Are RNA viruses more dangerous to humans?
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| IMPORTANCE RNA viruses present a significant hazard to human health, and combatting these viruses requires the exploration of new avenues for targeting viral replication. | |
10 Citations | RNA viruses may be particularly capable of contributing to the increasing biomedical problem of infectious disease emergence. |
| Among infectious agents associated with the ‘emerging’ infectious diseases, RNA viruses are most likely to emerge as the greatest threat. | |
| This result is of particular interest in view of the frequent transmission of medically relevant negative-strand RNA viruses to humans by insect vectors. | |
23 Citations | Positive-stranded RNA viruses include important human, animal and plant pathogens. |
70 Citations | This database can be used in comparative studies of human-infective RNA viruses to identify the characteristics of viruses most likely to pose the greatest public health threat, both now and in the future. |
133 Citations | This is particularly worrisome since most of the highly pathogenic and emerging viruses are, and will likely continue to be, RNA viruses. |
| We show that reducing polyamine levels has a negative effect on diverse RNA viruses, including several viruses involved in recent outbreaks, in vitro and in vivo. | |
24 Citations | Moreover, we found no support for the view that vector-borne RNA viruses have lower dN/dS ratios than non–vector-borne viruses. |
| In RNA viruses, an observed correlation between mutation rate and virulence has led many to argue that their extremely high mutation rates are advantageous, because they may allow for increased adaptability. |