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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Very little is known about BVDV NS4B, a protein of approximately 38 kDa. However, a missense mutation in NS4B has been implicated in changing BVDV from a cytopathic to noncytopathic virus, suggesting that NS4B...

    Authors: Erica Weiskircher, Jason Aligo, Gang Ning and Kouacou V Konan
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:185
  4. Multiple short hairpin RNA (shRNA) gene therapy strategies are currently being investigated for treating viral diseases such as HIV-1. It is important to use several different shRNAs to prevent the emergence o...

    Authors: Glen J Mcintyre, Yi Hsin Yu, Anna Tran, Angel B Jaramillo, Allison J Arndt, Michelle L Millington, Maureen P Boyd, Fiona A Elliott, Sylvie W Shen, John M Murray and Tanya L Applegate
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:184
  5. Hyperglycemic conditions associated with diabetes mellitus (DM) or with the use of antiretroviral therapy may increase the risk of central nervous system (CNS) disorders in HIV-1 infected patients. In support ...

    Authors: Edward A Acheampong, Cassandra Roschel, Muhammad Mukhtar, Alagarsamy Srinivasan, Mohammad Rafi, Roger J Pomerantz and Zahida Parveen
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:183
  6. Abnormalities in liver function tests could be produced exclusively by direct inflammation in hepatocytes, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Mechanisms by which HIV causes hepatic damage are st...

    Authors: José Antonio Mata-Marín, Jesús Gaytán-Martínez, Bernardo Horacio Grados-Chavarría, José Luis Fuentes-Allen, Carla Ileana Arroyo-Anduiza and Alfredo Alfaro-Mejía
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:181
  7. The European swine influenza viruses (SIVs) show considerable diversity comprising different types of H1N1, H3N2, and H1N2 strains. The intensifying full genome sequencing efforts reveal further reassortants w...

    Authors: Ádám Bálint, Giorgi Metreveli, Frederik Widén, Siamak Zohari, Mikael Berg, Mats Isaksson, Lena HM Renström, Per Wallgren, Sándor Belák, Thomas Segall and István Kiss
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:180
  8. Jembrana disease virus (JDV) encodes a potent regulatory protein Tat that strongly stimulates viral expression by transactivating the long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter. JDV Tat (jTat) promotes the transcript...

    Authors: Yang Su, Gang Deng, Yuanming Gai, Yue Li, Yang Gao, Jiansen Du, Yunqi Geng, Qimin Chen and Wentao Qiao
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:179
  9. Heterocapsa circularisquama DNA virus (HcDNAV; previously designated as HcV) is a giant virus (girus) with a ~356-kbp double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) genome. HcDNAV lytically infects the bivalve-killing marine dinofl...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Ogata, Kensuke Toyoda, Yuji Tomaru, Natsuko Nakayama, Yoko Shirai, Jean-Michel Claverie and Keizo Nagasaki
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:178
  10. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) causes a prolonged, economically devastating infection in pigs, and immune resistance to infection appears variable. Since the porcine adaptive immun...

    Authors: Kelly L Klinge, Eric M Vaughn, Michael B Roof, Elida M Bautista and Michael P Murtaugh
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:177
  11. Vaccination of mice with minor capsid protein L2 or passive transfer with the L2-specific neutralizing monoclonal antibody RG-1 protects against human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) challenge. Here we explored...

    Authors: Ratish Gambhira, Subhashini Jagu, Balasubramanyam Karanam, Patricia M Day and Richard Roden
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:176
  12. Hepatitis A virus (HAV), an atypical Picornaviridae that causes acute hepatitis in humans, usurps the HAV cellular receptor 1 (HAVCR1) to infect cells. HAVCR1 is a class 1 integral membrane glycoprotein that cont...

    Authors: Erica Silberstein, Krishnamurthy Konduru and Gerardo G Kaplan
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:175
  13. Human Adenoviruses infect the upper and lower respiratory tracts, the urinary and digestive tracts, lymphoid systems and heart, and give rise to epidemic conjunctivitis. More than 51 human serotypes have been ...

    Authors: Nicola Imelli, Zsolt Ruzsics, Daniel Puntener, Michele Gastaldelli and Urs F Greber
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:174
  14. Salmonid alphavirus (SAV) causes disease in farmed salmonid fish and is divided into different genetic subtypes (SAV1-6). Here we report the cloning and characterization of the 5'- and 3'- untranslated regions...

    Authors: Marius Karlsen, Stephane Villoing, Espen Rimstad and Are Nylund
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:173
  15. Chikungunya has resurged in the form of unprecedented explosive epidemic in 2006 after a long gap in India affecting 1.39 million of persons. The disease continued for the next two consecutive years affecting ...

    Authors: SR Santhosh, Paban Kumar Dash, Manmohan Parida, Mohasin Khan and PVL Rao
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:172
  16. Mice and guinea pigs were experimentally exposed to aerosols containing regionally-distinct strains (NJ1959 or ArgM) of eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) at two exclusive particle size distributions. Mi...

    Authors: Chad J Roy, Douglas S Reed, Catherine L Wilhelmsen, Justin Hartings, Sarah Norris and Keith E Steele
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:170
  17. Geminiviruses are single-stranded DNA viruses that cause serious crop losses worldwide. Successful infection by these pathogens depends extensively on virus-host intermolecular interactions that allow them to ...

    Authors: Diana L Trejo-Saavedra, Jean P Vielle-Calzada and Rafael F Rivera-Bustamante
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:169
  18. The ubiquitin system functions in a variety of cellular processes including protein turnover, protein sorting and trafficking. Many viruses exploit the cellular ubiquitin system to facilitate viral replication...

    Authors: Yoko Ushijima, Fumi Goshima, Hiroshi Kimura and Yukihiro Nishiyama
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:168
  19. An outbreak of orf virus infection in dairy goats in Korea was investigated. Suspected samples of the skin and lip of affected goats were sent to the laboratory for more exact diagnosis. Orf virus was detected...

    Authors: Jae-Ku Oem, In-Soon Roh, Kyung-Hyun Lee, Kyoung-Ki Lee, Hye-Ryoung Kim, Young-Hwa Jean and O-Soo Lee
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:167
  20. Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is the prototypic rhabdovirus and the best studied member of the order Mononegavirales. There is now compelling evidence that enveloped virions released from infected cells carry ...

    Authors: Megan Moerdyk-Schauwecker, Sun-Il Hwang and Valery Z Grdzelishvili
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:166
  21. Currently, there are no conclusive results on the efficacy of adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) plus lamivudine (LAM) in LAM-resistant patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). The aim of study was to evaluate the effic...

    Authors: En-Qiang Chen, Li-Chun Wang, Jun Lei, Lu Xu and Hong Tang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:163
  22. Human astroviruses are a leading cause of gastrointestinal disease. Since their discovery in 1975, 8 closely related serotypes have been described in humans, and more recently, two new astrovirus species, astr...

    Authors: Stacy R Finkbeiner, Lori R Holtz, Yanfang Jiang, Priya Rajendran, Carl J Franz, Guoyan Zhao, Gagandeep Kang and David Wang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:161
  23. Strains of the astaxanthin producing yeast Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous have been isolated from different cold regions around the earth, and the presence of double stranded RNA (dsRNA) elements was described in ...

    Authors: Marcelo Baeza, Mario Sanhueza, Oriana Flores, Vicente Oviedo, Diego Libkind and Víctor Cifuentes
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:160
  24. Reverse transcriptases from HIV-1 and MuLV respectively prefer Mg2+ and Mn2+ for their polymerase activity, with variable fidelity, on both RNA and DNA templates. The function of the RNase H domain with respect t...

    Authors: Tanaji T Talele, Alok Upadhyay and Virendra N Pandey
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:159
  25. Avian influenza viruses, belonging to the family Orthomyxoviridae, possess distinct combinations of hemagglutinin (H) and the neuraminidase (N) surface glycoproteins. Typing of both H and N antigens is essenti...

    Authors: Chitra Upadhyay, Arun Ammayappan and Vikram N Vakharia
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:158
  26. Although the presence of Asia 2 group of canine distemper virus (CDV) was known by the sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of hemagglutinin (H) gene, the fusion (F) protein gene sequence of Asia 2 group had n...

    Authors: Serageldeen Sultan, Nataya Charoenvisal, Nguyen Thi Lan, Ryoji Yamaguchi, Ken Maeda and Kazushige Kai
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:157
  27. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the main causes of liver-related morbidity and mortality. Although combined interferon-α-ribavirin therapy is effective for about 50% of the patients with HCV, better therapie...

    Authors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Norihiko Matsumoto, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Myint OO Chang and Hiroshi Takaku
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:156
  28. To explore the epidemiologic and clinical features of, and interactions among, multipathogen infections in hospitalized children with acute respiratory tract infection (ARTI). A prospective study of children a...

    Authors: Dan Peng, Dongchi Zhao, Jingtao Liu, Xia Wang, Kun Yang, Hong Xicheng, Yang Li and Fubing Wang
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:155
  29. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a global threat to public health. Current therapies that directly target the virus often are rendered ineffective due to the emergence of drug-resistant viral variants. An...

    Authors: Hanwen Mao, Hanson Chen, Zena Fesseha, Shaojing Chang, Huong Ung-Medoff, Jessica Van Dyke, Manu Kohli, Wu-Bo Li, Michael Goldblatt and Michael S Kinch
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:154
  30. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a problem in several regions of the world with limited resources. Blood samples dried on filter paper (DBS) have been successfully used to diagnose and monitor several infe...

    Authors: Rosalia Lira, Angelica Maldonado-Rodriguez, Othon Rojas-Montes, Martha Ruiz-Tachiquin, Rocio Torres-Ibarra, Carlos Cano-Dominguez, Hilda Valdez-Salazar, Alejandro Gomez-Delgado, Onofre Muñoz and Ma-Teresa Alvarez-Muñoz
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:153
  31. The Tomato leaf curl virus (ToLCV) belongs to the genus begomoviridae of the family Geminiviridae. The 2.7 kb DNA genome of the virus encodes all the information required for viral DNA replication, transcription ...

    Authors: Prerna Pandey, Nirupam R Choudhury and Sunil K Mukherjee
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:152
  32. Ectromelia virus, a member of the Orthopox genus, is the causative agent of the highly infectious mousepox disease. Previous studies have shown that different poxviruses induce cell-cell fusion which is manife...

    Authors: Noam Erez, Nir Paran, Galia Maik-Rachline, Boaz Politi, Tomer Israely, Paula Schnider, Pinhas Fuchs, Sharon Melamed and Shlomo Lustig
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:151
  33. The human noroviruses are a highly diverse group of viruses with a single-stranded RNA genome encoding a single major structural protein (VP1), which has a hypervariable domain (P2 domain) as the most exposed ...

    Authors: David J Allen, Rob Noad, Dhan Samuel, Jim J Gray, Polly Roy and Miren Iturriza-Gómara
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:150
  34. Enteroviruses can shed in feces for several weeks, so many excrete viruses can remain infectious for a long time in environment. Therefore, by detecting enteroviruses in environmental specimens and sewage, we ...

    Authors: Mohammad Kargar, Sara Sadeghipour and Rakhshandeh Nategh
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:149
  35. We conducted molecular analyses to confirm four clustering HIV-1 infections (Patient A, B, C & D) in Guangzhou, China. These cases were identified by epidemiological investigation and suspected to acquire the ...

    Authors: Zhigang Han, Tommy WC Leung, Jinkou Zhao, Ming Wang, Lirui Fan, Kai Li, Xinli Pang, Zhenbo Liang, Wilina WL Lim and Huifang Xu
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:148
  36. The objective of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections and the possible risk factors among blood donors in Nyala, South Dar Fur State ...

    Authors: Mustafa Abdalla Ali Abou, Yassir Mohammed Eltahir and Abdelwahid Saeed Ali
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:146
  37. Borna disease virus (BDV) is the type member of the Bornaviridae, a family of viruses that induce often fatal neurological diseases in horses, sheep and other animals, and have been proposed to have roles in c...

    Authors: Courtney E Garry and Robert F Garry
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:145
  38. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a causative agent of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS). In this study, the complete nucleotide sequences of the selected two Th...

    Authors: Alongkorn Amonsin, Roongtham Kedkovid, Suphasawatt Puranaveja, Piya Wongyanin, Sanipa Suradhat and Roongroje Thanawongnuwech
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:143
  39. Goose parvovirus (GPV) is a Dependovirus associated with latent infection and mortality in geese. Currently, it severely affects geese production worldwide. The objective of this study was to develop a fluorescen...

    Authors: Jin-Long Yang, An-Chun Cheng, Ming-Shu Wang, Kang-Cheng Pan, Min Li, Yu-Fei Guo, Chuan-Feng Li, De-Kang Zhu and Xiao-Yue Chen
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:142
  40. Orthopoxvirus (OPV) and Parapoxvirus (PPV) have been associated with worldwide exanthematic outbreaks. Some species of these genera are able to infect humans and domestic animals, causing serious economic losses ...

    Authors: Jônatas S Abrahão, Larissa S Lima, Felipe L Assis, Pedro A Alves, André T Silva-Fernandes, Marcela MG Cota, Vanessa M Ferreira, Rafael K Campos, Carlos Mazur, Zélia IP Lobato, Giliane S Trindade and Erna G Kroon
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:140
  41. Noroviruses are the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis. Because a suitable in vitro culture system for the human virus has yet to be developed, many basic details of the infection process are unknown. Murine ...

    Authors: Linnzi M Furman, Walid S Maaty, Lena K Petersen, Khalil Ettayebi, Michele E Hardy and Brian Bothner
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:139
  42. Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is an important cause of acute respiratory illness in children. We examined the diversity and molecular evolution of HMPV using 85 full-length F (fusion) gene sequences collected o...

    Authors: Chin-Fen Yang, Chiaoyin K Wang, Sharon J Tollefson, Rohith Piyaratna, Linda D Lintao, Marla Chu, Alexis Liem, Mary Mark, Richard R Spaete, James E Crowe Jr. and John V Williams
    Citation: Virology Journal 2009 6:138