We make the Team Halo link with a mouse model for aminolevulinate delta dehydratase linking Parkinson's:
The first pubmed abstract is from Brazil for Parkinson's. Meander tail syndrome in mice links to University of Queensland, Australia, not far from EC Holmes in Sydney. The study that links Team Halo (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) is Pubmed # 2212703 for Leishmania mexicana and the Scl-2 gene.
Scl-2 is the mouse predisposition to the cutaneous form of Leishmania mexicana. This would link to Russian ethnic differences and susceptibilities to Leishmania, cutaneous or visceral, which would be of interest to any Ukraine biolabs and perhaps the Lugar Research Center in Georgia.
Here then, we can link St. Abb's head phlebovirus already mentioned in the thread for de Koning, because de Koning shows up for Leishmania studies in Georgia:
May 2016 Georgia / Leishmania donovani / Harry P. de Koning
VL infection rates remain high in both canines and humans in Georgia, with disease in several known natural foci. The genetic relationships derived from rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence comparisons identified genetic subgroups, revealing preliminary insights into the genetic...
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Interestingly, the study mentions a "Glasgow" coma scale.
For comparative studies between Chinese and Georgian brucellosis, this report:
Jul 2013
Brucellosis is the one of most common livestock zoonoses in Georgia, resulting in significant economic losses. Livestock were sampled in three regions of Georgia (Kakheti, Kvemo Kartli, Imereti). Districts that historically reported high numbers of brucellosis related morbidity were selected for...
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And it's imperative that we mention the RGD motif link to silk already posted to USMB, because Georgians were being lung-tested for asthma with silk allergens:
1981 Georgia / Silk Allergens / Asthma
When studying patients suffering from occupational bronchial asthma among the inhabitants of Imereti (The Georgian SSR), it was established that the occurrence of blood groups O(1) of ABO and Hp 2-2 system is more frequent among them, compared with that among healthy inhabitants of Imereti. No...
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Brucella in Georgian bats in 2017 link to UTMB, which is the Menachery link to Baric at UNC:
Jan 2017 Dept. Pathol. UTMB / Bats / Brucella
Bats are important reservoirs for many zoonotic pathogens. However, no surveys of bacterial pathogens in bats have been performed in the Caucasus region. To understand the occurrence and distribution of bacterial infections in these mammals, 218 bats belonging to eight species collected from...
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Jun 2014 Brucella
Brucellosis has been reported in livestock and humans in the country of Georgia with Brucella melitensis as the most common species causing disease. Georgia lacked sufficient data to assess effectiveness of the various potential control measures utilizing a reliable population-based simulation...
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26 Ap 2012, Fau Chi testifies to the Senate.
Jun 2012 Brucellosis
Interventions at the animal level will be best carried out in the fall when animals return to winter pastures. Under-employed private veterinarians would be available for extension work and contact with local villagers. Control will be best achieved at the animal level because the local people...
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Lugar Center and Fau Chi's NIAID collaborate on saliva of the vector and immunity:
May 2020 Lugar Center / NIAID
Individuals exposed to sand fly bites develop humoral and cellular immune responses to sand fly salivary proteins. Moreover, cellular immunity to saliva or distinct salivary proteins protects against leishmaniasis in various animal models. In Tbilisi, Georgia, an endemic area for visceral...
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As we have shown, saliva of the Lutzomiya sandfly, vector of VSV used in ebola vaccine, sports an RGD motif, just as does the tick that vectors Lyme disease, Ixodes scapularis, and the snakes we have listed, above.