Dengue fever and dengue haemorrhagic fever are important arthropod-borne viral diseases.
Each year, there are ∼50 million dengue infections and ∼500,000 individuals are …

The characteristics of an ‘ideal’dengue diagnostic test depend on the purpose for which the
test will be used. BOX 1 shows some proposed product specifications for diagnostic tests …

• Expansion of the geographic range of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis in Canada is leading
to increasing numbers of endemic areas for Lyme disease.• Because the specificity of …

We sequenced the 29,751-base genome of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)–associated
coronavirus known as the Tor2 isolate. The genome sequence reveals that this …

Anti–dengue virus immunoglobulin M kits were evaluated. Test sensitivities were 21%–99%
and specificities were 77%–98% compared with reference ELISAs. False-positive results …

The distribution of West Nile virus has expanded in the past 6 years to include the 48 contiguous
United States and seven Canadian provinces, as well as Mexico, the Caribbean islands…

Commercially available diagnostic test kits for detection of dengue virus (DENV) non-structural
protein 1 (NS1) and anti-DENV IgM were evaluated for their sensitivity and specificity and …

Background: In August and September 2002 an outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) infection
occurred in southern Ontario. We encountered a number of seriously ill patients at our …

A needlestick injury occurred during an animal experiment in the biosafety level 4
laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, in March 2009. The syringe contained Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) …

We hypothesized that landscape structure affects movement of individuals through the
landscape, which affects the rate and pattern of disease transmission. Based on this hypothesis, …