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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
1,150 Views
15 Pages

Deficiency of IFNAR1 Increases the Production of Influenza Vaccine Viruses in MDCK Cells

  • Qi Wang,
  • Tuanjie Chen,
  • Mengru Feng,
  • Mei Zheng,
  • Feixia Gao,
  • Chenchen Qiu,
  • Jian Luo and
  • Xiuling Li

8 August 2025

Cell culture-based influenza vaccines exhibit comparable safety and immunogenicity to traditional egg-based vaccines. However, improving viral yield remains a key challenge in optimizing cell culture-based production systems. Madin–Darby canine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,434 Views
16 Pages

8 August 2025

Persistent type I interferon (IFN-I) signaling compromises adaptive anti-HIV-1 T cell immunity and promotes viral reservoir persistence, yet its effects on innate lymphoid cells during chronic infection remain unclear. Through integrated single-cell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,006 Views
18 Pages

New Isolates of Betachloroviruses Shed Light on the Diversity and Biological Complexity of an Unexplored Group of Giant Algal Viruses

  • Júlia W. Souza,
  • Lethícia R. Henriques,
  • Roger M. Carlson,
  • Bruna B. F. Botelho,
  • João Victor R. P. Carvalho,
  • João Pedro N. Santos,
  • Eric R. G. R. Aguiar,
  • Irina V. Agarkova,
  • James L. Van Etten and
  • David D. Dunigan
  • + 1 author

8 August 2025

The majority of giant algal viruses belong to the family Phycodnaviridae, class Algavirales, phylum Nucleocytoviricota. Among them, the genus Chlorovirus is the most studied, with three recognized groups based on genomics and host range, although man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,751 Views
28 Pages

Homologous and Heterologous Vaccination Regimens with mRNA and rVSV Platforms Induce Potent Immune Responses Against SFTSV Glycoprotein

  • Tomaz B. Manzoni,
  • Jonna B. Westover,
  • Kendall A. Lundgreen,
  • Philip D. Hicks,
  • Raegan J. Petch,
  • Jordan T. Ort,
  • Drew Weissman,
  • Steven H. Y. Fan,
  • Scott E. Hensley and
  • Norbert Pardi
  • + 2 authors

8 August 2025

Background: Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is a highly pathogenic bunyavirus with a high case-fatality ratio for which there is no approved vaccine. Studies have assessed different vaccine technologies. However, few studies...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,741 Views
37 Pages

8 August 2025

Treatments for bacterial infections can be less effective due to toxicities, bacterial tolerance, or genetic resistance to antibacterial agents. The emphasis here is on combating genetic bacterial resistance to bacteriophages. Commonly described simp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,081 Views
15 Pages

Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Gene Variants in Severe COVID-19 Cytokine Storm Syndrome

  • Abhishek Kamath,
  • Mingce Zhang,
  • Devin M. Absher,
  • Lesley E. Jackson,
  • Walter Winn Chatham and
  • Randy Q. Cron

8 August 2025

Severe COVID-19 infection resulting in hospitalization shares features with cytokine storm syndromes (CSSs) such as hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). Various published criteria were explored to define CSS among patients (n = 32) enrolled in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
965 Views
15 Pages

Development of a Deer Tick Virus Infection Model in C3H/HeJ Mice to Mimic Human Clinical Outcomes

  • Dakota N. Paine,
  • Erin S. Reynolds,
  • Charles E. Hart,
  • Jessica Crooker and
  • Saravanan Thangamani

7 August 2025

Deer tick virus (DTV) is a Tick-Borne Orthoflavivirus endemic to the United States, transmitted to humans through bites from the deer tick, Ixodes scapularis, which is also the primary vector of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., the causative agent of Lyme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,215 Views
18 Pages

Unveiling a Shift in the Rotavirus Strains in Benin: Emergence of Reassortment Intergenogroup and Equine-like G3P[8] Strains in the Post-Vaccination Era

  • Jijoho M. Agbla,
  • Milton T. Mogotsi,
  • Alban G. Zohoun,
  • Nkosazana D. Shange,
  • Annick Capochichi,
  • Ayodeji E. Ogunbayo,
  • Rolande Assogba,
  • Shainey Khakha,
  • Aristide Sossou and
  • Hlengiwe Sondlane
  • + 3 authors

7 August 2025

While a global downward trend in rotavirus diarrhea cases has been observed following vaccine introduction, reassortment, genetic drift, and vaccine-escaping strains remain a concern, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we provide genomic insig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,799 Views
19 Pages

Lipid Nanoparticle-Encapsulated TALEN-Encoding mRNA Inactivates Hepatitis B Virus Replication in Cultured Cells and Transgenic Mice

  • Tiffany Smith,
  • Prashika Singh,
  • Ridhwaanah Bhana,
  • Dylan Kairuz,
  • Kristie Bloom,
  • Mohube Betty Maepa,
  • Abdullah Ely and
  • Patrick Arbuthnot

7 August 2025

Chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) results in over 1 million deaths annually. Although currently licensed treatments, including pegylated interferon-α and nucleoside/nucleotide analogs, can inhibit viral replication, they rarely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,913 Views
24 Pages

Evaluation of Aggregate Oral Fluid Sampling for Early Detection of African Swine Fever Virus Infection

  • Bonto Faburay,
  • Kathleen O’Hara,
  • Marta Remmenga,
  • Theophilus Odoom,
  • Sherry Johnson,
  • William Tasiame,
  • Matilda Ayim-Akonor,
  • Benita Anderson,
  • Kingsley Kwabena Amoako and
  • Diane Holder
  • + 8 authors

6 August 2025

African swine fever (ASF) needs to be controlled, and prevention of the spread of African swine fever virus (ASFV) is dependent on enhanced surveillance and early disease detection. Commercial swine operations, especially in North America, Europe, an...

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