Dengue Articles & Analysis
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Background Outbreaks of multiple Flaviviruses have afflicted humankind for centuries due to their rapid spread predominantly by arthropod vectors. Global warming has caused epidemics to emerge in previously unaffected regions. The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and subsequent race in vaccine development can provide strategies to the scientific community to avoid a flavivirus pandemic. The COVID-19 battle ...
Glycosaminoglycan (GAG) is a general term for the glycan part of proteoglycan macromolecules. Glycosaminoglycans are large linear polysaccharides composed of repeating disaccharide units, and their main configuration contains amino sugars and uronic acids (glucuronic acid and/or iduronic acid). Glycosaminoglycans can be divided into chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate, keratan sulfate, ...
Sun Tzu once said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” This is the philosophy you should take into the battle against viruses and bacteria. If you know the difference between virus and bacteria, and how to best take on each, you can never lose. The COVID-19 pandemic has left everyone with a newfound passion for eliminating ...
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Malaria. Yellow Fever. Zika. Dengue. West Nile virus. These are some of the diseases, carried by mosquitos, that infect millions of people worldwide every year. According to the World Health Organization, these infections result in over 700,000 deaths annually. To help curb this huge burden on public health, scientists have been searching for better ways to manage mosquito populations to inhibit ...
Abstract Insect cells are widely used for recombinant protein expression, typically as hosts for recombinant baculovirus vectors, but also for plasmid-mediated transient transfection or stable genetic transformation. Insect cells are used to express proteins for research, as well as to manufacture biologicals for human and veterinary medicine. Recently, several insect cell lines used for ...
The first meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR 2005) regarding clusters of microcephaly cases and other neurologic disorders in some areas affected by Zika virus was held by teleconference on 1 February 2016. According to the Pan American Health Organization the Zika illness is caused by the bite of an ...
Add one more horror to the list of awful threats that climate change poses: it could introduce dengue fever in Europe. Dengue fever is already a hazard for 2.5 billion people in humid tropical regions, and 50-100 million people a year are infected by the mosquito-borne disease. It puts 500,000 of them in hospital each year, and kills around 12,000 − many of them children. And there is ...
This study was designed to determine the seasonal variation in abundance of dengue vectors at open spaces, empty houses, parks, and markets in endemic and nonendemic districts of dengue. Ovitraps were placed in these sites from March 2003 to January 2004 in Kaohsiung Area (Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County), South Taiwan. The index peaked in May, June, and September in the endemic districts and ...