Ravi Vasanthapuram

TL;DR: In this article, two genetically-distinct clusters of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with mutations of biological concern were reported, one in the United Kingdom and one in South Africa.

TL;DR: Using real-time reverse transcription–PCR, CHIKV was detected in plasma samples of 8 of 58 children with suspected central nervous system infection in Bellary, India and was also detected in the cerebrospinal fluid of 3 children.

TL;DR: In this article, two genetically-distinct clusters of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with mutations of biological concern were reported, one in the United Kingdom and one in South Africa.

TL;DR: To investigate whether uncharacterized infectious agents were associated with neurologic disease, cerebrospinal fluid specimens were analyzed from 12 children with acute central nervous system infection and a high-throughput pyrosequencing screen detected human parvovirus 4 DNA in cerebroSpinal fluid of 2 children with encephalitis of unknown etiology.

TL;DR: Only one of the 14 isatin derivatives -SCH 16 exhibited antiviral action on JEV and WNV virus infection in vitro, and SCH 16 was also found to completely inhibit JEV replication in vivo in a mouse model challenged peripherally with 50LD50 of the virus.