| host preference of mosquito vectors of japanese encephalitis. | the host preference of 4 culex mosquito species collected in miaoli and pingtung counties, taiwan was studied by capillary precipitin method. antisera to alum-precipitated sera of man, bovine, swine, rabbit, horse, dog, cat, mouse, chicken, duck, and pigeon were produced in rabbits and reacted with 758 mosquito blood meals among which reactions to one or more antisera. culex annulus and culex tritaeniorhynchus summorosus showed a great avidity for pig, and culex fuscocephala for bovine. culex pi ... | 1975 | 181218 |
| diagnosis and genetic analysis of japanese encephalitis virus infected in horses. | nervous disorders were found in two horses and verified as aseptic encephalitis by necropsy in the summer of 2000. to investigate agents that affected the horses, diagnostic procedures involving virus isolation, neutralization test and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) were performed. we intracranially inoculated litters of suckling mice with tissues suspected of containing aseptic encephalitis, including cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, thalamus, and cerebrospinal fluids ... | 2002 | 12449242 |
| mosquito surveys carried out on green island, orchid island, and penghu island, taiwan, in 2003. | field surveys of mosquitoes were carried out on green, orchid, and penghu islands in 2003 to ascertain the status of mosquito vectors. eighteen species of mosquitoes were collected, including three species of anopheles, four species of aedes, eight species of culex, two species of armigeres, and one species of malaya. seventeen previously recorded species were not collected in this study but 11 species collected had not previously been recorded. ten newly recorded species, an. maculatus, an. tak ... | 2005 | 15825689 |
| [hormone replacement therapy and cognitive function]. | observational studies have suggested that postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (hrt) may improve cognitive function, but data from randomized clinical trials have been sparse and inconclusive. the effects of hrt on dementia and mild cognitive impairment were assessed in a subgroup of participants in the women's health initiative memory study (whims) (a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial). there were two study arms, one involved 4,532 postmenopausal wom ... | 2006 | 17214093 |
| sequence analysis of a duck picornavirus isolate indicates that it together with porcine enterovirus type 8 and simian picornavirus type 2 should be assigned to a new picornavirus genus. | in a 1990 outbreak, a virus isolated in taiwan from the intestines of ducks showing signs of hepatitis was tentatively classified as a picornavirus on the basis of physical, chemical, and morphological characteristics. the virus was cloned and then found not to be type 1 duck hepatitis virus (dhv-1) or a new serotype of duck hepatitis virus (n-dhv) by serum neutralization. complete genome sequencing indicated that the virus genome had 8351 nucleotides and the typical picornavirus genome organiza ... | 2007 | 17686542 |
| detection and species identification of cryptosporidium from taiwan feeding animals. | in this study, 107 fecal specimens were collected from 40 sampling sites in taiwan livestock and avian farms to test for cryptosporidium spp. oocysts. ten of 107 samples analyzed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay showed the presence of cryptosporidium spp., among which 6 samples were simultaneously confirmed by immunofluorescence assay and polymerase chain reaction. nucleic acid sequencing of the 18s rrna gene identified 3 clusters of cryptosporidium spp. three cryptosporidium parvum isolates ... | 2008 | 18372647 |
| risk of immediate effects from f(ab)2 bivalent antivenin in taiwan. | to evaluate the incidence of immediate adverse effects from equine fragment antigen binding f(ab)2 bivalent antivenin produced by the national institute of preventive medicine (nipm) in taiwan. | 2000 | 11055561 |
| a catalogue of the zoonoses of taiwan. | | 1972 | 4571608 |
| treatment of atrophic vaginitis with topical conjugated equine estrogens in postmenopausal asian women. | we investigated the effects of 2 months of treatment with topical estrogens on atrophic vaginitis and gynecological health in asian women. | 2004 | 15669556 |