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Viruses, Volume 17, Issue 8

August 2025 - 127 articles

Cover Story: Ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) are promising tools for viral inactivation, but detailed wavelength-dependent action spectra remain unclear. Using a standardized system with 13 peak wavelengths (250–365 nm), we evaluated infectivity reduction across RNA and DNA viruses and identified viral genomic damage, rather than protein degradation, as the dominant mechanism. Peak virucidal efficiency occurred at 267–270 nm, slightly above the canonical nucleic acid absorption peak. These findings provide critical data for optimizing UV-LED disinfection in healthcare, food safety, and environmental applications. View this paper
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Articles (127)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,111 Views
12 Pages

The Clinical and Laboratory Predictors of Intensive Care Unit Admission in Romanian Measles Cases: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis (2023–2025)

  • Aneta-Rada Dobrin,
  • Tamara Mirela Porosnicu,
  • Islam Ragab,
  • Lucian-Flavius Herlo,
  • Voichita Elena Lazureanu,
  • Alexandra Herlo,
  • Felix Bratosin,
  • Cristian Iulian Oancea,
  • Silvia Alda and
  • Monica Licker

14 August 2025

Background and Objectives: Romania has experienced the highest measles incidence rate in the European Union since late 2023, driven by suboptimal measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) uptake. Contemporary data on bedside predictors of clinical dete...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1,400 Views
8 Pages

First Use of Phage Therapy in Canada for the Treatment of a Life-Threatening, Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Periprosthetic Joint Infection

  • Melissa T. Cammuso,
  • Bradley W. M. Cook,
  • D. William Cameron,
  • Stephen Ryan,
  • Marielou Tamayo,
  • Melissa J. Peters,
  • Tia Arnaud,
  • Stephanie Lau,
  • Henrik Almblad and
  • Nicolas Fournier
  • + 8 authors

14 August 2025

We describe the first use of phage therapy in Canada for the treatment of a life-threatening periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), with successful outcome. PJI is a devastating complication of joint replacement surgery, with high morbidity and mortal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,252 Views
24 Pages

Dissection of Emerging Shrimp Viruses Through Scientometric Assessment: Insights into Infectious Myonecrosis Virus (IMNV) and Decapod Iridescent Virus 1 (DIV1)

  • Kandasamy Saravanan,
  • Rajesh Bharathi Rathinam,
  • Sounder Abuthagir Iburahim,
  • Jayasimhan Praveenraj,
  • Rajendran Kiruba-Sankar and
  • Gokhlesh Kumar

13 August 2025

Viral diseases pose significant threats to global aquaculture, particularly in shrimp farming, which has suffered substantial economic losses due to pathogens such as Infectious Myonecrosis Virus (IMNV) and Decapod Iridescent Virus 1 (DIV1). This stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,260 Views
15 Pages

The Differences in the Evolutionary Dynamics of MERS and SARS Coronaviruses

  • Yushan Ding,
  • Jiameng Liu,
  • Jamal S. M. Sabir,
  • Xinyuan Cui,
  • Xuejuan Shen,
  • Nahid H. Hajrah,
  • Mohamed M. M. Ahmed,
  • Meshaal J. Sabir,
  • Onaizan Godian Al-Zogabi and
  • David M. Irwin
  • + 1 author

13 August 2025

SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV are two coronaviruses that have received significant attention due to their high pathogenicity and mortality rates in human populations. In this study, we compared their evolutionary dynamics to provide a One Health perspective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,295 Views
17 Pages

Acute Febrile Illness Associated with an Emerging Dengue 4 GIIb Variant Causing Epidemic in León, Nicaragua 2022

  • Omar Zepeda,
  • Edwing C. Cuadra,
  • Daniel O. Espinoza,
  • Yerun Zhu,
  • Hernán Vanegas,
  • Alexis Domeracki,
  • Rodrigo A. Mora-Rodríguez,
  • Anne Piantadosi,
  • Jesse J. Waggoner and
  • Armando J. Matute
  • + 5 authors

13 August 2025

Historically, DENV-4 has been rarely associated with epidemics and has been less well-studied than DENV-1 to -3. Epidemic dengue struck several South and Central American countries in 2022, with Nicaragua reporting the highest incidence. In an acute...

  • Article
  • Open Access
853 Views
13 Pages

13 August 2025

Retroviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses that package two copies of their positively stranded RNA genomes as a non-covalent dimer into newly formed virions. This process is evolutionarily conserved, and disruption of genome dimerization results i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
889 Views
12 Pages

Genetic and Antigenic Diversity of Bubaline alphaherpesvirus 1

  • Rocío Lucía Tau,
  • Ana Eugenia Marandino,
  • Fátima Torales,
  • Fabrício Souza Campos,
  • Paulo Michel Roehe,
  • José Luis Konrad,
  • Sonia Alejandra Romera,
  • Ruben Pérez and
  • Silvina Soledad Maidana

13 August 2025

Bubaline alphaherpesvirus 1 (BuHV-1) is a virus that belongs to the Varicellovirus genus within the Alphaherpesvirinae subfamily. While BuHV-1 infections in water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) are often subclinical, clinical manifestations have been re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,127 Views
18 Pages

Thirty-Five Years of IBV Evolution in Chile Reveals a Novel Lineage and Evidence of Vaccine-Driven Recombination

  • Miguel Guzmán,
  • Leandro Cádiz,
  • Leonardo Sáenz,
  • Héctor Hidalgo and
  • Claudio Verdugo

13 August 2025

Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) remains a major threat to poultry health worldwide due to frequent genetic changes mainly driven by recombination and limited cross-protection between genotypes. In this study, we analyzed IBV strains collected from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,437 Views
20 Pages

12 August 2025

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous betaherpesvirus that establishes lifelong latent infection in CD34+ haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. A unique subset of viral genes is expressed during latency, which functions to modulate cellula...

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