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Ebola is 40 today! The discovery of filoviruses: Marburg and Ebola Marburg virus In 1967, the world was introduced to a new virus: thirty-one people in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and Belgrade in the...

The Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) is staging a week-long international conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the Ebola virus. | Daily {adj} news in English.  See it on...

The gut microbiome has an important role in human health, but the role of phages in maintaining the structure and function of the gut microbial community is unclear. Manrique et al. analysed phages that...

The host factors that noroviruses rely on for invasion, replication and pathogenesis, and that consequently determine the species tropism of the virus, are largely unidentified. Virgin and colleagues used CRISPR–Cas9 to perform a genome-wide...

HIV hides its genome inside a proteinaceous shell formed by capsid hexamers to evade detection and degradation in the cytosol of host cells; however, the capsid also hinders access of substrates that are essential...

We estimated the speed of Zika virus introduction in Brazil by using confirmed cases at the municipal level. Our models indicate a southward pattern of introduction starting from the northeastern coast and a pattern...

Python Resources for BioinformaticsSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Python Resources for Bioinformatics Source: Viral Bioinformatics

Viral hepatitis is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Unlike most communicable diseases, the absolute burden and relative rank of viral hepatitis increased between 1990 and 2013. The enormous health loss attributable...

Infectious diseases disproportionately affect low-income and middle-income countries, yet many do not have optimal therapies or vaccines,1, 2 as underscored by the west African Ebola virus outbreak.3 Product developers are increasingly focusing on Africa...

Epidemiologist credited with eradicating smallpox. Born on Sept 7, 1928, in Lakewood, OH, USA, he died of complications from a broken hip on Aug 19, 2016, in Towson, MD, USA, aged 87 years. When...