Abstract
Dengue, a mosquito-borne virus of the Flaviviridae family, is reemerging as one of the most important human pathogens in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It is estimated that 2.5 billion people live in areas at risk for transmission of dengue virus (DENV). Furthermore, it causes significant morbidity and mortality with 50–100 million infections per year. Currently, there are no vaccines commercially available and no effective antiviral drugs for treatment of DENV infections. In this chapter, we describe a plaque reduction assay and a cell-based high-throughput antiviral assay for identifying inhibitors against DENV. The latter is a homogeneous high-throughput assay that has been fully validated according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines for assay validation and can be used for screening compound libraries.
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Gong, E.Y., Clynhens, M., Ivens, T., Lory, P., Simmen, K., Kraus, G. (2013). Cell-Based Antiviral Assays for Screening and Profiling Inhibitors Against Dengue Virus. In: Gong, E. (eds) Antiviral Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1030. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-484-5_15
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