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Biological warfare: The many possibilities
South African Family Practice, 2004 Biological warfare has been a threat to society for many decades. This article summarises some of the most likely organisms suitable for a bio-terrorist attack, including Bacillus anthracis, Francisella tularensis, Yersinia pestis, the agents of viral ...
E. Wasserman
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In vitro characterization of a nineteenth-century therapy for smallpox. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 In the nineteenth century, smallpox ravaged through the United States and Canada. At this time, a botanical preparation, derived from the carnivorous plant Sarracenia purpurea, was proclaimed as being a successful therapy for smallpox infections.
William Arndt +9 more
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Una nueva alerta mundial en salud causada por la viruela del simio
Interdisciplinary Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health, 2022 Introducción: La viruela del simio es una zoonosis de etiología viral causada por virus de la viruela del simio. Es una enfermedad endémica en los países africanos.
Richar Jose Gomez de la Rosa +1 more
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Cell Death and Disease, 2015 Subversion of host cell apoptosis is an important survival strategy for viruses to ensure their own proliferation and survival. Certain viruses express proteins homologous in sequence, structure and function to mammalian pro-survival B-cell lymphoma 2 ...
Bevan Marshall +9 more
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State‐of‐the‐Art on Model‐Informed Drug Development Approaches for Pediatric Rare Diseases
CPT: Pharmacometrics &Systems Pharmacology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric rare diseases present unique challenges for drug development due to small patient populations, ethical constraints on clinical trial design, and limited prospectively defined natural history data. Model‐Informed Drug Development (MIDD) has emerged as a powerful paradigm to address these challenges by leveraging quantitative methods ...
Rajesh Krishna +4 more
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Smallpox, Monkeypox and Other Human Orthopoxvirus Infections
Viruses, 2022 Considering that vaccination against smallpox with live vaccinia virus led to serious adverse effects in some cases, the WHO, after declaration of the global eradication of smallpox in 1980, strongly recommended to discontinue the vaccination in all ...
Galina A. Shchelkunova +1 more
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Journal of Medical Virology, 2023 Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is a zoonotic disease endemic in the rainforest countries of Central and West Africa. Understanding the immune response in zoonosis is fundamental to prevent and contrast viral spreading.
J. Sammartino +10 more
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Vaccinations During Pregnancy Protect the Mother–Infant Dyad and Are Generally Safe
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim Vaccination in pregnancy has a critical impact on mothers, foetuses and infants. The aim of this paper was to summarise key points presented by experts attending the 12th Maria Delivoria‐Papadopoulos Perinatal Symposium in March 2025 and further expand and update them.
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner +2 more
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An APOBEC3 Mutational Signature in the Genomes of Human-Infecting Orthopoxviruses
mSphere, 2023 The ongoing worldwide monkeypox outbreak is caused by viral lineages (globally referred to as hMPXV1) that are related to but distinct from clade IIb MPXV viruses transmitted within Nigeria.
Diego Forni +3 more
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biological invasions are one of the major drivers of biodiversity decline and have been shown to have far‐reaching consequences for society and the economy. Preventing the introduction and spread of alien species represents the most effective solution to reducing their impacts on nature and human well‐being.
Hanno Seebens +64 more
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