Metagenomic investigation of ticks from Kenyan wildlife reveals diverse microbial pathogens and new country pathogen records

K Ergunay, M Mutinda, B Bourke, SA Justi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Focusing on the utility of ticks as xenosurveillance sentinels to expose circulating pathogens
in Kenyan drylands, host-feeding ticks collected from wild ungulates [buffaloes, elephants …

[PDF][PDF] COVID-19: attacks the 1-beta chain of hemoglobin to disrupt respiratory function and escape immunity by capsid-like system

W Liu, H Li - ChemRxiv. Cambridge: Cambridge Open Engage, 2023 - chemrxiv.org
The genetic recombination of the SARs-CoV-2 virus in bats may result in behaviors
comparable to those of certain RNA viruses. This cross-activity helps explain SARs-CoV-2's …

PIMGAVir and Vir-MinION: two viral metagenomic pipelines for complete baseline analysis of 2nd and 3rd generation data

E Mastriani, KM Bienes, G Wong, N Berthet - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The taxonomic classification of viral sequences is frequently used for the rapid identification
of pathogens, which is a key point for when a viral outbreak occurs. Both Oxford Nanopore …

Optimization of screening methods leads to the discovery of new viruses in black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens)

RD Pienaar, S Herrero, A Cerqueira de Araujo, F Krupa… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Virus discovery in mass-reared insects is a growing topic of interest due to outbreak risks
and for insect welfare concerns. In the case of black soldier flies (BSF), pioneering …