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Background The Ebola virus is transmitted by direct contact with bodily fluids of infected individuals, eliciting death rates as high as 90% among infected humans. Currently, replication defective...
5–4 μm containing H1N1 pandemic influenza virus (A/California/04/2009, abbreviated as CA/09) at different pressure conditions (see Fig. 2a for transmission electron microscope (TEM)...
PATHOGEN SAFETY DATA SHEET - INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCES ; NAME: Varicella-zoster virus · SYNONYM OR CROSS REFERENCE: VZV , chickenpox , shingles , Human herpesvirus 3 , Herpes Zoster. CHARACTERISTICS: Varicella-Zoster virus belongs to the subfamily alphaherpesviridae in the Herpesviridae family, genus Varicellovirus. The Varicella-Zoster virus has a diameter of 150-200 nm and contains a linear, double stranded DNA (125 kbp) genome, enclosed within an icosahedral capsid, surrounded by a phospholipid...
Pre-existing immunity to dengue virus (DENV) can either protect against or exacerbate, a phenomenon known as antibody dependent enhancement (ADE), a secondary DENV infection. DENV, as an escalating...
This chapter on respiratory syncytial virus is based on the recommended use of palivizumab to reduce complications of respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants from the National Advisory Com...
Similar to the wild-type virus, ZIKV variants with the increased CpG content evoked robust cellular and humoral immune responses and protection against lethal challenge. Collectively, the...
Overview · Variants are viruses that have changed or mutated from the original viral strain while reproducing inside an infected person’s cells. Variants can spread to others and may continue changing as they move from person to person. It is normal for viruses to evolve and change over time. Most mutations do not cause more severe illness, but some may change how a virus behaves. These changed viruses are considered variants of concern and may spread more easily, cause more severe illness, require different treatments, affect the reliabilit ...
PATHOGEN SAFETY DATA SHEET – INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCES ; NAME: Machupo virus · SYNONYM OR CROSS REFERENCE: Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), Bolivian hemorrhagic fever (BHF), South American hemorrhagic fever, Arenavirus, black typhus, Ordog Fever(1). CHARACTERISTICS: The Machupo virus was first isolated in 1959 and is a New World Arenavirus from the Arenaviridae family. It is spherical and pleomorphic, with a diameter of 50 – 300 nm (average of 120 nm), and has a RNA genome that is single stranded and bi-segmented. Ribosomes located inside the vi ...