Fast, accurate, point-of-care COVID-19 pandemic diagnosis enabled through advanced lab-on-chip optical biosensors: Opportunities and challenges

A Asghari, C Wang, KM Yoo, A Rostamian… - Applied physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The sudden rise of the worldwide severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) pandemic in early 2020 has called into drastic action measures to perform instant …

West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease

LE Davis, R DeBiasi, DE Goade… - Annals of Neurology …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Since 1999, there have been nearly 20,000 cases of confirmed symptomatic West Nile virus
(WNV) infection in the United States, and it is likely that more than 1 million people have …

Pathogenesis of West Nile Virus infection: a balance between virulence, innate and adaptive immunity, and viral evasion

MA Samuel, MS Diamond - Journal of virology, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
West Nile virus (WNV) is a neurotropic ffavivirus that has emerged globally as a significant
cause of viral encephalitis. WNV is maintained in an enzootic cycle between mosquitoes …

Penetration of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein across the blood–brain barrier, as revealed by a combination of a human cell culture model system and optical …

D Petrovszki, FR Walter, JP Vigh, A Kocsis, S Valkai… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since the outbreak of the global pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), several clinical aspects of the disease have come into attention. Besides its …

Transmission dynamics and changing epidemiology of West Nile virus

BJ Blitvich - Animal Health Research Reviews, 2008 - cambridge.org
West Nile virus (WNV) is a flavivirus that is maintained in a bird–mosquito transmission
cycle. Humans, horses and other non-avian vertebrates are usually incidental hosts, but …

[HTML][HTML] Pathological features of West Nile and Usutu virus natural infections in wild and domestic animals and in humans: A comparative review

G Agliani, G Giglia, EM Marshall, A Gröne, BHG Rockx… - One Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Mosquito-borne flaviviruses are emerging pathogens with zoonotic potential. Due to the
recent climate and environmental changes, they are spreading across Europe, becoming a …

Pathology and tissue tropism of natural West Nile virus infection in birds: a review

V Gamino, U Höfle - Veterinary research, 2013 - Springer
West Nile virus (WNV) is a globally distributed arthropod-borne flavivirus capable of infecting
a wide variety of vertebrates, with birds as its natural reservoir. Although it had been …

Fatal hemorrhagic fever caused by West Nile virus in the United States

CD Paddock, WL Nicholson, J Bhatnagar… - Clinical infectious …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background. Most West Nile virus (WNV) infections in humans are asymptomatic;
severe disease occurs in relatively few patients and typically manifests as encephalitis …

Sensitivity and specificity of monoclonal and polyclonal immunohistochemical staining for West Nile virus in various organs from American crows (Corvus …

RC Smedley, JS Patterson, RA Miller, JP Massey… - BMC Infectious …, 2007 - Springer
Background Based on results of earlier studies, brain, heart and kidney are most commonly
used for West Nile virus (WNV) detection in avian species. Both monoclonal and polyclonal …

[PDF][PDF] Avian mortality surveillance for West Nile virus in Colorado

NM Nemeth, S Beckett, E Edwards, K Klenk… - The American journal …, 2007 - academia.edu
We tested 1,549 avian carcasses of 104 species to identify targets for West Nile virus (WNV)
surveillance in Colorado, determine species affected by WNV, compare virus isolation …