Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) is a reemerging, mosquito-borne viral disease of the neotropics that is severely debilitating and sometimes fatal to humans. Periodic epidemics mediated by equine amplification have been recognized since the 1920s, but interepidemic disease is rarely recognized. We report here clinical findings and genetic characterization of 42 cases of endemic VEE detected...

The mean time to death of mice infected with Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus was increased 2 days by antithymocyte serum (ATS) treatment given 1 day before and 1 day after virus inoculation. Virus assays of blood, brain, and spleen indicated that VEE virus replication was delayed by ATS. Additionally, mice treated with ATS exhibited neurological signs later than untreated mice. ...

Using the idea of a quasi-coincedence of a fuzzy point with a fuzzy set, the concept of an (α, β)-fuzzy bi-ideal in ordered semigroups is introduced, which is a generalization of the concept of a fuzzy bi-ideal in ordered semigroups and some interesting characterizations theorems are obtained. A special attention is given to (∈,∈ ∨q)-fuzzy bi-ideals. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 06F...

In this paper, we define a new algebraic structure of an induced fuzzy k-ideal of a HX ring and some related properties are investigated. The purpose of this study is to implement the fuzzy set theory and ring theory in fuzzy HX k-ideals of a HX ring. We also establish the relation between fuzzy HX ideals and fuzzy HX k-ideals of a HX ring . Characterizations of level subsets of a fuzzy HX k-id...

An efficient flood alarm system may significantly improve public safety and mitigate damages caused by inundation. Flood forecasting is undoubtedly a challenging field of operational hydrology and a huge literature has been developed over the years. In this paper, we first define ordered ideal intuitionistic fuzzy sets and establish some results on them. Then, we define similarity measures betw...

This paper proposes a new algorithm for the solution of fully fuzzy Multi objective linear programming problems involving triangular fuzzy number without converting them to equivalent classical problems. Based on the fuzzy ideal and fuzzy negative ideal solution of each single fuzzy objective function we propose an algorithm which provides a fuzzy Pareto-optimal solution for the given fully fuz...

Two groups of four dairy cows (Bos taurus) were infected subcutaneously with the epizootic Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus (VEE) strains MF-8 and San Pelayo, respectively. Animals experienced no clinical illness, but all developed significant neutropenia. Virus was recovered once each from the blood of three animals but did not exceed 10(2.2) SMICLD(50) (Suckling mouse intracerebral l...