Contribution of Fc-dependent cell-mediated activity of a vestigial esterase-targeting antibody against H5N6 virus infection.

abstract：:The first imported case of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in China recently occurred, allowing for the characterization of antibody titers in a series of the patient's sera using the following methods based on recombinant viral structural antigens: inactivated MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) enzyme-linked immunos...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Wang W,Wang H,Deng Y,Song T,Lan J,Wu G,Ke C,Tan W

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Outbreaks of avian influenza virus continue to pose threats to human health. Animal models such as the mouse, ferret, and macaque are used to understand the pathogenesis of avian influenza virus infection in humans. We previously reported that the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri, family Tupaiidae), which is regarded as a...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Li R,Yuan B,Xia X,Zhang S,Du Q,Yang C,Li N,Zhao J,Zhang Y,Zhang R,Feng Y,Jiao J,Peiris M,Zhong N,Mok CKP,Yang Z

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) can cause a wide range of symptoms from asymptomatic carriage, mild diarrhea to bloody diarrhea (BD) and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Intimin, encoded by the eae gene, also plays a critical role in STEC pathogenesis. Herein, we investigated the prevalence and gen...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Hua Y,Bai X,Zhang J,Jernberg C,Chromek M,Hansson S,Frykman A,Yang X,Xiong Y,Wan C,Matussek A

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a number of standardized human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) pseudoviruses have been generated to assess neutralizing antibodies, subtype B/B' has not been comprehensively characterized either genotypically or phenotypically. Full-length env genes were isolated from plasma samples derived from B/B'-infecte...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Xie H,Nie J,Chen Q,Huang W,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Occult hepatitis B virus infection (OBI) is a low-level asymptomatic phase of HBV infection. Evidence of OBI clinical relevance is emerging but the mechanisms of its occurrence remain unclear. In this study, the molecular characteristics of 97 confirmed OBI from Chinese blood donors were analyzed and relevant mutation...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Zhang L,Chang L,Laperche S,Ji H,Zhao J,Jiang X,Wang L,Candotti D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza has been a long-running health problem and novel antiviral drugs are urgently needed. In pre-clinical studies, we demonstrated broad antiviral activity of D, L-lysine-acetylsalicylate glycine (LASAG) against influenza virus (IV) in cell culture and protection against lethal challenge in mice. LASAG is a comp...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Scheuch G,Canisius S,Nocker K,Hofmann T,Naumann R,Pleschka S,Ludwig S,Welte T,Planz O

更新日期：2018-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19, the worst pandemic in 100 years, has rapidly spread to the entire world in 2 months since its early report in January 2020. Based on the publicly available data sources, we developed a simple mathematic modeling approach to track the outbreaks of COVID-19 in the US and three selected states: New York, Michig...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Tang Y,Wang S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In March 2013, a patient infected with a novel avian influenza A H7N9 virus was reported in China. Since then, there have been 458 confirmed infection cases and 177 deaths. The virus contains several human-adapted markers, indicating that H7N9 has pandemic potential. The outbreak of this new influenza virus highlighte...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Leung HC,Chan CC,Poon VK,Zhao HJ,Cheung CY,Ng F,Huang JD,Zheng BJ

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel equine parvovirus, equine parvovirus-hepatitis (EqPV-H), was first discovered in a horse that died of equine serum hepatitis in the USA in 2018. EqPV-H was shown to be a novel etiological agent associated with equine serum hepatitis. Following this initial report, no additional studies on EqPV-H have been publ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Lu G,Sun L,Ou J,Xu H,Wu L,Li S

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the discovery and confirmation of 23 novel mutations with previously undocumented role in isoniazid (INH) drug resistance, in catalase-peroxidase (katG) gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) isolates. With these mutations, a synonymous mutation in fabG1 (g609a), and two canonical mutations, we were able t...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Torres JN,Paul LV,Rodwell TC,Victor TC,Amallraja AM,Elghraoui A,Goodmanson AP,Ramirez-Busby SM,Chawla A,Zadorozhny V,Streicher EM,Sirgel FA,Catanzaro D,Rodrigues C,Gler MT,Crudu V,Catanzaro A,Valafar F

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide emergence of Salmonella enterica serovar Newport (S. Newport) infection in humans, in parallel with a significant increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AR), is a serious public health concern. However, the prevalence of S. Newport resistance in China remains largely unknown. A retrospective stud...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Elbediwi M,Pan H,Biswas S,Li Y,Yue M

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:MERS-CoV infection emerged in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in 2012 and has spread to 26 countries. However, 80% of all cases have occurred in KSA. The largest outbreak outside KSA occurred in South Korea (SK) in 2015. In this report, we describe an epidemiological comparison of the two outbreaks. Data from 1299 c...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Chen X,Chughtai AA,Dyda A,MacIntyre CR

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a notorious pathogen that has emerged as a healthcare nightmare in recent years because it causes serious infections that are associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Due to its exceptional ability to acquire resistance to almost all available antibiotics, A. baumannii is currentl...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Elhosseiny NM,Attia AS

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy is associated with congenital brain abnormalities, a finding that highlights the urgent need to understand mother-to-fetus transmission mechanisms. Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) are susceptible to ZIKV infection but the underlying mechanisms of viral...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Seong RK,Lee JK,Cho GJ,Kumar M,Shin OS

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serology is a crucial part of the public health response to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Here, we describe the development, validation and clinical evaluation of a protein micro-array as a quantitative multiplex immunoassay that can identify S and N-directed SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies with high specificity and sens...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： van Tol S,Mögling R,Li W,Godeke GJ,Swart A,Bergmans B,Brandenburg A,Kremer K,Murk JL,van Beek J,Wintermans B,Reimerink J,Bosch BJ,Reusken C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrolides such as erythromycin are the empirical treatment of Bordetella pertussis infections. China has experienced an increase in erythromycin-resistant B. pertussis isolates since they were first reported in 2013. Here, we undertook a genomic study on Chinese B. pertussis isolates from 2012 to 2015 to elucidate th...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Xu Z,Wang Z,Luan Y,Li Y,Liu X,Peng X,Octavia S,Payne M,Lan R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) has been a persistent public health concern for hundreds of years. Despite advances in medicine and science, eliminating this disease has been beyond our reach. Several organizations, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Healt...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Sizemore CF,Schleif AC,Bernstein JB,Heilman CA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Beijing genotype comprises a highly disseminated strain type that is frequently associated with multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) and increased transmissibility but, countries such as Portugal and Guinea-Bissau fall outside the regions phylogeographically associated with this specific genotype. Neverthel...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Perdigão J,Silva C,Maltez F,Machado D,Miranda A,Couto I,Rabna P,Florez de Sessions P,Phelan J,Pain A,McNerney R,Hibberd ML,Mokrousov I,Clark TG,Viveiros M,Portugal I

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histoplasmosis caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum is often lethal in patients with AIDS. Urine antigen testing is highly sensitive and much quicker for diagnosis than culture. Histoplasmosis has a patchy and incompletely appreciated distribution around the world especially in South East Asia. We conducted a s...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Baker J,Setianingrum F,Wahyuningsih R,Denning DW

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), which currently constitute the main class of biotherapeutics, are now recognized as major medical tools that are increasingly being considered to fight severe viral infections. Indeed, the number of antiviral mAbs developed in recent years has grown exponentially. Although their direct ef...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Lambour J,Naranjo-Gomez M,Piechaczyk M,Pelegrin M

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Norovirus (NoV) is now recognized as a leading cause of nonbacterial acute gastroenteritis; however, the NoV GII.17 genotype has rarely been reported as the predominant genotype in clinical diarrhea cases. During the winter of 2014–2015, the GII.17 genotype, together with the NoV GII.4 genotype, dominated in sporadic ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Chen H,Qian F,Xu J,Chan M,Shen Z,Zai S,Shan M,Cai J,Zhang W,He J,Liu Y,Zhang J,Yuan Z,Zhu Z,Hu Y

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human coronavirus OC43 (HCoV-OC43) is commonly associated with respiratory tract infections in humans, with five genetically distinct genotypes (A to E) described so far. In this study, we obtained the full-length genomes of HCoV-OC43 strains from two previously unrecognized lineages identified among patients presenti...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Oong XY,Ng KT,Takebe Y,Ng LJ,Chan KG,Chook JB,Kamarulzaman A,Tee KK

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a key antibiotic in current anti-tuberculosis regimens. Although the WHO has stressed the urgent need to obtain data on PZA resistance, in high tuberculosis burden countries, little is known about the level of PZA resistance, the genetic basis of such resistance or its link with Mycobacterium tub...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Huy NQ,Lucie C,Hoa TTT,Hung NV,Lan NTN,Son NT,Nhung NV,Anh DD,Anne-Laure B,Van Anh NT

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 (IFITM3) as an antiviral factor can inhibit replication of several viruses including influenza virus. A single-nucleotide polymorphism rs12252-C of IFITM3 results in a truncated IFITM3 protein lacking its first 21 amino acids, which is much higher in the Han Chinese populatio...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Lei N,Li Y,Sun Q,Lu J,Zhou J,Li Z,Liu L,Guo J,Qin K,Wang H,Zhao J,Li C,Sun L,Wang D,Zhao Z,Shu Y

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus (A(H7N9)) emerged in February 2013. Liver impairment of unknown cause is present in 29% of patients with A(H7N9) infection, some of whom experience severe liver injury. Hypoxic hepatitis (HH) is a type of acute severe liver injury characterized by an abrupt, massive increase in serum amin...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Zhang Y,Liu J,Yu L,Zhou N,Ding W,Zheng S,Shi D,Li L

更新日期：2016-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the major causative agent of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhea. In a 2009 outbreak of C. difficile-associated diarrhea that was recorded in a major Costa Rican hospital, the hypervirulent NAP1 strain (45%) predominated together with a local genotype variant (NAPCR1, 31%). Both strains ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： López-Ureña D,Quesada-Gómez C,Montoya-Ramírez M,del Mar Gamboa-Coronado M,Somogyi T,Rodríguez C,Rodríguez-Cavallini E

更新日期：2016-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The progressive anthropization of caves for food resources or economic purposes increases human exposure to pathogens that naturally infect cave-dwelling animals. The presence of wild or domestic animals in the immediate surroundings of caves also may contribute to increasing the risk of emergence of such pathogens. S...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Obame-Nkoghe J,Leroy EM,Paupy C

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Three leading infectious disease experts in China were invited to share their bedside observations in the management of COVID-19 patients. Professor Taisheng Li was sent to Wuhan to provide frontline medical care. He depicts the clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Furthermore, he observes the significant abnormal...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Li T,Lu H,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serology detection is recognized for its sensitivity in convalescent patients with COVID-19, in comparison with nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs). This article aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of serologic methods for COVID-19 based on assay design and post-symptom-onset intervals. Two authors independ...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Wang H,Ai J,Loeffelholz MJ,Tang YW,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major cause of chronic hepatitis and liver cancer worldwide. Adaptive mutations play important roles in the development of the HCV replicon and its infectious clones. We and others have previously identified the p7 mutation F772S and the co-presence of NS4A mutations in infectiou...

journal_title：Emerging microbes & infections

authors： Duan X,Anwar MI,Xu Z,Ma L,Yuan G,Chen Y,Liu X,Xia J,Zhou Y,Li YP

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00