Powassan virus (POWV), a type of flavivirus closely related to the Zika and Dengue viruses, is an emerging tick-borne virus spreading across North America. In humans, it can cause symptoms like brain ...

La Jolla Institute for Immunology professor Sujan Shresta, Ph.D. will receive more than $2.4 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to help test experimental ...

Conclusion Overall, the study findings showed that pathogens like flavivirus could manipulate host responses as well as vector behaviors to facilitate pathogenic transmission.

Like Powassan, yellow fever is a flavivirus, as are dengue, Zika and West Nile. It’s a type of virus that’s notoriously difficult to create vaccines and treatments for.

How human cells become Zika virus factories Scientists uncover major clue toward developing a pan-flavivirus therapy Date: September 12, 2022 Source: La Jolla Institute for Immunology Summary ...

When IPO7 was deleted, the core proteins could not enter the nucleus,” explains Prof. Okamoto. To understand how the removal of IPO7 affected the production of viral particles, researchers infected ...

Researchers from The University of Queensland and Monash University have now determined the first complete 3D molecular structure of the immature flavivirus, revealing an unexpected organization.

It’s the most zoomed-in image that scientists have gotten of any flavivirus, the family of viruses that includes Zika, dengue, yellow fever, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis viruses, among ...

Gubler has spent his career studying tropical infectious diseases with an emphasis on dengue virus (DENV), a flavivirus closely related to Zika virus (ZIKV). 1 His introductory presentation at the ...

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