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Viruses, Volume 7, Issue 12

December 2015 - 44 articles

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Articles (44)

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,601 Views
11 Pages

Rapid Detection of Listeria by Bacteriophage Amplification and SERS-Lateral Flow Immunochromatography

  • Nicholas R. Stambach,
  • Stephanie A. Carr,
  • Christopher R. Cox and
  • Kent J. Voorhees

14 December 2015

A rapid Listeria detection method was developed utilizing A511 bacteriophage amplification combined with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and lateral flow immunochromatography (LFI). Anti-A511 antibodies were covalently linked to SERS nanop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,388 Views
20 Pages

What Can We Learn from a Metagenomic Analysis of a Georgian Bacteriophage Cocktail?

  • Henrike Zschach,
  • Katrine G. Joensen,
  • Barbara Lindhard,
  • Ole Lund,
  • Marina Goderdzishvili,
  • Irina Chkonia,
  • Guliko Jgenti,
  • Nino Kvatadze,
  • Zemphira Alavidze and
  • Elizabeth M. Kutter
  • + 2 authors

12 December 2015

Phage therapy, a practice widespread in Eastern Europe, has untapped potential in the combat against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. However, technology transfer to Western medicine is proving challenging. Bioinformatics analysis could hel...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,393 Views
14 Pages

HIV-1-Induced Small T Cell Syncytia Can Transfer Virus Particles to Target Cells through Transient Contacts

  • Menelaos Symeonides,
  • Thomas T. Murooka,
  • Lauren N. Bellfy,
  • Nathan H. Roy,
  • Thorsten R. Mempel and
  • Markus Thali

12 December 2015

HIV-1 Env mediates fusion of viral and target cell membranes, but it can also mediate fusion of infected (producer) and target cells, thus triggering the formation of multinucleated cells, so-called syncytia. Large, round, immobile syncytia are readi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,385 Views
14 Pages

Role of gga-miR-221 and gga-miR-222 during Tumour Formation in Chickens Infected by Subgroup J Avian Leukosis Virus

  • Zhenkai Dai,
  • Jun Ji,
  • Yiming Yan,
  • Wencheng Lin,
  • Hongxin Li,
  • Feng Chen,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Weiguo Chen,
  • Yingzuo Bi and
  • Qingmei Xie

11 December 2015

Subgroup J avian leukosis virus (ALV-J) causes a neoplastic disease in infected chickens. Differential expression patterns of microRNAs (miRNAs) are closely related to the formation and growth of tumors. (1) Background: This study was undertaken to u...

  • Review
  • Open Access
80 Citations
11,004 Views
18 Pages

Herpesvirus gB: A Finely Tuned Fusion Machine

  • Rebecca S. Cooper and
  • Ekaterina E. Heldwein

11 December 2015

Enveloped viruses employ a class of proteins known as fusogens to orchestrate the merger of their surrounding envelope and a target cell membrane. Most fusogens accomplish this task alone, by binding cellular receptors and subsequently catalyzing the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,931 Views
11 Pages

CDC42 Use in Viral Cell Entry Processes by RNA Viruses

  • Thomas Swaine and
  • Matthias T. Dittmar

10 December 2015

The cellular actin cytoskeleton presents a barrier that must be overcome by many viruses, and it has become increasingly apparent many viral species have developed a diverse repertoire of mechanisms to hijack cellular actin-regulating signalling path...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,279 Views
16 Pages

9 December 2015

More than thirty years have passed since human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) was described as the first retrovirus to be the causative agent of a human cancer, adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), but the precise mechanism behind HTLV-1 pathogenesis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
15,434 Views
20 Pages

Dendritic Cells in Oncolytic Virus-Based Anti-Cancer Therapy

  • Youra Kim,
  • Derek R. Clements,
  • Andra M. Sterea,
  • Hyun Woo Jang,
  • Shashi A. Gujar and
  • Patrick W. K. Lee

9 December 2015

Dendritic cells (DCs) are specialized antigen-presenting cells that have a notable role in the initiation and regulation of innate and adaptive immune responses. In the context of cancer, appropriately activated DCs can induce anti-tumor immunity by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,466 Views
12 Pages

Molecular Epidemiology of Human Rhinoviruses and Enteroviruses Highlights Their Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Arnaud G. L’Huillier,
  • Laurent Kaiser,
  • Tom J. Petty,
  • Mary Kilowoko,
  • Esther Kyungu,
  • Philipina Hongoa,
  • Gaël Vieille,
  • Lara Turin,
  • Blaise Genton and
  • Valérie D’Acremont
  • + 1 author

8 December 2015

Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) and enteroviruses (HEVs) belong to the Enterovirus genus and are the most frequent cause of infection worldwide, but data on their molecular epidemiology in Africa are scarce. To understand HRV and HEV molecular epidemiology...

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