Vulnerability of Brazilian municipalities to hantavirus infections based on multi‑criteria decision analysis [PDF]
Background: Hantavirus infection is an emerging zoonosis transmitted by wild rodents. In Brazil, high case-fatality rates among humans infected with hantavirus are of serious concern to public health authorities.
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Infeksi Ganda Leptospira dan Hantavirus pada Rattus Norvegicus di Maumere Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur [PDF]
Infection of Leptospirosis and Hantavirus are increased which related to global warming. Rattus norvegicus is reservoirs of both of diseases infections. Dual infection of Leptospira and Hantavirus in R.
Mulyono, A. (Arief)+2 more
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Hantavirus infection among children hospitalized for febrile illness suspected to be dengue in Barbados [PDF]
SummaryEmerging picture of hantavirus infection in the South America is characterized by greater proportion of childhood infection and wider spectrum of disease from mild asymptomatic to lethal cardiopulmonary disease.
Krishnamurthy, Kandamaran+2 more
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Interactions between landscape changes and host communities can regulate echinococcus multilocularis transmission [PDF]
An area close to the Qinghai-Tibet plateau region and subject to intensive deforestation contains a large focus of human alveolar echinococcosis while sporadic human cases occur in the Doubs region of eastern France.
Bao, G+10 more
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Activation of PKR by Bunyamwera virus is independent of the viral interferon antagonist NSs [PDF]
Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is a by-product of viral RNA polymerase activity, and its recognition is one mechanism by which the innate immune system is activated.
Boyd, Amanda+5 more
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Potential geographic distribution of Hantavirus reservoirs in Brazil [PDF]
Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome is an emerging zoonosis in Brazil. Human infections occur via inhalation of aerosolized viral particles from excreta of infected wild rodents.
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Diffusion and Home Range Parameters from Rodent Population Measurements in Panama
Simple random walk considerations are used to interpret rodent population data collected in Hantavirus-related investigations in Panama regarding the short-tailed cane mouse, \emph{Zygodontomys brevicauda}.
Abramson, G.+5 more
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Who is killing whom? Hantaviruses vs programmed cell death [PDF]
Hantaviruses belong to the Bunyaviridae family of negative stranded RNA viruses. They carry a tri-segmented genome and consist of four structural proteins.
Gupta, Shawon
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A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of the West Nile Virus Epidemic
We present a model for the growth of West Nile virus in mosquito and bird populations based on observations of the initial epidemic in the U.S. Increase of bird mortality as a result of infection, which is a feature of the epidemic, is found to yield an ...
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The assessment of present, past and future climatic variability in the americas from tree-line environments [PDF]
In this note we introduce one of 14 Collaborative Research Networks (CRN) funded by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. It was established in 1999 and involves 15 principal investigators from 13 institutions in Canada, USA, Mexico ...
Boninsegna, Jose Armando+1 more
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