Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Animals"
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2002-07-31ZeitschriftenartikelAssociation of two newly recognized herpesviruses with interstitial pneumonia in donkeys (Equus asinus) Over a period of 6 years, antemortem and postmortem examinations were performed on a number of donkeys suffering from respiratory disease. For many cases, initial diagnostic efforts failed to identify an etiology consistent ...
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2012-10-01ZeitschriftenartikelAutochthonous and Dormant Cryptococcus gattii Infections in Europe Until recently, Cryptococcus gattii infections occurred mainly in tropical and subtropical climate zones. However, during the past decade, C. gattii infections in humans and animals in Europe have increased. To determine ...
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2011-08-11ZeitschriftenartikelAvian influenza A(H5N1) in humans: new insights from a line list of World Health Organization confirmed cases, September 2006 to August 2010 The threat of avian influenza (AI) viruses to humans in Europe in 2005 prompted the Robert Koch Institute to establish a routine monitoring instrument condensing information on all human AI cases worldwide reported from ...
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2011-04-23ZeitschriftenartikelAvian influenza virus risk assessment in falconry Background: There is a continuing threat of human infections with avian influenza viruses (AIV). In this regard falconers might be a potential risk group because they have close contact to their hunting birds (raptors ...
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2008-07-01ZeitschriftenartikelAvian Mycoplasma lipofaciens transmission to veterinarian.
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2011-05-25ZeitschriftenartikelBabies and bearded dragons: sudden increase in reptile-associated Salmonella enterica serovar Tennessee infections, Germany 2008 Introduction: In 2008 a marked increase in Salmonella enterica serovar Tennessee infections in infants occurred in Germany. In March and April 2008, eight cases were notified compared to a median of 0–1 cases in 2001–2006. ...
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2009-05-01ZeitschriftenartikelbdhA-patD operon as a virulence determinant, revealed by a novel large-scale approach for identification of Legionella pneumophila mutants defective for amoeba infection. Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, is an intracellular parasite of eukaryotic cells. In the environment, it colonizes amoebae. After being inhaled into the human lung, the bacteria infect ...
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2009-09-30ZeitschriftenartikelBeneficial and detrimental effects of human endogenous retroviruses In this mini review, we aim to evaluate the structure and function of Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) with respect to the benefit they may have for humans or the damage they may cause. Emphasis is laid on their ...
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2012-12-26ZeitschriftenartikelBiological and Phylogenetic Characteristics of Yellow Fever Virus Lineages from West Africa The yellow fever virus (YFV), the first proven human-pathogenic virus, although isolated in 1927, is still a major public health problem, especially in West Africa where it causes outbreaks every year. Nevertheless, little ...
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2013-06-01ZeitschriftenartikelBSE-associated Prion-Amyloid Cardiomyopathy in Primates Prion amyloidosis occurred in the heart of 1 of 3 macaques intraperitoneally inoculated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy prions. This macaque had a remarkably long duration of disease and signs of cardiac distress. ...
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2015-04-01ZeitschriftenartikelCapsules, Toxins and AtxA as Virulence Factors of Emerging Bacillus cereus Biovar anthracis Emerging B. cereus strains that cause anthrax-like disease have been isolated in Cameroon (CA strain) and Côte d’Ivoire (CI strain). These strains are unusual, because their genomic characterisation shows that they belong ...
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2011-01-27ZeitschriftenartikelCases of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an asylum seekers centre in Germany, November 2010 In an asylum seeker centre in Schleswig-Holstein, a resident was diagnosed with furuncle caused by a Panton-Valentine leukocidine (PVL)-positive community- acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). ...
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2010-04-01ZeitschriftenartikelCharacterisation of a human cell-adapted porcine endogenous retrovirus PERV-A/C. Background: Porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) pose a potential risk for xenotransplantation using pig cells, tissues or organs. A special threat comes from viruses generated by recombination between human-tropic ...
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2004-07-05ZeitschriftenartikelCharacterization of a New Simian T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (STLV-1) in a Wild Living Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) from Ivory Coast: Evidence of a New STLV-1 Group? A new strain of simian T-lymphotropic virus type 1 in blood samples from a chimpanzee that lived in the tropical rainforest of Ivory Coast is described. The sequence obtained from the long terminal repeat region of the ...
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2008-09-11ZeitschriftenartikelCharacterization of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (AEEC) isolated from pigs and sheep Background: Attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (AEEC) are characterized by their ability to cause attaching-and-effacing (A/E) lesions in the gut mucosa of human and animal hosts leading to diarrhoea. The genetic ...
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2012-01-01ZeitschriftenartikelChronic wasting disease: Fingerprinting the culprit in risk assessments Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (prion diseases) in animals may be associated with a zoonotic risk potential for humans as shown by the occurrence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the wake of the bovine ...
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2015-04-02ZeitschriftenartikelComparative Genomic Analysis of Two Novel Sporadic Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 Strains Isolated 2011 in Germany A large outbreak of gastrointestinal disease occurred in 2011 in Germany which resulted in almost 4000 patients with acute gastroenteritis or hemorrhagic colitis, 855 cases of a hemolytic uremic syndrome and 53 deaths. The ...
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2003-05-02ZeitschriftenartikelComparison of two DNA targets for the diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis by real-time PCR using fluorescence resonance energy transfer hybridization probes Background: Toxoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. It is endemic worldwide and, depending on the geographic location, 15 to 85% of the human population are asymptomatically ...
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2012-12-30ZeitschriftenartikelComplete Genome Sequence of the English Isolate of Rat Cytomegalovirus (Murid Herpesvirus 8) The complete genome of the English isolate of rat cytomegalovirus (RCMV-E) was determined. RCMV-E has a 202,946-bp genome with noninverting repeats but without terminal repeats. Thus, it differs significantly in size and ...
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2013-01-01ZeitschriftenartikelComplexity of Botulinum Neurotoxins: Challenges for Detection Technology The detection of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) is extremely challenging due to their high toxicity and the multiple BoNT variants. To date, seven serotypes with more than 30 subtypes have been described, and even more ...