Annual Report 2015 - Pan American Health Organization
... Between EWs 1 and 53 of 2014, 27,753 cases of cholera were reported in Haiti, with 296 deaths; these number represent a reduction of 53% and 50%, respectively, when compared to 2013. While the overall number of cases registered in 2014 was well below the numbers recorded in previous years, between E ...
... Between EWs 1 and 53 of 2014, 27,753 cases of cholera were reported in Haiti, with 296 deaths; these number represent a reduction of 53% and 50%, respectively, when compared to 2013. While the overall number of cases registered in 2014 was well below the numbers recorded in previous years, between E ...
Emerging and re-emerging viral diseases
... constitute about 60% of the ‘known’, and up to 75% of ‘emerging’ new human infections. A disproportionate number of such pathogens are viruses, suggesting their potential to evolve and adapt in humans, more rapidly than other infectious microbes. The best examples are the severe acute respiratory sy ...
... constitute about 60% of the ‘known’, and up to 75% of ‘emerging’ new human infections. A disproportionate number of such pathogens are viruses, suggesting their potential to evolve and adapt in humans, more rapidly than other infectious microbes. The best examples are the severe acute respiratory sy ...
Second O.I.E. International Workshop on Equine Viral Arteritis
... genetic diversity among strains of EAV is generated during the course of persistent infection in the carrier stallion. Ongoing documentation of this genetic diversity is critical to: a. Molecular investigations to trace the source of individual outbreaks of EVA, and to monitor the global situation ...
... genetic diversity among strains of EAV is generated during the course of persistent infection in the carrier stallion. Ongoing documentation of this genetic diversity is critical to: a. Molecular investigations to trace the source of individual outbreaks of EVA, and to monitor the global situation ...
BIOL 191 Introductory Microbiology
... i. Spikes 1. H (Hemagglutinin) proteins1 2. N (Neuraminidase) proteins2 1 Hemagglutinin is one of two virally-coded integral envelope proteins of the influenza virus. Hemagglutinin is responsible for host cell binding and subsequent fusion of viral and host membranes after the virus has been taken u ...
... i. Spikes 1. H (Hemagglutinin) proteins1 2. N (Neuraminidase) proteins2 1 Hemagglutinin is one of two virally-coded integral envelope proteins of the influenza virus. Hemagglutinin is responsible for host cell binding and subsequent fusion of viral and host membranes after the virus has been taken u ...
Influenza A(H1N1) (Swine Flu): A Global Outbreak
... within 7 days of close contact with a person who is a confirmed case of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection, or within 7 days of travel to community either within the United States or internationally where there are one or more confirmed swine influenza A(H1N1) cases, or resides in a community ...
... within 7 days of close contact with a person who is a confirmed case of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection, or within 7 days of travel to community either within the United States or internationally where there are one or more confirmed swine influenza A(H1N1) cases, or resides in a community ...
Pandemic Flu
... What is the best line of defence in an influenza pandemic? Vaccines are the best line of defence in reducing illness and deaths during normal seasonal influenza. The vaccine has to change each year as the viruses circulating change. This can be done because the changes can be fairly reliably predict ...
... What is the best line of defence in an influenza pandemic? Vaccines are the best line of defence in reducing illness and deaths during normal seasonal influenza. The vaccine has to change each year as the viruses circulating change. This can be done because the changes can be fairly reliably predict ...
An experimental study on early pathogenesis of a very virulent
... antigen form the dominant cell population in the lymphoid tissues including bursa, spleen and thymus to replace the depleted lymphoid cells. As in previous studies, our results showed specific positive signals in reticular epithelial cells (Nunoya et al., 1992; Tanimura et al., 1995). Other studies ...
... antigen form the dominant cell population in the lymphoid tissues including bursa, spleen and thymus to replace the depleted lymphoid cells. As in previous studies, our results showed specific positive signals in reticular epithelial cells (Nunoya et al., 1992; Tanimura et al., 1995). Other studies ...
Very virulent infectious bursal disease virus
... clinical disease due to vvIBDV would be less pronounced and mortalities would be lower (10% – 25%), with chicks of between 4– 6 weeks of age most likely affected. For diagnosis, bursae collected in the acute phase of disease would be the sample of choice. For rapid diagnosis, bursal tissue (20% homo ...
... clinical disease due to vvIBDV would be less pronounced and mortalities would be lower (10% – 25%), with chicks of between 4– 6 weeks of age most likely affected. For diagnosis, bursae collected in the acute phase of disease would be the sample of choice. For rapid diagnosis, bursal tissue (20% homo ...
National Pest Alert West Nile Virus in North America
... A total of 14,717 cases of WNV infection (from 40 states) have been confirmed in horses through diagnostic testing at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories of the U.S. Department of Agriculture–Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and 4,300 horses have died or were euthanized. An equi ...
... A total of 14,717 cases of WNV infection (from 40 states) have been confirmed in horses through diagnostic testing at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories of the U.S. Department of Agriculture–Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and 4,300 horses have died or were euthanized. An equi ...
Adult Vaccines: Update 2015
... Newborns are at high risk for severe complications Several reports of 2nd MRSA infection No approved vaccine for infants < 6 months of age All care givers need to be free from possible transmission to this vulnerable population ...
... Newborns are at high risk for severe complications Several reports of 2nd MRSA infection No approved vaccine for infants < 6 months of age All care givers need to be free from possible transmission to this vulnerable population ...
On the evolution of Avian infectious bronchitis virus
... evolution rate in the genus and, despite the recently reported proofreading activity of its polymerase, intra and interhost diversity is a well documented phenomenon. This study aimed to assess the genetic variation of serial passages of a variant genotype IBV strain in vitro. Strain CRG-BETA, propa ...
... evolution rate in the genus and, despite the recently reported proofreading activity of its polymerase, intra and interhost diversity is a well documented phenomenon. This study aimed to assess the genetic variation of serial passages of a variant genotype IBV strain in vitro. Strain CRG-BETA, propa ...
Classification 2005
... CLASSIFICATION & NOMENCLATURE of VIRUSES A large number of morphologically and physico-chemically distinct types of viruses that infect virtually all classes of living organisms have been described. Generating some order from the chaos that existed with respect to the naming and cataloguing of virus ...
... CLASSIFICATION & NOMENCLATURE of VIRUSES A large number of morphologically and physico-chemically distinct types of viruses that infect virtually all classes of living organisms have been described. Generating some order from the chaos that existed with respect to the naming and cataloguing of virus ...
PDF version: RGF Test Booklet
... The RGF advanced oxidation technologies that produced the results found on the pages of this report certainly fall into the category of breakthrough technology. This is evident by its outstanding test results across the entire range of microbes. The breakthrough in the RGF advanced oxidation technol ...
... The RGF advanced oxidation technologies that produced the results found on the pages of this report certainly fall into the category of breakthrough technology. This is evident by its outstanding test results across the entire range of microbes. The breakthrough in the RGF advanced oxidation technol ...
Chapter 21
... 2. Many viruses cause respiratory diseases and often these viruses are never identified. There diagnosis is based on symptomolgy. 3. If a patient has pneumonia symptoms – and no bacterial cause is identified – it is called viral pneumonia (therapy is supportive, no antibiotics are effective – though ...
... 2. Many viruses cause respiratory diseases and often these viruses are never identified. There diagnosis is based on symptomolgy. 3. If a patient has pneumonia symptoms – and no bacterial cause is identified – it is called viral pneumonia (therapy is supportive, no antibiotics are effective – though ...
Migratory Birds and Spread of West Nile Virus in
... America (32,33). These birds could contract the virus from vector mosquitoes infected by biting other members of the breeding population that winter in areas where West Nile virus is prevalent and bring infectious blood to the New World on their winter migrations. Eurasian Wigeons are not the only s ...
... America (32,33). These birds could contract the virus from vector mosquitoes infected by biting other members of the breeding population that winter in areas where West Nile virus is prevalent and bring infectious blood to the New World on their winter migrations. Eurasian Wigeons are not the only s ...
Eastern Equine Encephalitis June 2016
... hosts to atypical hosts. Migrating birds are thought to be responsible for establishment of the virus throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Reservoir hosts maintain infections with high levels of EEEV in their blood and are not thought to develop illness. Birds are the typical reservoir host fo ...
... hosts to atypical hosts. Migrating birds are thought to be responsible for establishment of the virus throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Reservoir hosts maintain infections with high levels of EEEV in their blood and are not thought to develop illness. Birds are the typical reservoir host fo ...
Can Vitamin C Kill Swine Flu?
... some forms of vitamin C, notably sodium ascorbate with riboperine, and lipospheric vitamin C that allow even more to be absorbed without reaching bowel tolerance. They are marginally better than straight ascorbic acid. Some people find ascorbic acid too acidic, in which case an ascorbate, such as so ...
... some forms of vitamin C, notably sodium ascorbate with riboperine, and lipospheric vitamin C that allow even more to be absorbed without reaching bowel tolerance. They are marginally better than straight ascorbic acid. Some people find ascorbic acid too acidic, in which case an ascorbate, such as so ...
Vaccines by Alia Hoyt (http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness
... development, according to William Schaffner, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Examples of live-attenuated vaccines are MMR (measles, mumps and rubella combination vaccine), varicella and the intranasal form of influenza. ...
... development, according to William Schaffner, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Examples of live-attenuated vaccines are MMR (measles, mumps and rubella combination vaccine), varicella and the intranasal form of influenza. ...
Virology Techniques
... Traditional molecular techniques are dot-blot, Southern blot, and in situ hybridization. These methods are dependent on the use of specific DNA or RNA probes. They are similar in sensitivity to some of the classical methods but are more tedious and expensive, and are not routinely used in diagnostic ...
... Traditional molecular techniques are dot-blot, Southern blot, and in situ hybridization. These methods are dependent on the use of specific DNA or RNA probes. They are similar in sensitivity to some of the classical methods but are more tedious and expensive, and are not routinely used in diagnostic ...
Influenza in the Pediatric Population
... and is known as antigenic shift (FSU, 2005). The re-assortment, or shift, can happen in cells infected with both human and animal viruses, resulting in influenza viruses that humans have no preexisting immunity to (Bouvier & Palese, 2008). This leads to pandemic influenzas, as the human population d ...
... and is known as antigenic shift (FSU, 2005). The re-assortment, or shift, can happen in cells infected with both human and animal viruses, resulting in influenza viruses that humans have no preexisting immunity to (Bouvier & Palese, 2008). This leads to pandemic influenzas, as the human population d ...
Ebola Virus Outbreak
... • Patients usually die from shock due to fluid loss rather than actual blood loss. • Between 25 and 90 percent of patients with EVD die of the disease. In the current outbreak, slightly less than half of Ebola victims survive. ...
... • Patients usually die from shock due to fluid loss rather than actual blood loss. • Between 25 and 90 percent of patients with EVD die of the disease. In the current outbreak, slightly less than half of Ebola victims survive. ...
The illegal introduction of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus in
... It also highlights the importance of having a comprehensive biosecurity detection and response capability, including the ability to conduct prompt risk assessments, since preventing entry of biological agents may be difficult to achieve in the face of a determined adversary. Keywords Biocontrol – Il ...
... It also highlights the importance of having a comprehensive biosecurity detection and response capability, including the ability to conduct prompt risk assessments, since preventing entry of biological agents may be difficult to achieve in the face of a determined adversary. Keywords Biocontrol – Il ...
H3N2 Canine Influenza RealPCR Test
... virus occurs—usually a new subtype produced by recombination when an animal is infected with two different subtypes of influenza at the same time. This can occur, for example, when poultry and swine are housed together in close quarters. The emergence of new subtypes or strains that can infect an im ...
... virus occurs—usually a new subtype produced by recombination when an animal is infected with two different subtypes of influenza at the same time. This can occur, for example, when poultry and swine are housed together in close quarters. The emergence of new subtypes or strains that can infect an im ...
動物皮製成供寵物嚼咬產品之輸入檢疫條件 英文版
... country (or area) free from foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and African swine fever, to import pet chew manufactured by animal rawhide derived from poultry from a country (or area) free from Newcastle disease and highly pathogenic avian influenza, or to import p ...
... country (or area) free from foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and African swine fever, to import pet chew manufactured by animal rawhide derived from poultry from a country (or area) free from Newcastle disease and highly pathogenic avian influenza, or to import p ...