Rabies is a zoonotic disease that remains an important public health problem worldwide and causes more than 70,000 human deaths each year. The causative agent of rabies is rabies virus (RV), a ...

Although microtubules (MTs) are known to have important roles in intracellular transport of many viruses, a number of reports suggest that specific viral MT-associated proteins (MAPs) target MTs to ...

Rabies is a devastating infectious disease, known to mankind since the 23rd century B.C., that is distributed almost worldwide. Effective control mechanisms in the developed world overshadow the fact ...

Virologists at Jefferson Medical College have found that certain elements of bat rabies virus genes make the virus more adept at invading the brain. Bat rabies is an emerging problem in North America.

While it was previously thought that keratinocytes (skin cells) were only passive conductors that allow the rabies virus to pass through, novel research reveals that these cells play a much more ...

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our cells. Led by Monash University and the University of Melbourne, and ...

Rabies is a virus that attacks the central nervous system. It's found only in mammals, which are warm-blooded animals with fur or hair (including humans). Human cases of the virus are extremely rare ...

Although substantial progress has been made in identifying elements of RV that play a role in the pathogenesis of rabies, it is still unclear which host cell factors are involved in the disease ...