doi:10.1016/j.jaip.2024.10.022Larry Borish MDThe Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice
Rhinoviruses are non-enveloped, single-stranded positive RNA (ss + RNA) viruses that belong to the familyPicornaviridae, genusEnterovirus. There are three major serotypes of rhinovirus (RV), and each utilizes a specific cellular receptor for viral entry – RV-A utilizes intercellular adhesion...
The diversity of viral infections is immense. Viruses cause everything from common cold (rhinoviruses) to Ebola and warts (papillomavirus); from HIV/AIDS to influenza and smallpox. Many viruses can cause cancer: the hepatitis B virus is a known cause of liver cancer, and some types of huma...
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Myostatin is a protein that prevents your muscles from growing too large. For most animals, if your muscles grow too large your body burns too many calories, and you could die if you don’t have enough food to eat. Fortunately humans have solved this caloric dilemma with calorically concentr...
Influenza Type A and influenza Type B are the flu viruses that affect humans. Influenza Type A is the virus type that is associated with pandemics such as H1N1 and H3N2. There is a lot of speculation about the differences in these subtypes of flu viruses that can cause pandemics, as well...
What Is a Virus? Viruses are small particles of genetic material (either DNA or RNA) that are surrounded by a protein coat. Some viruses also have a fatty "envelope" covering. They are incapable of reproducing on their own. Viruses depend on the organisms they infect (hosts) for their ver...
Is this a threat to kids? Wen: The guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is that the risk of bird flu to the American public is low. Thus far this year, the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu has caused outbreaks among cattle and poultry. Thirteen humans have ...
“Nobody’s seen these events but they’re on a scale that might be repeated. We’ve got … (to) learn from the past because that’s our only data set,” said Michael Benton, a professor of vertebrate paleontology at Bristol University in the United Kingdom who is the author of the ...