Abstract:
The present invention provides methods and compositions for detecting a coronavirus in a sample and identifying the subgroup of the coronavirus in the sample.
Abstract:
Described herein are immunogenic compositions for preventing infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) wherein the immunogenic compositions comprise at least a portion of the MERS-CoV S protein and an immunopotentiator.
Abstract:
The invention provides an isolated essentially mammalian positive-sense single stranded RNA virus classifiable as belonging to the Order: Nidovirales; Family: Coronaviridae; Subfamily: Coronavirinae; Genus: Betacoronavirus; and non-Lineage A, non-Lineage B or non-Lineage D, human betacoronavirus. The invention also provides a human virus having a receptor binding domain (RBD) capable of binding to a dipeptidyl peptidase 4. The invention also provides diagnostic means and methods, prophylactic means and methods and therapeutic means and methods to be employed in the diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment of disease, in particular of respiratory disease, in particular of mammals, more in particular in humans.
Abstract:
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ("SARS") is a human respiratory disease of recent origin, widespread infectivity, recurring incidence, and significant mortality. Although there is abundant evidence suggesting that the coronavirus responsible for the disease ("SARS-CoV") evolves during an outbreak, there is currently little data on the earliest strains of this coronavirus. The present invention is directed to the characterization of the genomic RNA sequences of these earliest SARS coronaviruses, to the identification of nucleotide positions within the SARS-CoV genomic RNA that are characteristic of the different evolutionary stages of the coronavirus, to kits based on these positions for use in diagnosis of the disease in patients, and for the development of vaccines to the disease based on the lowered virulence and contagiousness of these earliest strains of SARS-CoV.
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Disclosed is an avian infectious bronchitis virus serotype which enables to control a type of avian infectious bronchitis which cannot be controlled through the use of known products or methods of the prior art. It is possible to obtain from the new serotype products such as vaccines, diagnostic kits, antibodies, antigens, hybridomas, proteins with specific amino acid sequences, inter alia, for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of avian infectious bronchitis.
Abstract:
Coronaviruses can be a significant factor in bovine shipping fever. A new human rectal tumor cell line, HRT-18G, is suitable as a host cell line for the propagation of these bovine respiratory coronavirus-shipping fever viruses, and also is well suited for the propagation of other bovine coronaviruses.
Abstract:
Die Erfindung ist auf Mittel, Zusammensetzungen, Verwendungen und Verfahren zu einer neuen Variante des Infektiösen Bronchitis-Virus (IB-Virus) gerichtet.
Abstract:
The present invention is drawn to liquid stable poultry vaccines that comprise avian virus. The invention is also drawn to the manufacture of such vaccines methods of vaccinating animal subjects with these vaccines.
Abstract:
In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to a novel coronavirus designed HCoV-NH. Also disclosed are isolated HCoV-NH nucleic acids, proteins encoded by the HCoV-NH nucleic acids, related expression vectors, related host cells, related antibodies, and related compositions. Methods of diagnosing infection with a coronavirus, methods of diagnosing Kawasaki disease, methods of identifying a therapeutic compound, and methods for treating coronavirus infection and for treating Kawasaki disease are also disclosed.
Abstract:
The present invention provides the complete genomic sequence of a novel human coronavirus, coined as human coronavirus- HKU1 ("HCoV-HKU1"), isolated in Hong Kong. The virus belongs to the order Nidovirales of the family Coronaviridae, being a single-stranded RN virus of positive polarity. Futher study on nasopharyngeal aspirates from patients with community-acquired pnbeumonia has revealed that there are two genotypes, genotype A and genotype B, for this virus. In addition to the genomic sequences of these two genotypes, the invention provides the deduced amino acid sequences of the complete genome of the CoV-HKU1. The nucleotide sequences and deduced amino acid sequences of the HCoV-HKU1are useful in preventing, diagnosing and/or treating the infection by HCoV-HKU1. Furthermore, the invention provides immunogenic and vaccine preparations using recombinant and chimeric forms as well as subunits of the HCoV- HKU1 based on the nucleotide sequences and deduced amino acid sequences of the HCoV-HKU1.