Malignant catarrhal fever
Ex Vivo Bioluminescence Detection of Alcelaphine Herpesvirus 1 Infection during Malignant Catarrhal Fever
... Alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1), carried by wildebeest asymptomatically, causes malignant catarrhal fever (WD-MCF) when cross-species transmitted to a variety of susceptible species of the ...
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Duration of protective immunity and antibody responses in cattle immunised against alcelaphine herpesvirus-1-induced malignant catarrhal fever
... Protection of cattle from alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 (AlHV-1)-induced malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) has been described previously, using an attenuated virus vaccine in an unlicensed adjuvant. The ...
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Malignant catarrhal fever induced by Alcelaphine herpesvirus 1 is characterized by an expansion of activated CD3+CD8+CD4- T cells expressing a cytotoxic phenotype in both lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues
... wildebeest-derived malignant catarrhal fever (WD-MCF) when cross-species transmitted to a variety of susceptible species of the Artiodactyla ...
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Replacement of Glycoprotein B in Alcelaphine Herpesvirus 1 by Its Ovine Herpesvirus 2 Homolog : Implications in Vaccine Development for Sheep-Associated Malignant Catarrhal Fever
... ABSTRACT Vaccine development is a top priority in malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) research. In the case of sheep-associated MCF (SA-MCF) caused by ovine her- pesvirus 2 (OvHV-2), progress toward this ...
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Malignant Catarrhal Fever Like Disease in Barbary Red Deer (Cervus elaphus barbarus) Naturally Infected with a Virus Resembling Alcelaphine Herpesvirus 2
... Eight Barbary red deer (Cervus elaphus barbarus) developed clinical signs suggestive of malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) over a 28-day period. These animals were housed outdoors with four other ...
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Investigation of sheep associated malignant catarrhal fever virus infection in ruminants by PCR and competitive inhibition enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
... Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) is a highly fatal disease of cattle and certain other ruminants that exists as two known epidemiologic entities. One is known as wildebeest-associated MCF (WA-MCF), ...
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Identification and Quantification of Ovine Gammaherpesvirus 2 DNA in Fresh and Stored Tissues of Pigs with Symptoms of Porcine Malignant Catarrhal Fever
... from malignant catarrhal fever-diseased pigs were surprisingly high, although within the same range as those in either fresh or paraffin-embedded brain tissue of cattle with malignant ...
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Detection and Multigenic Characterization of a Herpesvirus Associated with Malignant Catarrhal Fever in White Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from Missouri
... suggested malignant catarrhal fever, although epizootic hemorrhagic disease and bluetongue were included in the differential ...described malignant catarrhal fever virus of ...
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The effect of the TLR9 ligand CpG-oligodeoxynucleotide on the protective immune response to alcelaphine herpesvirus-1-mediated malignant catarrhal fever in cattle
... We wished to determine the effect of of CpG ODN adjuvant on the magnitude and duration of protective immunity against alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 (AlHV-1) malignant catarrhal fever (MCF), a fatal ...
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Analysis of the genetic diversity of ovine herpesvirus 2 in samples from livestock with malignant catarrhal fever
... Holliman, A., Daniel, R., Twomey, D.F., Barnett, J., Scholes, S., Willoughby, K., Russell, G., 2007. Malignant catarrhal fever in cattle in the UK. Veterinary Record 161, 494-495. Hughes, D.J., ...
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Viral Semaphorin Inhibits Dendritic Cell Phagocytosis and Migration but Is Not Essential for Gammaherpesvirus-Induced Lymphoproliferation in Malignant Catarrhal Fever
... FIG 11 Malignant catarrhal fever induction in the absence of AlHV-sema. (A) Cumulative incidence of survival of the rabbits of each group. (B) Popliteal LNs and spleen masses at the time of ...
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Newly Recognized Herpesvirus Causing Malignant Catarrhal Fever in White Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
... Malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) was diagnosed by clinical signs and lesions in five out of six white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in a North American ...
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Competitive inhibition enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for antibody in sheep and other ruminants to a conserved epitope of malignant catarrhal fever virus
... Immunoprecipitation of [35S]methionine-labeled proteins of MN-MCFV-infected lanes V or uninfected lanes C cell lysate with antisera lanes labeled + and preinoculated lanes labeled - or n[r] ...
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Treatment seeking behaviour for malaria in children under five years of age: implication for home management in rural areas with high seasonal transmission in Sudan
... 'high fever, inability to stand or walk, refusal to feed, loss of consciousness, yellowish sclera, severe diarrhoea and repeated vomiting', there is an urgent need for health worker ...
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Biological control of mosquito-borne viral diseases: Prospects and challenges
... St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus spreads naturally in birds. Birds are the natural reservoirs. These viruses are transmitted by Culex mosquitoes. Humans become infected only when bitten by an infected mosquito. Humans ...
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Epidemiological Profile and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Enteric Fever in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India – a Seven Year Ambispective Study
... tiated fever like leptospirosis, scrub typhus, lower respirato- ry tract infections (LRTI) which has a definite advantage in areas where there is lack of accurate diagnosis ...
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Fever
... Many components of the nonspecific host defense response to infection such as leukocyte mo- biity, lymphocyte transformation, and effects of inter- feron, appear to be enhanced by elevat[r] ...
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Elevated Serum Levels of Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 in Severe Dengue Virus Infection at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar, Bali - Indonesia
... We enrolled a cohort of patients with acute fever, hospitalized during 1 July 2011 – 31 December 2011 and diagnosed with dengue virus infection, based on 1997 WHO Dengue Guidelines. Patients were subse- quently ...
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Farming, Q fever and public health: agricultural practices and beyond
... Q fever human cases in the southern sheep grazing area ...Q fever epidemic originating from neglected accumulation of sheep waste from a nearby abattoir ...Q fever to the local population (within the ...
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CULTURE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE PRACTICE AMONG THE IDOMA PEOPLE OF OTUKPO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE, NIGERIA
... Boil leaves and inhale to treat fever, bark for treating wounds, root decoction for fever.. 00040.[r] ...
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