With the goal of recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of virology by early-career investigators, last year Viruses accepted nominations for a 2015 Young Investigator Prize in Virology. The target age was set at 40 and under. Over 50 nominations were received and were evaluated by a panel of judges comprised of Viruses editorial board members. computational approaches to study infl...

conclusions family history as well as baseline bilirubin, ast and hbv dna levels can predict early virological response. the model provides a better tool for response prediction based on the four prognostic factors. results negative family history of hbv infection (p = 0.000235), baseline higher serum tbil (p = 0.038714) and ast (p = 0.020684) concentrations, and lower level of hbv-dna (p = 0.0...

The author of the section on cytomegaloviruses (CMV, formerly known as salivary gland virus) is Dr. J. B. Hanshaw, who has been one of the major contributors in elucidating the problems of this interesting infection. The characteristic large cells with prominent intranuclear inclusions seen in histologic sections of infected tissues were recognized as early as 1904, but extensive information co...

the first importance. Behnke has demonstrated that the "lean body mass," since it represents the active tissue of a person, is superior to reference standards hitherto proposed for the estimation of physiological functions such as the masses of various organs and tissues and the volumes of the different fluid compartments in the body. In the present article, which has been reprinted as a short ...

Viruses are the scourge of mankind, causing devastating pandemics such as the 1918 Spanish flu and AIDS. This Virology Select highlights new studies that shed light on how viruses invade host cells so efficiently and how they evade the host immune response by stowing away in immune cells or by constantly changing their surface armor. The opening decade of the 21 st century witnessed the first f...