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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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…
The evolving concept of virus
…this point the distinctions between bacteria and viruses were on the basis of filterability and reproduction in broth. The exact nature of ‘filterable viruses€™ was obscure. Four subsequent observations were…
Ebola virus mutations do not affect pathogenicity
…in two animal models of Ebola virus infection. Early and late isolates from the Ebola virus West African epidemic were studied which do or do not contain amino acid changes…
Hepatitis B viruses in bats
…viruses form three different lineages, and that each virus differs by at least 35% from known hepadnaviruses. The virus from Hipposideros cf. ruber has been named roundleaf bat HBV, while…