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Author summary Maternal ZIKV infection in pregnancy is associated with severe fetal anomalies, including microcephaly. It has been shown that infection manifests differently in pregnancy than in the non-pregnant state, with prolonged maternal viremia....

Somali Americans suffering a measles outbreak hear a call to faith in medicine. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Imams in U.S. take on the anti-vaccine movement during Ramadan Source: Virology News

On May 26, the German health ministry said the country will pass a proposed law allowing kindergartens to notify authorities if parents don’t talk to thei Ed Rybicki’s insight:Like Switzerland: everything that is not...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made another important advance in HIV vaccine design. The development was possible thanks to previous studies at TSRI showing the structures of a protein on HIV’s...

2 Doses of HPV Shot Enough to Prevent Genital Warts: Study, Latest Sexual Health News WEDNESDAY, May 24, 2017 (HealthDay News) — New research supports the recent U.S. recommendation for two, rather than three,...

Researchers at EMBL, ESPCI Paris, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative have developed a new technique for rapidly sorting HIV viruses, which could lead to more rapid development oSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses...

MPORTANCE Recently reintroduced in Europe, African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes a fatal disease in domestic pigs, causing high economic losses in affected countries, as no vaccine or treatment is currently available. Remarkably, ASFV...

IgBLAST 1.7.0 release A new version of IgBLAST is now available on FTP, with the following new features: Specify whether overlapping nucleotides at VDJ junctions are allowed in matching V, D, and J genes....

Primary Human herpesvirus-7 (HHV-7) infection usually occurs during childhood and causes several clinical manifestations: mainly exanthem subitum (roseola infantum), followed by a lifelong latent state with possible reactivation in case of immunodeficiency. Nevertheless, some...

Stephen Turner is an assistant professor of public health sciences and director of the Bioinformatics Core at the University of Virginia. It has taken Stephen almost a decade to compile and continually hone this list of resources to...