Genomic sequencing revealed recombination event between clade 1 and clade 2 occurs in circulating varicella-zoster virus in China.

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV), a member of the Alphaherpesvirinae subfamily, causes varicella in primary infections and establishing a latent stage in sensory ganglia. Upon reactivation, VZV causes herpes zoster with severe neuralgia, especially in elderly patients. The mutation rate for VZV is comparatively lower than the other members of other alpha herpesviruses. Due to geographic isolation, different genotypes of VZV are circulating on separate continents. Here, we successfully isolated a VZV from the vesicular fluid of a youth zoster patient. Based on the single-nucleotide polymorphism profiles of different open reading frames that define the genotype, this newly isolated VZV primarily represents genotype clade 2 but also has characteristics of genotype clade 1. The next-generation sequencing provided a nearly full-length sequence, and further phylogenetic analysis revealed that this VZV isolate is distinct from clades 1 and 2. The Recombination Detection Program indicates that a possible recombinant event may occur between the VZV isolate and clade 1. In summary, we found that there is a circulating VZV isolate in China that may represent a recombinant between clade 1 and clade 2, providing new concerns that need to be considered in the future VZV vaccination program.

Dihydropyridine-derived calcium channel blocker as a promising anti-hantavirus entry inhibitor.

Hantaviruses, the causative agent for two types of hemorrhagic fevers, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), are distributed from Eurasia to America. HFRS and HPS have mortality rates of up to 15% or 45%, respectively. Currently, no certified therapeutic has been licensed to treat hantavirus infection. In this study, we discovered that benidipine hydrochloride, a calcium channel blocker, inhibits the entry of hantaviruses in vitro. Moreover, an array of calcium channel inhibitors, such as cilnidipine, felodipine, amlodipine, manidipine, nicardipine, and nisoldipine, exhibit similar antiviral properties. Using pseudotyped vesicular stomatitis viruses harboring the different hantavirus glycoproteins, we demonstrate that benidipine hydrochloride inhibits the infection by both HFRS- and HPS-causing hantaviruses. The results of our study indicate the possibility of repurposing FDA-approved calcium channel blockers for the treatment of hantavirus infection, and they also indicate the need for further research in vivo.

A Neural Network Approach for Chinese Sports Tourism Demand Based on Knowledge Discovery.

With the vigorous development of the Chinese economy and people's pursuit of quality, sports activities of people pursuit are no longer limited to simple physical exercise, but a way that pursues higher-quality sports tourism. As a new industry, it cannot guarantee that sports tourism will be accepted by all people, and it will be limited by geographical, economic, time, and other conditions. The participation number of Chinese sports tourism is more concerned by organizers or operators. Predicting the participation number of sports tourism based on the knowledge discovery method is meaningful and economical work. In this paper, a variety of sports tourism data are classified by clustering method, and the categories with similar characteristics are classified. Then, the convolution and long short-term memory hybrid neural network are used to extract the spatial and temporal information of sports tourism characteristics, which completes the prediction of Chinese sports tourism categories. The research results show that the clustering method has high accuracy for the classification of sports tourism categories, and the weights occupied by the categories are relatively uniform. The ConvLSTM neural network also has obvious advantages in predicting Chinese sports tourism methods. The largest error is only 2.89%, and the correlation coefficient also reaches 0.98, which is enough to be trusted for the prediction of Chinese sports tourism categories.

Corrigendum: Remdesivir (GS-5734) Impedes Enterovirus Replication Through Viral RNA Synthesis Inhibition.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01105.].

Remdesivir (GS-5734) Impedes Enterovirus Replication Through Viral RNA Synthesis Inhibition.

Human enteroviruses are responsible for diverse diseases, from mild respiratory symptoms to fatal neurological complications. Currently, no registered antivirals have been approved for clinical therapy. Thus, a therapeutic agent for the enterovirus-related disease is urgently needed. Remdesivir (GS-5734) is a novel monophosphoramidate adenosine analog prodrug that exhibits potent antiviral activity against diverse RNA virus families, including positive-sense Coronaviridae and Flaviviridae and negative-sense Filoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, and Pneumoviridae. Currently, remdesivir is under phase 3 clinical development for disease COVID-19 treatment. Here, we found that remdesivir impeded both EV71 viral RNA (vRNA) and complementary (cRNA) synthesis, indicating that EV71 replication is inhibited by the triphosphate (TP) form of remdesivir. Moreover, remdesivir showed potent antiviral activity against diverse enteroviruses. These data extend the remdesivir antiviral activity to enteroviruses and indicate that remdesivir is a promising antiviral treatment for EV71 and other enterovirus infections.

[Seasonal characteristics of soil respiration and affecting factors under typical vegetations in the water-wind erosion crisscross region of the Loess Plateau].

By the soil respiration system, the characteristics of soil respiration were investigated to explore the correlations between soil respiration and soil temperature, soil water and soil nutrient under different land use patterns in the water-wind erosion crisscross region of the Loess Plateau. The results indicated that the seasonal changing characteristics of soil respiration were distinguished significantly among different vegetations, and soil water content and temperature were the main influencing factors. Soil respiration seasonal changing ranges, such as bare land, crop land, Medicago sativa land, Caragana korshinskii land, abandoned wild grass land, Stipa bungeana land, wild grass land, degraded Medicago sativa land, sloping Medicago sativa land, sloping abandoned wild grass land, sloping crop land and terraced crop land, were 0.32-0.82, 0.41-2.83, 0.74-2.81, 0.76-3.07, 0.67-2.79, 0.51-2.12, 0.56-2.05, 0.59-1.66, 0.42-2.09, 0.31-1.86, 0.32-1.93 and 0.41-3.17 micromol x (m2 x s)(-1). Comparing seasonal changing magnitudes of soil respiration, crop land was the biggest (167% - 203%), abandoned wild grass land (117% -154%), Caragana korshinskii land (134%), Stipa bungeana land (129%), Medicago sativa land (119%-120%) and bare land (94%) followed crop land. The smallest was degraded Medicago sativa land (92%). Bare land and degraded Medicago sativa land had small seasonal variation during the study period. Monthly average values of soil carbon flux (soil respiration) of Medicago sativa land and Caragana korshinskii land were maximal, but the maximum values under crop land were observed in July and August. Besides Q10 of crop land was also maximal, which reached 1.86. There were significant correlations between soil respiration and soil organic matter and available K. Moreover, soil respiration was affected by soil organic matter and total nitrogen in July and August when the water and heat condition were plentiful, but soil ammonium nitrogen had negative impact on soil respiration in the seasons when water and heat were not optimal.