As hospitals across the nation were preparing for thepossibility of Ebola or Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome(MERS-CoV) cases, healthcare workers underwent intricatetraining in the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).An Ebola or MERS-CoV…
Abstract Background Most emerging health threats are of zoonotic origin. For the overwhelming majority, their causative agents are RNA viruses which include but are not limited to HIV, Influenza, SARS, Ebola, Dengue, and Hantavirus. Of increasing…
For vertebrate organisms where a reference genome is not available, de novo transcriptome assembly enables a cost effective insight into the identification of tissue specific or differentially expressed genes and variation of the coding part of the…
Abstract Background The number of scarlet fever occurrences reported between 2000 and 2006 fluctuated considerably in central Taiwan and throughout the nation. Isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes were collected from scarlet fever patients in central…
Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) was investigated in the central nervous system (CNS) of cattle with neurological syndrome. A total of 269 CNS samples were submitted to nested-PCR (BLV env gene gp51), and the viral genotypes were identified. The…
MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) is a worldwide disease these days. The number of infected people is 1038(08/03/2015) in Saudi Arabia and 186(08/03/2015) in South Korea. MERS is all over the world including Europe and the fatality rate is…
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has recently emerged in the Middle East. Since 2012, there have been approximately 2,100 confirmed cases, with a 35% case fatality rate. Disease severity has been linked to patient health…