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muhammad.sohail@bioch.ox.ac.uk
Information for Poster Presenters
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All accepted abstracts will be published in the Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine. Authors wishing to submit full articles in the refereed sections of the journal should send their manuscripts to Dr M Sohail before 05 September 2008. Please consult Information for Authors on the journal website for instructions on manuscript preparation.
Please see below for a list of titles accepted for a poster (P) and/or a short oral (SO) presentation:
A diagnostic microarray for detection, hemagglutinin subtyping and pathotyping of avian influenza viruses (P,SO)
Gall A, Hoffmann B, Harder T, Grund C, Hoeper D and Beer M
A single-cycle vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) vector vaccine protects chicken from highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H7N1) (P,S0)
Kalhoro NH, Veits J, Rautenschlein S and Zimmer G
Avian influenza H5N1 and wild bird trade (P)
Edmunds K, Brooks-Moizer F, Roberton S and Bell D
Bioscope (P)
Carroll TM and Tan RL
Broadly cross-reactive CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell responses to avian influenza A (H5N1) in healthy individuals in the UK and Viet Nam (P)
Lee LY-H, Ha DLA, Simmons C, de Jong MD, Chau NVV, Schumacher R, Peng YC, McMichael AJ, Farrar JJ, Smith GL, Townsend ARM, Askonas BA, Rowland-Jones S, and Dong T
Characterization of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus isolated from poultry in South Korea during 2008 epizootics: Increased pathogenicity in ducks (P)
Lee YJ, Jeong OM, Kim MC, Kang HM, Park CK, Kim HR, Jean YH, Roh IS, Joo YS, Kwon JS, Pack MR, Yang CB, Lee JH, Kang MI, Kwon JH
Characterization of the mutation patterns of influenza viruses in Asian countries (P)
Suzuki H, Sato S, Tsutsumi R and Minegishi D
Comparison of sensitivity of three methods for detection of type A influenza virus (P)
Slavec B, Barlič-Maganja D, Krapež U, Račnik J, Dovč A, Knific RL, Zadravec M and Rojs OZ
Cross-reactive human influenza virus PB2-specific T cells in Thai donors (P)
Hansasuta P, Boonchan M, Chokesupmanee O and Buranapraditkun S
Economics and livelihood impacts of HPAI shock and stress in Nigeria (P)
Obi TU, Oparinde AO, Maina GA and Okike I
Evaluation of awareness of people who referred to Avian Influenza Informative Centers about AI in Gorgan, Iran (P)
Abbasi A and Ahmad Tatar A
Evolution and emergence of pandemic influenza (P)
Arinaminpathy N and McLean AR
H5N1 avian influenza viruses can replicate in feathers of domestic waterfowl (P)
Yamamoto Y, Nakamura K, Okamatsu M, Yamada M and Mase M
H5N1 HPAI isolation from common gull (Larus canus) without clinical symptoms of disease (P)
Sharshov KA, Zaykovskaya AV, Evseenko VA, Ternovoy VA, Durymanov AG, Drozdov IG and Shestopalov AM
Inactivation of Airborne Avian Influenza A H5N1 virus with positive and negative ions (P)
Matsuoka N, Mann A, Lambkin R, Oxford J, Nishikawa K and Pham K
Infection of primary chicken respiratory epithelial cell culture systems by avian influenza virus strains (P)
Bohm M, Winter C and Herrler G
Influenza A markers in sera of russian population with different risk of exposure to H5N1 avian influenza virus (P)
Kurskaya OG, Zaykovskaya AV, Durymanov AV, Shestopalov AM, Drozdov IG and Ilyicheva TN
Influenza HA and NA-pseudotyped retroviral vectors: applications to pandemic vaccine evaluation, sero-surveillance and antiviral drug screening (P,SO)
Temperton N
Innovative initiatives to mitigate pandemic influenza: An interdisciplinary review (P)
Kahn R
Low seroprevalence of avian influenza A/H5N1 among poultry farmers in rural Indonesia (P)
Robert M, Holle DR, Setiawaty V, Pangesti KNA and Sedyaningsih ER
Molecular evolution and geographical spread of H5N1 HPAIV in Germany and neighbouring countries in 2007 (P)
Starick E, Fereidouni S, Harder T, Grund C, Strebelow G, Hoeper D, Mettenleiter T and Beer M
Molecular quantitation of the H 9N 2 avian influenza virus in various organs of broiler chickens using Taq-Man Real time PCR (P)
Mosleh N, Dadras H and Mohammadi A
Mortality of Avian Influenza (H9N2) in Iran (P)
Khoshkhoo PH, Bashashati M and Bashashati G
PB2 gene is responsible for restriction in replication of a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus strain A/chicken/Yamaguchi/7/04 (H5N1) in pigs (P)
Sakoda Y, Manzoor R, Nomura N, Ozaki H, Okamatsu M and Kida H
Presentation of an infection control algorithm for use in healthcare facilities, ambulatory services and other emergency services in the event of pandemic influenza (P,SO)
Gralton J, McLaws M-L, Rawlinson W and Seale H
Production of soluble recombinant Hemagglutinin glycoprotein as an alternative to egg-grown whole-virus for hemagglutination inhibition and ELISA based assays (P)
Yaqub T, Hill M, Reddy K, McCauley J and Iqbal M
Rapid pathotyping of H5 Subtype Avian Influenza Viruses by RT-PCR and Restriction Enzyme Cleavage Pattern (RECP) (P,S0)
Fereidouni SR, Harder H and Starick E
Role of the Mx polymorphism coding for amino acid position 631 in chicken lines experimentally infected with a highly pathogenic H7N1 a vian i nfluenza virus (P,SO)
Sironi L, Williams JL, Moreno A, Ramelli P, Stella A, Jianlin H, Weigend S, Lombardi G, Cordioli P and Mariani P
Scientific opinion of the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare on animal health and welfare aspects of avian influenza and the risk of its introduction into the EU poultry holdings (P)
Dhollander S, Have P, De Massis P, Correia S, Ribó O, Candiani D, Barbieri S, Grudnik T, Afonso A, Berthe F and Serratosa J
Seropositivity for avian influenza A/H5N1 among poultry workers in Jakarta, Indonesia (P)
Setiawaty V, Robert M, Holle DR, Pangesti KNA, Isfandari S and Sedyaningsih ER
Subtyping and pathotyping of avian influenza viruses using a diagnostic microarray (P)
Lee DH, Lee HJ, Lee YJ, Jeong OM, Kang HM, Kim MC, Chung IH, Roh MR and Song CS
The pig as a mammalian model of resistance to H5N1 infections: Evaluation of host receptor distribution and innate resistance (P,SO)
Nelli R, Kuchipudi SV, Dunham S and Chang KC
The relationship of influenza virus receptor distribution and susceptibility to infection in chickens and ducks (P,SO)
Kuchipudi SV, Nelli R, Bain M, Chang KC and Dunham S
The spread and evolution of highly pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in Africa (P,SO)
Gerloff NA, Ducatez MF, Forbi1 JC, Tahita MC, Sow A, Ouedraogo JB, Owoade AA AND Muller CP
Zoos as disease sentinels: Piloting an avian influenza surveillance system in zoological institutions (P,SO)
Chosy J, Travis D and Nadler Y
Investigating the role of the novel influenza PB1-F2 protein in pathogenesis in a natural host (P)
Howard W, Hayman A, Whiteley A, Londt B, Banks J and Barclay W
The Pig as a Mixing Vessel for Influenza A Viruses (P)
Ma W and Richt JA