Hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumo... : Current Opinion in
Pulmonary Medicine Hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia …

Mimivirus, a virus infecting amoebae of the acanthamoeba genus, is the prototype member
of the Mimiviridae, the latest addition to the family of the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA …

Abstract Background. Mimiviridae Mimivirus, including the largest known viruses, multiply in
amoebae. Mimiviruses have been linked to pneumonia, but they have never been isolated …

BACKGROUND: Megavirales is a proposed new virus order composed of Mimivirus,
Marseillevirus and closely related viruses, as well as members of the families Poxviridae …

Despite using modern microbiological diagnostic approaches, the aetiological agents of
pneumonia remain unidentified in about 50% of cases. Some bacteria that grow poorly or …

Mimivirus, a giant DNA virus (ie “girus”) infecting species of the genus Acanthamoeba, was
first identified in 2003. With a particle size of 0.7 μm in diameter, and a genome size of 1.2 …

Background The identification of novel giant viruses from the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA
viruses group and their virophages has increased in the last decade and has helped to shed …

Objective: Following the isolation of a Marseillevirus from the stool of a healthy young
Senegalese and a Mimivirus from a Tunisian patient with pneumonia, we attempted to …

Background Since the discovery of giant viruses infecting amoebae in 2003, many dogmas
of virology have been revised and the search for these viruses has been intensified. Over …

In 2003, Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) was first described and began to
impact researchers around the world, due to its structural and genetic complexity. This virus …