This review discusses the molecular interaction of proteins encoded by porcine circoviruses type 1 (PCV1) and type 2 (PCV2) with respect to the putative role for disease induction. Besides protein:protein interactions also ...

Von Mai bis Juli 2011 ereignete sich vor allem in Norddeutschland der bisher größte Ausbruch von Infektionen durch enterohämorrhagische Escherichia coli (EHEC) O104:H4 und von hämolytisch-urämischem Syndrom (HUS) mit ...

Leishmania spp. cause a wide spectrum of tropical diseases which are threatening an estimated 350 million people around the globe. While in most cases non-fatal, the disease is associated with high morbidity, social stigmata ...

Background: With ageing of the HIV-infected population, long-term exposure to treatment, varying adherence, emerging resistance and complications to therapies, effectiveness of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) ...

Purpose: Limited data are available on immunologic responses to primary pandemic H1N1 (2009) vaccination in recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients. In 2009 serologic responses ...

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the prevalence of primary snoring (PS) and its association with neurocognitive impairments. Methods: Data from a community-based study in 1,114 primary school children were used to ...

Background: Health Examination Surveys (HESs) can provide essential information on the health and health determinants of a population, which is not available from other data sources. Nevertheless, only some European ...

The fatal transmissions of highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses (IAV) of the H5N1 subtype to humans and high titer replication in the respiratory tract indicate that these pathogens can overcome the bird-to-human ...

The aim of this study was to give some insights into the prevalence, serovars, phage types, and antibiotic resistances of Salmonella from animal origin in the United Arab Emirates. Data on diagnostic samples from animals ...

Genotyping of important medical or veterinary prokaryotes has become a very important tool during the last decades. Rapid development of fragment-separation and sequencing technologies has made many new genotyping strategies ...