In response to the epidemic and pandemic threats caused by emerging respiratory viral infections, a safe efficient broad-spectrum antiviral therapy at early onset of infection can significantly improve patients’ outcome. Inhaled dry powder is easy administer delivers agent directly primary site infection, thereby minimizing systemic side effects. Here, spray freeze drying (SFD) technique employ...

Introduction: Covid-19 is a viral epidemic disease that causes serious health problems and death worldwide. The rapid expansion of infection led to the disruption healthcare services radical reorganisation resources due workers' infection. Aim: This clinical study investigated effects on emergency elective cases in our general surgery clinic. Material methods: We retrospectively analysed data 1...

Ebola virus outbreaks, such as the 2014 Makona epidemic in West Africa, are episodic and deadly. Filovirus antivirals are currently not clinically available. Our findings suggest interferon gamma, an FDA-approved drug, may serve as a novel and effective prophylactic or treatment option. Using mouse-adapted Ebola virus, we found that murine interferon gamma administered 24 hours before or after ...

viral myocarditis is a common cardiovascular disease, which has greatly threatened human health. however, up to now, the pathogenesis of viral myocarditis has been unclear, which leads to the lack of its effective treatments. to investigate the role of chemokines in pathogenesis of viral myocarditis, mrna expression for a panel of 19 chemokines detected by rt-pcr in myocardial tissue of balb/c ...

West Nile virus (WNV) causes severe central nervous system (CNS) infection primarily in humans who are immunocompromised or elderly. In this study, we addressed the mechanism by which the immune system limits dissemination of WNV infection by infecting wild-type and immunodeficient inbred C57BL/6J mice with a low-passage WNV isolate from the recent epidemic in New York state. Wild-type mice rep...

Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) may be associated with a variety of renal diseases. In the past, HBV was the major cause of viral hepatitis in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Introduction of rigorous infection-control strategies has led to a remarkable decline in the spread of HBV infection in dialysis units. Physicians also are increasingly recognizing the association betw...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, approximately 35 million individuals are infected with HIV; about 25 million of these live in sub-Saharan Africa. WHO proposes using treatment as prevention (TasP) to eliminate HIV. Treatment suppresses viral load, decreasing the probability an individual transmits HIV. The elimination threshold is one new HIV infection per 1000 individuals. Here, we test the hypothesis th...

July 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 7 | e242 The Need for New Antiviral Therapies Viruses are formidable targets for drug development. As obligate intracellular parasites that take over the host cellular machinery to further their own agenda, they seem to understand the intimate workings of cellular pathways better than those seeking to develop treatments against them. It is diffi cult to inactivate a...