That's how some have described the microscopic "needle" that a family of odd-looking viruses use to attack germs.
He also points out that although veterinarians have recognized flu in horses for centuries, flu in pigs wasn't described until 1918, which seems odd if the virus was present several years earlier.
APACHE II: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; CI: Confidence interval; CNS: Central nervous system; CSF: Cerebrospinal fluid; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; OR: Odds ratio; TMP-SMZ: Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
AGE: Acute gastroenteritis; EIA: Enzyme immunoassay; GAVI Globall alliance for vaccines and immunization; HDSS Healthh and demographic surveillance system; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; OR: Odds ratio; PCR: Polymerase chain reaction; VE: Vaccine effectiveness.
Pictographic suns, spirals, the odd portentous phrase: "Heavy time"; "virus slave".
But an odd feature of the new virus is the lack of fever in a significant proportion of documented cases, even after some patients become seriously ill.
Many people suffering from swine influenza, even those who are severely ill, do not have fever, an odd feature of the new virus that could increase the difficulty of controlling the epidemic, said a leading American infectious-disease expert who examined cases in Mexico last week.
In addition, our findings show the need for investigating other sources of NA activity in virus isolates with odd IC50 values.
TB = Tuberculosis; SD = Standard deviation, n = Number of cases, HIV = Human immunodeficiency virus, OR = Odds ratio, 95% CI = 95% confidence interval.
NICU neonatal intensive care unit, OR Odds Ratio, RSV respiratory syncytial virus, LRI lower respiratory tract infection The burden of hospitalization for children with community-acquired pneumonia was highest among the very young, and RSV is the most commonly detected virus causing pneumonia [ 7].
