ALLMedicine™ West Nile Virus Center

Mar 16th, 2023 - The flavivirus life cycle is strictly dependent on cellular lipid metabolism. Polyphenols like gallic acid and its derivatives are promising lead compounds for new therapeutic agents as they can exert multiple pharmacological activities, including...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Background: Entomological monitoring activities are a major part of mosquito and mosquito-borne diseases surveillance. Several trapping methods are implemented worldwide, aiming to gather data on species composition and their abundance in various ...

Mar 7th, 2023 - On August 30, 2017, one of five bontebok in a mixed-species exhibit at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere exhibited acute hind-limb ataxia and altered demeanor. Pathological examination demonstrated meningoencephalitis and spinal myelitis. Coinfection...

Feb 28th, 2023 - Background: The life cycles of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases can be complex. This complexity makes it challenging to identify factors that confound the association between an exposure of interest and infection in one of the susceptible hosts....

Feb 27th, 2023 - West Nile virus (WNV) is a re-emergent mosquito-borne RNA virus that causes major outbreaks of encephalitis around the world. However, there is no therapeutic treatment to struggle against WNV, and the current treatment relies on alleviating sympt...

Nov 26th, 2008 - Although there is currently no definitive evidence linking West Nile virus (WNV) transmission with reproductive cells, it is recommended that practitioners defer gamete donors who have confirmed or suspected WNV infections.

Feb 14th, 2023 - Background: There are numerous clinical trials underway in the National Cancer Institute Surgery Branch (NCI-SB) in which patients are administered autologous lymphocytes with anti-tumor activity generated from either peripheral blood mononuclear ...

May 20th, 2022 - This investigation involves patient enrollment, thaw and surgical transplantation of previously collected cryopreserved ovarian cortical tissue, a series of follow-up assessments during the first 2 years after transplantation and an annual survey ...

Mar 24th, 2022 - In August 2020, West Nile Virus (WNV) was isolated from a live common whitethroat for the first time in The Netherlands. Follow-up sampling showed that the virus could also be detected in mosquitos from the same location during at least a whole mo...

Feb 22nd, 2022 - The objective of this study is to provide expanded access to MGAWN1; the study is not intended for subjects who are eligible for and have access to non-expanded access protocols.

Feb 22nd, 2022 - The primary purpose of this phase 1, double-blind, cohort study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of escalating doses of MGAWN1 administered as a single intravenous (IV) infusion to healthy adults. Subjects will be enro...

Nov 16th, 2022 - Neurologic health has worsened due to climate change and airborne pollution, a scoping literature review suggested. In a review that spanned 3 decades of research, temperature extremes and variability were associated with stroke, dementia hospital...

Sep 29th, 2022 - An outbreak of acute hepatitis of unknown origin last spring, recent pneumonia cases in Argentina since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by the monkeypox outbreak ― a string of public health warnings has led some to question whether th...

Aug 26th, 2022 - Climate change has affected the spread of West Nile fever. This observation was confirmed in an Italian Ministry of Health note reporting 94 confirmed cases of infection. Of those cases, 55 were neuroinvasive, 19 were from blood donors, 19 were as...

Mar 29th, 2022 - Michael Keasling of Lakewood, Colorado, was an electrician who loved big trucks, fast cars, and Harley-Davidsons. He'd struggled with diabetes since he was a teenager, needing a kidney transplant from his sister to stay alive. He was already quite...

Nov 24th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Mass treatment with ivermectin has eliminated river blindness in two Nigerian states, according to research presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting. A separate study from the me...