Pathogenesis and virulence of flavivirus infections

SW van Leur, T Heunis, D Munnur, S Sanyal - Virulence, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The Flavivirus genus consists of> 70 members including several that are considered
significant human pathogens. Flaviviruses display a broad spectrum of diseases that can be …

Revisiting dengue virus–host cell interaction: new insights into molecular and cellular virology

EG Acosta, A Kumar, R Bartenschlager - Advances in virus research, 2014 - Elsevier
Dengue virus (DENV) is an emerging mosquito-borne human pathogen that affects millions
of individuals each year by causing severe and potentially fatal syndromes. Despite intense …

Understanding the pathophysiology of COVID-19: could the contact system be the key?

S Meini, A Zanichelli, R Sbrojavacca, F Iuri… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
To date the pathophysiology of COVID-19 remains unclear: this represents a factor
determining the current lack of effective treatments. In this paper, we hypothesized a …

Interaction of the human contact system with pathogens—an update

S Oehmcke-Hecht, J Köhler - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The name human contact system is related to its mode of action, as “contact” with artificial
negatively charged surfaces triggers its activation. Today, it is generally believed that the …

Rapid discrimination of malaria-and dengue-infected patients sera using raman spectroscopy

SK Patel, N Rajora, S Kumar, A Sahu… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Malaria and dengue have overlapping clinical symptoms and are prevalent in the same
geographic region (tropical and subtropical), hence precise diagnosis is challenging. The …

Drug repositioning for dengue haemorrhagic fever by integrating multiple omics analyses

T Amemiya, MM Gromiha, K Horimoto, K Fukui - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
To detect drug candidates for dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF), we employed a
computational drug repositioning method to perform an integrated multiple omics analysis …

Differential expression of serum/plasma proteins in various infectious diseases: specific or nonspecific signatures

S Ray, SK Patel, V Kumar, J Damahe… - PROTEOMICS …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Apart from direct detection of the infecting organisms or biomarker of the pathogen itself,
surrogate host markers are also useful for sensitive and early diagnosis of pathogenic …

Identification of new spectral signatures associated with dengue virus infected sera

A Amin, N Ghouri, S Ali, M Ahmed… - Journal of Raman …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In a quest to use Raman spectroscopy as an optical diagnostic tool, we recorded Raman
spectra of 32 dengue virus (DENV)‐infected and 28 healthy sera samples in the near …

Proteomic profiling of serum samples from chikungunya-infected patients provides insights into host response

VN Puttamallesh, SK Sreenivasamurthy, PK Singh… - Clinical proteomics, 2013 - Springer
Background Chikungunya is a highly debilitating febrile illness caused by Chikungunya
virus, a single-stranded RNA virus, which is transmitted by Aedes aegypti or Aedes …

Clinical proteomics and cytokine profiling for dengue fever disease severity biomarkers

M Jadhav, M Nayak, S Kumar, A Venkatesh… - Omics: a journal of …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Dengue fever (DF) is a major global health burden with a pathophysiology that is still
incompletely understood. Biomarkers that predict and explain susceptibility to DF and its …