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Viruses, Volume 12, Issue 2

February 2020 - 126 articles

Cover Story: A novel human coronavirus (CoV) was identified from a cluster of pneumonia patients in Wuhan, China in December, 2019. This marks the third CoV emergence of the 21st century following SARS-CoV (2002–2003) and MERS-CoV (2012–present) and highlights the ongoing risk of CoV zoonoses. While questions remain about early outbreak communication, the first virus sequence was posted on 10 January 2020, leading to a fast-paced and collaborative international effort to understand the new virus, SARS-CoV-2, and its disease COVID-19. The SARS-CoV-2 genome has a high-sequence similarity to bat CoVs, suggesting origins in bats and possibly evolution in an intermediate host. Human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 led to a rapid spread around the globe, although most of cases have occurred in China. With the virus still causing new infections, it is hoped that unprecedented quarantine efforts and other public health measures will allow for the containment of virus spread.
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  • Articles (126)

    • Article
    • Open Access
    25 Citations
    5,105 Views
    20 Pages

    Updating the Quarantine Status of Prunus Infecting Viruses in Australia

    • Wycliff M. Kinoti,
    • Narelle Nancarrow,
    • Alison Dann,
    • Brendan C. Rodoni and
    • Fiona E. Constable

    23 February 2020

    One hundred Prunus trees, including almond (P. dulcis), apricot (P. armeniaca), nectarine (P. persica var. nucipersica), peach (P. persica), plum (P. domestica), purple leaf plum (P. cerasifera) and sweet cherry (P. avium), were selected from growing...

    • Article
    • Open Access
    28 Citations
    8,335 Views
    17 Pages

    Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus: An Emerging Ancient Zoonosis?

    • Andrei A. Deviatkin,
    • Ivan S. Kholodilov,
    • Yulia A. Vakulenko,
    • Galina G. Karganova and
    • Alexander N. Lukashev

    23 February 2020

    Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is one of the most important viral zoonosis transmitted by the bite of infected ticks. In this study, all tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) E gene sequences available in GenBank as of June 2019 with known date of isol...

    • Article
    • Open Access
    27 Citations
    5,814 Views
    17 Pages

    Substantial Antigenic Drift in the Hemagglutinin Protein of Swine Influenza A Viruses

    • Pia Ryt-Hansen,
    • Anders Gorm Pedersen,
    • Inge Larsen,
    • Charlotte Sonne Kristensen,
    • Jesper Schak Krog,
    • Silke Wacheck and
    • Lars Erik Larsen

    23 February 2020

    The degree of antigenic drift in swine influenza A viruses (swIAV) has historically been regarded as minimal compared to that of human influenza A virus strains. However, as surveillance activities on swIAV have increased, more isolates have been cha...

    • Article
    • Open Access
    5 Citations
    3,400 Views
    18 Pages

    Chicken eEF1α is a Critical Factor for the Polymerase Complex Activity of Very Virulent Infectious Bursal Disease Virus

    • Bo Yang,
    • Nana Yan,
    • Aijing Liu,
    • Yue Li,
    • Zehua Chen,
    • Li Gao,
    • Xiaole Qi,
    • Yulong Gao,
    • Changjun Liu and
    • Yanping Zhang
    • + 5 authors

    23 February 2020

    Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is an immunosuppressive, highly contagious, and lethal disease of young chickens caused by IBD virus (IBDV). It results in huge economic loss to the poultry industry worldwide. Infection caused by very virulent IBDV (v...

    • Article
    • Open Access
    12 Citations
    4,386 Views
    13 Pages

    A Hyper-Glycosylation of HBV Surface Antigen Correlates with HBsAg-Negativity at Immunosuppression-Driven HBV Reactivation in Vivo and Hinders HBsAg Recognition In Vitro

    • Romina Salpini,
    • Lorenzo Piermatteo,
    • Arianna Battisti,
    • Luna Colagrossi,
    • Marianna Aragri,
    • Katia Yu La Rosa,
    • Ada Bertoli,
    • Patrizia Saccomandi,
    • Miriam Lichtner and
    • Massimo Marignani
    • + 17 authors

    23 February 2020

    Immune-suppression driven Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)-reactivation poses serious concerns since it occurs in several clinical settings and can result in severe forms of hepatitis. Previous studies showed that HBV strains, circulating in patients with HBV...

    • Communication
    • Open Access
    541 Citations
    57,794 Views
    17 Pages

    Systematic Comparison of Two Animal-to-Human Transmitted Human Coronaviruses: SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV

    • Jiabao Xu,
    • Shizhe Zhao,
    • Tieshan Teng,
    • Abualgasim Elgaili Abdalla,
    • Wan Zhu,
    • Longxiang Xie,
    • Yunlong Wang and
    • Xiangqian Guo

    22 February 2020

    After the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the world in 2003, human coronaviruses (HCoVs) have been reported as pathogens that cause severe symptoms in respiratory tract infections. Recently, a new emerged HCoV isolated fro...

    • Article
    • Open Access
    62 Citations
    8,331 Views
    21 Pages

    The Heat Shock Response in the Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) is Antiviral

    • Alexander J. McMenamin,
    • Katie F. Daughenbaugh and
    • Michelle L. Flenniken

    22 February 2020

    Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are an agriculturally important pollinator species that live in easily managed social groups (i.e., colonies). Unfortunately, annual losses of honey bee colonies in many parts of the world have reached unsustainable levels...

    • Article
    • Open Access
    22 Citations
    4,098 Views
    20 Pages

    21 February 2020

    In the current study, we hypothesized that extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted from human papilloma virus (HPV)-infected cervical cancer cells exacerbate human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 replication in differentiated U1 cell line through an oxi...

    • Article
    • Open Access
    49 Citations
    7,762 Views
    15 Pages

    21 February 2020

    Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), being highly virulent and contagious in piglets, has caused significant damage to the pork industries of many countries worldwide. There are no commercial drugs targeting coronaviruses (CoVs), and few studies o...

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