Showing posts with label serology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serology. Show all posts
Thursday, 28 April 2016

Signs of recent Zika virus infection of babies soon after birth...

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According to a study released 10 days ago, t he cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 30 of 31 babies born with microcephaly in Pernambuco, Brazil be...
Tuesday, 20 October 2015

If you are often in contact with camels are you more likely to acquire MERS-CoV? [spoiler: yep]

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This dromedary camel (DC)/Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) themed post is a quick review of a paper from 2015 by Reusken and a team o...
Thursday, 1 January 2015

Bats in a tree...

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Meliandou and the burnt tree that once housed a bat colony (from Fig 3, [1]). While not snakes on a plane, I'm fairly sure the leve...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014

MERS-CoV detections: The April wave recedes...

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So welcome to the 114th Week of MERS-CoV among us. That week numbering may change shortly. Stay tuned if week numbering is your thing. ...
Saturday, 1 February 2014

Neither market nor farm poultry all that positive for H7N9; songbirds the culprit...?

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Following on from yesterday's post, " If not poultry then what? ", I thought it worth noting the impressive numbers from the C...
Monday, 25 November 2013

No symptoms but still shedding virus?

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Click on image to enlarge. A stylized trace of the temperatures during a PCR cycle. D-denaturation, when primers and double-stranded D...
Sunday, 27 October 2013

MERS case-control study during the Hajj

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Dr Ziad Memish, Deputy Minister of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has made a welcome comment  about some analysis of ill cases that went o...
Friday, 18 October 2013

A summary of Influenza A(H7N9) virus findings in birds and humans [UPDATED, AMENDED FIGURE]

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An  article from Bloomberg news highlights some interesting studies, how they present opposing conclusions and why we can expect to see mor...
Friday, 6 September 2013

More MERS molecular masterfulness: Egyptian camels contain lots of anti-MERS-CoV antibodies [AMENDED]

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UPDATE #1: 23NOV2015 Perera and colleagues from China, Japan, Egypt and the United States report in Eurosurveillance that they have foun...
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

3 in 50 mostly asymptomatic workers handling live poultry have H7N9 antibodies...

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Earlier in the week Yang and colleagues, publishing in the Journal of Infectious Diseases , found that among 1570 people from Zhejiang provi...
Friday, 9 August 2013

Camels carry signs of coronavirus contagion

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Reusken and a  European collaborative team have this morning described the first study looking for evidence of prior infection with the MERS...