Acknowledgments We thank the members of diagnostic section of the Infl uenza Research Group of the Institute for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases for their constant support and assistance in these investigations. We also thank the physicians from the Infectious Disease departments of PitiéSalpêtrière and Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospitals, who were deeply involved in the management ...

Susan Swindells,1 Charles Flexner,2 Courtney V. Fletcher,1 and Jeffrey M. Jacobson3 1Departments of Internal Medicine and Pharmacy Practice, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha; 2Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, and International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; and 3Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Drexel University C...

in the present study, 360 male day-old broiler chicks were used to determine the effect of mixed livevaccines of newcastle disease (nd) and infectious bronchitis (ib) on serum and local antibody responses toib. chicks were randomly divided into 12 treatment groups of 3 replicates and reared for 40 days on floorpens. groups 1 to 5 received mixed nd and ib vaccine. groups 7 to 11 received ib vacc...

introduction: regarding the cross contamina-tion, prevention from infection is of high prior ity. the aim of this research was assessment of knowledge and attitude of dental students toward infection control in endodontics depart ment of faculty of dentistry, babol uni versity of medi cal sciences. materials and methods: the study was accom plished among 8th, 10th and 12th grade dental students...

infectious bursal disease virus (ibdv) infects young chickens and causes serious lose to the poultry industry, worldwide. previous attempts using purified bacterially expressed ibdv vp2 failed to elicit a protective immune response to the virus. this study was designed to investigate if the initial expressed protein contained neutralizing epitopes but became nonfunctional during purification st...

1 Department of Pathobiology, Institute of Veterinary Pathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2 Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Michigan, MI, USA 3 Department of Molecular and Clinical Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein/Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany 4 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Quillen College o...

Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, 501 D.W. Brooks Drive, Athens, GA 30602, USA Laboratory of Microbiology and Virology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milan, Italy Institute of Virology, Technische Universität München/Helmholtz Zentrum München, 81675 Munich, Germany German C...