Metagenomics and future perspectives in virus discovery

JL Mokili, F Rohwer, BE Dutilh - Current opinion in virology, 2012 - Elsevier
Monitoring the emergence and re-emergence of viral diseases with the goal of containing
the spread of viral agents requires both adequate preparedness and quick response …

Newcastle disease: evolution of genotypes and the related diagnostic challenges

PJ Miller, EL Decanini, CL Afonso - Infection, genetics and evolution, 2010 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) in 1926, nine genotypes of class I
viruses and ten of class II have been identified, representing a diverse and continually …

Candidate new rotavirus species in Schreiber's bats, Serbia

K Bányai, G Kemenesi, I Budinski, F Földes… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The genus Rotavirus comprises eight species designated A to H and one tentative species,
Rotavirus I. In a virus metagenomic analysis of Schreiber's bats sampled in Serbia in 2014 …

Duck egg-drop syndrome caused by BYD virus, a new Tembusu-related flavivirus

J Su, S Li, X Hu, X Yu, Y Wang, P Liu, X Lu, G Zhang… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Since April 2010, a severe outbreak of duck viral infection, with egg drop, feed uptake
decline and ovary-oviduct disease, has spread around the major duck-producing regions in …

Expanding the RNA virosphere by unbiased metagenomics

YZ Zhang, YM Chen, W Wang, XC Qin… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Although viruses comprise the most abundant genetic material in the biosphere, to date only
several thousand virus species have been formally defined. Such a limited perspective on …

[HTML][HTML] Candidate new rotavirus species in sheltered dogs, Hungary

E Mihalov-Kovács, Á Gellért, S Marton… - Emerging infectious …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We identified unusual rotavirus strains in fecal specimens from sheltered dogs in Hungary
by viral metagenomics. The novel rotavirus species displayed limited genome sequence …

Detecting biothreat agents: From current diagnostics to developing sensor technologies

SA Walper, G Lasarte Aragonés, KE Sapsford… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Although a fundamental understanding of the pathogenicity of most biothreat agents has
been elucidated and available treatments have increased substantially over the past …

Sequencing and analyses of all known human rhinovirus genomes reveal structure and evolution

AC Palmenberg, D Spiro, R Kuzmickas, S Wang… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Infection by human rhinovirus (HRV) is a major cause of upper and lower respiratory tract
disease worldwide and displays considerable phenotypic variation. We examined diversity …

Virome analysis for identification of novel mammalian viruses in bat species from Chinese provinces

Z Wu, X Ren, L Yang, Y Hu, J Yang, G He… - Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bats are natural hosts for a large variety of zoonotic viruses. This study aimed to describe the
range of bat viromes, including viruses from mammals, insects, fungi, plants, and phages, in …

Quantifying influenza virus diversity and transmission in humans

LLM Poon, T Song, R Rosenfeld, X Lin, MB Rogers… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Influenza A virus is characterized by high genetic diversity,,. However, most of what is known
about influenza evolution has come from consensus sequences sampled at the …