Introduction: From the influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance in Indonesia, we learned that there was disagreement between virus culture and reverse trancriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). This implies the need to evaluate whether virus culture is still a relevant method to be used in ILI surveillance. Methods: The ILI specimens obtained from 20 ILI sentinels in In…
SiRNA is a promising method to deal with viral infections. The principle of siRNA is based on the complementarily of (synthetic) dsRNA to an RNA virus which, in consequence, will be silenced. Many studies are currently examining the effects of siRNA on replication of diverse virus types like Hepatitis C, polio and HIV. The choice of the siRNA target sequence is crucial. It has to be very homolo…