The devil is in the details. The proteins of the influenza virus and their importance in virulence.
The glycoprotein hemagglutinin (HA) is the principal antigen on the surface of the flu virus …

The effort to uncover the neurological basis for Alzheimer's disease has produced several
near-breakthroughs in the 1990s, but a complete biochemistry of the disease has not yet …

Exploiting the high sensitivity of the chemiluminescence phenomenon, an accurate and
sensitive point-of-care test, called the ZstatFlu-II test (ZymeTx, Inc., Oklahoma City, Okla.), was …

The devastating influenza pandemic known as ‘Spanish flu’, which killed at least 20 million
people all over the world in 1918, was responsible for the first bitter blow inflicted on …

E-mail: S. Ward. Casscells@ uth. tmc. edu applicable to weaponized influenza. Depending
on their other public health needs and resources and their likelihood of being targeted, …

Infectious diseases have for centuries ranked with wars and famine as major challenges to
human progress and survival. They remain among the leading causes of death and disability …

Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) is an emerging disease in farmed Atlantic salmon with important
commercial consequences. The pathogenicity of the ISA virus (ISAV; an orthomyxovirus…

When gene sequences from the influenza virus that caused the 1918 pandemic were first
compared with those of related viruses, they yielded few clues about its origins and virulence. …

Beating the flu. Crystallographic structure of influenza virus neuraminidase (N9 subtype)
showing the rationally designed anti-flu drug, Relenza (4-guanidino-Neu5Ac2en), bound to the …

The identification of a new influenza virus protein PB1-F2, which localizes to mitochondria
and causes cell death, may offer important insights into pathogenicity, as well as providing …