Enterovirus (4) | ![]() |
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They tested the immune response to infection by the Herpes simplex virus 2, which can cause cold sores and is a notoriously difficult virus to treat due to its ability to evade the immune system by dampening down the bodys inflammatory response.
if almond skins have this antiviral activity. oethe herpes simplex virus is a very good model of viral infection
Biju a botanist-turned-herpetologist now celebrated as India s Frogman#has made it his life work to find
what people have thought for many years said researcher Steven Platt a herpetologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
As their next task his team wants to retrieve simple and well characterised DNA VIRUSES such as the elephant herpes virus.
Data support new branch of herpesvirus familyelephants are among the most intelligent nonhumans arguably on par with chimps
In 1999 Gary Hayward of Johns hopkins university and collaborators published their results identifying a novel herpesvirus EEHV1 as the cause of Kumari's sudden death.
At the time of Kumari's death anti-zoo activists seized on the situation to call for abandoning all efforts to breed Asian elephants in zoos as they claimed that zoos were spreading the deadly herpesvirus says Hayward.
whereas some identical herpesvirus strains infected both healthy and diseased animals concurrently at particular facilities the majority were different strains
The papers also provide substantial data to support the hypothesis that the EEHV collectively represent a new fourth major branch of the herpesvirus family the proposed deltaherpesvirus subfamily (Deltaherpesvirinae) says Philip Pellett of Wayne State university Detroit who wrote an invited
Pellett adds that Further scientific significance arises from the discovery of 12 new herpesviruses and identification of some new wrinkles in our understanding of herpesvirus diversity and evolution.
and herpetologist at the Colorado Plateau Research Station has been studying the narrow-headed gartersnake which was listed recently as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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