A preliminary study of viral metagenomics of French bat species in contact with humans: identification of new mammalian viruses. [PDF]
The prediction of viral zoonosis epidemics has become a major public health issue. A profound understanding of the viral population in key animal species acting as reservoirs represents an important step towards this goal.
Laurent Dacheux +7 more
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Inflammation in meninges and/or brain is regularly noticed in red foxes and other wild carnivores during rabies control programs. Despite negative rabies virus (RABV) results, the etiologies of these cases remain unknown.
Jennifer Höche +6 more
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Borna disease virus (BDV) infection in psychiatric patients and healthy controls in Iran [PDF]
Background Borna disease virus (BDV) is an evolutionary old RNA virus, which infects brain and blood cells of humans, their primate ancestors, and other mammals.
Atashi, Hasti +7 more
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O hábito alimentar dos morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) e sua relação com a diversidade viral [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, 2016.Os morcegos são reconhecidos como hospedeiros de uma grande variedade de vírus.
Teixeira, Paula Galvão
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Ribavirin inhibits West Nile virus replication and cytopathic effect in neural cells [PDF]
West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging mosquito-borne pathogen that was reported for the first time in the Western hemisphere in August 1999, when an encephalitis outbreak in New York City resulted in 62 clinical cases and 7 deaths.
Briese, Thomas +4 more
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Heat stress is a potent stimulus for enhancing rescue efficiency of recombinant Borna disease virus. [PDF]
Recently developed vector systems based on Borna disease virus (BDV) hold promise as platforms for efficient and stable gene delivery to the central nervous system (CNS). However, because it currently takes several weeks to rescue recombinant BDV (rBDV),
Honda, Tomoyuki +3 more
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Diving Deep into Fish Bornaviruses: Uncovering Hidden Diversity and Transcriptional Strategies through Comprehensive Data Mining: [Preprint] [PDF]
Recently, we discovered two novel orthobornaviruses in colubrid and viperid snakes using an in silico data mining approach. Here, we present the results of a screening of more than 100,000 nucleic acid sequence datasets of fish samples from the Sequence ...
Beer, Martin +3 more
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Search for polyoma-, herpes-, and bornaviruses in squirrels of the family Sciuridae
Background Squirrels (family Sciuridae) are globally distributed members of the order Rodentia with wildlife occurrence in indigenous and non-indigenous regions (as invasive species) and frequent presence in zoological gardens and other holdings ...
Vanessa Schulze +11 more
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Viral Equine Encephalitis, a Growing Threat to the Horse Population in Europe?
Neurological disorders represent an important sanitary and economic threat for the equine industry worldwide. Among nervous diseases, viral encephalitis is of growing concern, due to the emergence of arboviruses and to the high contagiosity of ...
Sylvie Lecollinet +6 more
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An approach to the control of disease transmission in pig-to-human xenotransplantation. [PDF]
: Although several major immunologic hurdles need to be overcome, the pig is currently considered the most likely source animal of cells, tissues and organs for transplantation into humans.
A. D. M. E. Osterhaus +57 more
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