Aim: To study prevalence of the different strains of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) circulating among sick poultry flocks, NDV detected from disease outbreaks in Nsukka-Nigeria were characterized into the three main NDV strains. Materials and Methods: NDV was detected from 63 case...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/7129
Aim: For a simpler, more rapid and more accurate method of characterizing new isolates of Newcastle disease virus (NDV), agglutination of mammalian erythrocytes (HA) plus heat stability test and agglutination of mammalian erythrocytes plus erythrocytes elution time (EET)...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/7128
Maduike CO. Ezeibe, Augustine A. Ngene, Idika K. Kalu, Ikenna O. Ezeh, Ijeoma J. Mbuko, Jonathan O. Ekwuruke, Ifeanyi Anene, Bridget Amechi, Peter Olowoniyi & Idika F. Ifekwe·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2013
Aim: For an affordable therapy for Human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) infections, antiretroviral effects of a synthetic aluminum-magnesium silicate (AMS) were tested. Materials and Methods: Plasma that tested positive to HIV and the AMS were mixed, on equal volume to weight basi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/7103
Aim: Relationship between virus titers of live Infectious Bursal disease (IBD) vaccines and their serum-conversion abilities was studied. Study design and Methodology: Five batches of each, of five IBD vaccine brands used in Nigeria, were tested for virus titers. Each of the vacc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/6205