Current status and future directions in the management of chronic hepatitis C.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) diseases are known to be zoonotic diseases that can infect different kinds of animals. The transmissibility of TSE, like that of other infectious diseases, shows marked species barrier, either being unable to infect heterologous species or difficult to form trans...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Shi Q,Zhang BY,Gao C,Zhang J,Jiang HY,Chen C,Han J,Dong XP

更新日期：2012-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus (CCHFV), a member of the genus Nairovirus, family Bunyaviridae, is a tick-borne pathogen causing severe disease in humans. To better understand the CCHFV life cycle and explore potential intervention strategies, we studied the biosynthesis and intracellular targeting of ...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Haferkamp S,Fernando L,Schwarz TF,Feldmann H,Flick R

更新日期：2005-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porcine sapovirus was first identified in the United States in 1980, hitherto, several Asian countries have detected this virus. In 2008, the first outbreak of gastroenteritis in piglets caused by porcine sapovirus in China was reported. The complete genome of the identified SaV strain Ch-sw-sav1 was sequenc...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Yang S,Zhang W,Shen Q,Huang F,Wang Y,Zhu J,Cui L,Yang Z,Hua X

更新日期：2009-12-06 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：BACKGROUND:Inteins are "protein introns" that remove themselves from their host proteins through an autocatalytic protein-splicing. After their discovery, inteins have been quickly identified in all domains of life, but only once to date in the genome of a eukaryote-infecting virus. RESULTS:Here we report the identifi...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Ogata H,Raoult D,Claverie JM

更新日期：2005-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Influenza A virus infects not only humans, but also other species including avian and swine. If a novel influenza A subtype acquires the ability to spread between humans efficiently, it could cause the next pandemic. Therefore it is necessary to understand the evolutionary processes of influenza A viruses in...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Furuse Y,Suzuki A,Kamigaki T,Oshitani H

更新日期：2009-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diseases caused by Rice black streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV) and Southern rice black streaked dwarf virus (SRBSDV) have been occurring epidemically in China and southeastern Asia in recent years. A sensitive, reliable and quantitative method is required to detect and distinguish for RBSDV and SRBSDV in ric...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Zhang P,Mar TT,Liu W,Li L,Wang X

更新日期：2013-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integrase (IN) is an essential protein for HIV replication that catalyzes insertion of the reverse-transcribed viral genome into the host chromosome during the early steps of viral infection. Highly active anti-retroviral therapy is a HIV/AIDS treatment method that combines three or more antiviral drugs ofte...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Park KH,Kim M,Bae SE,Lee HJ,Kim KC,Choi BS,Kim YB

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reovirus M1 genome segment encodes the mu2 protein, a structurally minor component of the viral core, which has been identified as a transcriptase cofactor, nucleoside and RNA triphosphatase, and microtubule-binding protein. The mu2 protein is the most poorly understood of the reovirus structural protein...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Yin P,Keirstead ND,Broering TJ,Arnold MM,Parker JS,Nibert ML,Coombs KM

更新日期：2004-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aedes aegypti is a competent arthropod vector of chikungunya virus (CHIKV). The rate at which the virus disseminate in the vector is limited by temperature of their environment which can be an important determinant of geographical and seasonal limits to transmission by the arthropods in the tropics. This stu...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Mbaika S,Lutomiah J,Chepkorir E,Mulwa F,Khayeka-Wandabwa C,Tigoi C,Oyoo-Okoth E,Mutisya J,Ng'ang'a Z,Sang R

更新日期：2016-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The viral genome of hepatitis C virus constitutes a 9.6-kb single-stranded positive-sense RNA which encodes altogether 11 viral proteins. In order to study the humoral immune responses against different HCV proteins in patients suffering from chronic HCV infection, we produced three structural (core, E1 and ...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Sillanpää M,Melén K,Porkka P,Fagerlund R,Nevalainen K,Lappalainen M,Julkunen I

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A novel reassortant H7N9 influenza A virus has crossed the species barrier from poultry to cause human infections in China in 2013 and 2014. Rapid detection of the novel H7N9 virus is important to detect this virus in poultry and reduce the risk of an epidemic in birds or humans. FINDINGS:In this study, a m...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Xu X,Bao H,Ma Y,Sun J,Zhao Y,Wang Y,Shi J,Zeng X,Li Y,Wang X,Chen H

更新日期：2015-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination is known to play a role in the ability of various viruses to acquire sequence diversity. We consequently examined all available West Nile virus (WNV) whole genome sequences both phylogenetically and with a variety of computational recombination detection algorithms. We found that the number of distinct l...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Pickett BE,Lefkowitz EJ

更新日期：2009-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Remarkable progress has been made during the past ten years in elucidating the structure of the bacteriophage T4 tail by a combination of three-dimensional image reconstruction from electron micrographs and X-ray crystallography of the components. Partial and complete structures of nine out of twenty tail structural p...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Leiman PG,Arisaka F,van Raaij MJ,Kostyuchenko VA,Aksyuk AA,Kanamaru S,Rossmann MG

更新日期：2010-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enteroviruses (EVs) are the leading cause of aseptic meningitis, which is the most frequent central nervous system infection worldwide. We aimed to characterize the EVs involved in an aseptic meningitis outbreak in Korea in 2008. In Korea, Echovirus type 30 (E30) and E6 have been associated with outbreaks an...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Kim HJ,Kang B,Hwang S,Hong J,Kim K,Cheon DS

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human enterovirus 71 (EV-71) is known of having caused numerous outbreaks of hand-foot-mouth disease, and other clinical manifestations globally. In 2008, 989 EV-71 strains were isolated in Taiwan. RESULTS:In this study, the genetic and antigenic properties of these strains were analyzed and the genetic div...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Huang YP,Lin TL,Hsu LC,Chen YJ,Tseng YH,Hsu CC,Fan WB,Yang JY,Chang FY,Wu HS

更新日期：2010-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ORFV attenuated live vaccines have been the main prophylactic measure against contagious ecthyma in sheep and goats in the last decades, which play an important role in preventing the outbreak of the disease. However, the available vaccines do not induce lasting immunity in sheep and goats. On the other hand...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Zhao K,He W,Gao W,Lu H,Han T,Li J,Zhang X,Zhang B,Wang G,Su G,Zhao Z,Song D,Gao F

更新日期：2011-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of antiviral therapy in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) on reducing the risk of long-term complications (LTCs) remains unclear so far. To study whether long-term nucleos(t)ide analogues therapy can reduce the risk of long-term complications. METHODS:We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, OVID, the Cochrane Centr...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Zhang QQ,An X,Liu YH,Li SY,Zhong Q,Wang J,Hu HD,Zhang DZ,Ren H,Hu P

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The major structural protein of coronaviruses, the membrane (M) protein, can elicit the formation of protective antibodies, but little information is available about the M protein of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV). Identification of epitopes on the PEDV M protein will be helpful in the elucidation of...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Zhang Z,Chen J,Shi H,Chen X,Shi D,Feng L,Yang B

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Astroviruses (AstVs) have been reported to infect and cause gastroenteritis in most animal species. Human AstVs were regarded the causative agent of viral diarrhea in children. In dogs, little is known about the epidemiology and clinical significance of AstV infection. FINDINGS:In this study, we collected a...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Zhou H,Liu L,Li R,Qin Y,Fang Q,Balasubramaniam VR,Wang G,Wei Z,Ouyang K,Huang W,Chen Y

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Airborne viruses remain one of the major public health issues worldwide. Detection and quantification of airborne viruses is essential in order to provide information regarding public health risk assessment. FINDINGS:In this study, an optimized new, simple, low cost method for sampling of airborne viruses u...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Ziros PG,Kokkinos PA,Legaki E,Vantarakis A

更新日期：2011-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recombinant Salmonella vaccine vectors may potentially be used to induce specific CD4+ T cell responses against foreign viral antigens. Such immune responses are required features of vaccines against pathogens such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The aim of this study was to investigate the i...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Chin'ombe N,Bourn WR,Williamson AL,Shephard EG

更新日期：2009-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since avian-origin H3N2 canine influenza virus (CIV) was first identified in South Korea in 2008, the novel influenza virus has been reported in several countries in Asia. Reverse zoonotic transmission of pandemic H1N1 (2009) influenza virus (pH1N1) has been observed in a broad range of animal species. Viral...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Na W,Lyoo KS,Song EJ,Hong M,Yeom M,Moon H,Kang BK,Kim DJ,Kim JK,Song D

更新日期：2015-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rodent borne hantaviruses are emerging viruses infecting humans through inhalation. They cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hemorrhagic cardiopulmonary syndrome. Recently, hantaviruses have been detected in other small mammals such as Soricomorpha (shrews, moles) and Chiroptera (bats), suggested...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Lwande OW,Mohamed N,Bucht G,Ahlm C,Olsson G,Evander M

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) causes chronic, economically devastating disease in pigs of all ages. Frequent mutations in the viral genome result in viruses with immune escape mutants. Irrespective of regular vaccination, control of PRRSV remains a challenge to swine farmers. In...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Dwivedi V,Manickam C,Binjawadagi B,Linhares D,Murtaugh MP,Renukaradhya GJ

更新日期：2012-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The UL54 protein of Duck Enteritis Virus (DEV) is a homolog of herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) immediate-early infectious cell protein 27 (ICP27), a multifunctional protein essential for viral infection. Nonetheless, there is little information on the UL54 protein of DEV. METHODS:The UL54 gene was cloned int...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Liu C,Cheng A,Wang M,Chen S,Jia R,Zhu D,Liu M,Sun K,Yang Q,Chen X

更新日期：2015-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A tenuivirus, referred to here as JKI 29327, was isolated from a black medic (Medicago lupulina) plant collected in Austria. The virus was mechanically transmitted to Nicotiana benthamiana, M. lupulina, M. sativa, Pisum sativum and Vicia faba. The complete genome was determined by high throughput sequencing. The genom...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Gaafar YZA,Richert-Pöggeler KR,Sieg-Müller A,Lüddecke P,Herz K,Hartrick J,Seide Y,Vetten HJ,Ziebell H

更新日期：2019-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:R849 is a neurovirulent γ₁34.5 gene-deficient form of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and has LacZ genes at the deleted sites of the γ₁34.5 gene. HF is a spontaneously occurring, fusogenic HSV-1 strain. The purpose of this work was to generate a virus that has the syncytial character of HF, while preserv...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Takaoka H,Takahashi G,Ogawa F,Imai T,Iwai S,Yura Y

更新日期：2011-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is major public health concern. The limitations of available antiviral drugs require development of novel approaches to inhibit HBV replication. This study was conducted to identify functional elements and new siRNA target sites within the highly conserved regions of th...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Panjaworayan N,Payungporn S,Poovorawan Y,Brown CM

更新日期：2010-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pakistan, there are estimated 7-9 million carriers of hepatitis B virus (HBV) with a carrier rate of 3-5%. This article reviews the available literature about the prevalence, risk factors, awareness status and genotypes of the HBV in Pakistan by using key words; HBV prevalence, risk factors, awareness status and ge...

journal_title：Virology journal

authors： Ali M,Idrees M,Ali L,Hussain A,Ur Rehman I,Saleem S,Afzal S,Butt S

更新日期：2011-03-06 00:00:00