Influenza is historically an ancient disease that causes annual epidemics and, at irregular intervals, pandemics. Seasonal influenza kills 36,000 persons annually in the United States. The impact of seasonal influenza caused by a virus showing antigenic variation in the major viral glycoproteins hemagglu...
Bacteria and viruses that causes respiratory tract infections during the pilgrimage (Hajj) season in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Trop Med Int Health 1998; 3: 205-209.El Sheikh, S. M.; El Assouli, S. M.; Mohammed, K. A.; Albar, M. Bacteria and viruses that cause respiratory tract ...
People's Republic of China1. The pathogen causes coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19), which spread rapidly, reaching the pandemic level on March 11, 20202. The incidence of cases and deaths caused by COVID-19 in the world increased at different rates...
Influenza virus strains selectively recognize sialyloligosaccharides on human respiratory epithelium; the role of the host cell in selection of hemagglutinin receptor specificity. Virus Res. 29, 155–165 (1993). Article Google Scholar Babal, P. & Russell, L.C. Sialic acid-specific lectin-mediated...
Further reassortment with a Eurasian lineage of swine influenza virus resulted in the current pandemic influenza virus which has spread globally in humans 6 Host Range Influenza A virus is a zoonotic pathogen capable of infecting birds (waterfowl and chickens), swine, horses, felines, and other ...
Analternativeexplanationforthiscorrelationmightbethat, ratherthancarryingthevirusthemselves,对这种相关性的另一种解释可能是，空气中的颗粒并没有携带病毒，airborneparticlesincreasesusceptibilitytoinfectioninthosewhoencounterthepathogenbysomeothermeans.而是增加了那些通过其他途径接触病原体的人对感染的易感性。Eitherway, ...
While many people in the United States are growing comfortable living alongside COVID-19, the average number of daily deaths still runs at two to four times the long-term average for influenza, and it’s higher on a seasonally adjusted basis.5 Second, a new, immunity-evading variant could ...
Nevertheless, China has witnessed recurrent outbreaks of highly virulent EIDs including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) and Streptococcus suis, a zoonotic bacterium mostly carried by pigs or pork products which causes syndromes of streptococcal toxic shock...
The fifth wave of H7N9 avian influenza virus caused a large number of human infections and a large number of poultry deaths in China. Since September 2017, mainland China has begun to vaccinate poultry with H5 + H7 avian influenza vaccine. We inves
How influenza jumped from animals to humans But when the researchers performed a more detailed bioinformatics analysis of the sequence of 2019-nCoV, it suggests that this coronavirus might come from snakes. The Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, where the coronavirus outbreak is believed to ...