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ReviewViruses2018

The Interplay of Viral and Host Factors in Chikungunya Virus Infection: Targets for Antiviral Strategies.

Kai Zhi Wong, Justin Jang Hann Chu

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Review in Viruses, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pathogens and global health · 2020
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  5. The SMARCA4-TMEM47 axis plays an essential role in chikungunya virus RNA replication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. Infectomics of Chikungunya Virus: Roles Played by Host Factors.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025
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  13. The evolution of chikungunya virus circulating in Indonesia: Sequence analysis of the orf2 gene encoding the viral structural proteins.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2023
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  17. TargetedFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kai Zhi WongLaboratory of Molecular RNA Virology & Antiviral Strategies, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System, 5 Science Drive 2, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore. E0079517@U.NUS.EDU.
Justin Jang Hann ChuLaboratory of Molecular RNA Virology & Antiviral Strategies, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System, 5 Science Drive 2, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore. miccjh@nus.edu.sg.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has re-emerged as one of the many medically important arboviruses that have spread rampantly across the world in the past decade. Infected patients come down with acute fever and rashes, and a portion of them suffer from both acute and chronic arthralgia. Currently, there are no targeted therapeutics against this debilitating virus. One approach to develop potential therapeutics is by understanding the viral-host interactions. However, to date, there has been limited research undertaken in this area. In this review, we attempt to briefly describe and update the functions of the different CHIKV proteins and their respective interacting host partners. In addition, we also survey the literature for other reported host factors and pathways involved during CHIKV infection. There is a pressing need for an in-depth understanding of the interaction between the host environment and CHIKV in order to generate potential therapeutics.

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AnimalsAntiviral AgentsChikungunya FeverChikungunya virusClinical Trials as TopicHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansMiceViral Nonstructural ProteinsVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsViral Nonstructural Proteinsantiviralchikungunya virushost factorsinteractionspotential therapeuticsviral non-structural proteinsviral structural proteins

Identifiers

PMID29849008
PMCPMC6024654

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