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Virus classification

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Influence of Temperature, VFA and pH on the inactivation of pathogens in anaerobic digestion of faecel sludge

On-site sanitation technologies such as septic tanks are widely used in low- and middle-income countries. A comprehensive management of the accumulating faecal sludge (FS) is however missing in most contexts and uncontrolled disposal of FS results in serio ...

2015

Virus transfer proportions between gloved fingertips, soft berries, and lettuce, and associated health risks

Anna Carratala Ripolles

Multiple outbreaks of human norovirus (hNoV) have been associated with fresh produce, such as soft berries and lettuce. Even though food handlers are considered an important source for the introduction of hNoV into food chains, their contribution to public ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Virus inactivation mechanisms: impact of disinfectants on virus function and structural integrity

Tamar Kohn, Krista Rule Wigginton, Brian Pecson, Anne Thérèse Sigstam, Franziska Sara Bosshard

Oxidative processes are often harnessed as tools for pathogen disinfection. Although the pathways responsible for bacterial inactivation with various biocides are fairly well understood, virus inactivation mechanisms are often contradictory or equivocal. I ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Structure-function analysis points to a polynucleotide-accommodating groove essential for APOBEC3A restriction activities

Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Amalio Telenti, Shyam Sunder Peddi, Olivier Michielin

Members of the human APOBEC3 family of editing enzymes can inhibit various mobile genetic elements. APOBEC3A (A3A) can block the retrotransposon LINE-1 and the parvovirus adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV-2) but does not inhibit retroviruses. In contrast, ...

American Society for Microbiology2010

Disinfection Kinetics of Virus Aggregates of Bacteriophage MS2

Moritz Brennecke

The aim of this study was to determine the difference in disinfection between aggregated and dispersed virus. Bacteriophage MS2 was chosen as a surrogate for enteric virus. The first part of this project consisted of characterizing the aggregation of MS2 a ...

2009

Catalytic coating of virus particles with zinc oxide

Klaus Kern, Alexander Bittner, Sinan Balci

We show that the rod-shaped Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) can be coated with the wide band gap semiconductor zinc oxide by electroless deposition under mild reaction conditions. The process involves pretreatment with aqueous Pd(II), followed by nucleation of ...

2009

RIG-I-dependent sensing of poly(dA:dT) through the induction of an RNA polymerase III-transcribed RNA intermediate

Andrea Ablasser

RNA is sensed by Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) and TLR8 or by the RNA helicases LGP2, Mda5 and RIG-I to trigger antiviral responses. Much less is known about sensors for DNA. Here we identify a novel DNA-sensing pathway involving RNA polymerase III and RIG-I ...

2009

Quantifying the taxonomic diversity in real species communities

Cécile Caretta Cartozo, Marc Barthélemy

We analyze several florae (collections of plant species populating specific areas) in different geographic and climatic regions. For every list of species we produce a taxonomic classification tree and we consider its statistical properties. We find that r ...

2008

Aggravation of viral hepatitis by platelet-derived serotonin

Nicola Harris

More than 500 million people worldwide are persistently infected with hepatitis B virus or hepatitis C virus. Although both viruses are poorly cytopathic, persistence of either virus carries a risk of chronic liver inflammation, potentially resulting in li ...

2008

Characterization of APOBEC3G binding to 7SL RNA

Didier Trono, Bastien Mangeat

ABSTRACT: Human APOBEC3 proteins are editing enzymes that can interfere with the replication of exogenous retroviruses such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepadnaviruses such as hepatitis B virus (HBV), and with the retrotransposition of endogenous ...

2008

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