Viral fitness: definitions, measurement, and current insights

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• 作者：Andrew R Wargo ; Gael Kurath
• 刊名：Current Opinion in Virology
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：October, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：2
• 期：5
• 页码：538-545
• 全文大小：357 K

文摘

Viral fitness is an active area of research, with recent work involving an expanded number of human, non-human vertebrate, invertebrate, plant, and bacterial viruses. Many publications deal with RNA viruses associated with major disease emergence events, such as HIV-1, influenza virus, and Dengue virus. Study topics include drug resistance, immune escape, viral emergence, host jumps, mutation effects, quasispecies diversity, and mathematical models of viral fitness. Important recent trends include increasing use of in vivo systems to assess vertebrate virus fitness, and a broadening of research beyond replicative fitness to also investigate transmission fitness and epidemiologic fitness. This is essential for a more integrated understanding of overall viral fitness, with implications for disease management in the future.