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Foot‐and‐Mouth Disease in pigs: current epidemiological situation and control methods
(Wiley, 2012-03)
Foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD) is the paradigm of a transboundary animal disease. Beyond any doubt, it is the most serious challenge for livestock’s health. Official Veterinary Services from free countries invest considerable ...
Specific molecular targets to control tropical diseases
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2001-04)
Chagas' disease or American trypanosomiasis is considered by the Word Health Organization to be one of the important tropical parasitic diseases worldwide together with malaria and schistosomiasis. The etiologic agent of ...
Why have Non-communicable Diseases been Left Behind?
(Springer, 2020-03)
Non-communicable diseases are no longer largely limited to high-income countries and the elderly. The burden of non-communicable diseases is rising across all country income categories, in part because these diseases have ...
A core avenue for transcultural research on dementia: on the cross-linguistic generalization of language-related effects in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018-06)
Objective: Language is a key source of cross-cultural variability, which may have both subtle and major effects on neurocognition. However, this issue has been largely overlooked in two flourishing lines of research assessing ...
Induction of osteoclastogenesis in an in vitro model of Gaucher disease is mediated by T cells via TNF-α
(Elsevier Science, 2012-11)
Gaucher disease is a lysosomal storage disorder caused by deficiency of glucocerebrosidase enzymatic activity leading to accumulation of its substrate glucocerebrosidase mainly in macrophages. Skeletal disorder of Gaucher ...
Infectious diseases in donkeys and mules: an overview and update
(Elsevier, 2018-06)
The global equine population comprises a total of 114 million equids, which includes an estimate of 44 million donkeys (Equus asinus) and 11 million mules. Donkey populations have gradually expanded throughout the globe, ...
Unravelling the complexity of maize resistance to bacterial and fungal diseases: an integrative perspective
(Springer Nature, 2022-02)
Maize is one of the most important cereals for both human and animal nutrition, and diseases that affect the crop pose a major threat to global food security. Breeders are racing against time to develop genotypes resistant ...
Disease mongering in neurological disorders
(Scienpress, 2013-10)
“Diseases mongering”, than a simple definition would be enforced "to promote or sell disease". The main and common characteristhics of all these "diseases" is that they are amenable to treatment with drugs. So, the ...
Analysis of the spatial distribution of scientific publications regarding vector-borne diseases related to climate variability in South America
(Elsevier, 2018-08)
Most vector-borne diseases exhibit a distinct seasonal pattern, which clearly suggests that they are weather sensitive. Rainfall, temperature, and other climate variables affect in many ways both the vectors and the pathogens ...
Chagas disease: Historic perspective
(Elsevier Science, 2020-05)
This review is a perspective on the history of Chagas disease, and it adopts a novel approach from literary studies, historical documents and the science and epidemiology of the nature of the disease. From this analysis, ...