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Infectious Disease
Studies from National Institutes of Health in the area of infectious disease published
March 10th, 2009
"Understanding viral factors that promote cross-species transmission is important for evaluating the risk of zoonotic emergence," scientists in the United States report. "We constructed a database of viruses of domestic artiodactyls and examined the correlation between traits linked in the literature to cross-species transmission and the ability of viruses to infect humans. Among these traits-genomic material, genome segmentation, and replication without nuclear entry-the last is the strongest predictor of cross-species transmission," wrote J.R.C. Pulliama and colleagues, National Institutes of Health. The researchers concluded: "This finding...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-03-10)
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