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Pathogens, Volume 9, Issue 2

February 2020 - 83 articles

Cover Story: This paper presents the results of a molecular surveillance study monitoring amdoparvoviruses and protoparvoviruses circulating in mustelids of insular British Columbia, Canada. By combining molecular epidemiology, genomic sequencing, phylogenetic analyses, and the study of host ecology, it was possible to clarify virus–host interaction dynamics and cross-species transmission patterns. We determined how hosts enable pathogen persistence and identified which hosts, among epidemiologically connected and susceptible populations, are crucial for this persistence and which are dead-end spillover hosts. In this multi-host system, viral and host factors affect viral persistence and distribution, shaping parvoviral ecology and evolution, with implications for insular carnivore conservation. View this paper
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Articles (83)

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,564 Views
22 Pages

Evaluation of Disease Causality of Rare Ixodes ricinus-Borne Infections in Europe

  • Tal Azagi,
  • Dieuwertje Hoornstra,
  • Kristin Kremer,
  • Joppe W. R. Hovius and
  • Hein Sprong

24 February 2020

In Europe, Ixodes ricinus ticks transmit pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). In addition, there is evidence for transmission to humans from I. ricinus of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Babesia diver...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,085 Views
6 Pages

First Case of Typhoid Fever due to Extensively Drug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi in Italy

  • Michela Procaccianti,
  • Alice Motta,
  • Stefano Giordani,
  • Sara Riscassi,
  • Battista Guidi,
  • Monica Ruffini,
  • Valentina Maffini,
  • Susanna Esposito and
  • Icilio Dodi

24 February 2020

Typhoid fever is a potentially severe and occasionally life-threatening bacteraemic illness caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi). In Pakistan, an outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) S. Typhi cases began in November 2016. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,557 Views
12 Pages

Simultaneous Immunization with Omp25 and L7/L12 Provides Protection against Brucellosis in Mice

  • Sonal Gupta,
  • Surender Mohan,
  • Vikas Kumar Somani,
  • Somya Aggarwal and
  • Rakesh Bhatnagar

24 February 2020

Currently used Brucella vaccines, Brucella abortus strain 19 and RB51, comprises of live attenuated Brucella strains and prevent infection in animals. However, these vaccines pose potential risks to recipient animals such as attenuation reversal and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,161 Views
15 Pages

Phenotypic and Molecular Detection of Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Different Sources in Algeria

  • Rachid Achek,
  • Helmut Hotzel,
  • Ibrahim Nabi,
  • Souad Kechida,
  • Djamila Mami,
  • Nassima Didouh,
  • Herbert Tomaso,
  • Heinrich Neubauer,
  • Ralf Ehricht and
  • Stefan Monecke
  • + 1 author

24 February 2020

Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic bacterium causing a wide variety of diseases. Biofilm formation of Staphylococcus aureus is of primary public and animal health concern. The purposes of the present study were to investigate the ability of St...

  • Review
  • Open Access
117 Citations
17,078 Views
10 Pages

Emergence of Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV: Need for Rapid Vaccine and Biologics Development

  • Balamurugan Shanmugaraj,
  • Ashwini Malla and
  • Waranyoo Phoolcharoen

22 February 2020

Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is an emerging pathogen that was first identified in Wuhan, China in late December 2019. This virus is responsible for the ongoing outbreak that causes severe respiratory illness and pneumonia-like infection in humans. D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,519 Views
9 Pages

22 February 2020

Methylobacterium spp. are emerging opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens. Human infections linked to premise plumbing provide evidence of their routes of infection. Cells of a collection of representative strains of different Methylobacterium spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,804 Views
16 Pages

Isolation of Acanthamoeba T5 from Water: Characterization of Its Pathogenic Potential, Including the Production of Extracellular Vesicles

  • Lissette Retana Moreira,
  • Daniel Vargas Ramírez,
  • Fátima Linares,
  • Alexa Prescilla Ledezma,
  • Annette Vaglio Garro,
  • Antonio Osuna,
  • Jacob Lorenzo Morales and
  • Elizabeth Abrahams Sandí

21 February 2020

Acanthamoeba is a genus of free-living amoebae widely distributed in nature, associated with the development of encephalitis and keratitis. Despite the fact that it is common to find genotype T5 in environmental samples, only a few cases have been as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,916 Views
18 Pages

Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Two Cucumber Cultivars with Different Sensitivity to Cucumber Mosaic Virus Infection

  • Zdeno Šubr,
  • Lukáš Predajňa,
  • Katarína Šoltys,
  • Boris Bokor,
  • Jaroslav Budiš and
  • Miroslav Glasa

21 February 2020

Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), with extremely broad host range including both monocots and dicots around the world, belongs to most important viral crop threats. Either natural or genetically constructed sources of resistance are being intensively inve...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,007 Views
12 Pages

The Old and the New on Viral Diseases in Sturgeon

  • Davide Mugetti,
  • Paolo Pastorino,
  • Vasco Menconi,
  • Claudio Pedron and
  • Marino Prearo

21 February 2020

Although sturgeon production by aquaculture has increased worldwide, a major factor limiting its expansion are infectious diseases, although few data about viral diseases are available however. This review provides a rapid overview of viral agents de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,463 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2020

Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is an important porcine bacterial pathogen and zoonotic agent causing sudden death, septic shock and meningitis. These pathologies are the consequence of an exacerbated inflammatory response composed of various mediators...

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