Researchers at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) have developed a new form of rapid test to detect porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) in pigs that they say can be adapted to test for other pathogens, and in other animals. Their findings are published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. The test, created by biochemist Yingfu Li and […]
Researchers at the Pirbright Institute and the Roslin Institute have discovered how foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) interacts with immune cells in lymphoid tissues, helping the virus to persist in animals such as African buffalo. Their findings are reported in PLoS Pathogens. In studies in mice, they found that FMDV binds to follicular dendritic cells, which […]
The Influenza Virus Gap Analysis Workshop reviewed the current state of knowledge on animal influenza, the gaps in our knowledge and where future research should be focused. The meeting was held in the light of more than 3000 outbreaks of H5N1 strain of the virus in poultry in dozens of countries, and more than 77 […]
