| molecular characterization of adenoviruses from children presenting with acute respiratory disease in uberlândia, minas gerais, brazil, and detection of an isolate genetically related to feline adenovirus. | human adenoviruses (hadv) are a major cause of acute respiratory diseases (ard), gastroenteritis, conjunctivitis and urinary infections. between november 2000-april 2007, a total of 468 nasopharyngeal aspirate samples were collected from children with ard at the clinics hospital of uberlândia. these samples were tested by immunofluorescence assay (ifa) and 3% (14/468) tested positive for the presence of hadv. by performing polymerase chain reaction (pcr) to detect hadv dna in samples that tested ... | 2010 | 20835622 |
| distribution of antibodies against influenza virus in pigs from farrow-to-finish farms in minas gerais state, brazil. | swine influenza virus (siv) is the cause of an acute respiratory disease that affects swine worldwide. in brazil, siv has been identified in pigs since 1978. after the emergence of pandemic h1n1 in 2009 (h1n1pdm09), few studies reported the presence of influenza virus in brazilian herds. | 2015 | 25648743 |