Project description:Hanl Lee & Angelyn Lao. Transmission dynamics and control strategies assessment of avian influenza A (H5N6) in the Philippines. Infectious Disease Modelling 3 (2018).
Due to the outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (HPAI) H5N6 in the Philippines (particularly in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija) in August 2017, there has been an increase in the need to cull the domestic birds to control the spread of the infection. However, this control method poses a negative impact on the poultry industry. In addition, the pathogenicity and transmissibility of the H5N6 in both the birds and the humans remain largely unknown which call for the necessity to develop more strategic control methods for the virus. In this study, we constructed a mathematical model for the bilinear and half-saturated incidence to compare their corresponding effect on transmission dynamics of H5N6. The simulations of half-saturated incidence model were similar to what occurred during the H5N6 outbreak (2017) in the Philippines. Instead of culling the birds, we implemented other control strategies such as non-medicinal (personal protection and poultry isolation) and medicinal (poultry vaccination) ways to prevent, reduce, and control the rate of the H5N6 virus transmission. Among the proposed control strategies, we have shown that the poultry isolation strategy is still the most effective in reducing the infected birds.
Project description:Hanl Lee & Angelyn Lao. Transmission dynamics and control strategies assessment of avian influenza A (H5N6) in the Philippines. Infectious Disease Modelling 3 (2018).
Due to the outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (HPAI) H5N6 in the Philippines (particularly in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija) in August 2017, there has been an increase in the need to cull the domestic birds to control the spread of the infection. However, this control method poses a negative impact on the poultry industry. In addition, the pathogenicity and transmissibility of the H5N6 in both the birds and the humans remain largely unknown which call for the necessity to develop more strategic control methods for the virus. In this study, we constructed a mathematical model for the bilinear and half-saturated incidence to compare their corresponding effect on transmission dynamics of H5N6. The simulations of half-saturated incidence model were similar to what occurred during the H5N6 outbreak (2017) in the Philippines. Instead of culling the birds, we implemented other control strategies such as non-medicinal (personal protection and poultry isolation) and medicinal (poultry vaccination) ways to prevent, reduce, and control the rate of the H5N6 virus transmission. Among the proposed control strategies, we have shown that the poultry isolation strategy is still the most effective in reducing the infected birds.
Project description:To dissect the molecular mechanisms of resistance mediated by Xa39,the transcriptome profiling of a rice line carrying Xa39 and its parents at the early stage of Xoo infection were investigated. A rice introgression line H471 carrying Xa39 exhibited a typical local hypersensitive response phenotype, accompanied by programmed cell death after inoculation with the Xoo Philippines’ race 9b.Our results indicated there might be cross-talk between the Xa39-mediated signal transduction cascades and the GA/BR signaling pathway, and the defense mechanism was related to diverse kinases, transcription factors, post-translational regulation, and R genes.
Project description:We investigate the role of resident memory T cells in protective immunity in HIV infection Funding sources: Michael R. Betts: NIH/NIAID R01 AI076066 and R01 AI118694 Marcus Buggert: Swedish Research Council (Dnr 537-2014-6829), Karolinska Institutet, Magnus Bergvall and Lars Hiertas Stiftelse
Project description:A IR64 variety of rice was grown in a field plot at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines. The data ganied from the expremint provides infromation of the daily trnascriptional changes occur in panicle tissue during an important developmental period.
Project description:RAW264.7 macrophages infected with MNV-1 and mock infected gene expression measured by microarray. To be published in Waugh, E. Chen, A. Baird, M. Fleming, S. Brown, C.M. and V K. Ward (2014) Characterization of the chemokine response of RAW264.7 cells to infection by murine norovirus. Virus Genes
Project description:A IR64 variety of rice was grown in a field plot at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines. The data gained from the experiment provides information of the daily transcriptional changes occur in panicle tissue during an important developmental period under control and warm night temperatures.
Project description:RAW264.7 macrophages infected with MNV-1 and mock infected gene expression measured by microarray. To be published in Waugh, E. Chen, A. Baird, M. Fleming, S. Brown, C.M. and V K. Ward (2014) Characterization of the chemokine response of RAW264.7 cells to infection by murine norovirus. Virus Genes Four Samples, two mock and two MNV-1 infected.
Project description:Proteomic data from uninfected and human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infected A549 cells (24h post infection; four biological replicate sets). Data is related to the fractionation-free workflow described in Dave et al. (2014) (PMID: 25106423). Data is processed using MaxQuant (version 1.3.0.5).
