Zoonotic diseases: etiology, impact, and control

MT Rahman, MA Sobur, MS Islam, S Ievy, MJ Hossain… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Most humans are in contact with animals in a way or another. A zoonotic disease is a
disease or infection that can be transmitted naturally from vertebrate animals to humans or …

Emerging tick-borne diseases

S Madison-Antenucci, LD Kramer… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health
issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick …

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: The most important research questions

KS Yuen, ZW Ye, SY Fung, CP Chan, DY Jin - Cell & bioscience, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an ongoing global health emergency. Here we …

Cross‐species transmission of the newly identified coronavirus 2019‐nCoV

W Ji, W Wang, X Zhao, J Zai, X Li - Journal of medical virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The current outbreak of viral pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China, was caused by a novel
coronavirus designated 2019‐nCoV by the World Health Organization, as determined by …

[HTML][HTML] Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic

X Xiao, C Newman, CD Buesching, DW Macdonald… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Here we document 47,381 individuals from 38 species, including 31 protected species sold
between May 2017 and November 2019 in Wuhan's markets. We note that no pangolins (or …

Radiographic and CT features of viral pneumonia

HJ Koo, S Lim, J Choe, SH Choi, H Sung, KH Do - Radiographics, 2018 - pubs.rsna.org
Viruses are the most common causes of respiratory infection. The imaging findings of viral
pneumonia are diverse and overlap with those of other nonviral infectious and inflammatory …

Favipiravir (T-705), a broad spectrum inhibitor of viral RNA polymerase

Y Furuta, T Komeno, T Nakamura - … of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract Favipiravir (T-705; 6-fluoro-3-hydroxy-2-pyrazinecarboxamide) is an anti-viral agent
that selectively and potently inhibits the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) of RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Endemic severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, Vietnam

XC Tran, Y Yun, SH Kim, NTP Thao… - Emerging infectious …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS), a tickborne viral disease, has been
identified in China, South Korea, and Japan since 2009. We found retrospective evidence of …

Emerging tick-borne pathogens of public health importance: a mini-review

I Rochlin, A Toledo - Journal of medical microbiology, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
Ticks are the most important vectors of human pathogens, leading to increased public health
burdens worldwide. Tick-borne pathogens include viruses (eg tick-borne encephalitis and …

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus: emerging novel phlebovirus and their control strategy

MA Casel, SJ Park, YK Choi - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2021 - nature.com
An emerging infectious disease first identified in central China in 2009, severe fever with
thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) was found to be caused by a novel phlebovirus. Since …