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Sheep fever
“Send in the clones” (Newsweek), “Brave new world” (Los Angeles Times) and “Could we now raise the dead?” (London Daily Mail ) were three of the headlines triggered by the announcement from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh of a viable lamb derived from an adult mammary cell [1]. Perhaps encouraged by team leader Ian Wilmut’s explanation of the name given to Dolly (“We couldn’t think of a more ...
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Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an epizootic viral disease of sheep that can be transmitted from sheep to humans, particularly by contact with aborted fetuses. A capripoxvirus (CPV) recombinant virus (rKS1/RVFV) was developed, which expressed the Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) Gn and Gc glycoproteins. These expressed glycoproteins had the correct size and reacted with monoclonal antibodies (MAb) to ...
متن کاملHyperendemic focus of Q fever related to sheep and wind.
Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis which is caused by Coxiella burnetii and presents as both acute or chronic cases. The disease can be transmitted from animal reservoirs to humans by the inhalation of infected aerosols. The authors investigated the epidemiology of Q fever in the Bouches-du-Rhône district of southern France. The study area was centered around the small town of Martigues near the c...
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Ticks may transmit pathogens to ruminants worldwide, creating diseases such as anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and theileriosis. In Europe, the most important tick vector is Ixodes ricinus and the most widespread tick-borne infection in animals is Anaplasma phagocytophilum. This infection causes tick-borne fever (TBF) in ruminants, a disease which may not only cause suboptimal growth, bu...
متن کاملSerologic Survey of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever among Sheep in Ardabil Province, Northwest Iran
Introduction: Livestock is a known source of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) virus infection in humans. Although CCHF is endemic in Iran, limited human cases of CCHF are reported from northwest of Iran. Considering the lack of complete and updated information on the status and distribution of CCHF infection among domestic animals in Ardabil province, this study was conducted to investiga...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00133-3