Journal of Virology & Antiviral ResearchISSN: 2324-8955

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Andrew W Taylor-Robinson Author

Subjects of specialization
Hantavirus, Pathogen, Rodent, Anthropogenic, Immunity

Affiliation
School of Medical & Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia

Biography

Andrew Taylor-Robinson is an infectious disease immunologist specializing in mosquito-borne pathogens. Andrew received a BSc Hons in microbiology (immunology major) from University College London and a PhD in parasite immunology from the University of Glasgow for work on immunity to malaria. His postdoctoral training was undertaken at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow, which included periods at the Medical Research Laboratories in The Gambia and the Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie in Freiburg, Germany. 


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Understanding the Complex Relationship between the Human Pathogen Hantavirus and its Rodent Reservoirs Underpins a Rational Disease Control Strategy

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Abdullah Mahmud-Al-Rafat, Mahbub-E-Sobhani and Andrew W Taylor-Robinson

Hantaviruses commonly infect rodents in which they do not cause any significant symptoms of disease. In contrast, humans serve occasionally as a dead-end host when they inadvertently become infected through the bite of an infectious rodent or via contact with its urine, faeces and/or saliva. The virus was first recognized in the 1970s as a cause of severe haemorrhagic fever. The outcome is fatal in up to 50% of cases due to view moreĀ»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8955.1000147

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