BACKGROUND Food choices influence health status, but also have a great impact on the environment. The production of animal-derived foods has a high environmental burden, whereas the burden of refined carbohydrates, vegetables and fruit is low. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations of greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) and land use of usual diet with mortality risk, and to estima...

23 Avian leukosis virus subgroup J (ALV-J) was first isolated from meat-type 24 chickens in 1988. No field cases of ALV-J infection and tumors in layer chickens were 25 observed worldwide until 2004. However, layer flocks in China have experienced 26 outbreaks of this virus in recent years. The molecular epidemiology of ALV-J strains 27 isolated from layer flocks was investigated. The env genes...

Avian leukosis virus subgroup J (ALV-J) was first isolated from meat-type chickens in 1988. No field cases of ALV-J infection or tumors in layer chickens were observed worldwide until 2004. However, layer flocks in China have experienced outbreaks of this virus in recent years. The molecular epidemiology of ALV-J strains isolated from layer flocks was investigated. The env genes of 77.8% (21/27...

Avian influenza viruses (AIV) and Newcastle disease viruses (NDV) of high pathogenicity cause severe systemic disease with high mortality in chickens and can be isolated from the meat of infected chickens. Although AIV and NDV strains of low pathogenicity are typically not present in chicken meat, virus particles in respiratory secretions or feces are possible sources of carcass contamination. ...

myeloid sarcoma is a rare extramedullary tumor of immature myeloid cells. it has been very rarely reported as lateral cervical mass in english literature. myeloid sarcoma has also been reported with marked eosinophilia. here we present a 17 year old boy with lateral cervical mass and persistent eosinophilia. the mass was isointense in mri and homogenously enhanced after contrast injection which...

A precipitating antigen of bovine leukemia virus was isolated by isoelectric focusing and Sephadex gel filtration. In SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis it was found to be a homogeneous protein with a relative molecular weight of 69000 daltons. Because of its relative molecular weight and staining characteristics it was designated as BLV gp69. A protein with the same molecular weight could ...

The disease called fowl paralysis, together with several other allied conditions classed together as the avian leukosis complex,^ causes a tremendous loss to the poultry industry. The paralysis form of this disease complex was first recognized in the United States along the eastern coast about 1920. During the last 20 years the avian leukosis complex has spread rapidly until few flocks of chick...

After an initial acute infection with cell killing, chicken or duck embryo fibroblasts infected in culture with reticuloendotheliosis viruses set up a chronic infection with no cell killing or morphological transformation. Essentially all of the chronically infected cells produced virus. The virus production was not sensitive to cytosine arabinoside or mitomycin C as was virus production in an ...