August 2009
Hepatitis C virus infection: A review of the current and future aspects and concerns in Pakistan
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the major etiological agent of hepatitis. It infects 200 million people worldwide and 85% of them could develop chronic hepatitis, liver function failure or hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatitis C is rapidly emerging as a major health problem in developing countries like Pakistan with prevalence rate of 10% and genotype 3a is the most...
August 2009
Functional analysis of lassa virus glycoprotein from a newly identified lassa virus strain for possible use as vaccine using computational methods
Lassa virus is the cause of morbidity and mortality in Ekpoma Nigeria. Recently, two new strains of the virus were identified. The genes were sequenced and deposited in the GenBank. We presume that genes of similar sequence will code for protein of similar function. Hence any vaccine produced using this protein could protect against any other similar virus due to conservation of active and functional regions....