Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 735: Molecular Surveillance, Prevalence, and Distribution of Cacao Infecting Badnavirus Species in C & ocirc;te d & rsquo;Ivoire and Ghana
In this study, CSSD species detection efficiency, diversity, and geographic distribution patterns in cacao plantations in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire were investigated through field surveillance, PCR detection assays, sequencing of positive amplicons, and phylogeographic clustering. Cumulatively, the detection efficiency of the tested CSSD primer sets that were targeting the movement protein domain of the virus ranged from 0.15% (CSSD-3 primer) to 66.91% (CSSD-1 primer) on all the symptomatic cacao leaf samples assessed. The identified CSSD species differed phylogenetically and overlapped in distrib...
Source: Viruses - May 6, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: George A. Ameyaw Koffi é Kouakou Mohammed Javed Iqbal Luc Bel é Valentin L. F. Wolf Cory V. Keith Bolou A. Bolou Bi Christophe Kouam é Donald Livingstone Owusu Domfeh Ebenezer A. Gyamera Jean-Philippe Marelli Judith K. Brown Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 730: Regional Variation of the CD4 and CD8 T Cell Epitopes Conserved in Circulating Dengue Viruses and Shared with Potential Vaccine Candidates
nmol Chandele
As dengue expands globally and many vaccines are under trials, there is a growing recognition of the need for assessing T cell immunity in addition to assessing the functions of neutralizing antibodies during these endeavors. While several dengue-specific experimentally validated T cell epitopes are known, less is understood about which of these epitopes are conserved among circulating dengue viruses and also shared by potential vaccine candidates. As India emerges as the epicenter of the dengue disease burden and vaccine trials commence in this region, we have here aligned known dengue specific T cell ep...
Source: Viruses - May 5, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Yadya M. Chawla Prashant Bajpai Keshav Saini Elluri Seetharami Reddy Ashok Kumar Patel Kaja Murali-Krishna Anmol Chandele Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 731: Rapid Detection and Quick Characterization of African Swine Fever Virus Using the VolTRAX Automated Library Preparation Platform
Bonto Faburay
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the causative agent of a severe and highly contagious viral disease affecting domestic and wild swine. The current ASFV pandemic strain has a high mortality rate, severely impacting pig production and, for countries suffering outbreaks, preventing the export of their pig products for international trade. Early detection and diagnosis of ASFV is necessary to control new outbreaks before the disease spreads rapidly. One of the rate-limiting steps to identify ASFV by next-generation sequencing platforms is library preparation. Here, we investigated the capability of the...
Source: Viruses - May 5, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vivian O ’Donnell Jim L. Pierce Oleg Osipenko Lizhe Xu Amy Berninger Steven M. Lakin Roger W. Barrette Douglas P. Gladue Bonto Faburay Tags: Brief Report Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 732: Regions of Bovine Adenovirus-3 Protein VII Involved in Interactions with Viral and Cellular Proteins
Tikoo
The L 1 region of bovine adenovirus (BAdV)-3 encodes a multifunctional protein named protein VII. Anti-protein VII sera detected a protein of 26 kDa in transfected or BAdV-3-infected cells, which localizes to nucleus and nucleolus of infected/transfected cells. Analysis of mutant protein VII identified four redundant overlapping nuclear/nucleolar localization signals as deletion of all four potential nuclear/nucleolar localization signals localizes protein VII predominantly to the cytoplasm. The nuclear import of protein VII appears to use importin α (α-1), importin-β (&am...
Source: Viruses - May 5, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Shermila Kulanayake Faryal Dar Suresh K. Tikoo Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 727: The Dynamic Relationship between Dengue Virus and the Human Cutaneous Innate Immune Response
oyes
Dengue virus (DENV) is a continuing global threat that puts half of the world’s population at risk for infection. This mosquito-transmitted virus is endemic in over 100 countries. When a mosquito takes a bloodmeal, virus is deposited into the epidermal and dermal layers of human skin, infecting a variety of permissive cells, including keratinocytes, Langerhans cells, macrophages, dermal dendritic cells, fibroblasts, and mast cells. In response to infection, the skin deploys an array of defense mechanisms to inhibit viral replication and prevent dissemination. Antimicrobial peptides, pattern recogniti...
Source: Viruses - May 4, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Michelle M. Mart í Priscila M. S. Castanha Simon M. Barratt-Boyes Tags: Review Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 728: The Disassociation of A3G-Related HIV-1 cDNA G-to-A Hypermutation to Viral Infectivity
This study revealed a new insight into the mechanism of HIV-1 counteracting A3G antiviral function and might lay a foundation for new antiviral strategies. (Source: Viruses)
Source: Viruses - May 4, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Joanie Martin Xin Chen Xiangxu Jia Qiujia Shao Bindong Liu Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 729: Droplet Digital RT-PCR (dd RT-PCR) Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Honey Bees and Honey Collected in Apiaries across the Campania Region
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Karen Power
Coronaviruses (CoVs), a subfamily of Orthocoronavirinae, are viruses that sometimes present a zoonotic character. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the recent outbreak of COVID-19, which, since its outbreak in 2019, has caused about 774,593,066 confirmed cases and 7,028,881 deaths. Aereosols are the main route of transmission among people; however, viral droplets can contaminate surfaces and fomites as well as particulate matter (PM) in suspensions of natural and human origin. Honey bees are well known bioindicators of the presence of pollutants and PMs ...
Source: Viruses - May 4, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Andrea Mancusi Yolande Th érèse Rose Proroga Paola Maiolino Raffaele Marrone Claudia D ’Emilio Santa Girardi Marica Egidio Arianna Boni Teresa Vicenza Elisabetta Suffredini Karen Power Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 725: CRISPR Screen Reveals PACT as a Pro-Viral Factor for Dengue Viral Replication
eter Sarnow
The dengue virus is a single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus that infects ~400 million people worldwide. Currently, there are no approved antivirals available. CRISPR-based screening methods have greatly accelerated the discovery of host factors that are essential for DENV infection and that can be targeted in host-directed antiviral interventions. In the present study, we performed a focused CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats) library screen to discover the key host factors that are essential for DENV infection in human Huh7 cells and identified the Protein Activator of Interfer...
Source: Viruses - May 3, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Shwetha Shivaprasad Wenjie Qiao Kuo-Feng Weng Pavithra Umashankar Jan E. Carette Peter Sarnow Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 726: Exploring Viral Genome Profile in Mpox Patients during the 2022 Outbreak, in a North-Eastern Centre of Italy
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Concetta Castilletti
In 2022, an unprecedented outbreak of mpox raged in several nations. Sequences from the 2022 outbreak reveal a higher nucleotide substitution if compared with the estimated rate for orthopoxviruses. Recently, intra-lesion SNVs (single nucleotide variants) have been described, and these have been suggested as possible sources of genetic variation. Until now, it has not been clear if the presence of several SNVs could represents the result of local mutagenesis or a possible co-infection. We investigated the significance of SNVs through whole-genome sequencing analysis of four unrelated mpox case...
Source: Viruses - May 3, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Michela Deiana Denise Lavezzari Antonio Mori Silvia Accordini Elena Pomari Chiara Piubelli Simone Malag ò Maddalena Cordioli Niccol ò Ronzoni Andrea Angheben Evelina Tacconelli Maria Rosaria Capobianchi Federico Giovanni Gobbi Concetta Castilletti Tags: Brief Report Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 724: Hepatitis B Virus Infection: A Mini Review
Bonney
Hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV and HCV) are the leading causes of end-stage liver disease worldwide. Although there is a potent vaccine against HBV, many new infections are recorded annually, especially in poorly resourced places which have lax vaccination policies. Again, as HBV has no cure and chronic infection is lifelong, vaccines cannot help those already infected. Studies to thoroughly understand the HBV biology and pathogenesis are limited, leaving much yet to be understood about the genomic features and their role in establishing and maintaining infection. The current knowledge of the impact on disease ...
Source: Viruses - May 3, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Diana Asema Asandem Selorm Philip Segbefia Kwadwo Asamoah Kusi Joseph Humphrey Kofi Bonney Tags: Review Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 722: Gut Microbiome and Cytokine Profiles in Post-COVID Syndrome
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Almagul Kushugulova
Recent studies highlight the crucial role of the gut microbiome in post-infectious complications, especially in patients recovering from severe COVID-19. Our research aimed to explore the connection between gut microbiome changes and the cytokine profile of patients with post-COVID syndrome. Using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, we analyzed the composition of the gut microbiome in 60 COVID-19 patients over the course of one year. We also measured the levels of serum cytokines and chemokines using the Milliplex system. Our results showed that severe SARS-CoV-2 infection cases, especially those co...
Source: Viruses - May 2, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Karakoz Mussabay Samat Kozhakhmetov Marat Dusmagambetov Aitolkyn Mynzhanova Madiyar Nurgaziyev Zharkyn Jarmukhanov Elizaveta Vinogradova Aigul Dusmagambetova Aiganym Daulbaeva Laura Chulenbayeva Ainur Tauekelova Makhabbat Bekbossynova Almagul Kushugulova Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 723: Long-Read Nanopore-Based Sequencing of Anelloviruses
J. Kandathil
Routinely used metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) techniques often fail to detect low-level viremia (<104 copies/mL) and appear biased towards viruses with linear genomes. These limitations hinder the capacity to comprehensively characterize viral infections, such as those attributed to the Anelloviridae family. These near ubiquitous non-pathogenic components of the human virome have circular single-stranded DNA genomes that vary in size from 2.0 to 3.9 kb and exhibit high genetic diversity. Hence, species identification using short reads can be challenging. Here, we introduce a roll...
Source: Viruses - May 2, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Raghavendran Anantharam Dylan Duchen Andrea L. Cox Winston Timp David L. Thomas Steven J. Clipman Abraham J. Kandathil Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 721: Epigenetic Modifications of White Blood Cell DNA Caused by Transient Fetal Infection with Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus
Thomas R. Hansen
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) infections cause USD 1.5–2 billion in losses annually. Maternal BVDV after 150 days of gestation causes transient fetal infection (TI) in which the fetal immune response clears the virus. The impact of fetal TI BVDV infections on postnatal growth and white blood cell (WBC) methylome as an index of epigenetic modifications was examined by inoculating pregnant heifers with noncytopathic type 2 BVDV or media (sham-inoculated controls) on Day 175 of gestation to generate TI (n = 11) and control heifer calves (n = 12). Fetal infection in TI calves was confir...
Source: Viruses - May 1, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Hana Van Campen Jeanette V. Bishop Zella Brink Terry E. Engle Carolina L. Gonzalez-Berrios Hanah M. Georges Jessica N. Kincade Dilyara A. Murtazina Thomas R. Hansen Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 720: Low-Level Viremia among Adults Living with HIV on Dolutegravir-Based First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy Is a Predictor of Virological Failure in Botswana
y Chebani
Penny Makuruetsa
Joseph Makhema
Roger Shapiro
Shahin Lockman
Simani Gaseitsiwe
We evaluated subsequent virologic outcomes in individuals experiencing low-level virem ia (LLV) on dolutegravir (DTG)-based first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Botswana. We used a national dataset from 50,742 adults who initiated on DTG-based first-line ART from June 2016–December 2022. Individuals with at least two viral load (VL) measurements post three months on DTG-based first-line ART were evaluated for first and subsequent episodes of LLV (VL:51–999 copies/mL). LLV was sub-categori...
Source: Viruses - May 1, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Ontlametse T. Bareng Sikhulile Moyo Mbatshi Mudanga Kagiso Sebina Catherine K. Koofhethile Wonderful T. Choga Natasha O. Moraka Dorcas Maruapula Irene Gobe Modisa S. Motswaledi Rosemary Musonda Bornapate Nkomo Dinah Ramaabya Tony Chebani Penny Makuruetsa Tags: Article Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 16, Pages 718: Nirmatrelvir Resistance in an Immunocompromised Patient with Persistent Coronavirus Disease 2019
We present a patient who independently acquired a T21I mutation in the 3CL protease after nirmatrelvir exposure. The T21I mutation in the 3CL protease is one of the most frequent mutations responsible for nirmatrelvir resistance. However, limited reports exist on actual cases of SARS-CoV-2 with T21I and other mutations in the 3CL protease. The patient, a 55 year-old male, had COVID-19 during chemotherapy for multiple myeloma. He was treated with nirmatrelvir early in the course of the disease but relapsed, and SARS-CoV-2 with a T21I mutation in the 3CL protease was detected in nasopharyngeal swab fluid. The patient had tem...
Source: Viruses - April 30, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Chie Yamamoto Masashi Taniguchi Keitaro Furukawa Toru Inaba Yui Niiyama Daisuke Ide Shinsuke Mizutani Junya Kuroda Yoko Tanino Keisuke Nishioka Yohei Watanabe Koichi Takayama Takaaki Nakaya Yoko Nukui Tags: Brief Report Source Type: research
