Surveillance of feral cats for influenza A virus in north central Florida.
AuthorsGordy JT,Jones CA,Rue J,Crawford PC,Levy JK,Stallknecht DE,Tripp RA,Tompkins SM
JournalInfluenza and other respiratory viruses
PubMed ID22212818
Please cite this paper as: Gordy JT et al. (2012) Surveillance of feral cats for influenza A virus in North Central Florida. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 6(5), 341â347. Backgroundâ Transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza and the recent pandemic H1N1 viruses to domestic cats and other felids creates concern because ... More
Widespread Virus Replication in Alveoli Drives Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Aerosolized H5N1 Influenza Infection of Macaques.
JournalJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
PubMed ID28062701
Human infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) virus are frequently fatal but the mechanisms of disease remain ill-defined. H5N1 infection is associated with intense production of proinflammatory cytokines, but whether this cytokine storm is the main cause of fatality or is a consequence of extensive virus replication that ... More
Production, concentration and titration of pseudotyped HIV-1-based lentiviral vectors.
AuthorsKutner RH, Zhang XY, Reiser J,
JournalNat Protoc
PubMed ID19300443
'Over the past decade, lentiviral vectors have emerged as powerful tools for transgene delivery. The use of lentiviral vectors has become commonplace and applications in the fields of neuroscience, hematology, developmental biology, stem cell biology and transgenesis are rapidly emerging. Also, lentiviral vectors are at present being explored in the ... More
No association of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus with prostate cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome in Japan.
AuthorsFuruta RA, Miyazawa T, Sugiyama T, Kuratsune H, Ikeda Y, Sato E, Misawa N, Nakatomi Y, Sakuma R, Yasui K, Yamaguti K, Hirayama F
JournalRetrovirology
PubMed ID21414229
The involvement of xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) in prostate cancer (PC) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is disputed as its reported prevalence ranges from 0% to 25% in PC cases and from 0% to more than 80% in CFS cases. To evaluate the risk of XMRV infection during ... More
The microbial detection array for detection of emerging viruses in clinical samples--a useful panmicrobial diagnostic tool.
AuthorsRosenstierne MW, McLoughlin KS, Olesen ML, Papa A, Gardner SN, Engler O, Plumet S, Mirazimi A, Weidmann M, Niedrig M, Fomsgaard A, Erlandsson L
Journal
PubMed ID24963710
Emerging viruses are usually endemic to tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world, but increased global travel, climate change and changes in lifestyle are believed to contribute to the spread of these viruses into new regions. Many of these viruses cause similar disease symptoms as other emerging viruses or common ... More
Massively parallel sequencing for monitoring genetic consistency and quality control of live viral vaccines.
AuthorsNeverov A, Chumakov K
JournalProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
PubMed ID21041640
Intrinsic genetic instability of RNA viruses may lead to the accumulation of revertants during manufacture of live viral vaccines, requiring rigorous quality control to ensure vaccine safety. Each lot of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) is tested for neurovirulence in animals and also for the presence of neurovirulent revertants. Mutant analysis ... More
An endogenous murine leukemia viral genome contaminant in a commercial RT-PCR kit is amplified using standard primers for XMRV.
AuthorsSato E, Furuta RA, Miyazawa T
JournalRetrovirology
PubMed ID21171978
During pilot studies to investigate the presence of viral RNA of xenotropic murine leukemia virus (MLV)-related virus (XMRV) infection in sera from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients in Japan, a positive band was frequently detected at the expected product size in negative control samples when detecting a partial gag region ... More
Detection and Molecular Characterization of Zoonotic Poxviruses Circulating in the Amazon Region of Colombia, 2014.
AuthorsUsme-Ciro JA, Paredes A, Walteros DM, Tolosa-Pérez EN, Laiton-Donato K, Pinzón MD, Petersen BW, Gallardo-Romero NF, Li Y, Wilkins K, Davidson W, Gao J, Patel N, Nakazawa Y, Reynolds MG, Satheshkumar PS, Emerson GL, Páez-Martínez A
JournalEmerg Infect Dis
PubMed ID28322708
During 2014, cutaneous lesions were reported in dairy cattle and farmworkers in the Amazon Region of western Colombia. Samples from 6 patients were analyzed by serologic and PCR testing, and results demonstrated the presence of vaccinia virus and pseudocowpox virus. These findings highlight the need for increased poxvirus surveillance in ... More