Increasing Occurrence of Marburg Virus Outbreaks in Africa: Risk Assessment for Public Health [PDF]
Microbial BiotechnologyIn this millennium, Marburgvirus (MARV) outbreaks with very high mortality but still small case numbers (
Harald Brüssow
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Filovirus RefSeq Entries: Evaluation and Selection of Filovirus Type Variants, Type Sequences, and Names [PDF]
Viruses, 2014 Sequence determination of complete or coding-complete genomes of viruses is becoming common practice for supporting the work of epidemiologists, ecologists, virologists, and taxonomists.
Jens H. Kuhn +75 more
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Implementation of Objective PASC-Derived Taxon Demarcation Criteria for Official Classification of Filoviruses [PDF]
Viruses, 2017 The mononegaviral family Filoviridae has eight members assigned to three genera and seven species. Until now, genus and species demarcation were based on arbitrarily chosen filovirus genome sequence divergence values (≈50% for genera, ≈30% for species ...
Yīmíng Bào +22 more
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Preliminary Investigation of Schmalhausen’s Law in a Directly Transmitted Pathogen Outbreak System [PDF]
Viruses, 2023 The past few decades have been marked by drastic modifications to the landscape by anthropogenic processes, leading to increased variability in the environment. For populations that thrive at their distributional boundaries, these changes can affect them
Antoine Filion +2 more
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Development of a Pan-Filoviridae SYBR Green qPCR Assay for Biosurveillance Studies in Bats [PDF]
Viruses, 2023 Recent studies have indicated that bats are hosts to diverse filoviruses. Currently, no pan-filovirus molecular assays are available that have been evaluated for the detection of all mammalian filoviruses.
Jessica Coertse +5 more
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Identification of Filovirus Entry Inhibitors from Marine Fungus-Derived Indole Alkaloids [PDF]
Marine DrugsFiloviruses, mainly consisting of the two genera of Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus, are enveloped negative-strand RNA viruses that can infect humans to cause severe hemorrhagic fevers and outbreaks with high mortality rates.
Leah Liu Wang +6 more
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Prevalence of human filovirus infections in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol [PDF]
Systematic ReviewsBackground Recent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Marburg virus disease (MVD) in sub-Saharan Africa illustrate the need to better understand animal reservoirs, burden of disease, and human transmission of filoviruses.
Christopher S. Semancik +10 more
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Isolation and genome characterization of Lloviu virus from Italian Schreibers’s bats [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Lloviu cuevavirus (LLOV) was the first identified member of Filoviridae family outside the Ebola and Marburgvirus genera. A massive die-off of Schreibers’s bats (Miniopterus schreibersii) in the Iberian Peninsula in 2002 led to its initial discovery ...
Gábor E. Tóth +21 more
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A broadly neutralizing antibody recognizes a unique epitope with a signature motif common across coronaviruses [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsCross-reactive antibodies targeting multiple epitopes have been identified in Sarbecoviruses, but the precise molecular mechanism(s) behind the crossreactivity remain poorly understood. Here, we isolate 3D1, a broadly neutralizing antibody (bnAb) derived
Lei Yan +17 more
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Viruses, 2021 Filoviruses, including marburgviruses and ebolaviruses, have a single transmembrane glycoprotein (GP) that facilitates their entry into cells. During entry, GP needs to be cleaved by host proteases to expose the receptor-binding site that binds to the ...
Manabu Igarashi +3 more
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