Emerging Viral Diseases of Aquatic Animals: Regional Perspective

Emerging and Re-emerging Viral Diseases of Small Animals

The newest emerging viral infection of dogs is canine circovirus. It was thought to be the cause of illness and mortality in Ohio dogs in late August/early September 2013. Canine circovirus can either be the primary infection or present in the form of co-infection with other enteric pathogens. Its role as a primary pathogen still needs to be defined. In a recent paper, Linlin et al (1) document...

Emerging and Re-emerging Viral Diseases of Large Animals

A single-nucleotide polymorphism (A(2254) or G(2254)) in the DNA polymerase gene of equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) has been linked to the neuropathogenic phenotype which induces equine herpes myeloencephalitis (EHM). Based upon this, a real-time PCR assay to distinguish potentially neuropathogenic from non-neuropathogenic EHV-1 strains was described in 2007. With some limitations, this assay was ...

Emerging viral diseases: an Australian perspective.

Update International Editors update Dr. Mackenzie is professor and head of the Department of Microbiology and Parasi-tology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Aus-tralia. His research interests include the epidemiology, ecology, and molecular biology of mosquito-borne and emerging zoonotic viruses. With a few exceptions, emerging diseases in Australia are similar to those in other industriali...

Emerging zoonotic viral diseases.

Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases that are naturally transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans and vice versa. They are caused by all types of pathogenic agents, including bacteria, parasites, fungi, viruses and prions. Although they have been recognised for many centuries, their impact on public health has increased in the last few decades due to a combination of the success in red...

Emerging viral diseases.