Vaccines and therapeutics against hantaviruses

R Liu, H Ma, J Shu, Q Zhang, M Han, Z Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Hantaviruses (HVs) are rodent-transmitted viruses that can cause hantavirus
cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) in the Americas and hemorrhagic fever with renal …

Hantavirus: an overview and advancements in therapeutic approaches for infection

S Afzal, L Ali, A Batool, M Afzal, N Kanwal… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Hantaviruses are a significant and emerging global public health threat, impacting more
than 200,000 individuals worldwide each year. The single-stranded RNA viruses belong to …

Favipiravir elicits antiviral mutagenesis during virus replication in vivo

A Arias, L Thorne, I Goodfellow - Elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Lethal mutagenesis has emerged as a novel potential therapeutic approach to treat viral
infections. Several studies have demonstrated that increases in the high mutation rates …

The kidney in hantavirus infection—epidemiology, virology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and management

FC Koehler, V Di Cristanziano, MR Späth… - Clinical kidney …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Hantavirus-induced diseases are emerging zoonoses with endemic appearances and
frequent outbreaks in different parts of the world. In humans, hantaviral pathology is …

Insufficient efficacy and safety of intravenous ribavirin in treatment of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by Puumala virus

OV Malinin, AE Platonov - Infectious diseases, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Intravenous ribavirin has been reported to be an effective treatment for
haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by Hantaan virus in Asia. However …

Atypical mutational spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 replicating in the presence of ribavirin

P Somovilla, C García-Crespo… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
We report that ribavirin exerts an inhibitory and mutagenic activity on SARS-CoV-2-infecting
Vero cells, with a therapeutic index higher than 10. Deep sequencing analysis of the mutant …

Extinction of Zika virus and Usutu virus by lethal mutagenesis reveals different patterns of sensitivity to three mutagenic drugs

MR Bassi, RN Sempere, P Meyn… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Flaviviruses constitute an increasing source of public health concern, with growing numbers
of pathogens causing disease and geographic spread to temperate climates. Despite a …

Amplicon-Based, Next-Generation Sequencing Approaches to Characterize Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of Orthohantavirus Species

MK Taylor, EP Williams, T Wongsurawat… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of viruses from patient or environmental samples can
provide tremendous insight into the epidemiology, drug resistance or evolution of a virus …

Bioactive nucleoside analogues possessing selected five-membered azaheterocyclic bases

J Zeidler, D Baraniak, T Ostrowski - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2015 - Elsevier
This review summarizes briefly literature reports on nucleoside analogues containing five-
membered aglycones based on imidazole-4-carboxamide, 1, 2, 4-triazole-3-carboxamide or …

Genetic and phenotypic changes to Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus following treatment with β-D-N4-hydroxycytidine, an RNA mutagen

B Alejandro, EJ Kim, JY Hwang, JW Park, M Smith… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The high mutation rate of RNA viruses provides viral populations with the ability to adapt to
new environments but also makes them vulnerable to extinction due to the deleterious …