New Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype ElTor bacteriophages.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C virus roots a chronic liver disease. Currently approved treatment strategy includes administration of alpha interferon and ribavirin combined therapy for 24-48 weeks. One of the predictor of sustained virological response is an early virological response to treatment characterized as rapid respon...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Akram M,Idrees M,Hussain A,Afzal S,Ilyas M,Zafar S,Aftab M,Badar S,Khubaib B

更新日期：2011-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:During the outbreak of SARS in 2002/3, a prototype virus was isolated from a patient in Frankfurt/Germany (strain Frankfurt-1). As opposed to all other SARS-Coronavirus strains, Frankfurt-1 has a 45-nucleotide deletion in the transmembrane domain of its ORF 7b protein. When over-expressed in HEK 293 cells, the full-le...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Pfefferle S,Krähling V,Ditt V,Grywna K,Mühlberger E,Drosten C

更新日期：2009-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The VP2 outer capsid protein Bluetongue Virus (BTV) is responsible for receptor binding, haemagglutination and eliciting host-specific immunity. However, the assembly of this outer capsid protein on the transcriptionally active viral core would block transcription of the virus. Thus assembly of the outer cap...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Bhattacharya B,Noad RJ,Roy P

更新日期：2007-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious disease of livestock which causes severe economic loss in cloven-hoofed animals. Vaccination is still a major strategy in developing countries to control FMD. Currently, inactivated vaccine of FMDV has been used in many countries with limited success and sa...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Cao Y,Lu Z,Sun P,Fu Y,Tian F,Hao X,Bao H,Liu X,Liu Z

更新日期：2011-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Influenza virus infections are responsible for significant morbidity worldwide and therefore it remains a high priority to develop more broadly protective vaccines. Adjuvation of current seasonal influenza vaccines has the potential to achieve this goal. METHODS:To assess the immune potentiating properties ...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Cox F,Saeland E,Baart M,Koldijk M,Tolboom J,Dekking L,Koudstaal W,Lövgren Bengtsson K,Goudsmit J,Radošević K

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study has identified two types of recombinant variants of Potato virus Y strain NTN (PVY(NTN)) in China and sequenced the complete genome of the variant PVY(NTN)-HN2. In this study, the complete genome of isolate PVY(NTN)-HN1 was fully sequenced and analyzed. The most striking difference between the two var...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Hu X,Nie X,He C,Xiong X

更新日期：2011-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The binding of viral-specific antibodies to cell-surface antigens usually results in down modulation of the antigen through redistribution of antigens into patches that subsequently may be internalized by endocytosis or may form caps that can be expelled to the extracellular space. Here, by use of confocal-l...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Sarmiento RE,Tirado RG,Valverde LE,Gómez-Garcia B

更新日期：2007-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Newcastle Disease (ND) is a highly contagious and economically devastating disease of poultry. At present, limited molecular epidemiological data are available regarding the causes of ND outbreaks in vaccinated commercial poultry farms. Knowing the genomic characteristics of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) inf...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Umali DV,Ito H,Suzuki T,Shirota K,Katoh H,Ito T

更新日期：2013-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a worldwide public health burden and it is estimated that 185 million people are or have previously been infected worldwide. There is no effective vaccine for prevention of HCV infection; however, a number of drugs are available for the treatment of infection. The availability of d...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Jardim ACG,Shimizu JF,Rahal P,Harris M

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A number of gene therapy applications would benefit from vectors capable of expressing multiple genes. In this study we explored the feasibility and efficiency of expressing two or three transgenes in HIV-1 based lentiviral vector. Bicistronic and tricistronic self-inactivating lentiviral vectors were constr...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Chinnasamy D,Milsom MD,Shaffer J,Neuenfeldt J,Shaaban AF,Margison GP,Fairbairn LJ,Chinnasamy N

更新日期：2006-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Classical swine fever (CSF) is one of the most important viral diseases of pigs. Clinical signs may vary from almost inapparent infection to a hemorrhagic fever like illness. Among the host factors leading to different disease courses are age, breed, and immune status. The aim of this study was to compare ho...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Petrov A,Blohm U,Beer M,Pietschmann J,Blome S

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier, we detected viral RNAs packaged in the porcine adenovirus (PAdV) -3 virions. Using Southern blot analysis, we further demonstrated that the viral RNAs were predominantly packaged in CsCl purified mature capsids (containing viral genome) than empty/intermediate capsids. Some of the packaged viral RNAs appear t...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Xing L,Tikoo SK

更新日期：2009-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Kadipiro virus (KDV) belongs to the Reoviridae family, which consists of segmented, non-enveloped, double-stranded RNA viruses. It has previously been isolated from Culex, Anopheles, Armigeres and Aedes mosquitoes in Indonesia and China. Here, we describe the isolation and characterization of SDKL1625 from A...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Zhang W,Li F,Liu A,Lin X,Fu S,Song J,Liu G,Shao N,Tao Z,Wang Q,He Y,Lei W,Liang G,Xu A,Zhao L,Wang H

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More than a decade after the outbreak of human coronaviruses (HCoVs) SARS in Guangdong province and Hong Kong SAR of China in 2002, there is still no reoccurrence, but the evolution and recombination of the coronaviruses in this region are still unknown. Therefore, surveillance on the prevalence and the viru...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Liu P,Shi L,Zhang W,He J,Liu C,Zhao C,Kong SK,Loo JFC,Gu D,Hu L

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The context and purpose of the study included 1) bacterial expression of viral protein 6 (VP6) of porcine rotavirus (PRV) and generation of rabbit polyclonal antiserum to the VP6 protein; 3) establishment of a discrimination ELISA to distinguish PRV from a panel of other porcine viruses. RESULTS:The VP6 gen...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Zhu J,Yang Q,Cao L,Dou X,Zhao J,Zhu W,Ding F,Bu RE,Suo S,Ren Y,Li G,Ren X

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genetic element s2m seems to represent one of very few examples of mobile genetic elements in viruses. The function remains obscure and a scattered taxonomical distribution has been reported by numerous groups. METHODS:We have searched GenBank in order to identify all viral accessions that have s2m(-lik...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Tengs T,Kristoffersen AB,Bachvaroff TR,Jonassen CM

更新日期：2013-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV) is an important fish pathogen that causes high mortality in farmed Atlantic salmon. The ISAV genome consists of eight single-stranded, negative-sense RNA segments. The six largest segments contain one open reading frame (ORF) each, and encode three polymerase proteins, n...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Zhang W,Cai C,Lin L,Tao YJ,Jin M

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Flaviviruses are small viruses with single-stranded RNA, which include the yellow fever virus, dengue virus, West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, and Zika virus; and are causal agents of the most important emerging diseases that have no available treatment to date. In recent yea...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： García LL,Padilla L,Castaño JC

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Highly-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 and Newcastle disease (ND) viruses are the two most important poultry viruses in the world, with the ability to cause classic central nervous system dysfunction in poultry and migratory birds. To elucidate the mechanisms of neurovirulence caused by these viruses,...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Balasubramaniam VR,Wai TH,Omar AR,Othman I,Hassan SS

更新日期：2012-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The influenza virus is still one of the most important respiratory risks affecting humans which require effective treatments. In this case, traditional medications are of interest. HESA-A is an active natural biological compound from herbal-marine origin. Previous studies have reported that the therapeutic p...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Mehrbod P,Ideris A,Omar AR,Hair-Bejo M,Tan SW,Kheiri MT,Tabatabaian M

更新日期：2012-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persistent infection of human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 causes cervical cancer. To better understand immune responses to the prophylactic vaccine, HPV 16/18 L1 virus-like particles (HPV-VLPs), we investigated B cell epitopes of HPV16 L1-derived peptides. METHODS:Sera from mice immunized with HPV-...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Fukui A,Matsueda S,Kawano K,Tsuda N,Komatsu N,Shichijo S,Sasada T,Hattori S,Ushijima K,Itoh K,Kamura T

更新日期：2012-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:One coronavirus strain was isolated from brain tissues of ten piglets with evident clinical manifestations of vomiting, diarrhea and dyskinesia in Jilin province in China. Antigenic and genomic characterizations of the virus (isolate PHEV-JLsp09) were based on multiplex PCR and negative staining electron microscopy an...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Gao W,Zhao K,Zhao C,Du C,Ren W,Song D,Lu H,Chen K,Li Z,Lan Y,Xie S,He W,Gao F

更新日期：2011-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dengue fever is perhaps the most important viral re-emergent disease especially in tropical and sub-tropical countries, affecting about 50 million people around the world yearly. In Colombia, dengue virus was first detected in 1971 and still remains as a major public health issue. Although four viral serotyp...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Méndez JA,Usme-Ciro JA,Domingo C,Rey GJ,Sánchez JA,Tenorio A,Gallego-Gomez JC

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine circoviruses are circular single-stranded DNA viruses that infect swine and wild boars. Two species of porcine circoviruses exist. Porcine circovirus type 1 is non pathogenic contrary to porcine circovirus type 2 which is associated with the disease known as Post-weaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome. Porcine...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Faurez F,Dory D,Grasland B,Jestin A

更新日期：2009-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aquatic birnavirus infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) causes infectious pancreatic necrosis (IPN), a severe disease in farmed salmonid fish. IPNV has a very broad host range and infects many different species of fish as well as molluscs and crustaceans. Investigation of the host reservoir of a v...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Ørpetveit I,Küntziger T,Sindre H,Rimstad E,Dannevig BH

更新日期：2012-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The avian influenza virus (AIV) causes frequent disease with high morbidity and mortality. RNA interference (RNAi) has been shown to provide an effective antiviral defense in animals, and several studies have focused on harnessing small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to inhibit viral infections. In addition, sing...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Wang S,Zhang P,He F,Wang JG,Sun JZ,Li ZL,Yi B,Xi J,Mao YP,Hou Q,Yuan DL,Zhang ZD,Liu WQ

更新日期：2014-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sequence and structural elements in the 3'-untranslated region (UTR) of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) are known to regulate translation and replication. We previously reported an abundant accumulation of small subgenomic flaviviral RNA (sfRNA) which is collinear with the highly conserved regions of the 3...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Fan YH,Nadar M,Chen CC,Weng CC,Lin YT,Chang RY

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previously, we showed that the tetraspanin membrane protein CD63 mediates both early and post-integration stages of the HIV-1 replication cycle. The temporal roles of CD63 were discerned using monoclonal antibodies and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to block CD63 function, and determining which of the seque...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Li G,Endsley MA,Somasunderam A,Gbota SL,Mbaka MI,Murray JL,Ferguson MR

更新日期：2014-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Entry of Ebolavirus to the target cells is mediated by the viral glycoprotein GP. The native GP exists as a homotrimer on the virions and contains two subunits, a surface subunit (GP1) that is involved in receptor binding and a transmembrane subunit (GP2) that mediates the virus-host membrane fusion. Previou...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Manicassamy B,Rong L

更新日期：2009-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The Filoviridae family comprises of Ebola and Marburg viruses, which are known to cause lethal hemorrhagic fever. However, there is no effective anti-viral therapy or licensed vaccines currently available for these human pathogens. The envelope glycoprotein (GP) of Ebola virus, which mediates entry into target cells, ...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Bhattacharyya S,Hope TJ

更新日期：2011-01-12 00:00:00