Nutrition and Newly Emerging Viral Diseases: An Overview

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.

A Newly Developed Laboratory Slab Roller Compactor (Turamesin): An Overview

Methods of preparing test specimens in laboratories are particularly important. It also holds true in terms of compaction procedure in predicting pavement performance. The currently available laboratory compactor cannot adequately replicate field compaction conditions, especially the Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA) mixture. The essential element of SMA mixture comprises of stones that are placed nex...

Emerging and re-emerging viral diseases: risks and controls

In the present globalized world with overflowing travels and trades, human health has been increasingly threatened due to incidences of emerging or/and re-emerging infectious diseases. The most important sources of novel human pathogens are mainly farm mammals and poultry, and to some extent, wild animals and arthropods. It is estimated that zoonosis constitute about 60% of the ‘known’, and up ...