Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Animals"
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2014-12-15ZeitschriftenartikelProtocol for Metagenomic Virus Detection in Clinical Specimens Sixty percent of emerging viruses have a zoonotic origin, making transmission from animals a major threat to public health. Prompt identification and analysis of these pathogens are indispensable to taking action toward ...
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2013-06-11ZeitschriftenartikelProvenance and Geographic Spread of St. Louis Encephalitis Virus St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) is the prototypic mosquito-borne flavivirus in the Americas. Birds are its primary vertebrate hosts, but amplification in certain mammals has also been suggested. The place and time of ...
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2011-05-27ZeitschriftenartikelQuantitative detection and biological propagation of scrapie seeding activity in vitro facilitate use of prions as model pathogens for disinfection. Prions are pathogens with an unusually high tolerance to inactivation and constitute a complex challenge to the re-processing of surgical instruments. On the other hand, however, they provide an informative paradigm which ...
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2014-03-06ZeitschriftenartikelRapid Molecular Assays for the Detection of Yellow Fever Virus in Low-Resource Settings Background: Yellow fever (YF) is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. The causative agent, the yellow fever virus (YFV), is found in tropical and subtropical areas of South America and ...
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2011-09-08ZeitschriftenartikelRare Occurrence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC130 with a Novel mecA Homologue in Humans in Germany MRSA CC130 containing the mecA homologue mecALGA251 were reported from the UK and from Denmark so far from cattle and humans. Here we report on 11 MRSA CC130 among a sample of 12691 isolates of human origin collected from ...
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2008-04-01ZeitschriftenartikelRat-to-elephant-to-human transmission of cowpox virus
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2010-07-26ZeitschriftenartikelRational design of HIV vaccine and microbicides: report of the EUROPRISE annual conference EUROPRISE is a Network of Excellence sponsored from 2007 to 2011 by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Program. The Network encompasses a wide portfolio of activities ranging from an integrated research ...
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2011-04-12ZeitschriftenartikelRational design of HIV vaccines and microbicides: report of the EUROPRISE network annual conference 2010 Novel, exciting intervention strategies to prevent infection with HIV have been tested in the past year, and the field is rapidly evolving. EUROPRISE is a network of excellence sponsored by the European Commission and ...
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2012-04-19ZeitschriftenartikelReal-time cytotoxicity assay for rapid and sensitive detection of ricin from complex matrices. Background: In the context of a potential bioterrorist attack sensitive and fast detection of functionally active toxins such as ricin from complex matrices is necessary to be able to start timely countermeasures. One of ...
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2015-11-13ZeitschriftenartikelRecombinant Envelope-Proteins with Mutations in the Conserved Fusion Loop Allow Specific Serological Diagnosis of Dengue-Infections Dengue virus (DENV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus and a major international public health concern in many tropical and sub-tropical areas worldwide. DENV is divided into four major serotypes, and infection with one serotype ...
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2009-10-07ZeitschriftenartikelReconstitution of the Ancestral Glycoprotein of Human Endogenous Retrovirus K and Modulation of Its Functional Activity by Truncation of the Cytoplasmic Domain Endogenous retroviruses present in the human genome provide a rich record of ancient infections. All presently recognized elements, including the youngest and most intact proviruses of the human endogenous retrovirus ...
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2007-09-25ZeitschriftenartikelRelevance of the regional lymph node in scrapie pathogenesis after peripheral infection of hamsters Background: The exact role of the lymphoreticular system in the spread of peripheral prion infections to the central nervous system still needs further elucidation. Against this background, the influence of the regional ...
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2009-03-15ZeitschriftenartikelResurgence of Field Fever in a Temperate Country: An Epidemic of Leptospirosis among Seasonal Strawberry Harvesters in Germany in 2007 Background: Although leptospirosis is a reemerging zoonosis of global importance, outbreaks related to agricultural exposures are primarily situated in tropical countries. In July 2007, a suspected leptospirosis outbreak ...
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2011-02-01ZeitschriftenartikelRickettsia aeschlimannii in Hyalomma marginatum Ticks, Germany To the Editor: Rickettsia spp. of the spotted fever group cause worldwide emerging human infections known as tick-borne rickettsioses (1). Data on the occurrence and prevalence of Rickettsia in Germany are still limited ...
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2013-09-11ZeitschriftenartikelRisk Factors Associated with the Community-Acquired Colonization of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) Positive Escherichia Coli. An Exploratory Case-Control Study Background: The number of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) positive (+) Escherichia coli is increasing worldwide. In contrast with many other multidrug-resistant bacteria, it is suspected that they predominantly ...
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2011-05-06ZeitschriftenartikelRodents as Sentinels for the Prevalence of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Introduction: Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) causes one of the most important flavivirus infections of the central nervous system, affecting humans in Europe and Asia. It is mainly transmitted by the bite of an ...
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2009-06-21ZeitschriftenartikelRole of complement and antibodies in controlling infection with pathogenic simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in macaques vaccinated with replication-deficient viral vector Background: We investigated the interplay between complement and antibodies upon priming with single-cycle replicating viral vectors (SCIV) encoding SIV antigens combined with Adeno5-SIV or SCIV pseudotyped with murine ...
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2007-05-09ZeitschriftenartikelScrapie Agent (Strain 263K) Can Transmit Disease via the Oral Route after Persistence in Soil over Years The persistence of infectious biomolecules in soil constitutes a substantial challenge. This holds particularly true with respect to prions, the causative agents of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) such as ...
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2010-01-12ZeitschriftenartikelSeasonal influenza risk in hospital healthcare workers is more strongly associated with household than occupational exposures: results from a prospective cohort study in Berlin, Germany, 2006/07 Background: Influenza immunisation for healthcare workers is encouraged to protect their often vulnerable patients but also due to a perceived higher risk for influenza. We aimed to compare the risk of influenza infection ...
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2013-06-05ZeitschriftenartikelSegmentation of Confocal Raman Microspectroscopic Imaging Data Using Edge-Preserving Denoising and Clustering Over the past decade, confocal Raman microspectroscopic (CRM) imaging has matured into a useful analytical tool to obtain spatially resolved chemical information on the molecular composition of biological samples and has ...