Editor's comment: Biomolecular Detection and Quantification...

I've been invited to be a section Editor for Biomolecular Detection and Quantification (BDQ).BDQ is an Elsevier-based, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to championing excellence in molecular study design, measurement, data analysis and reporting. BDQ's Editor's-in-Chief are Stephen...

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Editor's Note #14: VDU in the scientific literature

Virology Down Under gets a 2nd citation (1)!Dr Anne S De Groot and colleagues used a VDU graphic for a recent paper and cited VDU for it. Many thanks!To read the paper entitled Cross-conservation of T-cell epitopes: Now even more relevant to (H7N9) influenza vaccine design hop over to..Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 10:2, 1�7; February 2014; � 2014 Landes Biosciencehttps://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/vaccines/article/281351st...

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Snapdate: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

Click on image to enlarge.Chart update time for human cases of the MERS-CoV.Chart #1: lab confirmed(Ministry announced) human cases of MERS by region of acquisition. MERS is a disease with its activity firmly rooted in Saudi Arabia.Chart #2: age and sex distribution pyramid. MERS is a disease of older...

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Coming back to MERSerable data...

A grab of the past 20 MERS-CoV positive human cases reported by a Ministry and listed over FluTracker's if you want to look in more detail. Even though the tally goes to 191 - there are 186 total cases (some have been removed after being reduced in status to probable cases). Under the FluTracker...

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Vale Dr. Albert Z Kapikian

Others will no doubt write more cogently and personally than I can about Dr Kapikian's >56-years of medical and virology expertise, skills, discoveries and personality but I wanted to make a just a few quick comments on his passing in relation to a group of viruses for...

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Dromedary camels are a host of MERS-CoV...

Yes. Not a "MERS-CoV-like" virus or "something very closely related to but slightly different" from MERS-CoV. Camels. Are. A. Host. There was already plenty of evidence to suggest this (see some of my previous posts on this linked below), and none to really dissuade me from thinking otherwise. And yesterday we saw a new paper by Ian Lipkin and his collaborating crew from King Saud University in...

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Using human volunteers to understand influenza virus behaviour and its impact....

This will be the first in a long term project to catalogue the literature's record of volunteer infection studies using influenza virus (IFV). Much like the one I started on rhinovirus transmission back in Nov-2013...see those posts here and here, so far.I don't guarantee it will be done before I'm too old to type, but I'll be adding to it as time allows. ;)So first...

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Live bird market closures continue...

Changsha, capital of Hunan province has had its live poultry markets closed since 21-Feb (1).H7N9 case map.So that can be added to Shanghai, major markets in Hangzhou, Ningbo and Jinhua cities in Zhejiang (15), markets in Guangzhou, Guangdong ((3); plus a previous 2-week pause for disinfection in Shenzen...

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H7N9 snapdate: nothing new to report

No new human cases of avian influenza A (H7N9) virus yesterday.None.Markets.Precipito...

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