IntervirologyPub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.1159/000512140
Alireza Mohebbi, Fahimeh Azadi, Mohammad Mostakhdem Hashemi, Fatemeh Sana Askari, Nazanin Razzaghi
{"title":"Havachoobe (Onosma dichroanthum Boiss) Root Extract Decreases the Hepatitis B Virus Surface Antigen Secretion in the PLC/PRF/5 Cell Line.","authors":"Alireza Mohebbi, Fahimeh Azadi, Mohammad Mostakhdem Hashemi, Fatemeh Sana Askari, Nazanin Razzaghi","doi":"10.1159/000512140","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000512140","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Many efforts are currently focused on functional treatment of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). This can be done by suppressing the secretion of HBV surface antigen (HBsAg). Scientific communities are very interested in natural products in that respect.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Use of root extract of Havachoobe (Onosma dichroanthum BoissI), a Northern Iranian native medical herb, for assessment of its anti-HBsAg secretion activity.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Havachoobe had been bought at a nearby apothecary store. Plant root extract was obtained using a hydroalcoholic process. Cytotoxic activity of the extract was examined on PLC/PRF/5 cells using MTT assay. ELISA has been used to measure HBsAg in the treated cell line supernatants. In addition, real-time PCR analysis was performed to evaluate the expression of HBsAg before and after treatment of Onosma in vitro.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed very low root extract cytotoxicity at concentrations under 8 μg/mL. Tissue culture infectious dose 50 was obtained at 63.78 μg/mL. In a dose-dependent and time-dependent manner, a significantly reduced HBsAg secretion was observed at a concentration of 8 ppm at 12 h post-treatment. The real-time PCR result showed relative decreased HBsAg expression at all doses at 12 h post-treatment time.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>In this study, we first reported anti-HBsAg activity on an Iranian herbal medicine. Havachoobe root extract was shown to be able to inhibit HBsAg in a dose-dependent and time-dependent manner. We find the extract exerts its inhibitory effect of HBsAg by targeting transcription of HBsAg.</p>","PeriodicalId":14547,"journal":{"name":"Intervirology","volume":" ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38716131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntervirologyPub Date : 2020-12-11DOI: 10.1159/000512134
Miguel Alpalhão, Paulo Filipe
{"title":"Available Antiretrovirals in the Treatment and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis of SARS-CoV-2: Quo Vadis?","authors":"Miguel Alpalhão, Paulo Filipe","doi":"10.1159/000512134","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000512134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14547,"journal":{"name":"Intervirology","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7801964/pdf/int-0001.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38366108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Association of Sex, Age, and Comorbidities with Mortality in COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Mohitosh Biswas, Shawonur Rahaman, Tapash Kumar Biswas, Zahirul Haque, Baharudin Ibrahim","doi":"10.1159/000512592","DOIUrl":"10.1159/000512592","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Although severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 infection is causing mortality in considerable proportion of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients, however, evidence for the association of sex, age, and comorbidities on the risk of mortality is not well-aggregated yet. It was aimed to assess the association of sex, age, and comorbidities with mortality in COVID-2019 patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Literatures were searched using different keywords in various databases. Relative risks (RRs) were calculated by RevMan software where statistical significance was set as p < 0.05.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>COVID-19 male patients were associated with significantly increased risk of mortality compared to females (RR 1.86: 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.67-2.07; p < 0.00001). Patients with age ≥50 years were associated with 15.4-folds significantly increased risk of mortality compared to patients with age <50 years (RR 15.44: 95% CI 13.02-18.31; p < 0.00001). Comorbidities were also associated with significantly increased risk of mortality; kidney disease (RR 4.90: 95% CI 3.04-7.88; p < 0.00001), cereborovascular disease (RR 4.78; 95% CI 3.39-6.76; p < 0.00001), cardiovascular disease (RR 3.05: 95% CI 2.20-4.25; p < 0.00001), respiratory disease (RR 2.74: 95% CI 2.04-3.67; p < 0.00001), diabetes (RR 1.97: 95% CI 1.48-2.64; p < 0.00001), hypertension (RR 1.95: 95% CI 1.58-2.40; p < 0.00001), and cancer (RR 1.89; 95% CI 1.25-2.84; p = 0.002) but not liver disease (RR 1.64: 95% CI 0.82-3.28; p= 0.16).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Implementation of adequate protection and interventions for COVID-19 patients in general and in particular male patients with age ≥50 years having comorbidities may significantly reduce risk of mortality associated with COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":14547,"journal":{"name":"Intervirology","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7801974/pdf/int-0001.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38703652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntervirologyPub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.1159/000513757
J. Manuguerra, U. Liebert
{"title":"Front & Back Matter","authors":"J. Manuguerra, U. Liebert","doi":"10.1159/000513757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000513757","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14547,"journal":{"name":"Intervirology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45766816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntervirologyPub Date : 2020-07-01DOI: 10.1159/000510374
J. Manuguerra, Thomas Labadie
{"title":"Front & Back Matter","authors":"J. Manuguerra, Thomas Labadie","doi":"10.1159/000510374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000510374","url":null,"abstract":"deadline 3 May 2020 pi cs : L ot ha rin gi a/ pu re -li fe -p ic tu re s – st oc k. ad ob e. co m","PeriodicalId":14547,"journal":{"name":"Intervirology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46201070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntervirologyPub Date : 2020-02-07DOI: 10.32388/y4m0nv
W. R. Dowdle, F. M. Davenport, H. Fukumi, G. Schild, B. Tůmová, R. G. Webster, L. Y. Zakstelskaja
{"title":"Orthomyxoviridae.","authors":"W. R. Dowdle, F. M. Davenport, H. Fukumi, G. Schild, B. Tůmová, R. G. Webster, L. Y. Zakstelskaja","doi":"10.32388/y4m0nv","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32388/y4m0nv","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14547,"journal":{"name":"Intervirology","volume":"5 5 1","pages":"245-51"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46602353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntervirologyPub Date : 2020-02-02DOI: 10.32388/jk0m5f
D. Bishop, C. Calisher, J. Casals, M. Chumakov, S. Gaidamovich, C. Hannoun, D. K. Lvov, I. Marshall, N. Oker‐Blom, R. Pettersson, J. S. Porterfield, P. Russell, R. E. Shope, E. G. Westaway
{"title":"Bunyaviridae.","authors":"D. Bishop, C. Calisher, J. Casals, M. Chumakov, S. Gaidamovich, C. Hannoun, D. K. Lvov, I. Marshall, N. Oker‐Blom, R. Pettersson, J. S. Porterfield, P. Russell, R. E. Shope, E. G. Westaway","doi":"10.32388/jk0m5f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32388/jk0m5f","url":null,"abstract":"The family Bunyaviridae comprises over 200 viruses (serotypes, subtypes, and varieties) that infect vertebrates and/or invertebrates. Four genera of viruses have been defined (Bunyavirus, Nairovirus, Phlebovirus, and Uukuvirus). The main characteristics of the member viruses are: (i) the virus particles are for the most part uniformly spherical, 80-110 nm in diameter, and possess a unit membrane envelope from which protrude polypeptide spikes 5-10nm long; (ii) the viruses have three helical nucleocapsids, often in the form of supercoiled circles, each consisting of a single species of single-stranded RNA, major nucleocapsid polypeptide, N, and at least in some cases minor amounts of a large polypeptide which may be a transcriptase component; (iii) the genome is composed of three species of RNA (L, large; M, medium; and S, small), organized in end-hydrogen bonded circular structures; (iv) most viruses have three major virion polypeptides (N, and two surface polypeptides, designated G1 and G2); (v) for at least some member viruses, the virions have been shown to contain an RNA-directed RNA polymerase, believed to be responsible for the synthesis of viral complementary mRNA, so that bunyaviruses are considered to be negative-stranded viruses; (vi) at least some bunyaviruses are capable of heterologous virus genome segment reassortment and can form recombinant viruses at high or low frequency; (vii) viruses appear to mature primarily at smooth membrane surfaces and accumulate in Golgi vesicles and saccules, or nearby; (viii) transovarial, venereal and/or transstadial transmission in arthropods has been shown to occur for some members of the family.","PeriodicalId":14547,"journal":{"name":"Intervirology","volume":"14 3-4 1","pages":"125-43"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48056029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IntervirologyPub Date : 2020-02-02DOI: 10.32388/yoct69
E. Norrby, A. Bartha, P. Boulanger, R. Dreizin, H. Ginsberg, S. Kalter, H. Kawamura, W. Rowe, W. Russell, W. Schlesinger, R. Wigand
{"title":"Adenoviridae.","authors":"E. Norrby, A. Bartha, P. Boulanger, R. Dreizin, H. Ginsberg, S. Kalter, H. Kawamura, W. Rowe, W. Russell, W. Schlesinger, R. Wigand","doi":"10.32388/yoct69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32388/yoct69","url":null,"abstract":"The elevation of the genus Adenovirus to a family named Adenoviridae is described. This family at the present stage contains two genera, mammalian adenoviruses--Mastadenovirus--and avian adenoviruses--Aviadenovirus. The two genera are separated primarily on the basis of difference in immunological properties of the virions.","PeriodicalId":14547,"journal":{"name":"Intervirology","volume":"7 3 1","pages":"117-25"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46155982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}