Avian pox is a viral disease with a wide host range. In Great Britain, avian pox in birds of the Paridae family was first diagnosed in a great tit (Parus major) from south-east England in 2006. An increasing number of avian pox incidents in Paridae have been reported each year since, indicative of an emergent infection. Here, we utilise a database of opportunistic reports of garden bird mortali...

The eosin-staining nuclear inclusions found in the monkeys' testicles inoculated with emulsified tissue of human chicken-pox lesions are specifically associated with the virus of varicella.

Although the majority of different members of poxviruses have been carefully studied, !ittle is known about goat pox and no detailed report on the disease and its causative agent is, so far, available. The cultivation of goat pox virus (GPV) in cell cultures reported in the present paper makes available the most reliable and economic source for large s~ale produc~ion of vaccine to control the d...

Background: The analysis of antigen-specific cytokine expression has been considered to evaluate the immune responses and vaccines efficacy in recent years. The aim of this study was to compare the cell-mediated immune response characteristics of two Capri pox virus (CaPV) vaccines against lumpy skin disease in cattle. Materials and Methods: Two Capri pox virus vaccines were administered to da...

Descriptions of an epidemic disease in rabbits comparable with small pox in man were given in a previous paper (1). Pearce, Rosahn and Hu (2) found that the disease was caused by a filterable virus of the pox group which was closely related to vaccine virus but not identical with either the neurotropic or dermotropic form. From their investigations, it may be inferred that the causative agent i...

The potential of using compact discs as high throughput screening platforms for DNA microarraying is discussed and applied to discriminate genetic variations of Plum pox virus.

This report describes the preparation of a safe and immunogenic single vaccine against capripox disease in sheep and goats using two different types of cells (primary lamb kidney and vero, a bovine turbinate cell line). This used the 0240 pox strain isolated from sheep during an outbreak. The prepared vaccine was administered subcutaneously and induced complete protection against an experimenta...

M. PLUM Mathematisches Institut I, Universität Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 12, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany [Received on 10 December 2002; revised on 12 January 2004] It is well known that routine methods of computing the spectrum of a self-adjoint operator often lead to spurious eigenvalues in a gap between two parts of the essential spectrum. We provide a geometrical explanation for a numerical me...

BACKGROUND Avipoxvirus sp. is a significant threat to endemic bird populations on several groups of islands worldwide, including Hawai'i, the Galapagos Islands, and the Canary Islands. Accurate identification and genotyping of Avipoxvirus is critical to the study of this disease and how it interacts with other pathogens, but currently available methods rely on invasive sampling of pox-like lesi...