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Smallest Organism; Highest Threat

Ever since the discovery of virus in beginning of 20th century, infections caused by these organisms have captured attention of researchers. The evolution of viruses is still a controversy, even same for their categorization in either living or non-living. It is clear that besides many controversies...

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Autores principales: Pant, Amit, Chikhale, Rupesh, Wadibhasme, Pankaj, Menghani, Sunil, Khedekar, Pramod
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3732363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922535
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2012.24.268-273
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Chikhale, Rupesh
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spelling pubmed-37323632013-08-06 Smallest Organism; Highest Threat Pant, Amit Chikhale, Rupesh Wadibhasme, Pankaj Menghani, Sunil Khedekar, Pramod Mater Sociomed Article Ever since the discovery of virus in beginning of 20th century, infections caused by these organisms have captured attention of researchers. The evolution of viruses is still a controversy, even same for their categorization in either living or non-living. It is clear that besides many controversies virus remains challenging to treat as well as to control in some extent. Though vaccines are available as prophylactic tool and antiviral drugs for treatment, still virus exist in host cells if they successfully invade biological machinery. Now it remains as challenge to treat these smallest organisms with high degree of efficacy and safety. To answer the demand of the present world there is urgent need of more potent and novel drugs for treatment and vaccines to prevent infection. Answer to this problem will definitely reduce casualties occurring worldwide. This review presents few of the pandemics, their causative agents, current status of treatment and future prospective. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3732363/ /pubmed/23922535 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2012.24.268-273 Text en © 2012 AVICENA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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