Pathogenicity and virulence of Marburg virus

MH Abir, T Rahman, A Das, SN Etu, IH Nafiz, A Rakib… - Virulence, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Marburg virus (MARV) has been a major concern since 1967, with two major outbreaks
occurring in 1998 and 2004. Infection from MARV results in severe hemorrhagic fever …

Ebola optimization search algorithm: A new nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm

ON Oyelade, AES Ezugwu, TIA Mohamed… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nature computing has evolved with exciting performance to solve complex real-world
combinatorial optimization problems. These problems span across engineering, medical …

Implications of innate immunity in post-acute sequelae of non-persistent viral infections

M Hirschenberger, V Hunszinger, KMJ Sparrer - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Non-persistent viruses classically cause transient, acute infections triggering immune
responses aimed at the elimination of the pathogen. Successful viruses evolved strategies to …

Resurgence of Ebola virus in 2021 in Guinea suggests a new paradigm for outbreaks

AK Keita, FR Koundouno, M Faye, A Düx, J Hinzmann… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Seven years after the declaration of the first epidemic of Ebola virus disease in Guinea, the
country faced a new outbreak—between 14 February and 19 June 2021—near the …

[HTML][HTML] Why does viral RNA sometimes persist after recovery from acute infections?

DE Griffin - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
DNA viruses often persist in the body of their host, becoming latent and recurring many
months or years later. By contrast, most RNA viruses cause acute infections that are cleared …

[HTML][HTML] Ten-week follow-up of monkeypox case-patient, Sweden, 2022

A Pettke, F Filén, K Widgren, A Jacks… - Emerging Infectious …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A previously healthy male patient had detectable monkeypox virus DNA in saliva 76 days
after laboratory confirmation of infection. A comprehensive characterization of viral kinetics …

Ebola Optimization Search Algorithm (EOSA): A new metaheuristic algorithm based on the propagation model of Ebola virus disease

ON Oyelade, AE Ezugwu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.01416, 2021 - arxiv.org
The Ebola virus and the disease in effect tend to randomly move individuals in the
population around susceptible, infected, quarantined, hospitalized, recovered, and dead sub …

[HTML][HTML] A review of broadly protective monoclonal antibodies to treat Ebola virus disease

P Rijal, FR Donnellan - Current Opinion in Virology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•mAbs mixture targeting independent epitopes are better therapeutics.•Optimizing
antibody efficacy: in vitro maturation, afucosylation, Fc modifications.•Monitoring of natural …

Dynamics of the microbiota and its relationship with post-COVID-19 syndrome

NC Moreno-Corona, O López-Ortega… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infection caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which can be asymptomatic or present with multiple …

Testicular macrophages: development and function in health and disease

A Meinhardt, N Dejucq-Rainsford, S Bhushan - Trends in Immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Macrophages comprise a heterogeneous immune cell population and display niche-specific
phenotypes and functions in almost all organs. Testicular macrophages (TMs) perform …