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1. A 3-year follow-up study after treatment with simeprevir in combination with pegylated interferon-α and ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Author:
Fabien Zoulim; Christophe Moreno; Samuel S. Lee; Peter Buggisch; Andrzej Horban; Eric Lawitz; Chris Corbett; Oliver Lenz; Bart Fevery; Thierry Verbinnen; Umesh Shukla; Wolfgang Jessner
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 26
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
European Union; Hepatitis C virus; RNA; amino acid substitution; chronic hepatitis C; durability; genotype; interferon-alpha; patients; proteinase inhibitors; United States
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Simeprevir is approved with pegylated interferon and ribavirin (PR) for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype (GT) 1 and GT4 infection in the USA and the European Union. METHODS: This 3-year follow-up study assessed the durability of sustained virologic response (SVR) (undetectable HCV RNA 12 or 24 weeks after treatment end), and evaluated the persistence of treatment-emergent NS3/4 ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-0936-4
PubMed:
29378602
PubMed Central:
PMC5789677

2. Assessment of enteroviruses from sewage water and clinical samples during eradication phase of polio in North India

Author:
Sarika Tiwari; Tapan N. Dhole
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 157
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Enterovirus; cell culture; cities; epidemiological studies; feces; monitoring; municipal wastewater; neutralization tests; serotypes; sewage; tissue culture; viruses; India
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: The Enterovirus (EV) surveillance system is inadequate in densely populated cities in India. EV can be shed in feces for several weeks; these viruses are not easily inactivated and may persist in sewage for long periods. Surveillance and epidemiological study of EV-related disease is necessary. METHODS: In this study, we compare the EV found in sewage with clinically isolated samples. ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1075-7
PubMed:
30326921
PubMed Central:
PMC6192295

3. Atrial fibrillation in a patient with Zika virus infection

Author:
Ligia Fernandes Abdalla; João Hugo Abdalla Santos; Renata Teodora Jales Barreto; Erick Martins e Souza; Fabrício Fonseca D’Assunção; Márcio Aurélio Borges; Valdinete Alves Nascimento; George Allan Villarouco da Silva; Victor Costa de Souza; Rajendranath Ramasawmy; Ana Carolina Campi-Azevedo; Jordana Graziela Coelho-dos-Reis; Lis Ribeiro do Vale Antonelli; Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho; Olindo Assis Martins-Filho; Felipe Gomes Naveca
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 23
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Zika virus; arboviruses; atrial fibrillation; biomarkers; blood serum; carrier state; chemokine CCL11; chemokine CCL2; chemokine CCL5; chemokine CXCL10; gender; granulocyte colony-stimulating factor; granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor; interferon-gamma; interleukin-17; interleukin-1beta; interleukin-4; interleukin-6; interleukin-8; interleukin-9; patients; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; saliva; tumor necrosis factor-alpha; Africa; Asia
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Zika virus is an emerging arbovirus of the family Flaviviridae and genus Flavivirus that until 2007 was restricted to a few cases of mild illness in Africa and Asia. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of atrial fibrillation disclosed during an acute Zika virus infection in a 49-year-old man. Different biological samples were analyzed for the molecular diagnosis of Zika by real-time PC ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-0938-2
PubMed:
29370812
PubMed Central:
PMC5785868

4. Avian keratin disorder of Alaska black-capped chickadees is associated with Poecivirus infection

Author:
Maxine Zylberberg; Caroline Van Hemert; Colleen M. Handel; Joseph L. DeRisi
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 100
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Poecile atricapillus; beak; birds; blood sampling; cloaca; epizootic diseases; etiology; feces; in situ hybridization; keratin; polymerase chain reaction; screening; virus replication; viruses; Alaska
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Avian keratin disorder (AKD) is an epizootic of debilitating beak deformities, first documented in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) in Alaska during the late 1990s. Similar deformities have now been recorded in dozens of species of birds across multiple continents. Despite this, the etiology of AKD has remained elusive, making it difficult to assess the impacts of this di ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1008-5
PubMed:
29903045
PubMed Central:
PMC6003155

5. Bat Astrovirus in Mozambique

Author:
Flora Hoarau; Gildas Le Minter; Léa Joffrin; M. Corrie Schoeman; Erwan Lagadec; Beza Ramasindrazana; Andréa Dos Santos; Steven M. Goodman; Eduardo S. Gudo; Patrick Mavingui; Camille Lebarbenchon
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 104
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Astroviridae; Pteropus; coasts; genes; human population; humans; interspecific variation; livestock; phylogeny; polymerase chain reaction; risk; water birds; Comoros; Eastern Africa; Madagascar; Mozambique
Abstract:
... Astroviruses (AstVs) are responsible for infection of a large diversity of mammalian and avian species, including bats, aquatic birds, livestock and humans. We investigated AstVs circulation in bats in Mozambique and Mayotte, a small island in the Comoros Archipelago located between east Africa and Madagascar. Biological material was collected from 338 bats and tested for the presence of the AstV ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1011-x
PubMed:
29925396
PubMed Central:
PMC6011250

6. Bovine leukemia virus long terminal repeat variability: identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms in regulatory sequences

Author:
Aneta Pluta; Marzena Rola-Łuszczak; Renée N Douville; Jacek Kuźmak
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 165
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Bovine leukemia virus; binding sites; genes; genetic databases; genetic heterogeneity; genotype; phylogeny; point mutation; polymerase chain reaction; provenance; regulatory sequences; screening; sequence analysis; single nucleotide polymorphism; terminal repeat sequences; transcription factors; Croatia; Moldova; Poland; Russia; Ukraine
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Limited data are available on the incidence of variations in nucleotide sequences of long terminal repeat (LTR) regions of Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV). Consequently, the possible impact of SNPs on BLV LTR function are poorly elucidated. Thus, a detailed and representative study of full-length LTR sequences obtained from sixty-four BLV isolates from different geographical regions of Pol ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1062-z
PubMed:
30359262
PubMed Central:
PMC6202831

7. Canine caliciviruses of four serotypes from military and research dogs recovered in 1963−1978 belong to two phylogenetic clades in the Vesivirus genus

Author:
Leonard N. Binn; Erica A. Norby; Ruth H. Marchwicki; Richard G. Jarman; Paul B. Keiser; Jun Hang
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 39
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Canine calicivirus; Feline calicivirus; RNA; Vesicular exanthema of swine virus; amino acids; antibodies; antigenic variation; cell culture; coat proteins; dog diseases; dogs; electron microscopy; genome; hosts; humans; neutralization tests; pathogenicity; pathogens; phylogeny; polyproteins; sequence analysis; serology; serotypes; structural proteins; virion; zoonoses
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Vesiviruses (family Caliciviridae) had been shown capable of invading a variety of host species, raising concern of their zoonotic potential. Since the 1980’s, several canine caliciviruses (CaCV) isolates have been reported and are phylogenetically related to the vesiviruses with features distinct from both Vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) and Feline calicivirus (FCV) species ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-0944-4
PubMed:
29471848
PubMed Central:
PMC5824495

8. Characterization of a new apple luteovirus identified by high-throughput sequencing

Author:
Huawei Liu; Liping Wu; Ekaterina Nikolaeva; Kari Peter; Zongrang Liu; Dimitre Mollov; Mengji Cao; Ruhui Li
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 85
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Luteovirus; RNA; apples; cracking; decline; etiology; genome; high-throughput nucleotide sequencing; necrosis; new species; orchards; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; summer; trees; viruses; Northeastern United States
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: ‘Rapid Apple Decline’ (RAD) is a newly emerging problem of young, dwarf apple trees in the Northeastern USA. The affected trees show trunk necrosis, cracking and canker before collapse in summer. In this study, we discovered and characterized a new luteovirus from apple trees in RAD-affected orchards using high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technology and subsequent Sanger sequencing. ME ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-0998-3
PubMed:
29764461
PubMed Central:
PMC5952423

9. Characterization of small genomic regions of the hepatitis B virus should be performed with more caution

Author:
Lei Jia; Fengyu Hu; Hanping Li; Lin Li; Xiaoping Tang; Yongjian Liu; Haohui Deng; Jingwan Han; Jingyun Li; Weiping Cai
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 188
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
DNA viruses; Hepatitis B virus; Human immunodeficiency virus 1; RNA; genetic variation; genome; genomics; genotype; hepatoma; mixed infection; patients; phylogeny; public health; risk; statistical analysis; trees
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus is a hepatotropic DNA virus that reproduces via an RNA intermediate. It can lead to an increased risk of serious liver diseases such as hepatocellular carcinoma and is a serious threat to public health. Currently, the HBV are designated based on greater than 8% nucleotide variation along the whole genome. The recombination of HBV is very common, a large majority of wh ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1100-x
PubMed:
30526629
PubMed Central:
PMC6288937

10. Characterization, phylogeny and recombination analysis of Pedilanthus leaf curl virus-Petunia isolate and its associated betasatellite

Author:
Sara Shakir; Muhammad Shah Nawaz-ul-Rehman; Muhammad Mubin; Zulfiqar Ali
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 134
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Agrobacterium; Nicotiana benthamiana; Nicotiana tabacum; Papaya leaf curl virus; Petunia hybrida; Southern blotting; clones; coat proteins; disease severity; etiological agents; genes; host range; leaf curling; molecular cloning; ornamental plants; pathogenicity; phylogeny; radishes; sequence analysis; soybeans; viruses; India; Pakistan
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Geminiviruses cause major losses to several economically important crops. Pedilanthus leaf curl virus (PeLCV) is a pathogenic geminivirus that appeared in the last decade and is continuously increasing its host range in Pakistan and India. This study reports the identification and characterization of PeLCV-Petunia from ornamental plants in Pakistan, as well as geographical, phylogeneti ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1047-y
PubMed:
30165872
PubMed Central:
PMC6117872

11. Clinical validation of REALQUALITY RQ-HPV Screen according to the international guidelines for human papillomavirus DNA test requirements for cervical screening

Author:
Michela Iacobellis; Cecilia Violante; Gabriella Notarachille; Angela Simone; Rosa Scarfì; Giuseppe Giuffrè
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 48
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
DNA; Papillomaviridae; guidelines; humans; hybrid capture methods; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; screening; uterine cervical neoplasms
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: According to international guidelines, HPV DNA tests represent a valid alternative to Pap Test for primary cervical cancer screening, provided that they guarantee balanced clinical sensitivity and specificity for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or more severe lesions. The aim of this study was to assess whether REALQUALITY RQ-HPV Screen, a new assay based on real time PCR th ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-0965-z
PubMed:
29558950
PubMed Central:
PMC5859641

12. Comparative evaluation of a laboratory-developed real-time PCR assay and RealStar® Adenovirus PCR Kit for quantitative detection of human adenovirus

Author:
Samson S. Y. Wong; Cyril C. Y. Yip; Siddharth Sridhar; Kit-Hang Leung; Andrew K. W. Cheng; Ami M. Y. Fung; Ho-Yin Lam; Kwok-Hung Chan; Jasper F. W. Chan; Vincent C. C. Cheng; Bone S. F. Tang; Kwok-Yung Yuen
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 149
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
DNA; Mastadenovirus; cost effectiveness; detection limit; diagnostic techniques; digestive system diseases; immunocompromised population; laboratory diagnosis; monitoring; mortality; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; regression analysis; respiratory system; viral load
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Human adenoviruses are common causes of community-acquired respiratory tract and enteric infections. Severe disseminated infections with high mortality rates may be seen in immunocompromised individuals. An accurate and cost-effective quantitative assay is essential not only for laboratory diagnosis of adenoviral infections, but also for monitoring of response to antiviral treatment. T ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1059-7
PubMed:
30261891
PubMed Central:
PMC6161464

13. Comparative genetic analysis and pathological characteristics of goose parvovirus isolated in Heilongjiang, China

Author:
Yinjie Niu; Lili Zhao; Baihan Liu; Jingli Liu; Fan Yang; Haichang Yin; Hong Huo; Hongyan Chen
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 27
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Anseriform dependoparvovirus 1; Protoparvovirus; brain; coat proteins; ducklings; enteritis; farms; formalin; geese; genes; genetic analysis; genetic variation; hemorrhage; hepatitis; histology; histopathology; intestines; liver; morbidity; mortality; myocarditis; nucleic acids; phylogeny; polymerase chain reaction; tissues; waterfowl; China
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Goose parvovirus (GPV) causes acute enteritis, hepatitis, myocarditis and high morbidity and mortality in geese and ducks. GPV H strain was isolated from a Heilongjiang goose farm where the geese were showing signs of hemorrhage in the brain, liver, and intestinal tract. In this study, we explored the genetic diversity among waterfowl parvovirus isolates and the pathological characteri ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-0935-5
PubMed:
29391035
PubMed Central:
PMC5795831

14. Comparison of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay systems using rift valley fever virus nucleocapsid protein and inactivated virus as antigens

Author:
Fuxun Yu; Ferdinard Adungo; Samson Limbaso Konongoi; Shingo Inoue; Rosemary Sang; Salame Ashur; Allan ole Kwallah; Leo Uchida; Corazon C Buerano; Matilu Mwau; Yan Zha; Yingjie Nie; Kouichi Morita
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 178
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
epidemiological studies; immunoglobulin G; immunoglobulin M; zoonoses; blood serum; antigens; humans; monitoring; Rift Valley fever; developing countries; nucleocapsid; Rift Valley fever phlebovirus; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; viruses; patients; affinity chromatography; nucleocapsid proteins; Escherichia coli; Kenya
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne viral zoonosis. To detect RVF virus (RVFV) infection, indirect immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin M (IgM) enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) which utilize recombinant RVFV nucleocapsid (RVFV-N) protein as assay antigen, have reportedly been used, however, there is still a need to develop more sensitive and specific methods of ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1071-y
PubMed:
30466469
PubMed Central:
PMC6249750

15. Comparison of two different combined test strips with fluorescent microspheres or colored microspheres as tracers for rotavirus and adenovirus detection

Author:
Na Jiang; Lei Shi; Jieping Lin; Lifang Zhang; Yanxia Peng; Huiying Sheng; Ping Wu; Qingjun Pan
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 44
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Adenoviridae; Rotavirus; color; cross reaction; enteropathogens; feces; fluorescence; gastroenteritis; gastrointestinal system; microparticles; patients; tracer techniques; viruses
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Rotavirus (RV) and enteric adenovirus (AdV) mainly cause infantile infectious gastroenteritis. Several separate test methods for the detection of RV or AdV are currently available, but few tests are able to simultaneously detect both RV and AdV viruses, especially in primary medical institutions. METHODS: The present study was mainly designed to compare the performance of two combined ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-0951-5
PubMed:
29534739
PubMed Central:
PMC5851252

16. Correction to: Detection and full genome characterization of two beta CoV viruses related to Middle East respiratory syndrome from bats in Italy

Author:
Ana Moreno; Davide Lelli; Luca De Sabato; Guendalina Zaccaria; Arianna Boni; Enrica Sozzi; Alice Prosperi; Antonio Lavazza; Eleonora Cella; Maria Rita Castrucci; Massimo Ciccozzi; Gabriele Vaccari
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 10
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Chiroptera; Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; genome; viruses; Italy
Abstract:
... CORRECTION: After Publication of the article [1], it has been brought to our attention that an author’s name has been spelt incorrectly. The correct spelling should be “Massimo Ciccozzi”, but it was previously included as “Massimo Cicozzi”. The original version has now been revised to reflect this. ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-0921-y
PubMed:
29329554
PubMed Central:
PMC5767041

17. Correction to: Immunogenicity of adenovirus-vector vaccine targeting hepatitis B virus: non-clinical safety assessment in non-human primates

Author:
Xuefeng Zhang; Jing Wang; Jing Lu; Rongrong Li; Shuli Zhao
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 137
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Hepatitis B virus; Primates; immunogenicity; safety assessment; vaccines
Abstract:
... Ad-HBV is a product (T101) aiming to treat chronic HBV firstly developed by Transgene S.A., France then by Transgene Tasly (Tianjin) Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tianjin, China in China. ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1049-9
PubMed:
30176885
PubMed Central:
PMC6120072

18. A CpG oligodeoxynucleotide enhances the immune response to rabies vaccination in mice

Author:
Pengcheng Yu; Jianghong Yan; Weicheng Wu; Xiaoyan Tao; Xuexin Lu; Shuqing Liu; Wuyang Zhu
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 174
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Toll-like receptor 9; adjuvants; animal models; diploidy; disease control; dogs; humans; immune response; immunogenicity; interferon-gamma; mice; neutralizing antibodies; oligodeoxyribonucleotides; rabies; seroconversion; splenocytes; survival rate; vaccination; vaccines
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Rabies is a fatal disease that is preventable when post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is administered in a timely fashion. CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) can trigger cells that express Toll-like receptor 9, and their immunopotentiation activity in an inactivated aluminum-adjuvanted rabies vaccine for dogs has been identified using mouse and dog models. METHODS: A human diploid cell rabi ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1089-1
PubMed:
30424815
PubMed Central:
PMC6234694

19. Crystal structure of Usutu virus envelope protein in the pre-fusion state

Author:
Zimin Chen; Fei Ye; Sheng Lin; Fanli Yang; Yanwei Cheng; Yu Cao; Zhujun Chen; Guangwen Lu
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 183
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Usutu virus; birds; crystal structure; mammals; membrane fusion; pathogenesis; plasticity; receptors; virulence
Abstract:
... BACKGROUND: Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-born flavivirus that can infect multiple avian and mammalian species. The viral surface envelope (E) protein functions to initiate the viral infection by recognizing cellular receptors and mediating the subsequent membrane fusion, and is therefore a key virulence factor involved in the pathogenesis of USUV. The structural features of USUV-E, however, re ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-1092-6
PubMed:
30477514
PubMed Central:
PMC6260896

20. Deciphering viral presences: two novel partial giant viruses detected in marine metagenome and in a mine drainage metagenome

Author:
Julien Andreani; Jonathan Verneau; Didier Raoult; Anthony Levasseur; Bernard La Scola
Source:
Virology journal 2018 v.15 no.1 pp. 66
ISSN:
1743-422X
Subject:
Mimivirus; Rickettsiales; bacteria; coat proteins; drainage; eukaryotic cells; genome; metagenomics; phylogeny; screening; sequence homology; viruses
Abstract:
... Nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses are doubled stranded DNA viruses capable of infecting eukaryotic cells. Since the discovery of Mimivirus and Pandoravirus, there has been no doubt about their extraordinary features compared to “classic” viruses. Recently, we reported the expansion of the proposed family Pithoviridae, with the description of Cedratvirus and Orpheovirus, two new viruses related ...
DOI:
10.1186/s12985-018-0976-9
PubMed:
29636072
PubMed Central:
PMC5891951