İnsan maymun çiçeği, çift sarmallı DNA (dsDNA) virüslerinin Poxviridae ailesindeki Orthopoxvirus cinsinin bir üyesi olan çiçeği virüsünün neden olduğu zoonotik enfeksiyondur. İlk olarak 1970 yılında Demokratik Kongo Cumhuriyeti'nde dokuz aylık bebekte tanımlandı. O zamandan beri, Orta ve Batı Afrika'da bazen Avrupa Kuzey Amerika'da beş salgınla sonuçlandı. Endemik bölgelerdeki insan enfeksiyonl...

As an early response to infection, cells induce a profile of the early inflammatory proteins including antiviral cytokines and chemokines. Two families of transcriptional factors play a major role in the transcriptional activation of the early inflammatory genes: The well-characterized family of NFkB factors and the family of interferon regulatory factors (IRF). The IRFs play a critical role in...

Different infections are the most common complication of immunosuppressive therapy. In this context, the effect of cyclosporine A (CsA) on the innate antiviral immunity of mice was studied. The presence of immunity was shown by infection of resident peritoneal cells (RPC) of BALB/c mice with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). While the cells infected immed...

Regulatory T cells (Tregs) down-regulate immunity and are associated with chronic viral infections, suggesting that their inhibition might be used to treat life-threatening diseases. Using the FrCasE mouse retroviral model, we have recently shown that short mAb-based immunotherapies can induce life-long protective immunity. This finding has a potentially important therapeutical impact because m...

The type I interferons (IFNs) (IFNα and IFNβ) not only have potent antiviral activities, but also have pathological functions if produced at high levels or over a long time. Recent articles have described antiviral immune mechanisms that are activated in response to virus infection at epithelial surfaces independently of IFNα and IFNβ. This may allow the host to exert rapid local antiviral acti...