Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG) are composed of unbranched, negatively charged
heparan sulfate (HS) polysaccharides attached to a variety of cell surface or extracellular …

Human rhinoviruses (HRVs), first discovered in the 1950s, are responsible for more than
one-half of cold-like illnesses and cost billions of dollars annually in medical visits and …

Members of the Picornaviridae family are non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses
with a 30nm icosahedral capsid. This virus family exhibits a considerable amount of genetic …

Rhinoviruses (RVs) have been reported as one of the main viral causes for severe
respiratory illnesses that may require hospitalization, competing with the burden of other …

The progress of science is punctuated by the advent of revolutionary technologies that
provide new ways and scales to formulate scientific questions and advance knowledge …

Rhinoviruses (RVs) and respiratory enteroviruses (EVs) are leading causes of upper
respiratory tract infections and among the most frequent infectious agents in humans …

Novel DNA sequencing techniques, referred to as “next-generation” sequencing (NGS),
provide high speed and throughput that can produce an enormous volume of sequences …

Many viruses, including the clinically relevant RNA viruses HIV (human immunodeficiency
virus) and HCV (hepatitis C virus), exist in large populations and display high genetic …

Patients undergoing solid-organ transplantation (SOT) or allogeneic hematopoietic cell
transplantation (HCT) are at increased risk for infectious complications. Community-acquired …

Background The leading cause of acute illnesses, respiratory viruses, typically cause self-
limited diseases, although severe complications can occur in fragile patients. Rhinoviruses …