Even today, we are still mostly ignorant about why most poxvirus infections of vertebrate hosts show strict species specificity, or how zoonotic poxvirus infections occur when poxviruses ...

A global 3D view of the poxvirus The ISTA researchers examined "live" Vaccinia virus mature virions and purified poxviral cores under every possible angle–quite literally. "We combined the ...

The findings, published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, could facilitate future research on therapeutics targeting the poxvirus core. Variola virus, the most notorious poxvirus and one ...

uncovering the molecular mechanisms at work and in turn opening up new avenues for the development of anti- poxvirus treatments. Co-Lead researcher Professor Jason Mercer, of the University of ...

We must prepare for the possibility that a zoonotic poxvirus could become a highly infectious human ... More pathogen. Our already-fragile health systems cannot afford to be caught in another ...

A10 is a central piece in the core of the poxvirus. A new study from researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) (Klosterneuburg, Austria), has finally shed light on this ...

Poxvirus infections typically result in lesions, skin nodules, or disseminated rash formation. The data demonstrated that sabizabulin prevented both the release of poxvirus from infected cells and ...

01. When mpox first began to spread internationally in 2022, affected countries scrambled to buy some of the limited supply of poxvirus vaccines produced in the world. The Danish company Bavarian ...

Molluscum contagiosum is a common skin infection caused by a poxvirus called molluscum contagiosum virus. Although anyone can be infected with the virus, it most often spreads in children.

An infectious poxvirus that causes fever, chills and rashes, the disease is endemic, or consistently regionally present, in ten African countries. Until recently, however, it was rarely found in ...