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  1. Begomovirus is a genus of phytopathogenic single-stranded DNA viruses, transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. This genus includes emerging and economically significant viruses such as those associated with T...

    Authors: Frédéric Péréfarres, Murielle Hoareau, Frédéric Chiroleu, Bernard Reynaud, Jacques Dintinger and Jean-Michel Lett
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:389
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  2. Currently, there is no consensus on the retreatment recommendation of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with viral rebound after cessation of treatment. In the search of reasonable treatment, we compared the ...

    Authors: Zhao Wang, Xiao-Ling Wu, Wei-Zheng Zeng, Hui Xu, Yong Zhang, Jian-Ping Qin and Ming-De Jiang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:388
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  3. In Brazil dengue has been a major public health problem since DENV-1 introduction and spread in 1986. After a low or silent co-circulation, DENV-1 re-emerged in 2009 causing a major epidemic in the country in ...

    Authors: Flavia B dos Santos, Fernanda B Nogueira, Márcia G Castro, Priscila CG Nunes, Ana Maria B de Filippis, Nieli RC Faria, Jaqueline BS Simões, Simone A Sampaio, Clarice R Santos and Rita Maria R Nogueira
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:387
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  4. Geminiviruses infect a wide range of plant species including Jatropha and cassava both belonging to family Euphorbiaceae. Cassava is traditionally an important food crop in Sub - Saharan countries, while Jatropha

    Authors: Rose C Ramkat, Alberto Calari, Fatemeh Maghuly and Margit Laimer
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:386
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  5. The underlying mechanisms by which Newcastle disease virus (NDV) kills cancer cells are still unclear. Recent discoveries have shown that many viruses contain Bcl-2 homology-like domains which enabled their in...

    Authors: Aidin Molouki, Yi-Te Hsu, Fatemeh Jahanshiri, Syahril Abdullah, Rozita Rosli and Khatijah Yusoff
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:385
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  6. Influenza A virus mutates rapidly, rendering antiviral therapies and vaccines directed against virus-encoded targets ineffective. Knowledge of the host factors and molecular pathways exploited by influenza vir...

    Authors: Zhuo Zhou, Qinghua Xue, Yuli Wan, Yaowu Yang, Jianwei Wang and Tao Hung
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:384
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  8. Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is the leading cause of viral encephalitis, with ~50,000 cases reported annually worldwide. Vaccination is the only measure for prevention. Recombinant vaccines are an efficie...

    Authors: Mohammad Feraz Ahsan and Milind M Gore
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:382
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  9. This study evaluates the immunogenicity of the HIV envelope protein (env) in mice presented either attached to γ-retroviral virus-like-particles (VLPs), associated with cell-derived microsomes or as solubilize...

    Authors: Tea Kirkegaard, Adam Wheatley, Jesper Melchjorsen, Shervin Bahrami, Finn S Pedersen, Robert J Center, Damian FJ Purcell, Lars Ostergaard, Mogens Duch and Martin Tolstrup
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:381
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  10. Despite the successful eradication of smallpox by the WHO-led vaccination programme, pox virus infections remain a considerable health threat. The possible use of smallpox as a bioterrorism agent as well as th...

    Authors: Sebastian Bartel, Joerg Doellinger, Kai Darsow, Daniel Bourquain, Rainer Buchholz, Andreas Nitsche and Harald A Lange
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:380
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  12. Classical swine fever is a highly contagious disease of swine caused by classical swine fever virus, an OIE list A pathogen. Epitope-based vaccines is one of the current focuses in the development of new vacci...

    Authors: Bin Zhou, Ke Liu, Yan Jiang, Jian-Chao Wei and Pu-Yan Chen
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:378
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  13. Antigenic variation is an effective way by which viruses evade host immune defense leading to viral persistence. Little is known about the inhibitory mechanisms of viral variants on CD4 T cell functions.

    Authors: Jane H Wang, Matthew J Pianko, Xiaogang Ke, Alex Herskovic, Ronald Hershow, Scott J Cotler, Weijin Chen, Zheng W Chen and Lijun Rong
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:377
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  14. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito transmitted alphavirus that recently caused several large scale outbreaks/epidemics of arthritic disease in tropics of Africa, Indian Ocean basin and South-East Asia. Th...

    Authors: Konstantin A Tsetsarkin, Charles E McGee and Stephen Higgs
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:376
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  15. The development of a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been hampered by the risk for vaccine-enhanced RSV pulmonary disease induced by immunization with formalin-inactivated RSV (FIRSV). Th...

    Authors: Anja Krause, Yaqin Xu, Sara Ross, Wendy Wu, Ju Joh and Stefan Worgall
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:375
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  16. Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a worldwide pathogen in cattle and acts as a surrogate model for hepatitis C virus (HCV). One-step real-time fluorogenic quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chai...

    Authors: Ni Zhang, Zhengwen Liu, Qunying Han, Jianming Qiu, Jinghong Chen, Guoyu Zhang, Zhu Li, Sai Lou and Na Li
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:374
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  17. Tanganya virus (TGNV), the only shrew-associated hantavirus reported to date from sub-Saharan Africa, is harbored by the Therese's shrew (Crocidura theresae), and is phylogenetically distinct from Thottapalayam v...

    Authors: Hae Ji Kang, Blaise Kadjo, Sylvain Dubey, François Jacquet and Richard Yanagihara
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:373
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  18. Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is the most important virus causing lower respiratory infection in young children. The complete genetic characterization of RSV clinical strains is a prerequisite for u...

    Authors: Rajni Kumaria, Laxmi Ravi Iyer, Martin L Hibberd, Eric AF Simões and Richard J Sugrue
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:372
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  19. Arthorpod-borne viruses (arboviruses) cause wide-spread morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa, but little research has documented the burden and distribution of these pathogens.

    Authors: Luke E Mease, Rodney L Coldren, Lillian A Musila, Trish Prosser, Fredrick Ogolla, Victor O Ofula, Randal J Schoepp, Cindy A Rossi and Nicholas Adungo
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:371
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  20. Varicella (chickenpox) exhibits a characteristic epidemiological pattern which is associated with climate. In general, primary infections in tropical regions are comparatively less frequent among children than...

    Authors: Gilberto Vaughan, Araceli Rodríguez-Castillo, Mayra Y Cruz-Rivera, Karina Ruiz-Tovar, José E Ramírez-González, Pilar Rivera-Osorio, Salvador Fonseca-Coronado, Juan C Carpio-Pedroza, Fernando Cazares, Mauricio Vazquez-Pichardo, Luis Anaya and Alejandro Escobar-Gutiérrez
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:370
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  21. 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.

    Authors: Panos G Ziros, Petros A Kokkinos, Euaggelia Legaki and Apostolos Vantarakis
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:369
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  22. Viral hepatitis is one of the major health problems worldwide, particularly in South East Asian countries including Pakistan where hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections are highly ende...

    Authors: Mehwish Riaz, Muhamad Idrees, Hifza Kanwal and Firoz Kabir
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:368
    Content type: Review Published on:

  23. The highest Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) prevalence in the world occurs in Egypt. Several studies from different parts of the world have found that 13% to 33% of patients with chronic HCV have associated diabetes, ...

    Authors: Eman I Elhawary, Gamal F Mahmoud, Mai A El-Daly, Fatma A Mekky, Gamal G Esmat and Mohamed Abdel-hamid
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:367
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  24. Burkholderia pseudomallei is a saprophytic soil bacterium and the etiological agent that causes melioidosis. It is naturally resistant to many antibiotics and therefore is difficult to treat. Bacteriophages may p...

    Authors: Jiraporn Gatedee, Kanyanan Kritsiriwuthinan, Edouard E Galyov, Jinyu Shan, Elena Dubinina, Narin Intarak, Martha RJ Clokie and Sunee Korbsrisate
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:366
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  25. Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) has a complicated life-cycle, and its genome encodes many components that can modify the cellular environment to facilitate efficient viral replication. The protein UL14 is ...

    Authors: Akane Ohta, Yohei Yamauchi, Yoshifumi Muto, Hiroshi Kimura and Yukihiro Nishiyama
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:365
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  26. Pakistan is facing a threat from hepatitis C infection which is increasing at an alarming rate throughout the country. More specific and sensitive screening assays are needed to timely and correctly diagnose t...

    Authors: Muhammad Z Yousaf, Muhammad Idrees, Zafar Saleem, Irshad U Rehman and Muhammad Ali
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:364
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  27. The human hepatitis B virus (HBV), a member of the hepadna viridae, causes acute or chronic hepatitis B, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) infection, a dependable and reprod...

    Authors: Sajith Nair, Devaki S Arathy, Aneesh Issac and Easwaran Sreekumar
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:363
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  28. The understanding of the distribution of hepatitis B virus genotypes and the occult hepatitis B virus infection in hepatocellular carcinoma may shed light into the prevention and treatment of hepatocellular ca...

    Authors: Jianguo Lu, Weidong Gong, Hong Cheng, Zhiqun Wu, Ding Li, Xiangling Wang, Ping Liang and Ju Zhang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:362
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  29. HCV infection may lead to hepatic fibrosis. In this study, we tried to determine whether there is any correlation of HCV genotypes and viral load to the clinical parameters such as ALT, AST, ALP, bilirubin, Hb...

    Authors: Bushra Ijaz, Waqar Ahmad, Fouzia T Javed, Sana Gull, Muhammad T Sarwar, Humera Kausar, Sultan Asad, Shah Jahan, Saba Khaliq, Imran Shahid, Aleena Sumrin and Sajida Hassan
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:361
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  30. Rapid identification and differentiation of mosquito-transmitted flaviviruses in acute-phase sera of patients and field-caught vector mosquitoes are important for the prediction and prevention of large-scale e...

    Authors: Shuhua Li, Meiyu Fang, Bin Zhou, Hongxia Ni, Qiuxia Shen, Hongwei Zhang, Yifang Han, Jianhua Yin, Wenjun Chang, Guozhang Xu and Guangwen Cao
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:360
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  31. Rotaviruses are known to modulate the innate antiviral defense response driven by IFN. The purpose of this study was to identify changes in the cellular proteome in response to rotavirus infection in the conte...

    Authors: Jose Luis Zambrano, Khalil Ettayebi, Walid S Maaty, Nicholas R Faunce, Brian Bothner and Michele E Hardy
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:359
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  33. The recently discovered porcine boca-like virus (Pbo-likeV) is a member of the Parvoviridae family, genus Bocavirus, and it is potentially associated with swine disease. Several studies have associated Pbo-likeV ...

    Authors: Bin Li, Shaobo Xiao, Junjie Ma, Yanling Liu, Li Mao, Libin Wen, Aihua Mao, Xuehan Zhang, Yanxiu Ni, Rongli Guo, Junming Zhou, Zhengyu Yu, Lixin Lv, Xiaomin Wang, Liurong Fang, Huanchun Chen…
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:357
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  34. We have developed a new method for producing infectious double subgenomic alphaviruses from plasmids transfected into mammalian cells. A double subgenomic Sindbis virus (TE3'2J) was transcribed from a cytomega...

    Authors: Jordan J Steel, Brittney R Henderson, Siddhi BC Lama, Ken E Olson and Brian J Geiss
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:356
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  35. Clover yellow vein virus (ClYVV) causes lethal systemic necrosis in legumes, including broad bean (Vicia faba) and pea (Pisum sativum). To identify host genes involved in necrotic symptom expression after ClYVV i...

    Authors: Kenji S Nakahara, Hiroaki Kitazawa, Go Atsumi, Sun Hee Choi, Yuji Suzuki and Ichiro Uyeda
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:355
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  36. Host innate antiviral immunity is the first line of defense against viral infection, and is precisely regulated by thousands of genes at various stages, including microRNAs. MicroRNA-155 (miR-155) was found to...

    Authors: Chenhe Su, Zhaohua Hou, Cai Zhang, Zhigang Tian and Jian Zhang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:354
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  37. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne, arthrogenic Alphavirus that causes large epidemics in Africa, South-East Asia and India. Recently, CHIKV has been transmitted to humans in Southern Europe by invadin...

    Authors: Stefan W Metz, Corinne Geertsema, Byron E Martina, Paulina Andrade, Jacco G Heldens, Monique M van Oers, Rob W Goldbach, Just M Vlak and Gorben P Pijlman
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:353
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  38. The Human Phosphate-Binding protein (HPBP) is a serendipitously discovered lipoprotein that binds phosphate with high affinity. HPBP belongs to the DING protein family, involved in various biological processes...

    Authors: Thomas Cherrier, Mikael Elias, Alicia Jeudy, Guillaume Gotthard, Valentin Le Douce, Houda Hallay, Patrick Masson, Andrea Janossy, Ermanno Candolfi, Olivier Rohr, Eric Chabrière and Christian Schwartz
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:352
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  39. The mechanisms underlying the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) resistance to interferon alpha (IFN-α) are not fully understood. We used IFN-α resistant HCV replicon cell lines and an infectious HCV cell culture system ...

    Authors: Sibnarayan Datta, Sidhartha Hazari, Partha K Chandra, Maria Samara¹, Bret Poat, Feyza Gunduz, William C Wimley, Hansjorg Hauser, Mario Koster, Christophe Lamaze, Luis A Balart, Robert F Garry and Srikanta Dash
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:351
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  40. For first time in Greece equine influenza virus infection was confirmed, by isolation and molecular analysis, as the cause of clinical respiratory disease among unvaccinated horses during 2003 and 2007 outbreaks.

    Authors: Maria Bountouri, Eirini Fragkiadaki, Vasileios Ntafis, Theo Kanellos and Eftychia Xylouri
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:350
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  41. The aim of this study was to investigate viral shedding in otherwise healthy children with pandemic A/H1N1/2009 influenza in order to define how long children with pandemic A/H1N1/2009 influenza shed the virus...

    Authors: Susanna Esposito, Cristina Daleno, Fausto Baldanti, Alessia Scala, Giulia Campanini, Francesca Taroni, Emilio Fossali, Claudio Pelucchi and Nicola Principi
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:349
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  43. Grass carp reovirus (GCRV), which causes severe infectious outbreaks of hemorrhagic disease in aquatic animals, is a highly pathogenic agent in the Aquareovirus genus of family Reoviridae. The outer capsid shell ...

    Authors: Ling Shao, Xiaoyun Sun and Qin Fang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:347
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  45. GB virus C (GBV-C) is an enveloped positive-sense ssRNA virus belonging to the Flaviviridae family. Studies on the genetic variability of the GBV-C reveals the existence of six genotypes: genotype 1 predominates ...

    Authors: Mónica V Alvarado-Mora, Livia Botelho, Anna Nishiya, Raymundo A Neto, Michele S Gomes-Gouvêa, Maria F Gutierrez, Flair J Carrilho and João RR Pinho
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:345
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  46. To investigate the necessity and potential application of structural genes for expressing heterogenous genes from Sindbis virus-derived vector, the DNA-based expression vector pVaXJ was constructed by placing ...

    Authors: Wuyang Zhu, Jiangjiao Li, Li Tang, Huanqin Wang, Jia Li, Juanjuan Fu and Guodong Liang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:344
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  47. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most common cause of severe morbidity and mortality in immune- compromised individuals. This study was conducted to determine the incidence of HCMV infection in HCV patients...

    Authors: Ashraf Tabll, Sahar Shoman, Hussam Ghanem, Mohamed Nabil, Noha G Bader El Din and Mostafa K El Awady
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:343
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  48. The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus is one of candidates for future pandemic. Since H5N1 viruses had previously been isolated only from avian species, the outbreak raised questions about the abili...

    Authors: Lili Xu, Linlin Bao, Wei Deng and Chuan Qin
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:342
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  49. Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is believed to be the primary causative agent of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS). It is supposed that capsid protein of PCV may contribute to replication cont...

    Authors: Jiangbing Shuai, Linglin Fu, Xiaofeng Zhang, Binglin Zhu, XiaoLiang Li, Yongqiang He and Weihuan Fang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:341
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  50. Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is the member of the genus Pestivirus under the family Flaviviridae. The 5' untranslated region (UTR) of CSFV contains the IRES, which is a highly structured element that recrui...

    Authors: Muthukumar Nadar, Meng-Yu Chan, Shi-Wei Huang, Chin-Cheng Huang, Joseph T Tseng and Ching-Hsiu Tsai
    Citation: Virology Journal 2011 8:340
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