New Treatment Strategies for Dengue and Other Flaviviral Diseases (eBook)

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Chair's introduction (Charles Rice).

Dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever: history and current status
(Duane J. Gubler).

Discussion.

Molecular biology of flaviviruses (Eva Harris, Katherine L.
Holden, Dianna Edgil, Charlotta Polacek and Karen Clyde).

Discussion.

Development of novel antivirals against flaviviruses (Chinmay G.
Patkar and Richard J. Kuhn).

Discussion.

Entry functions and antigenic structure of flavivirus envelope
proteins Karin Stiasny, Stefan Kiermayr and Franz X. Heinz).

Discussion.

General discussion I.

Multiple enzyme activities of flavivirus proteins (R.
Padmanabhan, N. Mueller, E. Reichert, C. Yon, T. Teramoto, Y. Kono,
R. Takhampunya, S. Ubol, N. Pattabiraman, B. Falgout, V. K. Ganesh
and K. Murthy).

Discussion.

Towards the design of flavivirus helicase/NTPase inhibitors:
crystallographic and mutagenesis studies of the dengue virus NS3
helicase catalytic domain (Ting Xu, Aruna Sampath, Alex Chao,
Daying Wen, Max Nanao, Dahai Luo, Patrick Chene, Subhash G.
Vasudevan and Julien Lescar).

Discussion.

Finding new medicines for flaviviral targets (Thomas H. Keller,
Yen Liang Chen, John E. Knox, Siew Pheng Lim, Ngai Ling Ma, Sejal
J. Patel, Aruna Sampath, Qing Yin Wang, Zheng Yin and Subhash G.
Vasudevan).

Discussion.

Structural and functional analysis of dengue virus RNA (Diego
Alvarez, Maria F. Lodeiro, Claudia Filomatori, Silvana Fucito, Juan
Mondotte and Andrea Gamarnik).

Discussion.

Organization of flaviviral replicase proteins in virus induced
membranes: a role for NS1' in Japanese encephalitis virus RNA
synthesis (Vijaya Satchidanandam, Pradeep Devappa Uchil and Priti
Kumar).

Discussion.

CRM1 dependent nuclear export of dengue virus type-2 NS5
(Melinda J. Pryor, Stephen M. Rawlinson, Peter J. Wright and David
A. Jans).

Discussion.

T cell responses and dengue haemorrhagic fever (Gavin Screaton
and Juthathip Mongkolsapaya).

Discussion.

The evolutionary biology of dengue virus (Edward C. Holmes).

Discussion.

Developing vaccines against flavivirus diseases: past success,
present hopes and future challenges (John R. Stephenson).

Discussion.

A genomics approach to understanding host response during dengue
infection (Martin L. Hibberd, Ling Ling, Thomas Tolfvenstam, Wayne
Mitchell, Chris Wong, Vladimir A. Kuznetsov, Joshy George, Swee-Hoe
Ong, Yijun Ruan, Chia L Wei, Feng Gu, Joshua Fink, Andy Yip, Wei
Liu, Mark Schreiber and Subhash G. Vasudevan).

Discussion.

Mouse and hamsters models rodent models for the study of therapy
against flavivirus infections (Nathalie Charlier, Pieter Leyssen,
Erik De Clercq and Johan Neyts).

Discussion.

Secretion of flaviviral non-structural protein NS1: from
diagnosis to pathogenesis (S. Alcon-LePoder, P. Sivard, M.-T.
Drouet, A. Talarmin, C. Rice and M. Flamand).

Discussion.

Final discussion.

Index of contributors.

Subject index.

"...this reviewer was highly moved by the painstaking
investigations and careful evaluation of results by the
participants of this symposium." (Journal of Tropical
Pediatrics, February 2008)

"This is an excellent update of many aspects of dengue and the
difficult quest for treatment and prevention. It is a valuable
resource for new researchers coming to this fascinating field."
(Doody's Health Services)

"...painstaking investigations and careful
evaluation..." (Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, January
2007)

"...provides an excellent summary of dengue/flavivirus research
and is important for individual and institutions interested in
emerging infectious diseases." (Microbiology Today,
November 2007)

"...this reviewer was highly moved by the painstaking
investigations and careful evaluation of results by the
participants of this symposium." (Journal of Tropical
Pediatrics, February 2008)