A Brief History of Bunyaviral Family Hantaviridae

JH Kuhn, CS Schmaljohn - Diseases, 2023 - mdpi.com
The discovery of Hantaan virus as an etiologic agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal
syndrome in South Korea in 1978 led to identification of related pathogenic and …

The Risk of Virus Emergence in South America: A Subtle Balance Between Increasingly Favorable Conditions and a Protective Environment

B de Thoisy, T Gräf, DS Mansur… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
South American ecosystems host astonishing biodiversity, with potentially great richness in
viruses. However, these ecosystems have not yet been the source of any widespread …

Transcriptome mining extends the host range of the Flaviviridae to non-bilaterians

JCO Mifsud, VA Costa, ME Petrone… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The flavivirids (family Flaviviridae) are a group of positive-sense RNA viruses that include
well-documented agents of human disease. Despite their importance and ubiquity, the …

Pending Reorganization of Hantaviridae to Include Only Completely Sequenced Viruses: A Call to Action

JH Kuhn, SB Bradfute, CH Calisher, B Klempa… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The official classification of newly discovered or long-known unassigned viruses by the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) requires the deposition of coding …

[HTML][HTML] Piscichuvirus-associated severe meningoencephalomyelitis in aquatic turtles, United States, 2009–2021

W Laovechprasit, KT Young, BA Stacy… - Emerging Infectious …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Viruses from a new species of piscichuvirus were strongly associated with severe
lymphocytic meningoencephalomyelitis in several free-ranging aquatic turtles from 3 coastal …

A novel approach to exploring the dark genome and its application to mapping of the vertebrate virus fossil record

D Blanco-Melo, MA Campbell, H Zhu, TPW Dennis… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Genomic regions that remain poorly understood, often referred to as the dark
genome, contain a variety of functionally relevant and biologically informative features …

A novel tamanavirus (Flaviviridae) of the European common frog (Rana temporaria) from the UK

RH Parry, A Slonchak, LJ Campbell… - Journal of General …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Flavivirids are small, enveloped, positive-sense RNA viruses from the family Flaviviridae
with genomes of~ 9–13 kb. Metatranscriptomic analyses of metazoan organisms have …

Discovery and biological confirmation of a highly divergent Tacaribe virus in metatranscriptomic data from neotropical bats

C Fischer, MH Anzolini Cassiano, WR Thomas… - Msphere, 2024 - journals.asm.org
First isolated from neotropical fruit bats in Trinidad in 1956, Tacaribe virus (TCRV) has rarely
been detected since. We searched for New World arenavirus reads in roughly 5.7 million …

The ever-expanding diversity and complexity of the Arenaviridae family

H Ly - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Viruses are generally classified as DNA or RNA viruses based on the type of nucleic acids
that make up their genomes. DNA viruses, in general, were phylogenetically more similar in …

Mosquitoes feeding on ectothermic hosts: from host seeking to pathogen transmission

JM Reinhold, C Lahondère - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Several mosquito species specialize in feeding on ectothermic
hosts.•Mechanisms used by mosquitoes to locate ectothermic hosts are …