Chicken soup has long been regarded as a remedy for symptomatic upper respiratory tract infections. As it is likely that the clinical similarity of the diverse infectious processes that can result in "colds" is due to a shared inflammatory response, an effect of chicken soup in mitigating inflammation could account for its attested benefits. To evaluate this, a traditional chicken soup was test...

Rosai-Dorfman disease is a rare histiocytic proliferative disorder that commonly presents with a massive lymphadenopathy and a variety of constitutional symptoms. Severe hemolytic anemia is an infrequent complication of this disease. Although the etiology of the condition is unknown, infectious agents including viruses have been implicated. We describe a 2-year-old female child who presented wi...

By ULFAR JONSSON, M.D., 0. C. HANSEN-PRUSS, M.D., AND R. W. RUNDLES, M.D. T HERE have been many reports in recent years of splenectomy for hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, or pancytopenia resulting from vascular, infectious, or neoplastic involvement of the spleen.” 12, 13, 15 Hemolytic anemia has been observed in a few patients with leukemic splenomegaly) 6. 8. 13, 15 The leukemia has usual...

A lower price on poultry meat, compared with other meats (beef, pork etc.), affects the increasing demand for poultry meat. The productivity and production cost of broiler chickens are directly related to the amount of feed fed, the proportion of crude protein in the feed, and the biological value and price of the feed. The EU produces only 30% of the protein crops used for feed; thus, the larg...

UNLABELLED Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease of chickens caused by infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV). The disease is controlled mainly through biosecurity and vaccination with live attenuated strains of ILTV and vectored vaccines based on turkey herpesvirus (HVT) and fowlpox virus (FPV). The current live attenuated vaccines (chicken embr...

Listeria species are widely distributed in environment and L. monocytogenes are the causal agent of Listeriosis, the disease that can be serious and fatal to human and animals. The objectives of this study were to detect, isolate and identify Listeria monocytogenes from retail broiler chicken ready to eat meat products in restaurants-Khartoum state, Sudan. A total of 250 retail broiler chicken ...

infectious bursal disease virus (ibdv) is the causative agent of gumboro disease, an infectious disease of global economic importance in poultry. the expression of heterologous proteins in p.pastoris is fast, simple and inexpensive. in this study, vp2 encoding gene of classical d78 ibdv was amplified using reverse transcription (rt) polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and cloned into ppiczαa vector...

K.G. Lieu and E.-H. Shim contributed equally to this paper. Correspondence to David A. Jans: [email protected] E.-H. Shim’s present address is Dept. of Urology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35233. Abbreviations used in this paper: CLSM, confocal laser scanning microscopy; FL, full length; IBB, importin- binding; IBBL, importin-–binding–like; IMP, importin; IP, immunoprecipitation...

Leptospirosis is an infectious disease, which is frequent in several countries, generally characterized by symptoms such as hemoglobinemia, icterohemoglobinuria, icterus, sepsis, and anemia induced by leptospira genus species in all domestic animals and humans.