Cleaning up after XMRV
The retrovirus XMRV does not cause prostate cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome – that hypothesis was disproved by the finding that the virus was produced in the laboratory in the…
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Combination antiviral therapy for hepatitis C
…is substituted in a collection of 10,000 viruses. An HIV-1 infected person can make as many as 10,000,000,000 virus particles each day, so 1010/104 = one million viruses will be…
A new rhabdovirus from a patient with hemorrhagic fever
…a few days. Deep sequence analysis of RNA extracted from the serum of patient #3 revealed the presence of a novel rhabdovirus, provisionally named Bas-Congo virus (BASV). Phylogenetic analyses reveal…
Inadvertent transfer of a mammalian retrovirus into birds
…infect birds: fowlpox virus and gallid herpesvirus 2. These viruses circulate in birds, yielding REVs that cause disease, and high antibody levels to REVs in poultry. It is not clear…
Is Vilyuisk encephalitis a viral disease?
…the virus. More recently, Theiler-like viruses have been isolated from humans. The first, called Saffold virus (SAFV), was isolated in 1981 from an 8 month old infant with fever of…
Ten cool facts about viruses
…was coined from the Latin word meaning slimy liquid or poison. 5. Walter Reed discovered the first human virus, yellow fever virus, in 1901. 6. Viruses are not alive €“…