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ReviewPlant-Virus Interactions: Disease Resistance in Focus
Waqar Islam, Madiha Zaynab, Muhammad Qasim, Zujian Wu
Abstract | Crops are threatened by plant viruses worldwide as they hack the host machinery for their reproduction. Plants have undergone continuous evolution and have equipped themselves with counter defense and tolerant strategies against viral infections. In…
13 May 2017
Mini-ReviewInfectious Bursal Disease Virus-Induced Chicken Innate Immune Genes Expression
Gabriela Mansano do Nascimento, Helena Lage Ferreira, Clarice Weis Arns
Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) belongs to the genus Avibirnavirus, a dsRNA virus that causes an acute, highly contagious and immunosuppressive disease in young chickens. The first line of defence against the virus is innate immunity whose activation is…
9 Apr 2017
Research ArticleDetection of Epstein-Barr Virus IgM in HIV Infected Individuals in Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Oladipo Elijah Kolawole, Oloke Julius Kola, Awoyelu Hilda Elukunbi
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), also known as human herpes virus-4 (HHV-4), is a virus of the Herpesviridae family, and is one of the most common viruses in humans. It is the best known cause of infectious mononucleosis. In acquired immuno-deficient Syndrome patient…
27 Jan 2017
Research ArticleImmune-Related Gene Expression in Response to Different Strains of Egyptian Low Pathogenic H9N2 Infection in Chicken Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
Ahmed Samy, Wesam Mady, Naglaa M. Haggag, Samah H. Mohamed, Ebtissam N. AlShamy, M.K. Hassan
Avian influenza H9N2 represents one of the most important challenges to poultry production worldwide. That is in addition to its ability to induce mortalities and reduce the productivity, it accused to be negatively affecting the avian immune response facilita…
26 Jan 2017- Mini-Review
Avian coronavirus Main Replicase Enzymes at a Glance
Giselle R.R. Ayres
Avian Coronavirus (AvCoV) belongs to the Gammacoronavirus genus from the Coronaviridae family and Nidovirales order. Coronaviruses have a single-stranded positive RNA genome, corresponding to the largest known RNA genome, with about 27kb for AvCoV. The first 5…
19 Jan 2017 
ReviewPPRV-Induced Immunosuppression at the Interface of Virus-Host Interaction
Jose M. Rojas, Noemi Sevilla, Veronica Martin
Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) is the causal agent of a highly contagious disease that affects domestic and wild small ruminants, Peste des petits ruminants (PPR). Due to the important economical losses caused by this virus in Africa and Asia, the dev…
19 Jan 2017
Research ArticleHuman Cytomegalovirus Tegument Protein pUL23 Interacts with Capsid Protein pUL85
Shaoling Lin, Jiamiao Hu
The tegument protein pUL23 of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) plays an important in the virus pathobiology, however, its role in viral assembly and replication is poorly defined. In this study we demonstrated that HCMV pUL23 interacts with an essential comp…
1 Oct 2016- Editorial
Molecular Virology and Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
Hassan Tarik Atmaca
Abstract | Peste des Petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious and economically devastating viral disease of small ruminants and camels, and thus is negatively affecting the livelihoods of poor people in many developing countries. Efforts are being made to…
30 Sept 2016 
Research ArticleMolecular and Epidemiological Features of Peste des Petits Ruminants Outbreak during Endemic Situation
Muhammad Abubakar, Shumaila Manzoor, Jonas Johansson Wensman, Emeli Torsson, Qurban Ali, Muhammad Munir
An outbreak of Peste des Petits ruminants (PPR), possibly caused by the introduction of new animals in the herd, was investigated in an unvaccinated mixed herd of sheep and goats. Goats in the herd showed characteristic signs of PPR including nasal and ocular…
12 Aug 2016
Research ArticleGenetic Characterization of Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus Circulating in Bangladesh
Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman, Rokshana Parvin, Ataur Rahman Bhuiyan, Mohammad Giasuddin, Shah Md. Ziqrul Haq Chowdhury, Mohammad Rafiqul Islam et al.
Abstract | Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute and highly contagious viral disease of small ruminants. The disease is endemic in Bangladesh and causes considerable economic losses due to its high morbidity and mortality. The study was undertaken to de…
25 Jul 2016- Review
Where is the Participation in Participatory Epidemiology? How Engagement with Social Science could lead to Improved Understanding and Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants
Klara Fischer, Erika Chenais, Emeli Torsson, Jonas Johansson Wensman
Abstract | Peste des Petits ruminants (PPR) is a potentially lethal, highly contagious viral disease of sheep and goats. Domestic sheep and goats are important species for the livelihoods of poor people in many developing countries. Within societies where PPR…
15 Jul 2016 - Review
Comprehensive Review on Recent Developments in the Diagnostics and Vaccines against Peste des Petits Ruminants
Amitha Reena Gomes, Belamaranahally Muniveerappa Veeregowda, Sonnahallipura Munivenkatappa Byregowda, Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan
Abstract | Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a viral disease of goats and sheep caused by a morbillivirus of the family paramyxoviridae is a major threat to small ruminant farming. Global announcement of PPR eradication by 2030 has opened lot of research gaps…
5 Jul 2016 
Short CommunicationPrevalence of PPR-virus Antibodies in Sheep, Goats and Camels in Hail, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Zein Mahmoud, Muaz Abdellatif, Luai Shazali
Abstract | The present study describes the prevalence of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus antibodies in sheep, goats and camels at Hail, Bagaa, Shenan and Ghazalah, Saudi Arabia. Serum samples (n=400), collected during 2012–2013 from sick and clini…
3 Jul 2016- Review
Planning, Implementation of Peste des Petits Ruminants Control Programme and Strategies Adopted for Disease Control in India
Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan, Gurrappa Naidu Govindaraj, Habibur Rahman
Abstract | Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute, highly contagious, notifiable and economically important transboundary viral disease of sheep and goats. PPR is enzootic in India as more number of outbreaks have occurred in the past and now occurring r…
1 Jul 2016 - Research Article
Estimation of Economic Loss of PPR in Sheep and Goats in India: An Annual Incidence Based Analysis
Gurrappa Naidu Govindaraj, Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan, Habibur Rahman
Abstract | Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious viral disease in small ruminants causing huge loss to farmers. In this study, an attempt has been made to estimate the economic losses based on the annual incidence, morbidity, mortality levels…
1 Jul 2016 
ReviewFactors Affecting PPRV in African Countries and their Countermeasures
Moustafa Kardjadj, Pam Dachung Luka
Abstract | Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) causes an economically important plague of sheep and goats that serves as a major constraint in the development of the small ruminant’s production within an infected area. The virus is endemic across muc…
1 Jul 2016- Review
Eradicating Peste des Petits Ruminants - The Challenges Ahead
Ashley C. Banyard, Satya Parida
Abstract | Peste des petits ruminants virus causes an economically important disease of small ruminants that causes extensive livestock losses across areas where it is endemic. Further the recent description of the disease in naïve populations of animals…
30 Jun 2016 - Mini-Review
Use 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 - 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 
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