Progress toward creating broad-spectrum antiviral

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) UW researchers working in collaboration with Kineta Inc. and the University of Texas at Galveston have shown that making a drug-like molecule to turn on innate immunity can induce genes to control infection in several -known viruses. The findings published in the Journal of Virology show promising evidence for creating a broad spectrum antiviral that can suppress a range of RNA viruses, including West Nile, dengue virus, hepatitis C, influenza A, respiratory syncytial, Nipah, Lassa and Ebola.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news