Issue · 2016
Vol. 3, Iss. 2, Pages 24-46
4 articles · pp. 24-46 · All issues →
Mini-ReviewUse of Suppression Subtractive Hybridization for Viral Diagnostics
Mohammed M. Islam, Damian F. J. Purcell, George Kannourakis
Efficient identification of viruses is paramount to not only define the cause of uncharacterized infections but also to estimate the dynamics of viral population in the infected hosts. Several recent methodologies and chemistries have been proposed for…
28 May 2016- Mini-Review
Reporter Classical Swine Fever Virus: A Powerful Tool to Study Virus Biology
Yongfeng Li, Mo Zhou, Xiao Wang, Libao Xie, Hua-Ji Qiu
Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is generally a noncytopathogenic virus in cell cultures. The development of reporter CSFV has provided an excellent option to directly detect viral replication without the use of secondary labeling. This mini-review discusses…
2 May 2016 
Short CommunicationGenetic Characterization of Pigeon Paramyxovirus Type 1 in Egypt
Mohammed A. Rohaim, Rania F. El Naggar, Ahmed M. Helal, Hussein Ahmed Hussein, Neil LeBlanc
This study reports the first pathotypic and genetic characterizations of the pigeon paramyxovirus type I (PPMV-1) from pigeon in Egypt during 2014. Pathotyping, based on the mean death time (86 hours) in eggs and the intracerebral pathogenicity index (1.2), an…
17 May 2016- Review
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Foot and Mouth Disease in the Maghreb Countries
Moustafa Kardjadj
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly infectious and contagious transboundary animal disease and one of the most economically devastating diseases that affect cloven-hoofed livestock including cattle, goats, sheep, pigs and wild ungulates. Wide prevalence o…
27 May 2016