A sialic acid binding site in a human picornavirus.

The picornaviruses coxsackievirus A24 variant (CVA24v) and enterovirus 70 (EV70) cause continued outbreaks and pandemics of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC), a highly contagious eye disease against which neither vaccines nor antiviral drugs are currently available. Moreover, these viruses can...

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Main Authors: Georg Zocher, Nitesh Mistry, Martin Frank, Irmgard Hähnlein-Schick, Jens-Ola Ekström, Niklas Arnberg, Thilo Stehle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-10-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4199766?pdf=render