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ESR and NMR studies provide evidence that phosphatidyl glycerol specifically interacts with poxvirus membranes [PDF]
Virology Journal, 2010 Background The lung would be the first organ targeted in case of the use of Variola virus (the causative agent of smallpox) as a bioweapon. Pulmonary surfactant composed of lipids (90%) and proteins (10%) is considered the major physiological barrier ...
Perino Julien +3 more
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Variola Virus in a 300-Year-Old Siberian Mummy [PDF]
New England Journal of Medicine, 2012 International audienceNo abstract ...
Philippe Biagini +2 more
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Neutralization Determinants on Poxviruses
Viruses, 2023 Smallpox was a highly contagious disease caused by the variola virus. The disease affected millions of people over thousands of years and variola virus ranked as one of the deadliest viruses in human history. The complete eradication of smallpox in 1980,
Vernuccio Riccardo, Guardado-Calvo Pablo
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Development of a High-Content Orthopoxvirus Infectivity and Neutralization Assays. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Currently, a number of assays measure Orthopoxvirus neutralization with serum from individuals, vaccinated against smallpox. In addition to the traditional plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT), newer higher throughput assays are based on ...
Irina Gates +5 more
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Viruela del simio: ¿estamos frente a un riesgo de pandemia?. Historia de un viejo conocido
Interdisciplinary Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health, 2022 La viruela del simio es una zoonosis de etiología viral causada por virus de la viruela del simio o Monkeypox virus (MPXV) (por su nombre en inglés). MPXV es un virus de ADN de doble cadena de la familia Poxviridae, a la cual pertenece el virus Variola ...
Richar Jose Gomez De la Rosa +1 more
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Functional epitopes and neutralizing antibodies of vaccinia virus
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Smallpox is an infectious disease caused by the variola virus, and it has a high mortality rate. Historically it has broken out in many countries and it was a great threat to human health.
Fenghao Peng +12 more
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mSphere, 2021 Preparedness activities against highly transmissible viruses with high mortality rates have been highlighted during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Christina L. Hutson +14 more
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Characterization of Two Historic Smallpox Specimens from a Czech Museum
Viruses, 2017 Although smallpox has been known for centuries, the oldest available variola virus strains were isolated in the early 1940s. At that time, large regions of the world were already smallpox-free.
Petr Pajer +22 more
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From actually toxic to highly specific – novel drugs against poxviruses [PDF]
, 2007 The potential use of variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, as a bioweapon and the endemic presence of monkeypox virus in Africa demonstrate the need for better therapies for orthopoxvirus infections. Chemotherapeutic approaches to control viral
Sliva, Katja, Schnierle, Barbara
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Regulators of complement activity mediate inhibitory mechanisms through a common C3b‐binding mode [PDF]
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Atkinson, John P +14 more
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