West Nile virus and its therapeutic drugs: Research advances / 国际药学研究杂志

ABSTRACT

West Nile virus is a single stranded RNA virus and belongs to the genus of Flavivirus. Human infections of West Nile virus can cause severe infectious diseases such as West Nile fever and West Nile encephalitis which seriously threaten human life. Up to now, there is still lack of effective vaccines and antiviral drugs against West Nile virus. Therefore, to develop effective drugs for the prevention and treatment of West Nile virus disease is of great importance to protecting human health and maintaining national securities. Herein, the research advances of biological characteristics, epidemiology, clinical symptoms, vaccine and therapeutic drugs of the West Nile virus are reviewed.