The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains.

The current outbreak of the novel coronavirus Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019; previously 2019-nCoV), epi-centered in Hubei Province of the People's Republic of China, has spread to many other countries. On January 30, 2020, the WHO Emergency Committee declared a global health emergency based on growing case notification rates at Chinese and international locations. The case detection rate is changing hourly and daily and can be tracked in almost real time on website provided by Johns Hopkins University [1] and other websites. As of early February 2020, China bears the large burden of morbidity and mortality, whereas the incidence in other Asian countries, in Europe and North America remains low so far.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/tmi.13383

The COVID-19 epidemic.

Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods can be used to evaluate posterior distributions without having to calculate likelihoods. In this paper, we discuss and apply an ABC method based on sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) to estimate parameters of dynamical models. We show that ABC SMC provides information about the inferability of parameters and model sensitivity to changes in parameters, and tends to perform better than other ABC approaches. The algorithm is applied to several well-known biological systems, for which parameters and their credible intervals are inferred. Moreover, we develop ABC SMC as a tool for model selection; given a range of different mathematical descriptions, ABC SMC is able to choose the best model using the standard Bayesian model selection apparatus.

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Approximate Bayesian computation scheme for parameter inference and model selection in dynamical systems

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/0092-8674(89)90688-0.pdf

The major human rhinovirus receptor is ICAM-1.

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Papers

Some virus isolations from common colds: ii. virus interference in tissue cultures

Cultivation of viruses from a high proportion of patients with colds

Some virus isolations from common colds: iii. cytopathic effects in tissue cultures

Inhibition of respiratory virus infection by locally applied interferon

Loss of Infectivity on Drying Various Viruses