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ArticleAntiviral chemistry & chemotherapy2017

Establishment of an antiviral assay system and identification of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus inhibitors.

Masanori Baba, Masaaki Toyama, Norikazu Sakakibara, Mika Okamoto, Naomichi Arima, Masayuki Saijo

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Article in Antiviral chemistry & chemotherapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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6 authors.

Masanori Baba1 Division of Antiviral Chemotherapy, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Kagoshima, University, Kagoshima, Japan.
Masaaki Toyama1 Division of Antiviral Chemotherapy, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Kagoshima, University, Kagoshima, Japan.
Norikazu Sakakibara2 Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kagawa Campus, Tokushima Bunri University, Sanuki, Japan.
Mika Okamoto1 Division of Antiviral Chemotherapy, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Kagoshima, University, Kagoshima, Japan.
Naomichi Arima3 Division of Hematology and Immunology, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Kagoshima, University, Kagoshima, Japan.
Masayuki Saijo4 Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aims Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging tick-borne infectious disease. SFTS is epidemic in Asia, and its fatality rate is around 30% in Japan. The causative virus severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is a phlebovirus of the family Phenuiviridae (the order Bunyavirales). Although effective treatments are required, there are no antiviral agents currently approved for clinical use. Ribavirin and favipiravir were examined for their anti-SFTSV activity and found to be selective inhibitors of SFTSV replication in vitro. However, their activity was not sufficient. Therefore, it is mandatory to identify novel compounds active against SFTSV. To this end, we have established a safe and rapid assay system for screening selective inhibitors of SFTSV. Methods The virus was isolated from SFTS patients treated in Kagoshima University Hospital. Vero cells were infected with SFTSV and incubated in the presence of various concentrations of test compounds. After three days, the cells were examined for their intracellular viral RNA levels by real-time reverse transcription-PCR without extracting viral RNA. The cytotoxicity of test compounds was determined by a tetrazolium dye method. Results Among the test compounds, the antimalarial agent amodiaquine was identified as a selective inhibitor of SFTSV replication. Its 50% effective concentration (EC

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PMCPMC5890513

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