#zoonotic — Public Fediverse posts

💬 "Introducing heritable #rabies immunity into North American red fox populations 🦊 through gene drive represents a strategy to both battle rabies and adjust the #ecology of (sub)urban environments."

🔓 Research Idea: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e134189 .

#CRISPR #CRISPRCas9 #wildlife #publichealth #zoonosis #zoonotic

The #host #tropism of current #zoonotic #H7N9 viruses depends mainly on an acid-labile #hemagglutinin with a single amino acid #mutation in the #stalk region

Source: PLoS Pathogens, AbstractThe incidence of human infection by zoonotic avian influenza viruses, especially H5N1 and H7N9 viruses, has increased. Current zoonotic H7N9 avian influenza viruses (identified since 2013) emerged during reassortment of viruses belonging to different subtypes. Despite analyses of…

https://etidioh.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/the-host-tropism-of-current-zoonotic-h7n9-viruses-depends-mainly-on-an-acid-labile-hemagglutinin-with-a-single-amino-acid-mutation-in-the-stalk-region/