ABSTRACT - The African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) is an economically important, large DNA virus which causes a highly contagious and frequently fatal disease in domestic pigs. Due to the acute nature of the infection and the complexity of the protective porcine anti-ASFV response, there is no accepted vaccine in use. As resistance to ASFV is known to correlate with a robust IFN response, the virus is predicted to...
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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a β-herpesvirus, has evolved many strategies to subvert both innate and adaptive host immunity in order to ensure its survival and propagation within the host. Induction of IL-8 is particularly important during HCMV infection as neutrophils, primarily attracted by IL-8, play a key role in virus dissemination. Moreover, IL-8 has a positive effect in the replication of HCMV. This wor...
Virus host evasion genes are ready-made tools for gene manipulation and therapy. In this work we have assessed the impact in vivo of the evasion gene A238L of the African Swine Fever Virus, a gene which inhibits transcription mediated by both NF-κB and NFAT. The A238L gene has been selectively expressed in mouse T lymphocytes using tissue specific promoter, enhancer and locus control region sequences for CD2. T...