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IMPORTANCE Viruses can evolve quickly to defeat host immune functions. For poxviruses, little is known about how multiple adaptive mutations emerge in populations at the same time. In this study, we uncovered a means...

IMPORTANCE Myxoma virus (MYXV) is pathogenic for European rabbits and two North American species. Due to sophisticated strategies in immune evasion and oncolysis, MYXV is an important model virus for immunological and pathological research....

See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Consensus statement: Virus taxonomy in the age of metagenomics : Nature Reviews Microbiology Source: Viral Bioinformatics

See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca African Swine Fever Virus Gets Undressed: New Insights on the Entry Pathway Source: Viral Bioinformatics

PLoS One. 2017 Jan 25;12(1):e0169841. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169841. eCollection 2017.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Seasonal Dynamics and Metagenomic Characterization of Marine Viruses in Goseong Bay, Korea. – PubMed – NCBI...

Summary: Reading frame altering genomic variants can impact gene expression levels and the structure of protein products, thus potentially inducing disease phenotypes. Current annotation approaches report the impact of such variants in the context...

Brazilian authorities are taking all the necessary measures to contain the country’s largest outbreak of yellow fever in 17 years. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Brazil Orders 11.5 Million Vaccine Doses Amid...

The global spread of bird flu and the number of viral strains currently circulating and causing infections have reached unprecedented levels, raising the risk of a potential human outbreak, according to disease experts. See...

CDC has alerted clinicians about an outbreak of Seoul hantavirus in the Midwest related to home-based rat breeding. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Seoul Virus Outbreak Highlights Ongoing Risk of Zoonotic Viruses...

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 Jan 23;11(1):e0005334. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005334. [Epub ahead of print] See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Unrecognized Emergence of Chikungunya Virus during a Zika Virus Outbreak in Brazil. Source: Virology...