Viral Disease Articles & Analysis: Older
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Immunomodulatory Therapies The concept of harnessing the body’s immune response against viral infections has gained traction over the years. Immunomodulatory therapies aim to enhance the immune system’s ability to recognize and eliminate viral pathogens. ...
Welcome to 2023-2024 season’s respiratory surveillance recap, where we’ll share insights from the most recent respiratory surveillance season, covering three major respiratory viruses: COVID-19, influenza, and RSV. Tracking these illnesses is imperative for maintaining population health because these illnesses significantly impact individual wellbeing and healthcare costs, resource ...
Caco-2 cells (Homo sapiens colon epithelial cells) were provided by the Institute for Medical Virology and Epidemiology of Viral Disease, Department of Molecular Virology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany. ...
More than a dozen viral gene therapy products have been approved for the treatment of cancer, infectious diseases, and rare single-gene disorders. ...
Newcastle disease is a highly infectious viral disease of the avian species. The causative agent is Newcastle disease virus (NDV), which belongs to the family of Paramyxoviridae. Many commercial vaccines, both live and inactivated, are available on the market and protect from NDV infection and disease. In ...
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Virosomes are a new type of bionanoparticle that could be used to develop nanovaccines to fight viral diseases. Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are bacterial nanovesicles that transport proteins comparable to those found in bacteria's outer membrane. ...
Some of the most common examples of bacterial infections include: Strep throat UTI Gonorrhea Bacterial food poisoning Lyme disease Bacteria are living organisms, as they need the energy to survive and multiply, but not a living host. ...
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Cause of the Disease Infectious pancreatic necrosis (also known as Acute catarrhal enteritis) is one of the first described and most extensively studied diseases of fish. There are strains and substrains of IPN virus that can be differentiated by serological, biochemical and genetic means. The VR-299 (type 1) strain was originally isolated in North America and has since been found almost ...
As we learn more about illnesses, we find that most viral and bacterial illnesses are due to direct human contact—people passing viruses or bacteria directly to one another—mostly through sneezes, door handles, shared pens and papers, shaking hands, bathroom surfaces, hugs, and kisses. ...
While the epicentre of the outbreak was China, the disease spread quickly across Asia and to North America (especially Canada) with a total of 32 countries eventually reporting cases. ...
Unlike bacterial disease, viral illness cannot be resolved with the use of antibiotics. Prevention and management of viral disease heavily relies upon vaccines and antiviral medications (49). ...