Irrespective of aetiology, infectious respiratory diseases of sheep and goats contribute to 5.6 percent of the total diseases of small ruminants. These infectious respiratory disorders are divided into two groups: the diseases of upper respiratory tract, namely, nasal myiasis and enzootic nasal tumors, and diseases of lower respiratory tract, namely, peste des petits ruminants (PPR), parainflue...

Twenty-seven children with unilateral proptosis were investigated over a period of 8 1/2 years. Seventeen (63%) of them had local or disseminated malignancy, a higher proportion than in earlier reports. The frequency of inflammatory lesions, particularly ethmoiditis progressing to proptosis, appeared to have decreased, probably because of the liberal use of antibiotics for upper respiratory tra...

Cough due to upper respiratory tract infection (URI) or cough without preceding infection is one of the most frequent complaints encountered by family physicians and pediatric providers.1 Cough, more than other symptoms, is disruptive, prevents the sick child and the family from sleeping,2 and might result in frustration. In the absence of effective antiviral treatment for URI, parents try to f...

To determine the role of the pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009 (A/H1N1 2009pdm) in acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) and its impact on the epidemic of seasonal influenza viruses and other common respiratory viruses, nasal and throat swabs taken from 7,776 patients with suspected viral ARTIs from 2006 through 2010 in Beijing, China were screened by real-time PCR for influenza virus typing ...

1320 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 15, No. 8, August 2009 ed in 7 patients; 5 were co-infected with HBoV (2 patients had LRTIs, 2 had upper respiratory tract infections, and 1 had undefined symptoms), and 2 were co-infected with RSV (both patients had symptoms of LRTIs). Of the other 3 patients co-infected with HRV and HBoV, 1 was infected with HRV-B (had LRTI), 1 with H...

Relevance in research infectious and inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract caused by high prevalence, variability clinical manifestations severity disease with risk developing complications. Respiratory are a cause functional morphological disorders mucosa which is protective barrier against various damaging agents. It necessary to use complex drugs that preserve restore physiolo...

In the autumn of 1963, 1,679 employees at two U.K.A.E.A. establishments were inoculated with a single dose (0 25 ml.) of polyvalent oil-adjuvant influenza vaccine. In a non-epidemic winter, no significant improvement in certified sickness absence could be demonstrated in the vaccinated group when compared with a randomly selected uninoculated group. In particular, no real protection was shown, ...