PPT Slide

Vol. 57, Nos. 1-2

January 2003

Special Issue

Viral Bioterrorism and Biodefense

Guest Editors

E. De Clercq

E.R. Kern

Preface ix

B.W.J. Mahy

An overview on the use of a viral pathogen as a bioterrorism agent why smallpox ? 1

R.J. Whitley

Smallpox: a potential agent of bioterrorism 7

R.O. Baker, M. Bray, J.W. Huggins

Potential antiviral therapeutics for smallpox, monkeypox and other orthopoxvirus 13

infections

J. Neyts, E. De Clercq

Therapy and short-term prophylaxis of poxvirus infections: historical background 25

and perspectives

E.R. Kern

In vitro activity of potential anti-poxvirus agents 35

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D.F. Smee, R.W. Sidwell

A review of compounds exhibiting anti-orthopoxvirus activity in animal models 41

M. Bray

Defense against filoviruses used as biological weapons 53

C. Drosten, B.M. Kümmerer, H. Schmitz, S. Günther

Molecular diagnostics of viral hemorrhagic fevers 61

R.N. Charrel, X. de Lamballerie

Arenaviruses other than Lassa virus 89

R.W. Sidwell, D.F. Smee

Viruses of the Bunya- and Togaviridae families: potential as bioterrorism agents and 101

means of control

S.-K. Lam

Nipah virus – a potential agent of bioterrorism ? 113

J.P. Clement

Hantavirus 121

T.S. Gritsun, V.A. Lashkevich, E.A. Gould

Tick-borne encephalitis 129

R.M. Krug

The potential use of influenza virus as an agent for bioterrorism 147