Saturday, 12 October 2013

Influenza A (H7N9) virus update...

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Xinhuanet has the latest H7N9 figures from China's National Health and Family Planning Commission. With no new cases reported this mont...

Concise overview of MERS from mid-2013...

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Publishing in the Oman Medical Journal , Blakhair and colleagues summarized the state of play for MERS back in July 2013. While the number...

The tip of the VirusBerg...

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The VirusBerg. Click to enlarge . If there are more cases with mild/less  symptomatic disease then the denominator grows and the  propor...
Friday, 11 October 2013

+1 to HA and NA numbering-new fruity bat flu

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Now I need to remake this tree! Thanks to a new study in PLoS Pathogens by Tong and colleagues (they who brought us the last new influe...

Mycophenolic acid added to the study list of anti-MERS-CoV therapeutics?

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In a recent online release from the Journal of Infection , Chan, colleagues from Kwok-Yung Yuen's group and collaborators describe their...

Does MERS-CoV delay the antiviral response against it?

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Lau and colleagues from the University of Hong King recently wrote about MERS-CoV's ability to delay the induction of proinflammatory c...

MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, HCoV-229E: comparative culture and immunology

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The following  study in mBio by Kindler and colleagues from Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands came out in February but, as ...

The MERS-CoV receptor story to date..

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The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus (CoV) uses the dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4; also called CD26) molecule as its cellu...

Editor's Note #11: Blog biology...

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Just like a living thing, if untended, a blog can fade away. At least mine did while I was away on holiday. There's always a cycle -...

How mice lie....

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In a nice 9:40 video presentation to TEDMED 2013 , H. Shaw Warren brings us up to speed on some of the shortcomings of using mice to underst...