The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV underscores the threat of cross-species transmission events leading to outbreaks in humans.
The research group, led by Chinese researcher Qinxue Hu has made progress on mechanism of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) muclsal infection and vaccine design. Two related papers have recently been published in The Journal of Immunology.
Supported by Special Foundation of President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ebola virus fast test paper and the Ebola virus antibody ELISA kit developed by the research groups led by Prof. Zhengli Shi and Prof. Bin Yan in Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, have been recently verified in a P4 Laboratory in Lyon of France.
The research group, led by Chinese researcher Bo Zhang from Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) in WIV, CAS, has made progress in identifying the pattern of molecular evolution for Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) in the 2014 outbreak in West Africa. The findings have been published on Infection Genetics and Evolution, an influential international journal on infectious diseases. To investiga...
