Deer tick virus

Fatal Case of Deer Tick Virus Encephalitis
Norma P. Tavakoli, Heng Wang, Michelle Dupuis, Rene Hull, Gregory D. Ebel, Emily J. Gilmore, and Phyllis L. Faust
N. Engl. J. Med. 2009; 360(20): p. 2099-2107
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/360/20/2099?ct=ct

Hantavirus

G Suzan, E Marce, JT Giermakowski, JN Mills, G Ceballos, RS Ostfeld, B Armien, JM Pascale, and TL Yates
Experimental evidence for reduced rodent diversity causing increased hantavirus prevalence.
PLoS ONE 1 Jan 2009 4(5): p. e5461.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19421313

Mexican H1N1 influenza virus

Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1) : Early Findings
Christophe Fraser, Christl A. Donnelly, Simon Cauchemez, William P. Hanage, Maria D. Van Kerkhove, T. Deirdre Hollingsworth, Jamie Griffin, Rebecca F. Baggaley, Helen E. Jenkins, Emily J. Lyons, Thibaut Jombart, Wes R. Hinsley, Nicholas C. Grassly, Francois Balloux, Azra C. Ghani, Neil M. Ferguson, Andrew Rambaut, Oliver G. Pybus, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, Celia M Apluche-Aranda, Ietza Bojorquez Chapela, Ethel Palacios Zavala, Dulce Ma. Espejo Guevara, Francesco Checchi, Erika Garcia, Stephane Hugonnet, Cathy Roth
The WHO Rapid Pandemic Assessment Collaboration
Science. published 11 May 2009, 10.1126/science.1176062
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1176062v1?ct=ct

Triple-Reassortant Swine Influenza A (H1) in Humans in the United States, 2005-2009
Vivek Shinde, Carolyn B. Bridges, Timothy M. Uyeki, Bo Shu, Amanda Balish, Xiyan Xu, Stephen Lindstrom, Larisa V. Gubareva, Varough Deyde, Rebecca J. Garten, Meghan Harris, Susan Gerber, Susan Vagoski, Forrest Smith, Neal Pascoe, Karen Martin, Deborah Dufficy, Kathy Ritger, Craig Conover, Patricia Quinlisk, Alexander Klimov, Joseph S. Bresee, and Lyn Finelli
N. Engl. J. Med. published 7 May 2009, 10.1056/NEJMoa0903812
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/NEJMoa0903812v1?ct=ct

Emergence of a Novel Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus in Humans Novel Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1)
Virus Investigation Team
N. Engl. J. Med. published 7 May 2009, 10.1056/NEJMoa0903810
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/NEJMoa0903810v1?ct=ct

Tick-borne Encephalitis Virus

Tick-borne Encephalitis Virus - a Review of an Emerging Zoonosis
Karen L. Mansfield, Nicholas Johnson, L. Paul Phipps, John R. Stephenson, Anthony R. Fooks, and Tom Solomon
J. Gen. Virol. published 6 May 2009, 10.1099/vir.0.011437-0
http://vir.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/vir.0.011437-0v1?ct=ct

West Nile Virus

Gilles Balanca, Nicolas Gaidet, Giovanni Savini, Benjamin Vollot, Antoine Foucart, Paul Reiter, Alain Boutonnier, Rossella Lelli, and Francois Monicat
Low West Nile Virus Circulation in Wild Birds in an Area of Recurring Outbreaks in Southern France.
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 29 Apr 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19402766

Sonthaya Tiawsirisup, Bradley J Blitvich, Bradley J Tucker, Patrick G Halbur, Lyric C Bartholomay, Wayne A Rowley, and Kenneth B Platt
Susceptibility of Fox Squirrels (Sciurus niger) to West Nile Virus by Oral Exposure.
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 29 Apr 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19402765

TB in badger and cattle

M Bohm, MR Hutchings, and PC White
Contact networks in a wildlife-livestock host community: identifying high-risk individuals in the transmission of bovine TB among badgers and cattle.
PLoS ONE 1 Jan 2009 4(4): p. e5016.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19401755

Influenza A virus

Antibody Recognition of a Highly Conserved Influenza Virus Epitope
Damian C. Ekiert, Gira Bhabha, Marc-Andre Elsliger, Robert H. E. Friesen, Mandy Jongeneelen, Mark Throsby, Jaap Goudsmit, and Ian A. Wilson
Science. 2009; 324(5924): p. 246-251
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5924/246?ct=ct

Experimental Infection of Pigs with the Human 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus
Hana M. Weingartl, Randy A. Albrecht, Kelly M. Lager, Shawn Babiuk, Peter Marszal, James Neufeld, Carissa Embury-Hyatt, Porntippa Lekcharoensuk, Terrence M. Tumpey, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, and Jurgen A. Richt
J. Virol. 2009; 83(9): p. 4287-4296
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/9/4287?ct=ct

Olga Stech, Jutta Veits, Siegfried Weber, Daniela Deckers, Diana Schroer, Thomas W Vahlenkamp, Angele Breithaupt, Jens Teifke, Thomas C Mettenleiter,and Jurgen Stech
Acquisition of a polybasic hemagglutinin cleavage site by a low-pathogenic avian influenza virus is not sufficient for immediate transformation into a highly pathogenic strain.
J Virol 18 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19297482

Eleca J Dunham, Vivien G Dugan, Emilee K Kaser, Sarah E Perkins, Ian H Brown, Edward C Holmes, and Jeffery K Taubenberger
Different evolutionary trajectories of European avian-like and classical swine H1N1 influenza A viruses.
J Virol 18 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19297491

Intranasal vaccination with 1918 influenza virus-like particles protects mice and ferrets from lethal 1918 and H5N1 influenza virus challenge
Lucy A. Perrone, Attiya Ahmad, Vic Veguilla, Xiuhua Lu, Gale Smith, Jacqueline M. Katz, Peter Pushko, and Terrence M. Tumpey
J. Virol. published 25 March 2009, 10.1128/JVI.00207-09
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.00207-09v1?ct=ct

SP Layne, AS Monto, and JK Taubenberger
Pandemic influenza: an inconvenient mutation.
Science 20 Mar 2009 323(5921): p. 1560.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19299601

Hepatitis E virus

X J Meng
Hepatitis E virus: Animal reservoirs and zoonotic risk.
Vet Microbiol 20 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19361937

West Nile Virus

NM Nemeth, GE Kratz, R Bates, JA Scherpelz, RA Bowen, and N Komar
Clinical evaluation and outcomes of naturally acquired West Nile virus infection in raptors.
J Zoo Wildl Med 1 Mar 2009 40(1): p. 51.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19368240

Avian influenza H5N1 virus

Selection of H5N1 Influenza Virus PB2 during Replication in Humans
Quynh Mai Le, Yuko Sakai-Tagawa, Makoto Ozawa, Mustumi Ito, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka
J. Virol. 2009; 83(10): p. 5278-5281
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/10/5278?ct=ct

Multi-strain modelling

Improving the realism of deterministic multi-strain models: implications for modelling influenza A
Pavlo Minayev and Neil Ferguson
J R Soc Interface. 2009; 6(35): p. 509-518 Open Access
http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/6/35/509?ct=ct

Chronic Wasting Disease

Landscape genetics of white-tailed deer in Illinois: a tool for investigating an outbreak of chronic wasting disease
Amy Catherine Kelly, Nohra Mateus-Pinilla, Marlis Douglas, Michael Douglas, Marilyn Ruiz, Tom Beissel, Paul Shelton, and Jan Novakofski
FASEB J. 2009; 23(1_MeetingAbstracts): p. 926.9
http://www.fasebj.org?ct=ct

Disease dynamics

Host-pathogen time series data in wildlife support a transmission function between density and frequency dependence
Matthew J. Smith, Sandra Telfer, Eva R. Kallio, Sarah Burthe, Alex R. Cook, Xavier Lambin, and Michael Begon
PNAS. published 23 April 2009, 10.1073/pnas.0809145106 Open Access
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0809145106v1?ct=ct

Avian influenza virus

Benjamin Roche, Camille Lebarbenchon, Michel Gauthier-Clerc, Chung-Ming Chang, Frederic Thomas, Francois Renaud, Sylvie van der Werf, and Jean-Francois Guegan
Water-borne transmission drives avian influenza dynamics in wild birds: the case of the 2005-2006 epidemics in the Camargue area.
Infect Genet Evol 17 Apr 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19379841

Erin M Sorrell, Hongquan Wan, Yonas Araya, Haichen Song, and Daniel R Perez
Minimal molecular constraints for respiratory droplet transmission of an avian-human H9N2 influenza A virus.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 20 Apr 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19380727

Flavivirus pathogenesis

MD Fernandez-Garcia, M Mazzon, M Jacobs, and A Amara
Pathogenesis of flavivirus infections: using and abusing the host cell.
Cell Host Microbe 23 Apr 2009 5(4): p. 318.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19380111

Canine vector-borne and zoonotic diseases

Domenico Otranto, Filipe Dantas-Torres, and Edward B Breitschwerdt
Managing canine vector-borne diseases of zoonotic concern: part two.
Trends Parasitol 3 Apr 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19346164

New flavivirus

Mary B Crabtree, Phan T Nga, and Barry R Miller
Isolation and characterization of a new mosquito flavivirus, Quang Binh virus, from Vietnam.
Arch Virol 5 Apr 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19347244

West Nile Virus

Nicole Nemeth, Ginger Young, Christina Ndaluka, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Nicholas Komar, and Richard Bowen
Persistent West Nile virus infection in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus).
Arch Virol 4 Apr 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19347246

Dengue

Emergence of the Severe Syndrome and Mortality Associated with Dengue and Dengue-Like Illness: Historical Records (1890 to 1950) and Their Compatibility with Current Hypotheses on the Shift of Disease Manifestation
Goro Kuno
Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 2009; 22(2): p. 186-201
http://cmr.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/2/186?ct=ct

Microflora of cranes

BM Hoar, DP Whiteside, L Ward, G Douglas Inglis, and DW Morck
Evaluation of the enteric microflora of captive whooping cranes (Grus americana) and sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis).
Zoo Biol 1 Mar 2007 26(2): p. 141.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19360567

Histoplasmosis in mara

A Perez-Torres, A Rosas-Rosas, A Paras-Garcia, C Juan-Salles, and M L Taylor
Second Case of Histoplasmosis in a Captive Mara (Dolichotis patagonum): Pathological Findings.
Mycopathologia 10 Apr 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19360479

Phocine distemper virus

Stage-structured transmission of phocine distemper virus in the Dutch 2002 outbreak
Petra Klepac, Laura W. Pomeroy, Ottar N. Bjornstad, Thijs Kuiken, Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus, and Jolianne M. Rijks
Proc R Soc B. published 8 April 2009, 10.1098/rspb.2009.0175
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/rspb.2009.0175v1?ct=ct

New flavivirus

A New Flavivirus and a New Vector: Characterization of a Novel Flavivirus Isolated from Uranotaenia Mosquitoes from a Tropical Rain Forest
Sandra Junglen, Anne Kopp, Andreas Kurth, Georg Pauli, Heinz Ellerbrok, and Fabian H. Leendertz
J. Virol. 2009; 83(9): p. 4462-4468
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/83/9/4462?ct=ct

ARBO-ZOONET

J Ahmed, M Bouloy, O Ergonul, A Fooks, J Paweska, V Chevalier, C Drosten, RMoormann, N Tordo, Z Vatansever, P Calistri, A Estrada-Pena, A Mirazimi, H Unger, H Yin, and U Seitzer
International network for capacity building for the control of emerging viral vector-borne zoonotic diseases: ARBO-ZOONET.
Euro Surveill 1 Jan 2009 14(12).
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19341603

Bartonella

K Inoue, S Maruyama, H Kabeya, K Hagiya, Y Izumi, Y Une, and Y Yoshikawa
Exotic small mammals as potential reservoirs of zoonotic Bartonella spp.
Emerg Infect Dis 1 Apr 2009 15(4): p. 526.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19331727

Fish-borne zoonotic trematodes

NT Lan-Anh, NT Phuong, KD Murrell, MV Johansen, A Dalsgaard, LT Thu, TT Kim-Chi, and SM Thamsborg
Animal reservoir hosts and fish-borne zoonotic trematode infections on fish farms, Vietnam.
Emerg Infect Dis 1 Apr 2009 15(4): p. 540.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19331729

Influenza
Latorre-Margalef N., et al. 2009
Effects of influenza A virus infection on migrating mallard ducks.
Proc. R. Soc. B. 276, 1029–1036.
doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1501.

Does influenza A affect body condition of wild mallard ducks, or vice versa? A reply to Flint and Franson
Neus Latorre-Margalef, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Vincent J. Munster, Ron A. M. Fouchier, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus, Johan Elmberg, Bjorn Olsen, Anders Wallensten, Thord Fransson, Lars Brudin, and Jonas Waldenstrom
Proc R Soc B. published 1 April 2009, 10.1098/rspb.2009.0275 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/full/rspb.2009.0275v1?ct=ct

Does influenza A affect body condition of wild mallard ducks, or vice versa?
Paul L. Flint and J. Christian Franson
Proc R Soc B. published 1 April 2009, 10.1098/rspb.2008.1962
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/full/rspb.2008.1962v1?ct=ct

TV Dormitorio, JJ Giambrone, K Guo, and GR Hepp
Detection and characterization of avian influenza and other avian paramyxoviruses from wild waterfowl in parts of the southeastern United States.
Poult Sci 1 Apr 2009 88(4): p. 851.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19276434

Antibiotic resistance
Guillermo Blanco, Jesus A Lemus, and Javier Grande
Microbial pollution in wildlife: Linking agricultural manuring and bacterial antibiotic resistance in red-billed choughs.
Environ Res 3 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19264302

Primate diseases
S R Ross, A N Holmes, and E V Lonsdorf
Interactions between zoo-housed great apes and local wildlife.
Am J Primatol 9 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19274706

Vector-borne diseases
A Jansen, C Frank, J Koch, and K Stark
Surveillance of vector-borne diseases in Germany: trends and challenges in the view of disease emergence and climate change.
Parasitol Res 1 Dec 2008 103 Suppl 1: p. S11.

http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19030882


RS Ostfeld
Biodiversity loss and the rise of zoonotic pathogens.
Clin Microbiol Infect 1 Jan 2009 15 Suppl 1: p. 40.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19220353

Disease dynamics
CC Mundt, KE Sackett, LD Wallace, C Cowger, and JP Dudley
Long-distance dispersal and accelerating waves of disease: empirical relationships.
Am Nat 1 Apr 2009 173(4): p. 456.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19249979

Fish mycobacteriosis
JM Jacobs, CB Stine, AM Baya, and ML Kent
A review of mycobacteriosis in marine fish.
J Fish Dis 1 Feb 2009 32(2): p. 119.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19261041

Canine distemper virus
Alessandra Ferreira Dales Nava, Laury Cullen Jr, Denis Alessio Sana, Marcello Schiavo Nardi, Jose Domingues Ramos Filho, Thiago Ferraz Lima, Kaue Cachuba Abreu, and Fernando Ferreira
First Evidence of Canine Distemper in Brazilian Free-Ranging Felids.
Ecohealth 4 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19259737

HIV
Patterns of Diversity in HIV-Related Loci among Subspecies of Chimpanzee: Concordance at CCR5 and Differences at CXCR4 and CX3CR1
T.S. MacFie, E. Nerrienet, N.G. de Groot, R.E. Bontrop, and N.I. Mundy
Mol. Biol. Evol. 2009; 26(4): p. 719-727

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/4/719?ct=ct

Tularemia

Pathology of Inhalational Francisella tularensis spp tularensis SCHU S4 Infection in African Green Monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops)
Nancy Twenhafel, Derron Alves, and Bret Purcell
Vet. Pathol. published 9 March 2009, 10.1354/vp.08-VP-0302-T-AM
http://www.vetpathology.org/cgi/content/abstract/vp.08-VP-0302-T-AMv1?ct=ct

Sea pathogens
AS Lang, ML Rise, AI Culley, and GF Steward
RNA viruses in the sea.
FEMS Microbiol Rev 1 Mar 2009 33(2): p. 295.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19243445

Influenza
Control of equine influenza: scenario testing using a realistic metapopulation model of spread
M. Baguelin, J.R. Newton, N. Demiris, J. Daly, J.A. Mumford, and J.L.N.Wood
J R Soc Interface. published 1 April 2009, 10.1098/rsif.2009.0030
http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/rsif.2009.0030v1?ct=ct

Eleca J Dunham, Vivien G Dugan, Emilee K Kaser, Sarah E Perkins, Ian H Brown, Edward C Holmes, and Jeffery K Taubenberger
Different evolutionary trajectories of European avian-like and classical swine H1N1 influenza A viruses.
J Virol 18 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19297491

JM Katz, V Veguilla, JA Belser, TR Maines, N Van Hoeven, C Pappas, K Hancock, and TM Tumpey
The public health impact of avian influenza viruses.
Poult Sci 1 Apr 2009 88(4): p. 872.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19276438

Hepatozoon and Rickettsia
Inger-Marie E Vilcins, Julie M Old, and Elizabeth Deane
Detection of a Hepatozoon and spotted fever group Rickettsia species in the common marsupial tick (Ixodes tasmani) collected from wild Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii), Tasmania.
Vet Parasitol 20 Feb 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19303711

Chytridiomycosis
RN Harris, A Lauer, MA Simon, JL Banning, and RA Alford
Addition of antifungal skin bacteria to salamanders ameliorates the effects of chytridiomycosis.
Dis Aquat Organ 28 Jan 2009 83(1): p. 11.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19301631

Disease Dynamics
Seasonal host dynamics drive the timing of recurrent epidemics in a wildlife population
Michael Begon, Sandra Telfer, Matthew J Smith, Sarah Burthe, Steve Paterson, and Xavier Lambin
Proc R Soc B. 2009; 276(1662): p. 1603-1610 Open Access
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/276/1662/1603?ct=ct

Schistosoma
Community diversity reduces Schistosoma mansoni transmission, host pathology and human infection risk
Pieter T.J Johnson, Peder J Lund, Richard B Hartson, and Timothy P Yoshino
Proc R Soc B. 2009; 276(1662): p. 1657-1663
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/276/1662/1657?ct=ct

Zoonoses
F Mathews
Chapter 8 zoonoses in wildlife integrating ecology into management.
Adv Parasitol 1 Jan 2009 68: p. 185.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19289195

Chytrids
PT Johnson, AR Ives, RC Lathrop, and SR Carpenter
Long-term disease dynamics in lakes: causes and consequences of chytrid infections in Daphnia populations.
Ecology 1 Jan 2009 90(1): p. 132.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19294920

Foot and mouth disease virus
BS Phologane, RM Dwarka, DT Haydon, LJ Gerber, and W Vosloo
Molecular characterization of SAT-2 foot-and-mouth disease virus isolates obtained from cattle during a four-month period in 2001 in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Onderstepoort J Vet Res 1 Dec 2008 75(4): p. 267.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19294983

Bluetongue virus
Simon Carpenter, Anthony Wilson, and Philip S Mellor
Culicoides and the emergence of bluetongue virus in northern Europe.
Trends Microbiol 17 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19299131

Vector-borne pathogens
Armando Ulloa, Heidy Hann Ferguson, Jose D Mendez-Sanchez, Rogelio Danis-Lozano, Mauricio Casas-Martinez, J Guillermo Bond, Julio C Garcia-Zebadua, Arnoldo Orozco-Bonilla, Jose A Juarez-Ordaz, Jose A Farfan-Ale, Julian E Garcia-Rejon, Elsy P Rosado-Paredes, Eric Edwards, Nicholas Komar, Hassan K Hassan, Thomas R Unnasch, and Mario A Rodriguez-Perez
West Nile Virus Activity in Mosquitoes and Domestic Animals in Chiapas, Mexico.
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 13 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19281433

AE Platonov, MV Fedorova, LS Karan, TA Shopenskaya, OV Platonova, and VI Zhuravlev
Epidemiology of West Nile infection in Volgograd, Russia, in relation to climate change and mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) bionomics.
Parasitol Res 1 Dec 2008 103 Suppl 1: p. S45.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19030885

Gustavo Cruz-Pacheco, Lourdes Esteva, and Cristobal Vargas
Seasonality and Outbreaks in West Nile Virus Infection.
Bull Math Biol 14 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19288065

Shaoming Huang, Gabriel L Hamer, Goudarz Molaei, Edward D Walker, Tony L Goldberg, Uriel D Kitron, and Theodore G Andreadis
Genetic Variation Associated with Mammalian Feeding in Culex pipiens from a West Nile Virus Epidemic Region in Chicago, Illinois.
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 13 Mar 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19281434

Z Hubalek
Mosquito-borne viruses in Europe.
Parasitol Res 1 Dec 2008 103 Suppl 1: p. S29.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19030884

Phocine Distemper virus
JD Philippa, MW van de Bildt, T Kuiken, P 't Hart, and AD Osterhaus
Neurological signs in juvenile harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) with fatal phocine distemper.
Vet Rec 14 Mar 2009 164(11): p. 327.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19287028

Vector-borne diseases

Update on vectorborne diseases:
EMERGING PESTS AND VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES INEUROPE: ECOLOGY AND CONTROL OF VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES,
Volume 1, Edited by Willem Takken and Bart G. J. Knols Fraser Menzies
Vet Rec. 2009; 164(9): p. 280-a
http://veterinaryrecord.bvapublications.com/cgi/content/full/164/9/280-a?ct=ct

Defra assesses the risk of West Nile virus being introduced to the UK
Vet Rec. 2009; 164(9): p. 252
http://veterinaryrecord.bvapublications.com/cgi/content/full/164/9/252?ct=ct


VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES Volume 9, Number 1, 2009
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2008.0040
Influence of Hosts on the Ecology of Arboviral Transmission: Potential Mechanisms Influencing Dengue, Murray Valley Encephalitis, and Ross River Virus in Australia
Scott Carver, Abbey Bestall, Andrew Jardine, and Richard S. Ostfeld

Avian influenza virus

AVIAN INFLUENZA: Infection Study Worries Farmers, Bird Lovers
Martin Enserink
Science. 2009; 323(5912): p. 324a
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/323/5912/324a?ct=ct

Practical considerations for high-throughput influenza A virus surveillancestudies in wild birds using molecular diagnostic tests
Vincent J. Munster, Chantal Baas, Pascal Lexmond, Theo M. Bestebroer, Judith Guldemeester, Walter E.P. Beyer, Emmie de Wit, Martin Schutten, Guus F. Rimmelzwaan, Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus, and Ron A. M. Fouchier
J. Clin. Microbiol. published 24 December 2008, 10.1128/JCM.01625-08
http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JCM.01625-08v1?ct=ct

Cross-disciplinarity

DT Haydon
Cross-disciplinary demands of multihost pathogens.
J Anim Ecol 1 Nov 2008 77(6): p. 1079.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19161447

Rabies

CI Cullingham, CJ Kyle, BA Pond, EE Rees, and BN White
Differential permeability of rivers to raccoon gene flow corresponds to rabies incidence in Ontario, Canada.
Mol Ecol 1 Jan 2009 18(1): p. 43.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19140963

HIV

Patterns of diversity in HIV-related loci among subspecies of chimpanzee: concordance at CCR5 and differences at CXCR4 and CX3CR1
T. S. MacFie, E. Nerrienet, N. G. de Groot, R. E. Bontrop, and N. I. Mundy
Mol. Biol. Evol. published 30 January 2009, 10.1093/molbev/msp016
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/msp016v1?ct=ct

Echinococcus

Paul R Torgerson, Kathy Rosenheim, Isabelle Tanner, Iskender Ziadinov, Felix Grimm, Matthias Brunner, Sholpan Shaiken, Blok Shaikenov, Aizhan Rysmukhambetova, and Peter Deplazes
Echinococcosis, toxocarosis and toxoplasmosis screening in a rural community in eastern Kazakhstan.
Trop Med Int Health 20 Jan 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19171010

Neotropic birds

SM Hernandez-Divers, P Villegas, C Jimenez, SJ Hernandez-Divers, M Garcia, SM Riblet, CR Carroll, BM O'Connor, JL Webb, MJ Yabsley, SM Williams, and SSanchez
Backyard chicken flocks pose a disease risk for neotropic birds in Costa Rica.
Avian Dis 1 Dec 2008 52(4): p. 558.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19166045

Mycobacterium bovis in cervids

M V Palmer, T C Thacker, and W R Waters
Vaccination with Mycobacterium bovis BCG Strains Danish and Pasteur in White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Experimentally Challenged with Mycobacterium bovis.
Zoonoses Public Health 17 Jan 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19175569

Tick-borne encephalitis virus

A Rizzoli, HC Hauffe, V Tagliapietra, M Neteler, and R Rosa
Forest structure and roe deer abundance predict tick-borne encephalitis risk in Italy.
PLoS ONE 1 Jan 2009 4(2): p. e4336.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19183811

Leptospirosis

P Vijayachari, AP Sugunan, and AN Shriram
Leptospirosis: an emerging global public health problem.
J Biosci 1 Nov 2008 33(4): p. 557.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19208981

Influenza virus transmission

Neal Van Hoeven, Claudia Pappas, Jessica A Belser, Taronna R Maines, Hui Zeng, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Ram Sasisekharan, Jacqueline M Katz, and Terrence M Tumpey
Human HA and polymerase subunit PB2 proteins confer transmission of an avian influenza virus through the air.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 11 Feb 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19211790

Jeffrey Shaman and Melvin Kohn
Absolute humidity modulates influenza survival, transmission, and seasonality.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 9 Feb 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19204283

Community diversity and dilution effect

Pieter T J Johnson, Peder J Lund, Richard B Hartson, and Timothy P Yoshino
Community diversity reduces Schistosoma mansoni transmission, host pathology and human infection risk.
Proc Biol Sci 20 Jan 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19203926

New flavivirus

Sandra Junglen, Anne Kopp, Andreas Kurth, Georg Pauli, Heinz Ellerbrok, andFabian H Leendertz
A New Flavivirus and a New Vector: Characterization of a Novel Flavivirus Isolated from Uranotaenia mosquitoes from a tropical rainforest.
J Virol 18 Feb 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19224998

SARS Nipah Hendra monoclonals

P Prabakaran, Z Zhu, X Xiao, A Biragyn, AS Dimitrov, CC Broder, and DS Dimitrov
Potent human monoclonal antibodies against SARS CoV, Nipah and Hendra viruses.
Expert Opin Biol Ther 1 Mar 2009 9(3): p. 355.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19216624

Branka Horvat
Animal models for the study of emerging zoonotic viruses: Nipah and Hendra.
Vet J 4 Feb 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19200760

Foot-and-mouth disease virus

J Klein
Understanding the molecular epidemiology of foot-and-mouth-disease virus.
Infect Genet Evol 1 Mar 2009 9(2): p. 153.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19100342

W Vosloo, PN Thompson, B Botha, RG Bengis, and GR Thomson
Longitudinal Study to Investigate the Role of Impala (Aepyceros melampus) in Foot-and-Mouth Disease Maintenance in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Transbound Emerg Dis 1 Mar 2009 56(1-2): p. 18.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19200295

Influenza virus

Hana M Weingartl, Randy A Albrecht, Kelly Lager, Shawn Babiuk, Peter Marszal, James Neufeld, Carissa Embury-Hyatt, Porntippa Lekcharoensuk, Terrence M Tumpey, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, and Jurgen A Richt
Experimental infection of pigs with the human 1918 pandemic influenza virus.
J Virol 18 Feb 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19224986

Yumiko Matsuoka, David E Swayne, Colleen Thomas, Marie-Anne Rameix-Welti, Nadia Naffakh, Christine Warnes, Melanie Altholtz, Ruben Donis, and Kanta Subbarao
Neuraminidase stalk length and additional glycosylation of the hemagglutinin influence the virulence of influenza H5N1 viruses for mice.
J Virol 18 Feb 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19225004

Carole R Baskin, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Terrence M Tumpey, Patrick J Sabourin, James P Long, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Airn-E Tolnay, Randy Albrecht, John A Pyles, Pam H Olson, Lauri D Aicher, Elizabeth R Rosenzweig, Kaja Murali-Krishna, Edward A Clark, Mark S Kotur, Jamie L Fornek, Sean Proll, Robert E Palermo, Carol L Sabourin, and Michael G Katze
Early and sustained innate immune response defines pathology and death in nonhuman primates infected by highly pathogenic influenza virus.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 13 Feb 2009.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19218453

CA Russell, TC Jones, IG Barr, NJ Cox, RJ Garten, V Gregory, ID Gust, AW Hampson, AJ Hay, AC Hurt, JC de Jong, A Kielso, AI Klimov, T Kageyama, N Komadina, AS Lapedes, YP Lin, A Mosterin, M Obuchi, T Odagiri, AD Osterhaus, GF Rimmelzwaan, MW Shaw, E Skepner, K Stohr, M Tashiro, RA Fouchier, and DJ Smith
Influenza vaccine strain selection and recent studies on the global migration of seasonal influenza viruses.
Vaccine 12 Sep 2008 26 Suppl 4: p. D31.
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;19230156

Virus evolution

Directed evolution of adeno-associated virus to an infectious respiratory virus
Katherine J. D. A. Excoffon, James T. Koerber, David D. Dickey, Matthew Murtha, Shaf Keshavjee, Brian K. Kaspar, Joseph Zabner, and David V. Schaffer
PNAS. published 23 February 2009, 10.1073/pnas.0813365106 Open Access
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0813365106v1?ct=ct

Disease spillover / epidemic waves

Distinguishing epidemic waves from disease spillover in a wildlife population
Meggan E Craft, Erik Volz, Craig Packer, and Lauren Ancel Meyers
Proc R Soc B. published 25 February 2009, 10.1098/rspb.2008.1636
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/cgi/content/abstract/rspb.2008.1636v1?ct=ct

Pathogen recognition

The roles of TLRs, RLRs and NLRs in pathogen recognition
Taro Kawai and Shizuo Akira
Int. Immunol. published 26 February 2009, 10.1093/intimm/dxp017
http://intimm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dxp017v1?ct=ct

Antibody and flu

IMMUNOLOGY: Flu Antibodies Stir New Hope for Treatment, Vaccine
Mitch Leslie
Science. 2009; 323(5918): p. 1160 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/323/5918/1160?ct=ct

Published Online February 26, 2009
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1171491
Antibody Recognition of a Highly Conserved Influenza Virus Epitope
Damian C. Ekiert, Gira Bhabha, Marc-André Elsliger, Robert H. E. Friesen, Mandy Jongeneelen, Mark Throsby, Jaap Goudsmit, Ian A. Wilson

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology Published online: 22 February 2009 doi:10.1038/nsmb.1566
Structural and functional bases for broad-spectrum neutralization of avian and human influenza A viruses
Jianhua Sui, William C Hwang, Sandra Perez, Ge Wei, Daniel Aird, Li-mei Chen, Eugenio Santelli, Boguslaw Stec, Greg Cadwell, Maryam Ali, Hongquan Wan, Akikazu Murakami, Anuradha Yammanuru, Thomas Han, Nancy J Cox, Laurie A Bankston, Ruben O Donis, Robert C Liddington & Wayne A Marasco

Chikungunya and west nile virus

Chikungunya and West Nile virus outbreaks: what is happening in
north-eastern Italy?
Giovanni Rezza
Eur J Public Health. published 21 January 2009, 10.1093/eurpub/ckn135
http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/extract/ckn135v1?ct=ct

sea otter pathogens

Prey choice and habitat use drive sea otter pathogen exposure in a
resource-limited coastal system
Christine K. Johnson, Martin T. Tinker, James A. Estes, Patricia A.
Conrad, Michelle Staedler, Melissa A. Miller, David A. Jessup, and
Jonna A. K. Mazet
PNAS. published 21 January 2009, 10.1073/pnas.0806449106
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0806449106v1?ct=ct

Emerging infectious diseases

Science 23 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5913, p. 451 DOI: 10.1126/science.323.5913.451a

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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Scientists Puzzle Over Ebola-Reston Virus in Pigs

Dennis Normile

An international team of human- and animal-health experts is in the Philippines this month, studying the first known outbreak of Ebola-Reston virus in pigs. Experts are concerned because pigs live in close proximity to humans.

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Mycobacterium bovis

Julian A. Drewe, Gillian S. Dean, Anita L. Michel, and Gareth P. Pearce
Accuracy of three diagnostic tests for determining Mycobacterium bovis infection status in live-sampled wild meerkats (Suricata suricatta)
J Vet Diagn Invest. 2009; 21(1): p. 31-39
http://jvdi.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/1/31?ct=ct

Bovine viral diarrhea virus

Alessandra Martucciello, Gian Mario De Mia, Monica Giammarioli, Immacolata De Donato, Giuseppe Iovane, and Giorgio Galiero
Detection of Bovine viral diarrhea virus from three water buffalo fetuses (Bubalus bubalis) in southern Italy
J Vet Diagn Invest. 2009; 21(1): p. 137-140
http://jvdi.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/1/137?ct=ct