The Impact and Applications of Phages in the Food Industry and Agriculture.

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection affects ~350 million people and poses a major public health problem worldwide. HBV is a major cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Fewer than 5% of HBV-infected adults (but up to 90% of HBV-infected infants and children) develop chronic HBV infection as indicated by contin...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Megahed FAK,Zhou X,Sun P

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant improvements in therapy, the HIV/AIDS pandemic remains an important threat to public health. Current treatments fail to eradicate HIV as proviral DNA persists in long-living cellular reservoirs, leading to viral rebound whenever treatment is discontinued. Hence, a better understanding of viral rese...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Debyser Z,Vansant G,Bruggemans A,Janssens J,Christ F

更新日期：2018-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The outbreak of emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) in China has been brought to global attention and declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. Scientific advancements since the pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Jin Y,Yang H,Ji W,Wu W,Chen S,Zhang W,Duan G

更新日期：2020-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bunyaviridae is the largest family of RNA viruses, with over 350 members worldwide. Several of these viruses cause severe diseases in livestock and humans. With an increasing number and frequency of outbreaks, bunyaviruses represent a growing threat to public health and agricultural productivity globally. Yet, the...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Albornoz A,Hoffmann AB,Lozach PY,Tischler ND

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:As more cases of COVID-19 are studied and treated worldwide, it had become apparent that the lethal and most severe cases of pneumonia are due to an out-of-control inflammatory response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. I explored the putative causes of this specific feature through a detailed genomic comparison with the close...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Claverie JM

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Viroids are small, non-coding, circular RNA molecules that infect plants. Different hypotheses for their evolutionary origin have been put forward, such as an early emergence in a precellular RNA World or several de novo independent evolutionary origins in plants. Here, we discuss the plausibility of de novo emergence...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Catalán P,Elena SF,Cuesta JA,Manrubia S

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus responsible for recent outbreaks of epidemic proportions in Latin America. Sexual transmission of the virus has been reported in 13 countries and may be an important route of infection. Sexual transmission of ZIKV has mostly been male-to-female, and persistence of vi...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Mlera L,Bloom ME

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) infection can cause severe congenital diseases, such as microcephaly, ocular defects and arthrogryposis in fetuses, and Guillain⁻Barré syndrome in adults. Efficacious therapeutic treatments for infected patients, as well as prophylactic treatments to prevent new infections are needed for combating ZI...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Siddharthan V,Miao J,Van Wettere AJ,Li R,Wu H,Sullivan E,Jiao J,Hooper JW,Safronetz D,Morrey JD,Julander JG,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) are major players in both innate and adaptive immune responses against influenza virus. These immune responses, as well as the important interface between the innate and adaptive systems, are orchestrated by specialized subsets of DC, including conventional steady-state DC, migratory DC and plasma...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Summerfield A,McCullough KC

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tailoring public health responses to growing HIV transmission clusters depends on accurately mapping the risk network through which it spreads and identifying acute infections that represent the leading edge of cluster growth. HIV transmission links, especially those involving persons with acute HIV infection (AHI), c...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Campbell EM,Patala A,Shankar A,Li JF,Johnson JA,Westheimer E,Gay CL,Cohen SE,Switzer WM,Peters PJ

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise role of adaptive immune responses in the clinical outcome of HCV infection is still only partially defined. Recent studies suggest that viral-host cell interactions during the acute phase of infection are essential for viral clearance or progression into chronic HCV infection. This review focuses on differ...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Zeisel MB,Fafi-Kremer S,Robinet E,Habersetzer F,Baumert TF,Stoll-Keller F

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our loyal friend and colleague, Jan van der Noordaa, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 80 on the evening of 17 June 2015. [...]. ...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Berkhout B,Bukrinsky M

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The most highly expressed protein during the productive phase of the human papillomavirus (HPV) life cycle is E1^E4. Its full role during infection remains to be established. HPV E1^E4 is expressed during both the early and late stages of the virus life cycle and contributes to viral genome amplification. In an attemp...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Biryukov J,Myers JC,McLaughlin-Drubin ME,Griffin HM,Milici J,Doorbar J,Meyers C

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV continues to spread among vulnerable heterosexual (HET), Men-having-Sex with Men (MSM) and intravenous drug user (IDU) populations, influenced by a complex array of biological, behavioral and societal factors. Phylogenetics analyses of large sequence datasets from national drug resistance testing programs reveal t...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Brenner BG,Ibanescu RI,Hardy I,Roger M

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Microvirin (MVN) is one of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) entry inhibitor lectins, which consists of two structural domains sharing 35% sequence identity and contrary to many other antiviral lectins, it exists as a monomer. In this study, we engineered an MVN variant, LUMS1, consisting of two domains with 10...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Shahid M,Qadir A,Yang J,Ahmad I,Zahid H,Mirza S,Windisch MP,Shahzad-Ul-Hussan S

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage display has become an established, widely used method for selection of peptides, antibodies or alternative scaffolds. The use of phage display for the selection of antigens from genomic or cDNA libraries of pathogens which is an alternative to the classical way of identifying immunogenic proteins is not well-kno...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Kügler J,Zantow J,Meyer T,Hust M

更新日期：2013-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Half a century of research on membrane-containing phages has had a major impact on virology, providing new insights into virus diversity, evolution and ecological importance. The recent revolutionary technical advances in imaging, sequencing and lipid analysis have significantly boosted the depth and volume of knowled...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Mäntynen S,Sundberg LR,Oksanen HM,Poranen MM

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:With ongoing colony losses driven in part by the Varroa mite and the associated exacerbation of the virus load, there is an urgent need to protect honey bees (Apis mellifera) from fatal levels of virus infection and from the non-target effects of insecticides used in agricultural settings. A continuously replicating c...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Guo Y,Goodman CL,Stanley DW,Bonning BC

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) Pr77Gag polypeptide is an essential retroviral structural protein without which infectious viral particles cannot be formed. This process requires specific recognition and packaging of dimerized genomic RNA (gRNA) by Gag during virus assembly. Most of the previous work on retrovira...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Chameettachal A,Pillai VN,Ali LM,Pitchai FNN,Ardah MT,Mustafa F,Marquet R,Rizvi TA

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Begomoviruses are one of the major groups of plant viruses with an important economic impact on crop production in tropical and subtropical regions. The global spread of its polyphagous vector, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci, has contributed to the emergence and diversification of species within this genus. In this study...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Romay G,Geraud-Pouey F,Chirinos DT,Mahillon M,Gillis A,Mahillon J,Bragard C

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses share similar disease features, rendering them difficult to distinguish clinically. Incapacitating arthralgia/arthritis is a specific manifestation associated with chikungunya virus infection. However, the profile of arthralgia/arthritis in Zika virus (ZIKV) cases has not been well...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Wimalasiri-Yapa BMCR,Yapa HE,Huang X,Hafner LM,Kenna TJ,Frentiu FD

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:West Nile virus (WNV) is prevalent in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, West Asia, and North America, and causes epidemic encephalitis. To date, no effective therapy for WNV infection has been developed; therefore, there is urgent need to find an efficient method to prevent WNV disease. In this study, we prepared and e...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Cui J,Zhao Y,Wang H,Qiu B,Cao Z,Li Q,Zhang Y,Yan F,Jin H,Wang T,Sun W,Feng N,Gao Y,Sun J,Wang Y,Perlman S,Zhao J,Yang S,Xia X

更新日期：2016-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIKV) has been associated with serious health conditions, and an intense search to discover different ways to prevent and treat ZIKV infection is underway. Berberine and emodin possess several pharmacological properties and have been shown to be particularly effective against the entry and replication of s...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Batista MN,Braga ACS,Campos GRF,Souza MM,Matos RPA,Lopes TZ,Candido NM,Lima MLD,Machado FC,Andrade STQ,Bittar C,Nogueira ML,Carneiro BM,Mariutti RB,Arni RK,Calmon MF,Rahal P

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Canid alphaherpesvirus 1 (CHV-1) is a widespread pathogen of dogs with multiple associated clinical signs. There has been limited prior investigation into the genomics and phylogeny of this virus using whole viral genome analysis. Fifteen CHV-1 isolates were collected from animals with ocular disease based in the USA....

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Lewin AC,Coghill LM,Mironovich M,Liu CC,Carter RT,Ledbetter EC

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) causes chronic disease in approximately 80% of cases, resulting in chronic inflammation and cirrhosis. Current treatments are not completely effective, and a vaccine has yet to be developed. Spontaneous resolution of infection is associated with effective host adaptive immunity t...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Tarr AW,Urbanowicz RA,Ball JK

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 system is widely explored for sequence-specific attack on HIV-1 proviral DNA. We recently identified dual-guide RNA (dual-gRNA) combinations that can block HIV-1 replication permanently in infected cell cultures and prevent viral escape. Altho...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Darcis G,Binda CS,Klaver B,Herrera-Carrillo E,Berkhout B,Das AT

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:At the end of my doctoral studies, in 1988, I published a review article on the major steps of transcription and translation during the mammalian reovirus multiplication cycle, a topic that still fascinates me 30 years later. It is in the nature of scientific research to generate further questioning as new knowledge e...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Lemay G

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a prevalent pathogen in the immunocompromised host and invasive pneumonia is a feared complication of the virus in this population. In this pediatric case series we characterized CMV lung infection in 15 non-HIV infected children (median age 3 years; IQR 0.2-4.9 years), using current...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Restrepo-Gualteros SM,Jaramillo-Barberi LE,Gonzalez-Santos M,Rodriguez-Martinez CE,Perez GF,Gutierrez MJ,Nino G

更新日期：2014-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lifelong persistent infection by herpesviruses depends on the balance between host immune responses and viral immune evasion. CD4 T cells responding to antigens presented on major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II) molecules are known to play an important role in controlling herpesvirus infections. Here we r...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Zuo J,Rowe M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About 70% of all Ewing sarcoma (EWS) patients are diagnosed under the age of 20 years. Over the last decades little progress has been made towards finding effective treatment approaches for primarily metastasized or refractory Ewing sarcoma in young patients. Here, in the context of the search for novel therapeutic op...

journal_title：Viruses

authors： Lacroix J,Kis Z,Josupeit R,Schlund F,Stroh-Dege A,Frank-Stöhr M,Leuchs B,Schlehofer JR,Rommelaere J,Dinsart C

更新日期：2018-06-03 00:00:00