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance, vol. 18, pp. 1-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpddr.2021.11.001
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Practices employed by veterinary practitioners for controlling canine gastrointestinal helminths and ectoparasites
In:
Revista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria, vol. 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-29612021079
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Observations on presumptive lumpy skin disease in native cattle and Asian water buffaloes around the tiger reserves of the central Indian highlands
(18 pages)
In:
New zealand veterinary journal, pp. 1-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00480169.2021.1984335
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Livestock vaccination programme participation among smallholder farmers on the outskirts of National Parks and Tiger Reserves in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Assam
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256684
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
High-throughput sequencing of Fasciola spp. shows co-infection and intermediate forms in Balochistan, but only Fasciola gigantica in the Punjab province of Pakistan
In:
Infection, Genetics and Evolution, vol. 94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2021.105012
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay to identify isotype 1 β-tubulin locus SNPs in synthetic double-stranded Haemonchus contortus DNA
In:
Journal of Parasitic Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-021-01414-w
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)