Emerging viruses and current strategies for vaccine intervention

B Afrough, S Dowall, R Hewson - Clinical & Experimental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
During the past decade several notable viruses have suddenly emerged from obscurity or
anonymity to become serious global health threats, provoking concern regarding their …

Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases: global trends and new strategies for their prevention and control

S Wang, W Li, Z Wang, W Yang, E Li, X Xia… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
To adequately prepare for potential hazards caused by emerging and reemerging infectious
diseases, the WHO has issued a list of high-priority pathogens that are likely to cause future …

Arenavirus glycan shield promotes neutralizing antibody evasion and protracted infection

R Sommerstein, L Flatz, MM Remy, P Malinge… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Arenaviruses such as Lassa virus (LASV) can cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans.
As a major impediment to vaccine development, delayed and weak neutralizing antibody …

Structure of the Lassa virus glycan shield provides a model for immunological resistance

Y Watanabe, J Raghwani, JD Allen… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Lassa virus is an Old World arenavirus endemic to West Africa that causes severe
hemorrhagic fever. Vaccine development has focused on the envelope glycoprotein …

Recent advances in bunyavirus glycoprotein research: precursor processing, receptor binding and structure

RJG Hulswit, GC Paesen, TA Bowden, X Shi - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Bunyavirales order accommodates related viruses (bunyaviruses) with segmented,
linear, single-stranded, negative-or ambi-sense RNA genomes. Their glycoproteins form …

Baseline mapping of Lassa fever virology, epidemiology and vaccine research and development

HJ Hallam, S Hallam, SE Rodriguez, ADT Barrett… - NPJ vaccines, 2018 - nature.com
Lassa fever (LF) is a zoonotic disease associated with acute and potentially fatal
hemorrhagic illness caused by the Lassa virus (LASV), a member of the family Arenaviridae …

Zoonotic aspects of arenavirus infections

RN Charrel, X de Lamballerie - Veterinary microbiology, 2010 - Elsevier
To date, the International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses recognizes that the family
Arenaviridae contains a unique genus Arenavirus that includes 22 viral species. There are …

[HTML][HTML] Lack of evidence for ribavirin treatment of Lassa fever in systematic review of published and unpublished studies

HY Cheng, CE French, AP Salam… - Emerging Infectious …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ribavirin has been used widely to treat Lassa fever in West Africa since the 1980s.
However, few studies have systematically appraised the evidence for its use. We conducted …

Vaccines inducing immunity to Lassa virus glycoprotein and nucleoprotein protect macaques after a single shot

M Mateo, S Reynard, X Carnec, A Journeaux… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Lassa fever is a major threat in Western Africa. The large number of people living at risk for
this disease calls for the development of a vaccine against Lassa virus (LASV). We …

Pathogenesis of Lassa fever in cynomolgus macaques

LE Hensley, MA Smith, JB Geisbert, EA Fritz… - Virology journal, 2011 - Springer
Background Lassa virus (LASV) infection causes an acute and sometimes fatal hemorrhagic
disease in humans and nonhuman primates; however, little is known about the development …