View in context If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears and eyes with du...
Noun1.echovirus- any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants enterovirus- any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nerv...
Different viruses spread in other ways. The rabies virus is in the saliva (spit) of an infected dog. The dog spreads the virus when it bites. Mosquito bites can also spread viruses. West Nile Virus goes from birds to mosquitoes when the mosquitoes bite the birds. The mosquitoes then spread...
Janine Seetahal, in Viruses, 2018 Yellow fever virus Yellow fever is a severe illness caused by the homonymous Flavivirus (Yellow fever virus, YFV). The disease only occurs in Africa, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean; i.e., in areas with a tropical climate. It...
In subject area: Physics and Astronomy Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) by infecting human cells and integrating its genetic material into the host's DNA, leading to the production of new viral particles and potential resistance ...
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The researchers also studied fetal ocular tissues and concluded that ZIKV might not infect the eyes of fetuses efficiently in this model, even though it crosses the placenta. However, postnatal infection of wild-type mice with ZIKV on day 8 after birth caused a subset ...
Rinderpest, an acute, highly contagious viral disease of ruminant animals, primarily cattle, that was common in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East. However, a vaccine was developed, and in the early 21st century rinderpest became the se
The natural transmission cycle of fibroma virus has not been completely elucidated. The virus may persist in the epidermis of experimentally infected cottontail rabbits for 5 to 10 months (Kilham and Fisher, 1954; Kilham and Dalmat, 1955), which would enhance the likelihood of mechanical arthropod...