Humans and Birds
The Surface Glycoproteins of H5 Influenza Viruses Isolated from Humans, Chickens, and Wild Aquatic Birds Have Distinguishable Properties
... aquatic birds to chickens and from chickens to ...and humans acquire the ability to recognize Sia2-6Gal determi- nants that are believed to be the major sialyloligosaccharide determinants on ciliated cells ...
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Continued Evolution of H5N1 Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds, Domestic Poultry, and Humans in China from 2004 to 2009
... Despite substantial efforts to control H5N1 avian influenza viruses (AIVs), the viruses have continued to evolve and cause disease outbreaks in poultry and infections in humans. In this report, we analyzed 51 ...
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Relationship between IS901 in theMycobacterium avium Complex Strains Isolated from Birds, Animals, Humans, and the Environment and Virulence for Poultry
... Immunocompetent humans, although in contact with MAC strains in the environment, are not usually infected under normal conditions ...in birds, pigs, and other farm ...from humans and subse- quently ...
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Intraspecific eye color variability in birds and mammals: a recent evolutionary event exclusive to humans and domestic animals
... wild birds and mammals may have intraspecific eye color variability, but this variation seems to be due to the developmental stage of the individual, its breeding status, and/or sexual ...by humans in the ...
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Emergence and Adaptation of a Novel Highly Pathogenic H7N9 Influenza Virus in Birds and Humans from a 2013 Human-Infecting Low-Pathogenic Ancestor
... and humans suggests that these variants preferentially bind to avian-like influenza virus receptors (18, 19, 30), and the S31N mutation of M2 suggests that these variants are resistant to adamantanes ...
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Investigating the spatial risk distribution of West Nile virus disease in birds and humans in southern Ontario from 2002 to 2005
... mortality fraction in birds and the human WNv incidence rates. The spatial scan test found that the human WNv dis- ease clusters overlapped with those in birds for each year. The overlap of clusters ...
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Vocal tract constancy in birds and humans
... in birds as vocal signals are the key source of communication in ...between humans and birds may be evident if these mechanisms are basic processes of the auditory system that are evolutionarily ...
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Single radial complement fixation test for assaying antibody to influenza virus type specific antigens
... Although it was demonstrated that a small antigenic difference exists between the NPs of influenza A viruses isolated from different species birds, pigs, horses, and humans 11, the SRCF [r] ...
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Game Birds: The Ethics of Shooting Birds for Sport
... adult humans make a difference: anticipation, more detailed memory, greater knowledge of what is happening, and so on’ (1995a, ...that humans possess certain mental capacities (such as anticipation and ...
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A First Report of Infestation by Pseudolynchia canariensis in a Herd of Pigeons in Shahrekord (Southwest of Iran)
... Background: Pigeons (Columba livia) have been kept as pet and reared for food in several countries including Iran. Ectoparasites are regarded as the basic causes of retardation in growth, lowered vitality and poor ...
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Toxoplasmosis: A Review
... including humans, cats and birds, by eating food contaminated with oocysts or Bradizoite, found in tissue cysts or in contact with soil contaminated with infected cat faeces, spores are released from ...
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Enhancement of Replication of RNA Viruses by ADAR1 via RNA Editing and Inhibition of RNA-Activated Protein Kinase
... Viruses affected or likely affected by ADAR activity Virus Type ADAR activitya Hosts ADAR effectb References Avian leukosis virus Epstein-Barr virus RNA DNA Birds Humans RNA editing, pos[r] ...
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The intensity threshold of colour vision in two species of parrot
... So far we have discussed sensitivity at the receptor level, however, colour vision in dim light may also be limited by post-receptor mechanisms. Colour opponent mechanisms are less tolerant to noise than the additive ...
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Host feeding patterns of Culex mosquitoes in Iran
... including humans, 3 birds and 1 reptile), whereby no mixed blood meals were ...were humans (Homo sapiens; 224 mosquito specimens, ...of birds for ...and birds, which might be the result ...
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Diagnosis, epidemiology and human immune response to cryptosporidiosis
... The ubiquitous nature of the parasite in humans, wildlife including reptiles and birds, farm livestock, and pets as well as its apparent ability to cross host species barriers implies th[r] ...
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The caged bird in Roman life and poetry; metaphor, cognition, and value
... or birds in a cage have a dramatic existence which runs parallel to that of the residents of the house in which it ...Talking birds can more explicitly cross the boundary between the two since they can be ...
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Resistance exercise training and the control of blood pressure in hypertensive humans
... which results low indexes risks to human health (FORJAZ et al., 2003). Since 1950s, publications of scientific effort such as the study by Morris et al. (1953), considering postmen who walks or using bicycles, and the ...
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Social Episodic-Like Memory in the Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile Atricapillus)
... Subordinate birds took more worms after a long interval than after a short ...subordinate birds are stressed after an encounter with dominant birds during Phase 1, and therefore take more worms on ...
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Diversity, Distribution and Status of Birds of Kolleru Lake - A Ramsar Site in Andhra Pradesh
... a birds' heaven mainly due to high bird diversity and abundance that it supports especially in winter ...migratory birds after demolition of fish tanks. The international migratory birds like ...
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Global warming and emerging infectious diseases of animals and humans: current scenario, challenges, solutions and future perspectives – A Review
... and humans being flaring up due to fluctuating environmental conditions, appropriate prevention and control measures to be followed to combat global warming in the current scenario and future ...
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