COVID-19 is a reminder of their destructive power, but they’re crucial to humans’ development and survival. Although feared as agents of disease, viruses also work wonders, shaping evolution ...

Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) has a large global burden and in some key communities, such as Indigenous Australians living in remote areas, greater than 45% of people are infected.

Patients receiving a kidney transplant and who are positive for BK virus (BKV) are at risk of losing their transplant due to BKV reactivation. At this time, there are no antiviral options available ...

Coronaviruses are positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses because their RNA genome can be directly translated into proteins. They infect animals and humans, and, like many other viruses, have ...

Many commonly-known viruses of medical importance such as SARS-CoV-2, Dengue virus, Zika virus, Chikungunya virus and Enterovirus are known as positive-sense RNA viruses.

“Enteroviruses are non-enveloped positive-sense RNA viruses that cause diverse diseases in humans. Their rapid multiplication depends on remodeling of cytoplasmic membranes for viral genome ...

All positive sense (+) RNA viruses, including coronaviruses, remodel host cell intracellular membranes into these specialized structures, that efficiently coordinate the steps of virus replication ...

Class IV and class V viruses are single-stranded RNA (ssRNA viruses) in which the positive sense genome is translated into protein by host machinery, allowing viral reproduction. ssRNA class V ...

Some people test positive for the COVID virus for longer than others. ... and perhaps RNA from the virus has found a way into the DNA of the cells in the respiratory tract.

The genomic material in SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense RNA strand (5’-3’) that has the same polarity as viral mRNA and can be directly translated into viral protein.

Double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) is an apheretic technique that selectively removes high molecular weight substances using a plasma component filter. DFPP has been used to treat positive-sense ...

Science writer Robin Marantz Henig has written about dangerous emerging pathogens for 30 years. But none of what she learned could shed light on her own confusing encounter with this virus.