CMPK2 and bacterial infectious disease: CMPK2 has been reported to be able to inhibit viral and bacterial infection, including SVCV, Dengue virus (DENV), Duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV), HIV-1 and Aeromonas hydrophila CCL1 (El-Diwany et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2019; Xiang et al., 2020; Feng et al., 2021; Lai et al., 2021).