Viral Zoonoses and Food of Animal Origin

Cowpox: a re-evaluation of the risks of human cowpox based on new epidemiological information.- Characterization of a cowpox-like orthopox virus which had caused a lethal infection in man.- Molecular genetic analyses of parapoxviruses pathogenic for humans.- Recent advances in molluscum contagiosum virus research.- Molecular anatomy of lymphocystis disease virus.- Detection of virus or virus specific nucleic acid in foodstuff or bioproducts — hazards and risk assessment.- Rapid molecular detection of microbial pathogens: breakthroughs and challenges.- Where do we stand with oral vaccination of foxes against rabies in Europe?.- Foot-and-mouth disease as zoonosis.- Molecular epidemiology of influenza.- Influenza virus: transmission between species and relevance to emergence of the next human pandemic.- Functional chimeric HN glycoproteins derived from Newcastle disease virus and human parainfluenza virus-3.- Viral factors determining rotavirus pathogenicity.- Viral zoonoses and food of animal origin: caliciviruses and human disease.- The role of human caliciviruses in epidemic gastroenteritis.- Clinical similarities and close genetic relationship of human and animal Borna disease virus.- Molecular characterization of Borna disease virus from naturally infected animals and possible links to human disorders.- Haemorrhagic fevers and ecological perturbations.- Transmission, species specificity, and pathogenicity of Aujeszky’s disease virus.- The role of veterinary public health in the prevention of zoonoses.- Viral infections transmitted by food of animal origin: the present situation in the European Unio.- Viral zoonosis from the viewpoint of their epidemiological surveillance: tick-borne encephalitis as a model.- Strategies to avoid virus transmissions bybiopharmaceutic products.