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A slow virus is a virus, or a viruslike agent, etiologically associated with a slow virus disease.A slow virus disease is a disease that, after an extended period of latency, follows a slow, progressive course spanning months to years, frequently involves the central nervous system, and in most cases progresses to death.
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The slow virus concept was first introduced by Björn Sigurðsson and he and his co-workers made pioneering studies on slow diseases in sheep including mæði, visna and scrapie. Mæði is a slowly progressive interstitial pneumonia of adult sheep while visna is a slow, progressive encephalomyelitis and the same virus, belonging, to the ...
Virus latency (or viral latency) is the ability of a pathogenic virus to lie dormant within a cell, denoted as the lysogenic part of the viral life cycle. [1] A latent viral infection is a type of persistent viral infection which is distinguished from a chronic viral infection. Latency is the phase in certain viruses' life cycles in which ...
Nipah virus encephalitis [1] Poliomyelitis; Progressive rubella panencephalitis, a late complication of congenital rubella syndrome; St. Louis encephalitis; Slow virus infections, which include: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis by Measles virus; Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy; Rabies ...
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi bacteria, also called Salmonella Typhi. [2] [3] Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure.
The virus infects bees through mites that lives in their colonies. Slow bee paralysis virus (SBPV) is a virus discovered in England in 1974 [1] that infects honeybees (Apis mellifera), bumblebees [2] (Bombis spp.), and silkworms (Bombyx mori) through Varroa destructor mite infestations. The virus causes paralysis in the front two pairs of legs ...
On 16 March, the WHO issued advice on 'Five Things You Should Know Now about the COVID-19 Pandemic' [45] and on safeguarding mental health during the pandemic, [46] while the WHO Director-General "blasted" the slow virus testing response and stressed, "Once again, our message is: test, test, test." [47]