Future Virology. 2008;3(2):179-192. Although not listed as a hemorrhagic fever virus, illness caused by CHIKV can be confused with diseases such as dengue or yellow fever, based on the similarity ...

A vaccine against meningococcal disease or any other disease works by generating an immune response in the body against some kind of pathogen—a virus, bacterium, or some other agent that causes ...

Large-scale data on the hepatitis D virus (HDV)/hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection rate is needed to estimate the current ...

This important study shows that the Nora virus, a natural Drosophila pathogen that also persistently infects many laboratory fly stocks, infects intestinal stem cells (ISCs), leading to a shorter life ...

The TaqMan and SYBR Green I-based one-step real-time quantitative RT-PCR assays have potential utility for detection and quantification of CHIKV. These assay systems have been demonstrated to be ...