The NSABB speaks on influenza H5N1
…the lethality of the virus: Highly pathogenic avian influenza A/H5N1 infection of humans has been a serious public health concern since its identification in 1997 in Asia. This virus rarely…
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Inhibition of XMRV by a weapon of mass deamination
…Leukemia Virus-Related Virus by APOBEC3 Proteins and Antiviral Drugs Journal of Virology DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00134-10 Groom, H., Yap, M., Galao, R., Neil, S., & Bishop, K. (2010). Susceptibility of xenotropic murine…
XMRV not detected in seminal plasma
How XMRV, the new human retrovirus associated with prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome, might be transmitted among humans is unknown. The finding that the virus can be detected in…
Describing a viral quasispecies
…the estimated mutation rate of an RNA virus. CirSeq was used to characterize poliovirus populations produced by seven serial passages in HeLa cells. The calculated mutation frequency, 2 X 10-4…
Universal influenza vaccines
…from the 2006-2007 influenza season, then boosted with a recombinant adenovirus encoding the same HA protein. Sera from immunized mice neutralized strains of H1N1 influenza virus dating to 1934, as…
Unexpected endogenous viruses
…record from which it is possible to determine the age of viruses. The first non-retroviral endogenous virus described was bornavirus, a virus with a negative-stranded RNA genome. Bornaviral sequences were…