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Detection of a Novel African Swine Fever Virus with Three Large-Fragment Deletions in Genome, China

open access: yesMicrobiology Spectrum, 2022
We reported a novel African swine fever virus (ASFV) strain that had a three-large-fragment deletion and unique variations in genome. This isolate displayed a nonhemadsorbing phenotype and had homogeneous proliferation compared with the wild-type ASFV ...
Yankuo Sun   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fungal brain abscesses caused by Acremonium species

open access: yesThe Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2023
Unusual fungal agents that exist environmentally as saprophytes can often lead to opportunistic infections, hyalohyphomycosis is a group of fungal infections caused by fungi characterized by hyaline septate hyphae and can infect both immunocompetent as ...
Hamdy Ibrahim   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

FEVER: a Large-scale Dataset for Fact Extraction and VERification [PDF]

open access: yesNorth American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018
In this paper we introduce a new publicly available dataset for verification against textual sources, FEVER: Fact Extraction and VERification. It consists of 185,445 claims generated by altering sentences extracted from Wikipedia and subsequently ...
James Thorne   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lassa fever — the road ahead

open access: yesNature Reviews Microbiology, 2022
Lassa virus (LASV) is endemic in the rodent populations of Sierra Leone, Nigeria and other countries in West Africa. Spillover to humans occurs frequently and results in Lassa fever, a viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) associated with a high case fatality ...
R. Garry
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Asymptomatic Coccidioidal Meningitis Relapse: A Demon in Disguise

open access: yesJournal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2023
Coccidioides spp is a soil-dwelling, dimorphic fungus that causes coccidioidomycosis. It is endemic to the western hemisphere. Although primarily a respiratory disease, it can also cause a myriad of clinical manifestations, from asymptomatic disease to ...
Lovedip Kooner MBBS   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Respiratory diseases in pregnancy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Scientific Research, 2015
Pulmonary diseases are one of the major indirect causes of maternal deaths. Pregnancy is a unique physiological state during which changes occur in all systems of the body to meet metabolic needs of both the mother and growing foetus.
Raghu S, Surya Kiran P
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of an intervention to introduce malaria rapid diagnostic tests on fever case management in a high transmission setting in Uganda: A mixed-methods cluster-randomized trial (PRIME). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria (mRDTs) have been scaled-up widely across Africa. The PRIME study evaluated an intervention aiming to improve fever case management using mRDTs at public health centers in Uganda.
A Namagembe   +36 more
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A multiplex real-time PCR assay for simultaneous detection of classical swine fever virus, African swine fever virus, and atypical porcine pestivirus

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Agriculture, 2023
With the implementation of the C-strain vaccine, classical swine fever (CSF) has been under control in China, which is currently in a chronic atypical epidemic situation.
Xiang-peng SONG   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

African Swine Fever Virus: An Emerging DNA Arbovirus

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the sole member of the family Asfarviridae, and the only known DNA arbovirus. Since its identification in Kenya in 1921, ASFV has remained endemic in Africa, maintained in a sylvatic cycle between Ornithodoros soft ...
N. Gaudreault   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Foetal Immune Response Activation and High Replication Rate during Generation of Classical Swine Fever Congenital Infection

open access: yesPathogens, 2020
Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) induces trans-placental transmission and congenital viral persistence; however, the available information is not updated. Three groups of sows were infected at mid-gestation with either a high, moderate or low virulence
José Alejandro Bohórquez   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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