Exploring the reservoir hosts of tick-borne encephalitis virus

A Michelitsch, K Wernike, C Klaus, G Dobler, M Beer - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is an important arbovirus, which is found across large
parts of Eurasia and is considered to be a major health risk for humans. Like any other …

Hantavirus entry: Perspectives and recent advances

E Mittler, ME Dieterle, LM Kleinfelter, MM Slough… - Advances in virus …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hantaviruses are important zoonotic pathogens of public health importance that are found
on all continents except Antarctica and are associated with hemorrhagic fever with renal …

Species diversity concurrently dilutes and amplifies transmission in a zoonotic host–pathogen system through competing mechanisms

AD Luis, AJ Kuenzi, JN Mills - Proceedings of the National …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
In this era of unprecedented biodiversity loss and increased zoonotic disease emergence, it
is imperative to understand the effects of biodiversity on zoonotic pathogen dynamics in …

Declining ecosystem health and the dilution effect

H Khalil, F Ecke, M Evander, M Magnusson… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
The “dilution effect” implies that where species vary in susceptibility to infection by a
pathogen, higher diversity often leads to lower infection prevalence in hosts. For directly …

Orthohantavirus pathogenesis and cell tropism

D Noack, M Goeijenbier, CBEM Reusken… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Orthohantaviruses are zoonotic viruses that are naturally maintained by persistent infection
in specific reservoir species. Although these viruses mainly circulate among rodents …

Find the right sample: A study on the versatility of saliva and urine samples for the diagnosis of emerging viruses

M Niedrig, P Patel, AA El Wahed, R Schädler… - BMC infectious …, 2018 - Springer
Background The emergence of different viral infections during the last decades like dengue,
West Nile, SARS, chikungunya, MERS-CoV, Ebola, Zika and Yellow Fever raised some …

Hantavirus maintenance and transmission in reservoir host populations

KM Forbes, T Sironen, A Plyusnin - Current opinion in virology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Persistent Puumala virus shedding occurs in wild voles.•Host population density
thresholds estimated for hantavirus invasion.•Little is known about hantavirus transmission …

What do we know about how hantaviruses interact with their different hosts?

M Ermonval, F Baychelier, N Tordo - Viruses, 2016 - mdpi.com
Hantaviruses, like other members of the Bunyaviridae family, are emerging viruses that are
able to cause hemorrhagic fevers. Occasional transmission to humans is due to inhalation of …

Hantavirus diseases pathophysiology, their diagnostic strategies and therapeutic approaches: A review

N Munir, M Jahangeer, S Hussain… - Clinical and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hantaviruses are enveloped negative (−) single‐stranded RNA viruses belongs to
Hantaviridae family, hosted by small rodents and entering into the human body through …

Design of a multi-epitopes vaccine against hantaviruses: An immunoinformatics and molecular modelling approach

S Ismail, SW Abbasi, M Yousaf, S Ahmad… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hantaviruses are negative-sense, enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses of the family
Hantaviridae. In recent years, rodent-borne hantaviruses have emerged as novel zoonotic …