Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 375: The Cadherin Protein Is Not Involved in Susceptibility to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab or Cry1Fa Toxins in Spodoptera frugiperda Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060375 Authors: Jianfeng Zhang Minghui Jin Yanchao Yang Leilei Liu Yongbo Yang Isabel Gómez Alejandra Bravo Mario Soberón Yutao Xiao Kaiyu Liu It is well known that insect larval midgut cadherin protein serves as a receptor of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) crystal Cry1Ac or Cry1Ab...
Sat Jun 06, 2020 03:00
Toxins, Vol. 12, Pages 374: Mycotoxin Determination in Animal Feed: An LC-FLD Method for Simultaneous Quantification of Aflatoxins, Ochratoxins and Zearelanone in This Matrix Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins12060374 Authors: Borja Muñoz-Solano Elena González-Peñas Mycotoxins are toxic compounds for humans and animals that are produced by fungi. Mycotoxin contamination in feed is a global safety concern and effective control of these compounds in this matrix is needed. This study proposes...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 97: Performance of an Automated Zika IgG Immunoassay in the Detection of Zika IgG Specific Antibodies—A Validation Approach in Samples from Prevalence Areas and Non-Endemic Countries Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5020097 Authors: Tina Laengin Stephanie Augenstein Elke Stadlbauer Heike Girgnhuber Mario Gloeck Alexander Riedel The diagnosis of Zika virus infection is complicated and includes testing for nucleic...
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 96: Emergence of Arboviruses in the United States: The Boom and Bust of Funding, Innovation, and Capacity Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5020096 Authors: Kading Cohnstaedt Fall Hamer Mosquito-borne viruses will continue to emerge and generate a significant public health burden around the globe. Here, we provide a longitudinal perspective on how the emergence of mosquito-borne viruses in the Americas has triggered...
Sat Jun 06, 2020 03:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 94: Optimization of Culture Protocols to Isolate Leptospira spp. from Environmental Water, Field Investigation, and Identification of Factors Associated with the Presence of Leptospira spp. in the Environment Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5020094 Authors: Udomsak Narkkul Janjira Thaipadungpanit Prapaporn Srilohasin Preeraya Singkhaimuk Metawee Thongdee Somjit Chaiwattanarungruengpaisan Panadda Krairojananan Wirichada...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 95: Evaluation of Rapid Extraction Methods Coupled with a Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Assay for Point-of-Need Diagnosis of Post-Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5020095 Authors: Rajashree Chowdhury Prakash Ghosh Md. Anik Ashfaq Khan Faria Hossain Khaledul Faisal Rupen Nath James Baker Ahmed Abd El Wahed Shomik Maruf Proggananda Nath Debashis Ghosh Md. Masud-Ur-Rashid...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 92: Mandatory Notification of Chronic Chagas Disease: Confronting the Epidemiological Silence in the State of Goiás, Brazil Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5020092 Authors: Liliane da Rocha Siriano Andrea Marchiol Marina Pereira Certo Juan-Carlos Cubides Colin Forsyth Fabrício Augusto de Sousa Objectives: This paper presents the results of the design and implementation process for the policy of compulsory notification...
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TropicalMed, Vol. 5, Pages 93: Diagnostic Techniques of Soil-Transmitted Helminths: Impact on Control Measures Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed5020093 Authors: Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese Gédéon Prince Manouana Paul Alvyn Nguema Moure Michael Ramharter Meral Esen Ayola Akim Adégnika Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are common in the tropical and subtropical countries. The burden of disease is highest in endemic areas with limited access...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 288: Multiepitope-Based Subunit Vaccine Design and Evaluation against Respiratory Syncytial Virus Using Reverse Vaccinology Approach Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020288 Authors: Muhammad Tahir ul Qamar Zeeshan Shokat Iqra Muneer Usman Ali Ashfaq Hamna Javed Farooq Anwar Amna Bari Barira Zahid Nazamid Saari Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is primarily associated with respiratory disorders globally. Despite the availability of information,...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 287: Schmallenberg Virus: To Vaccinate, or Not to Vaccinate? Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020287 Authors: Kerstin Wernike Martin Beer Schmallenberg virus (SBV), a teratogenic orthobunyavirus that infects predominantly ruminants, emerged in 2011 in Central Europe, spread rapidly throughout the continent, and subsequently established an endemic status with re-circulations to a larger extent every 2 to 3 years. Hence, it represents a constant threat to the continent’s...
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 286: Protective Passive Immunity in Escherichia coli ETEC-Challenged Neonatal Mice Conferred by Orally Immunized Dams with Nanoparticles Containing Homologous Outer Membrane Vesicles Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020286 Authors: Jose Matías Yadira Pastor Juan M. Irache Carlos Gamazo Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains are a major cause of illness and death in mammals, including neonatal, recently weaned pigs and infant human beings. We have...
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 285: Gut Microbiota Abrogates Anti-α-Gal IgA Response in Lungs and Protects against Experimental Aspergillus Infection in Poultry Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020285 Authors: Lourdes Mateos-Hernández Veronica Risco-Castillo Edgar Torres-Maravilla Luis G. Bermúdez-Humarán Pilar Alberdi Adnan Hodžić Angelica Hernández-Jarguin Sabine Rakotobe Clemence Galon Elodie Devillers Jose de la Fuente Jacques Guillot Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz ...
Sun Jun 07, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 283: N-terminus of Flagellin Fused to an Antigen Improves Vaccine Efficacy against Pasteurella multocida Infection in Chickens Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020283 Authors: Doan Wang Ke Cheng Flagellin from bacteria elicits a proinflammatory immune response and may act as a vaccine adjuvant. In this study, we evaluated the adjuvant effect of the N-terminus of flagellin (residues 1–99) when linked to an antigen (a truncated, conserved domain...
Sat Jun 06, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 284: CTLA-4 Blockade, during HIV Virus-Like Particles Immunization, Alters HIV-Specific B-Cell Responses Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020284 Authors: Lewis Poteet Liu Chen LaBranche Stanfield-Oakley Montefiori Ferrari Yao Studies have shown that blockade of CTLA-4 promoted the expansion of germinal center B-cells in viral infection or immunization with model antigens. Few studies have evaluated the immunological consequences...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 282: The Construction and Immunoadjuvant Activities of the Oral Interleukin-17B Expressed by Lactobacillus plantarum NC8 Strain in the Infectious Bronchitis Virus Vaccination of Chickens Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020282 Authors: Shaohua Guo Junjie Peng Yongle Xiao Yanyan Liu Weiwei Hao Xin Yang Hongning Wang Rong Gao Interleukin-17B (IL-17B) is a protective cytokine of the IL-17 family and plays an essential role in the regulation of...
Sat Jun 06, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 278: Vaccinations and Immune Response in Celiac Disease Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020278 Authors: Stefano Passanisi Valeria Dipasquale Claudio Romano Immune response to vaccinations in celiac patients is of growing scientific interest. However, some aspects of the relationship between celiac disease (CD) and vaccines are still unclear. A comprehensive search of published literature using the PubMed database was carried out using the following key terms:...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 280: ImmunizziAMO: A School-Based Field Trial to Teach New Generations the Importance of Vaccination through Games and to Fight Vaccine Hesitancy in Italy Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020280 Authors: Giuseppe La Torre Valeria D’Egidio Cristina Sestili Rosario Andrea Cocchiara Sara Cianfanelli Ornella Di Bella Lorenza Lia Barbara Dorelli Vittoria Cammalleri Insa Backhaus Federica Pagano Chiara Anguissola Amelia Vitiello Rita Carsetti...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 281: Responsiveness to Influenza Vaccination Correlates with NKG2C-Expression on NK Cells Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020281 Authors: Peggy Riese Stephanie Trittel Rishi D. Pathirana Frank Klawonn Rebecca J. Cox Carlos A. Guzmán Influenza vaccination often results in a large percentage of low responders, especially in high-risk groups. As a first line of defense, natural killer (NK) cells play a crucial role in the fight against infections. However,...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 279: Modified Alphavirus-Vesiculovirus Hybrid Vaccine Vectors for Homologous Prime-Boost Immunotherapy of Chronic Hepatitis B Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020279 Authors: Carolina Chiale Timur O. Yarovinsky Stephen W. Mason Bhaskara R. Madina Manisha Menon Marie M. Krady Safiehkhatoon Moshkani Anasuya Chattopadhyay Chattopadhyay Pal Bijan Almassian John K. Rose Michael D. Robek Valerian Nakaar Abstract： Virus-like vesicles (VLV)...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 276: Socioeconomic Determinants in Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccine Refusal in Italy Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020276 Authors: Chiara Bertoncello Antonio Ferro Marco Fonzo Sofia Zanovello Giuseppina Napoletano Francesca Russo Vincenzo Baldo Silvia Cocchio Childhood vaccination has been a milestone in the control of infectious diseases. However, even in countries offering equal access to vaccination, a number of vaccine-preventable diseases...
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Vaccines, Vol. 8, Pages 277: Vaccination Route as a Determinant of Protective Antibody Responses against Herpes Simplex Virus Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines8020277 Authors: Clare Burn Burn Aschner Carl Pierce David M. Knipe Betsy C. Herold Herpes simplex viruses (HSV) are significant global health problems associated with mucosal and neurologic disease. Prior experimental vaccines primarily elicited neutralizing antibodies targeting glycoprotein D (gD), but those that advanced...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 76: Microbial Profile of the Ventriculum of Honey Bee (Apis mellifera ligustica Spinola, 1806) Fed with Veterinary Drugs, Dietary Supplements and Non-Protein Amino Acids Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7020076 Authors: Cilia Fratini Tafi Turchi Mancini Sagona Nanetti Cerri Felicioli The effects of veterinary drugs, dietary supplements and non-protein amino acids on the European honey bee (Apis mellifera ligustica...
Sat Jun 06, 2020 03:00
Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 7, Pages 75: Public Perceptions of Veterinarians from Social and Online Media Listening Veterinary Sciences doi: 10.3390/vetsci7020075 Authors: Nicole Widmar Courtney Bir John Lai Christopher Wolf The public perception of the veterinary medicine profession is of increasing concern given the mounting challenges facing the industry, ranging from student debt loads to mental health implications arising from compassion fatigue, euthanasia, and other challenging...
Sat Jun 06, 2020 03:00
Vibration, Vol. 3, Pages 132-148: Experimental Characterization of Friction in a Negative Stiffness Nonlinear Oscillator Vibration doi: 10.3390/vibration3020011 Authors: Dario Anastasio Stefano Marchesiello Nonlinear dissipative phenomena are common features of many dynamical systems and engineering applications, and their experimental characterization has always been a challenge among the research community. Within the wide range of nonlinear damping mechanisms, friction is surely...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 624: Evaluation of Chemical Protocols for Inactivating SARS-CoV-2 Infectious Samples Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060624 Authors: Boris Pastorino Franck Touret Magali Gilles Lea Luciani Xavier de de Lamballerie Remi N. Charrel Clinical samples collected in coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), patients are commonly manipulated in biosafety level 2 laboratories for molecular diagnostic purposes. Here, we tested French norm NF-EN-14476+A2 derived from European...
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 623: Extracellular Vesicles in Viral Spread and Antiviral Response Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060623 Authors: Bello-Morales Ripa López-Guerrero Viral spread by both enveloped and non-enveloped viruses may be mediated by extracellular vesicles (EVs), including microvesicles (MVs) and exosomes. These secreted vesicles have been demonstrated to be an efficient mechanism that viruses can use to enter host cells, enhance spread or evade the host immune response....
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 621: Tenth Scientific Biennial Meeting of the Australasian Virology Society—AVS10 2019 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060621 Authors: Helbig Bull Ambrose Beard Blanchard Böcking Chua Colmant Crosse Purcell Fraser Hayward Hamilton Husain MacDiarmid Mackenzie Moseley Nguyen Quiñones-Mateu Robinson Rodrigo Rodriguez-Andres Rudd Werno White Young Speck Hibma Drummer...
Sat Jun 06, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 622: Propagation, Inactivation, and Safety Testing of SARS-CoV-2 Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060622 Authors: Alexander S. Jureka Jesus A. Silvas Christopher F. Basler In late 2019, a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, the capital of the Chinese province Hubei. Since then, SARS-CoV-2 has been responsible for a worldwide pandemic resulting in over 4 million infections and over 250,000 deaths. The pandemic...
Sat Jun 06, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 618: The Dynamic Life of Virus Capsids Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060618 Authors: Michael B. Sherman Hong Q. Smith Thomas J. Smith Protein-shelled viruses have been thought as “tin cans” that merely carry the genomic cargo from cell to cell. However, through the years, it has become clear that viruses such as rhinoviruses and caliciviruses are active and dynamic structures waiting for the right environmental cues to deliver their genomic...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 619: Infectious Norovirus Is Chronically Shed by Immunocompromised Pediatric Hosts Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060619 Authors: Amy Davis Valerie Cortez Marco Grodzki Ronald Dallas Jose Ferrolino Pamela Freiden Gabriela Maron Hana Hakim Randall Hayden Li Tang Adam Huys Abimbola Kolawole Christiane Wobus Melissa Jones Stephanie Karst Stacey Schultz-Cherry Noroviruses are a leading cause of gastroenteritis worldwide. Although...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 617: Next-Generation Sequencing for HIV Drug Resistance Testing: Laboratory, Clinical, and Implementation Considerations Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060617 Authors: Santiago Ávila-Ríos Neil Parkin Ronald Swanstrom Roger Paredes Robert Shafer Hezhao Ji Rami Kantor Higher accessibility and decreasing costs of next generation sequencing (NGS), availability of commercial kits, and development of dedicated analysis pipelines, have allowed an increasing...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 616: Arboviruses and Muscle Disorders: From Disease to Cell Biology Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060616 Authors: Claudia Filippone Vincent Legros Patricia Jeannin Valérie Choumet Gillian Butler-Browne Jim Zoladek Vincent Mouly Antoine Gessain Pierre-Emmanuel Ceccaldi Infections due to arboviruses (arthropod-borne viruses) have dramatically increased worldwide during the last few years. In humans, symptoms associated with acute infection of most...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 620: YerA41, a Yersinia ruckeri Bacteriophage: Determination of a Non-Sequencable DNA Bacteriophage Genome via RNA-Sequencing Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060620 Authors: Katarzyna Leskinen Maria Pajunen Miguel Vilanova Saija Kiljunen Andrew Nelson Darren Smith Mikael Skurnik YerA41 is a Myoviridae bacteriophage that was originally isolated due its ability to infect Yersinia ruckeri bacteria, the causative agent of enteric redmouth disease of salmonid...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 615: Production of Recombinant African Swine Fever Viruses: Speeding Up the Process Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12060615 Authors: Anusyah Rathakrishnan Katy Moffat Ana Luisa Reis Linda K. Dixon African swine fever (ASF) is a devastating disease in pigs, with no vaccines for control. The genetic manipulation of African swine fever virus (ASFV) is often tedious and time consuming. Here, we describe a method to manipulate the virus genome to produce gene deletion...
Fri Jun 05, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1646: Changes in Precipitation Extremes across Vietnam and Its Relationships with Teleconnection Patterns of the Northern Hemisphere Water doi: 10.3390/w12061646 Authors: Quang Van Do Hong Xuan Do Nhu Cuong Do An Le Ngo Understanding changes in precipitation extremes is critical for designing mitigation measures for the potential implications of a warming climate. This study assessed changes in the magnitude and frequency of precipitation extremes over...
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1645: Simulation of Non-Gaussian Correlated Random Variables, Stochastic Processes and Random Fields: Introducing the anySim R-Package for Environmental Applications and Beyond Water doi: 10.3390/w12061645 Authors: Ioannis Tsoukalas Panagiotis Kossieris Christos Makropoulos Stochastic simulation has a prominent position in a variety of scientific domains including those of environmental and water resources sciences. This is due to the numerous applications...
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1644: Charged Particle (Negative Ion)-Based Cloud Seeding and Rain Enhancement Trial Design and Implementation Water doi: 10.3390/w12061644 Authors: Wei Zheng Fengming Xue Ming Zhang Qiqi Wu Zhou Yang Shaoxiang Ma Haotian Liang Chuliang Wang Yuxing Wang Xinkun Ai Yong Yang Kexun Yu China has been suffering from water shortage for a long time. Weather modification and rainfall enhancement via cloud seeding has been proved to be effective...
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1640: Elemental Contaminants in Surface Sediments from Jiulong River Estuary, China: Pollution Level and Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment Water doi: 10.3390/w12061640 Authors: Philomina Onyedikachi Peter Azhar Rashid Liyuan Hou François Nkinahamira Claude Kiki Qian Sun Chang-Ping Yu Anyi Hu Estuaries, being the transitional zones between freshwater and marine environments, are important for protecting and rehabilitating the aquatic environments....
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
Water, Vol. 12, Pages 1641: Quantification and Speciation of Trace Metals under Pollution Impact: Case Study of a Subarctic Lake Water doi: 10.3390/w12061641 Authors: Marina I. Dinu Valery M. Shkinev Tatyana I. Moiseenko Rustam Kh. Dzenloda Tatyana V. Danilova Monitoring the quantity and quality of metals in lake water is a major part of assessing water toxicity. A fundamental aspect of geochemical monitoring studies is the evaluation of the equilibrium distribution of metal...
Mon Jun 08, 2020 03:00
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