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Yashpal Singh Malik
Biomedicine
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Avian Reoviruses
The viruses under Orthoreovirus genus of Reoviridae family are non-enveloped, segmented double-stranded RNA virus, possess icosahedral symmetry, and replicate in the cytoplasm. The avian reovirus (ARV) is ubiquit...
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Bioinformatics Applications in Advancing Animal Virus Research
Viruses serve as infectious agents for all living entities. There have been various research groups that focus on understanding the viruses in terms of their host-viral relationships, pathogenesis and immune e...
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Epidemiological Perspective in Managing Viral Diseases in Animals
Since the first report of a viral disease associated with plants, the fascinating field of virology has evolved and aided mankind altogether. Viral infections are known for inflicting colossal economic losses ...
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Sapelovirus
Sapelovirus (SPV), an emerging virus in the family Picornaviridae, is detected in several animal and bird species irrespective of their age. Amid all SPVs, porcine sapeloviruses (PSVs) are more ubiquitously prese...
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Teschovirus
Teschoviruses are emerging pathogens, belonging to the family Picornaviridae, and infects porcine population only. Among all, porcine teschoviruses (PTVs) are of high prominence leading to clinical illness and co...
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Torque Teno Virus
Torque teno viruses (TTVs), family Anelloviridae, are small, non-enveloped viruses with a circular, negative-sense, single-stranded DNA genome. Although TTVs have been reported in a wide variety of animals, porci...
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Picobirnavirus
Picobirnaviruses (PBVs) recently occupied a place in the list of enteric viruses and are highly versatile due to their huge genetic diversity and wide host range. PBVs are small, non-enveloped viruses carrying...
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Porcine Coronaviruses
Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV), and porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) are enteropathogenic coronaviruses (CoVs) of swine. TGEV appearance in 1946 preceded id...
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Animal Caliciviruses
The family Caliciviridae consists of an expanding list of small, non-enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) has recognized at least five ...
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Animal Rotaviruses
Rotaviruses (RVs) are ubiquitous and remain the major cause of acute viral gastroenteritis in young animals, bird species and children worldwide. The disease is acute, occurs predominantly in intensively reare...
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Emerging and Transboundary Animal Viral Diseases: Perspectives and Preparedness
The epidemics and pandemics of a few infectious diseases during the past couple of decades have accentuated the significance of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) due to their influence on public health. Alth...
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Open AccessSARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and advances in develo** potential therapeutics and vaccines to counter this emerging pandemic
A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), causing an emerging coronavirus disease (COVID-19), first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which has taken a catastrophic turn with high toll rates in China and ...
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Open AccessTransmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to animals: an updated review
COVID-19 caused by a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) originated in Wuhan (Hubei province, China) during late 2019. It has spread across the globe affecting nearly 21 million ...
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Avian Colibacillosis (Escherichia coli)
Avian colibacillosis caused by Escherichia coli is an economically important disease of birds especially the commercially farmed species. The disease is reported worldwide from many species of wild birds also. Th...
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Usutu Virus
Usutu virus (USUV) is an emerging arbovirus that has been attracting interest from the scientific community because of its prevalence in larger areas of Europe. USUV belongs to the genus Flavivirus and is maintai...
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Avian Mycoplasmosis
Avian mycoplasmosis is an economically important disease of birds including farmed and wild species. Among a number of pathogenic mycoplasmas, Mycoplasma gallisepticum and M. synoviae are most important causative...
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Clostridial Infections (Avian Botulism)
Avian botulism is a neuroparalytic disease caused by antigenically distinct toxins produced by Clostridium botulinum. The disease affects domestic fowls as well as wild birds for which botulism is most significan...
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Avian Tuberculosis
Avian tuberculosis also known as avian mycobacteriosis is a chronic disease affecting wild and domestic birds including captive and pet birds. The disease is primarily caused by acid fast mycobacterial species My...
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Giardiasis
Giardiasis is an important protozoan disease-causing diarrhea in both children and adults and transmitted mainly through fecal-oral route and distributed throughout the world. Giardia spp. also causes disease in ...
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Migratory Birds and Public Health Risks
Migration of avian species is a special characteristic enabling them great mobility to cover distances over a relatively short period of time. Coupled with their abundance in almost everywhere on earth, birds ...
