Clinical efficacy and safety evaluation of favipiravir in treating patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome.

Background: Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease with high mortality, however with no effective therapy available.

Methods: The effect of favipiravir (FPV) in treating SFTS was evaluated by an integrated analysis on data collected from a single-arm study (n=428), a surveillance study (n=2350) and published data from a randomized controlled trial study (n=145). A 1:1 propensity score matching was performed to include 780 patients: 390 received FPV and 390 received supportive therapy only.

Clinical effect and antiviral mechanism of T-705 in treating severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome.

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) virus (SFTSV) is an emerging tick-borne virus with high fatality and an expanding endemic. Currently, effective anti-SFTSV intervention remains unavailable. Favipiravir (T-705) was recently reported to show in vitro and in animal model antiviral efficacy against SFTSV.

Clinical and Virological Characteristics of Ebola Virus Disease Patients Treated With Favipiravir (T-705)-Sierra Leone, 2014.

Background:  During 2014-2015, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) swept across parts of West Africa. No approved antiviral drugs are available for Ebola treatment currently.

Methods:  A retrospective clinical case series was performed for EVD patients in Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital.

[Biodiversity of mesophilic microbial community BYND-8 capability of lignocellulose degradation and its effect on biogas production].

The biodiversity of a mesophilic microbial community BYND-8 capable of degrading lignocellulose at 30 degrees C was detected using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and the isolation of pure cultures, and the effect of the liquid of rice straw degradation by BYND-8 on biogas production was measured. Six bacterial strains were isolated using peptone cellulose solution medium, and the highest similarities of their 16S rDNA gene sequences to Serratia sp. PSGB 13, S.