NUCLEOLIN and viral infectious disease: Indeed, nucleolin has been reported as the cellular receptor for respiratory syncytial virus (Tayyari et al., 2011) and has been implicated as a required interacting protein in a number of other virus infections, including human cytomegalovirus (Strang et al., 2012), rabies virus (Oksayan et al., 2015), herpes simplex virus 1 (Greco et al., 2012), and a member of the picornavirus family, enterovirus 71 (Su et al., 2015).