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In this study, we report a novel mosquito-borne reassortant Orbivirus species, which we named Banna orbivirus (BAOV). The virus was isolated from a Culex tritaeniorhynchus pool collected in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China in 2007....

Recent studies have declared that members of the ssDNA virus family Microviridae play an important role in multiple environments,as they have been found taking a dominant position in the human gut.The aim of this...

Abstract: This is the first country-wide surveillance of bat-borne viruses in Kenya spanning from 2012–2015 covering sites perceived to have medium to high level bat-human interaction. The objective of this surveillance study was to...

We conducted a case–control study in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to investigate ocular signs in Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors. A total of 82 EVD survivors with ocular symptoms and 105 controls from asymptomatic civilian...

he citrus greening Desperate farmers hope scientists can beat the citrus greening pathogen that is wrecking the US orange harvest. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Geneticists enlist engineered citrus tristeza virus to...

With the spring semester behind us, this year’s virology lecture series is complete, and videos are available at YouTube.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Twenty-five lectures in virology for 2017...

Glands in frog skin secrete substances that possess broad antimicrobial function. Holthausen et al. mined this soup of natural products and discovered a peptide that destroys diverse human influenza strains (Holthausen et al., 2017). This study...

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has reported nine suspected cases of infection in recent weeks.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Ebola vaccine could get first real-world test in emerging...

Quantification Hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA plays a critical role in the management of chronic HBV infections. However, HBV is a DNA virus with high levels of genetic variation, and drug-resistant mutations have emerged...