Influenza viruses belong to the family Orthomyxoviridae with a negative-sense, single-
stranded segmented RNA genome. They infect a wide range of animals, including humans …

Background Research regarding zoonotic diseases often focuses on infectious diseases
animals have given to humans. However, an increasing number of reports indicate that …

Zoonotic viruses that emerge from wildlife and domesticated animals pose a serious threat
to human and animal health. In many instances, mouse models have improved our …

Over the past decade, pandemics caused by pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza virus in
2009 and severe acute respiratory syndrome virus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019 have …

The fundamental premise of the One Health concept is that the collective health of humans,
animals, and their shared environments depends upon the interactions between each …

Reverse zoonosis or zooanthroponosis is the transfer of pathogens from humans to animals.
Although less studied than zoonotic diseases, this phenomenon poses significant risks to …

Companion animals comprise a wide variety of species, including dogs, cats, horses, ferrets,
guinea pigs, reptiles, birds and ornamental fish, as well as food production animal species …

The 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus (pH1N1) contains neuraminidase (NA) and matrix (M)
genes from Eurasian avian-like swine influenza viruses (SIVs), with the remaining six genes …

This chapter discusses etiology, transmission and epidemiology, clinical signs, pathology,
diagnosis, treatment and prevention of viral diseases of ferrets. The viruses discussed in the …

ABSTRACT PB1-F2 is an 87-to 90-amino-acid-long protein expressed by certain influenza A
viruses. Previous studies have shown that PB1-F2 contributes to virulence in the mouse …