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  1. Classical swine fever (CSF) caused by virulent strains of Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is a haemorrhagic disease of pigs, characterized by disseminated intravascular coagulation, thrombocytopoenia and im...

    Authors: Qing-hai Tang, Yan-ming Zhang, Li Fan, Gang Tong, Lei He and Chen Dai
    Citation: Virology Journal 2010 7:4
  2. HIV-1 particle assembly mediated by viral Gag protein occurs predominantly at plasma membrane. While colocalization of HIV-1 envelope with lipid rich microenvironment have been shown in T cells, the significan...

    Authors: Ajit Patil, Archana Gautam and Jayanta Bhattacharya
    Citation: Virology Journal 2010 7:3
  3. The spike protein (S) of SARS Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) mediates entry of the virus into target cells, including receptor binding and membrane fusion. Close to or in the viral membrane, the S protein contains thr...

    Authors: Jeroen Corver, Rene Broer, Puck van Kasteren and Willy Spaan
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:230
  4. The aim of the present study was to investigate the seroprevalence and sociodemographic data, health-related and occupational factors and other correlates of sero-posivity among dentists in the city of Belo Ho...

    Authors: Vera Lúcia S Resende, Mauro Henrique G Abreu, Saul M Paiva, Rosângela Teixeira and Isabela A Pordeus
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:228
  5. The aim of this study was to determine the seropositivity of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Hepatitis C virus (HCV) dual infection among blood donors in Nyala Teaching Hospital, which is the biggest (400 beds) ho...

    Authors: Mustafa Abdalla Ali Abou and Yassir Mohammed Eltahir
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:227
  6. Rodent betaherpesviruses vary considerably in genomic content, and these variations can result in a distinct pathogenicity. Therefore, the identification of unknown betaherpesviruses in house mice (Mus musculus),...

    Authors: Alla Teterina, Dania Richter, Franz-Rainer Matuschka, Bernhard Ehlers and Sebastian Voigt
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:225
  7. Influenza virus infection is a prevalent disease in humans. Antibodies against hemagglutinin have been shown to prevent infection and hence hemagglutinin is the major constituent of current vaccines. Antibodie...

    Authors: Roger R Beerli, Monika Bauer, Nicole Schmitz, Regula B Buser, Myriam Gwerder, Simone Muntwiler, Wolfgang A Renner, Philippe Saudan and Martin F Bachmann
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:224
  8. The Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses (NCLDV) comprise an apparently monophyletic class of viruses that infect a broad variety of eukaryotic hosts. Recent progress in isolation of new viruses and genome seq...

    Authors: Natalya Yutin, Yuri I Wolf, Didier Raoult and Eugene V Koonin
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:223
  9. The genus Okavirus (order Nidovirales) includes a number of viruses that infect crustaceans, causing major losses in the shrimp industry. These viruses have a linear positive-sense ssRNA genome of ~26-27 kb, enco...

    Authors: Andrew E Firth and John F Atkins
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:222
  10. For years, the understanding of the pathogenetic mechanisms that underlie honey bee viral diseases has been severely hindered because of the lack of a cell culture system for virus propagation. As a result, it...

    Authors: Humberto F Boncristiani Jr, Gennaro Di Prisco, Jeffery S Pettis, Michele Hamilton and Yan Ping Chen
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:221
  11. NS1 protein is the only non-structural protein encoded by the influenza A virus, and it contributes significantly to disease pathogenesis by modulating many virus and host cell processes. A two-hybrid screen f...

    Authors: Lixia Zhao, Long Xu, Xiaowei Zhou, Qingyu Zhu, Zhixin Yang, Chuanfu Zhang, Xudong Zhu, Mengbin Yu, Yingying Zhang, Xinghui Zhao and Peitang Huang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:218
  12. Measuring virus attachment to host cells is of great importance when trying to identify novel receptors. The presence of a usable receptor is a major determinant of viral host range and cell tropism. Furthermo...

    Authors: Nina Jonsson, Maria Gullberg, Stina Israelsson and A Michael Lindberg
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:217
  13. 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 sapo...

    Authors: Shixing Yang, Wen Zhang, Quan Shen, Fen Huang, Yan Wang, Jianguo Zhu, Li Cui, Zhibiao Yang and Xiuguo Hua
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:216
  14. Phosphorothioated oligonucleotides (PS-ONs) have a sequence-independent, broad spectrum antiviral activity as amphipathic polymers (APs) and exhibit potent in vitro antiviral activity against a broad spectrum ...

    Authors: Rhonda D Cardin, Fernando J Bravo, Andrea P Sewell, James Cummins, Louis Flamand, Jean-Marc Juteau, David I Bernstein and Andrew Vaillant
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:214
  15. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) associated liver diseases may be related to apoptotic processes. Thus, we investigated the role of different HCV proteins in apoptosis induction as well as their potency to interact wit...

    Authors: Christoph P Berg, Stephan F Schlosser, Dorothee KH Neukirchen, Costa Papadakis, Michael Gregor, Sebastian Wesselborg and Gerburg M Stein
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:213
  16. Marek's disease virus (MDV) has a bi-directional promoter between pp38 gene and 1.8-kb mRNA transcripts. By sequencing for the promoters from 8 different strains (CVI988, 814, GA, JM, Md5, G2, RB1B and 648A), ...

    Authors: Ruiai Chen, Jiabo Ding and Bin Wang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:212
  17. The known strains of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) represent genotypic variants of a single species, and HCMV genotypic variability has been studied in order to reveal correlations between different disease pat...

    Authors: Merlin Deckers, Jörg Hofmann, Karl-Anton Kreuzer, Henrike Reinhard, Abigail Edubio, Hartmut Hengel, Sebastian Voigt and Bernhard Ehlers
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:210
  18. The core protein of hepatitis B virus encompasses B- and T-cell immunodominant epitopes and subdivided into two domains: the N-terminal and the functional C-terminal consisted phosphorylation sites. Mutations ...

    Authors: Ashraf Mohamadkhani, Ferdous Rastgar Jazii, Hossein Poustchi, Omidreza Nouraein, Shahsanam Abbasi, Masoud Sotoudeh and Ghodratollah Montazeri
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:209
  19. Recent identification of a newfound hantavirus, designated Seewis virus (SWSV), in the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus), captured in Switzerland, corroborates decades-old reports of hantaviral antigens in th...

    Authors: Hae Ji Kang, Satoru Arai, Andrew G Hope, Jin-Won Song, Joseph A Cook and Richard Yanagihara
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:208
  20. There is currently a requirement for antiviral therapies capable of protecting against infection with Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), as a licensed vaccine is not available for general human use. ...

    Authors: Lyn M O'Brien, Cindy D Underwood-Fowler, Sarah A Goodchild, Amanda L Phelps and Robert J Phillpotts
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:206
  21. ORF59 DNA polymerase processivity factor of the human rhadinovirus, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), is required for efficient copying of the genome during virus replication. KSHV ORF59 is antig...

    Authors: A Gregory Bruce, Angela M Bakke, Courtney A Gravett, Laura K DeMaster, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Kellie L Burnside and Timothy M Rose
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:205
  22. Hepatitis A virus (HAV), an atypical Picornaviridae that causes acute hepatitis in humans, grows poorly in cell culture and in general does not cause cytopathic effect. Foreign sequences have been inserted int...

    Authors: Krishnamurthy Konduru, Siham M Nakamura and Gerardo G Kaplan
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:204
  23. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients affected by hereditary bleeding disorders. HCV, as others RNA virus, exploit all possible mechanisms of genetic va...

    Authors: Pilar Moreno, Macarena Alvarez, Lilia López, Gonzalo Moratorio, Didier Casane, Matías Castells, Silvia Castro, Juan Cristina and Rodney Colina
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:203
  24. HIV, HBVand HCV is major public health concerns. Because of shared routes of transmission, HIV-HCV coinfection and HIV-HBV coinfection are common. HIV-positive individuals are at risk of coinfection with HBV a...

    Authors: Mohsen Mohammadi, Gholamreza Talei, Ali Sheikhian, Farzad Ebrahimzade, Yadollah Pournia, Ehsan Ghasemi and Hadis Boroun
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:202
  25. Drug resistant HIV-1 variants were emergent more and more in AIDS individuals with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) treatment. Understanding the replication and drug resistant mutation of HIV-1 var...

    Authors: Jianping Sun, Liying Ma, Xiaoling Yu, Yang Huang, Lin Yuan and Yiming Shao
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:201
  26. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is prevalent in China and screening of blood donors is mandatory. Up to now, ELISA has been universally used by the China blood bank. However, this strategy has sometimes failed due to ...

    Authors: Xing-bin Hu, Qiao-hong Yue, Xian-qing Zhang, Xue-qing Xu, Yin Wen, Yao-zhen Chen, Xiao-dong Cheng, Liu Yang and Shi-jie Mu
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:199
  27. Influenza virus (IV) infections are a major threat to human welfare and animal health worldwide. Anti-viral therapy includes vaccines and a few anti-viral drugs. However vaccines are not always available in ti...

    Authors: Stephan Pleschka, Michael Stein, Roland Schoop and James B Hudson
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:197
  28. Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is a leading cause of genital ulceration that can predispose individuals to an increased risk of acquiring other sexually transmitted infections. There are no approved HSV-2...

    Authors: William A Rose II, Chris L McGowin and Richard B Pyles
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:195
  29. Panicum streak virus (PanSV; Family Geminiviridae; Genus Mastrevirus) is a close relative of Maize streak virus (MSV), the most serious viral threat to maize production in Africa. PanSV and MSV have the same leaf...

    Authors: Arvind Varsani, Aderito L Monjane, Lara Donaldson, Sunday Oluwafemi, Innocent Zinga, Ephrem K Komba, Didier Plakoutene, Noella Mandakombo, Joseph Mboukoulida, Silla Semballa, Rob W Briddon, Peter G Markham, Jean-Michel Lett, Pierre Lefeuvre, Edward P Rybicki and Darren P Martin
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:194
  30. The family Dicistroviridae (order Picornavirales) includes species that infect insects and other arthropods. These viruses have a linear positive-sense ssRNA genome of ~8-10 kb, which contains two long ORFs. The ...

    Authors: Andrew E Firth, Qing S Wang, Eric Jan and John F Atkins
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:193
  31. This study was conducted to characterize Newcastle disease virus (NDV) isolates obtained from waterfowl from the Upper Midwest region of the United States. A total of 43 NDVs were isolated by inoculation of cl...

    Authors: Naresh Jindal, Yogesh Chander, Ashok K Chockalingam, Martha de Abin, Patrick T Redig and Sagar M Goyal
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:191
  32. Since the emergence of H5N1 high pathogenicity (HP) avian influenza virus (AIV) in Asia, numerous efforts worldwide have focused on elucidating the relative roles of wild birds and domestic poultry movement in...

    Authors: Erica Spackman, David E Swayne, Martin Gilbert, Damien O Joly, William B Karesh, David L Suarez, Ruuragchaa Sodnomdarjaa, Purevtseren Dulam and Carol Cardona
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:190
  33. Border disease virus (BDV) causes important reproductive losses, and eradication strategies focus on the identification and removal of persistently infected animals arising after in uterine infection. BDV infe...

    Authors: Ana Hurtado, Isbene Sanchez, Felix Bastida, Esmeralda Minguijón, Ramón A Juste and Ana L García-Pérez
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:189
  34. The Orthopoxvirus genus of Poxviridae family is comprised of several human pathogens, including cowpox (CPXV), Vaccinia (VACV), monkeypox (MPV) and Variola (VARV) viruses. Species of this virus genus cause human ...

    Authors: Abdulnaser Alkhalil, Sarah Strand, Eric Mucker, John W Huggins, Peter B Jahrling and Sofi M Ibrahim
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:188
  35. Using a recently described monolayer assay amenable to high throughput screening format for the identification of potential Nipah virus and Hendra virus antivirals, we have partially screened a low molecular w...

    Authors: Mohamad Aljofan, Michael L Sganga, Michael K Lo, Christina L Rootes, Matteo Porotto, Adam G Meyer, Simon Saubern, Anne Moscona and Bruce A Mungall
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:187
  36. Swine hepatitis E virus (swHEV) is a zoonotic disease that is considered a major problem in pig production and presents a threat to human health. Elucidation of the major antigenic epitopes of swHEV is essenti...

    Authors: Kai Zhao, Qiwen Liu, Ruisong Yu, Zhen Li, Jianyue Li, Hong Zhu, Xiao Wu, Furong Tan, Jinbin Wang and Xueming Tang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:186