The 2012 Newcastle and Sydney SPAC surveys

Norovirus GII.4/Sydney/2012 in Italy, Winter 2012–2013

1. Green KY. Caliciviridae: the noroviruses. In: Fields BN, Knipe DM, Howley PM, Griffin DE, Lamb RA, Martin MA, et al, editors. Fields virology, 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins; 2007. p. 949–79. 2. van Beek J, Ambert-Balay K, Botteldoorn N, Eden J, Fonager J, Hewitt J, et al. Indications for worldwide increased norovirus activity associated with emergence of a new variant ...

Norovirus Variant GII.4/Sydney/2012, Bangladesh

Passive protection against lethal enterovirus 71 infection in newborn mice by neutralizing antibodies elicited by a synthetic peptide. Microbes To the Editor: Noroviruses (NoVs) are the most common cause of foodborne and waterborne outbreaks of gastroenteritis in persons from all age groups in industrialized and developing countries (1). Although NoV outbreaks occur throughout the year, activit...

Community and the Politics of Open Spac

(Almost) Total Recall - SYDNEY CMCRC at TAC 2012

We explore unsupervised and supervised whole-document approaches to English NEL with naı̈ve and context clustering. Our best system uses unsupervised entity linking and naı̈ve clustering and scores 66.5% B+ F1 score. Our KB clustering score is competitive with the top systems at 65.6%.

Phylogenetic study based on the phosphoprotein gene of Iranian Newcastle disease viruses (NDV) isolates, 2010 -2012

BACKGROUND: Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is the causativeagent of the Newcastle disease (ND), a highly contagiousdisease in birds that causes significant economic losses to thepoultry industry worldwide. ND is endemic in Iran and outbreaksare reported regularly in commercial poultry flocks and differentspecies of birds. OBJECTIVES:The current study was carried outto characterize NDV based on p...