Unconventional Agents and Unclassified Viruses : Recent Advances in Biology and Epidemiology

Original Papers.- Molecular characterization of hepatitis C and E viruses.- Molecular organization and replication of hepatitis E virus (HEV).- Variability of the envelope regions of HCV in European isolates and its significance for diagnostic tools.- Molecular characterization of positive-strand RNA viruses: pestiviruses and the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV).- Serological and antigenical findings indicating pestivirus in man.- Molecular analysis of the human coronavirus (strain 229E) genome.- Toroviruses - members of the coronavirus superfamily?.- Molecular biology and evolution of filoviruses.- Borna disease virus: nature of the etiologic agent and significance of infection in man.- Biology and neurobiology of Borna disease viruses (BDV), defined by antibodies, neutralizability and their pathogenic potential.- Pathogenesis of Borna disease.- Brain cell lesions in Borna disease are mediated by T cells.- Borna Disease virus infection and affective disorders in man.- Virus-host interactions in African swine fever: the attachment to cellular receptors.- African swine fever virus genome content and variability.- The biology and molecular biology of scrapie-like diseases.- Analysis of nucleic acids in purified scrapie prion preparations.- Prions and molecular chaperones.- Epidemiology of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and related diseases.- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy: a new disease of cattle?.- Human prion diseases (spongiform encephalopathies).- Brief Reports.- Distribution of cytopathogenic and noncytopathogenic bovine virus diarrhea virus in tissues from a calf with experimentally induced mucosal disease using antigenic and genetic markers.- Establishment of cell lines from bovine brain.