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Retrieval of the Complete Coding Sequence of the UK-Endemic Tatenale Orthohantavirus Reveals Extensive Strain Variation and Supports Its Classification as a Novel Species (2020)
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©2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Orthohantaviruses are globally distributed viruses, associated with rodents and other small mammals. However, data on the circulation of orthohantaviruses within the UK, particularly the UK-end... Read More about Retrieval of the Complete Coding Sequence of the UK-Endemic Tatenale Orthohantavirus Reveals Extensive Strain Variation and Supports Its Classification as a Novel Species.

Pathological Findings in Koala Retrovirus-positive Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) from Northern and Southern Australia (2020)
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Koala retrovirus (KoRV) infection shows differences in prevalence and load between northern and southern Australian koala populations; however, the effect of this on diseases such as lymphoma and chlamydial disease is unclear. Thi... Read More about Pathological Findings in Koala Retrovirus-positive Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) from Northern and Southern Australia.

Differential expression of HERV-W in peripheral blood in multiple sclerosis and healthy patients in two different ethnic groups (2020)
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Copyright © 2020 Tarlinton, Wang, Morandi, Gran, Khaiboullin, Martynova, Rizvanov and Khaiboullina. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction... Read More about Differential expression of HERV-W in peripheral blood in multiple sclerosis and healthy patients in two different ethnic groups.

Novel insights into viral infection and oncogenesis from Koala Retrovirus (KoRV) infection of HEK293T cells (2020)
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Koala retrovirus is thought to be an underlying cause of high levels of neoplasia and immunosuppression in koalas. While epidemiology studies suggest a strong link between KoRV and disease it has been difficult to prove causality because of the compl... Read More about Novel insights into viral infection and oncogenesis from Koala Retrovirus (KoRV) infection of HEK293T cells.

Koala retrovirus viral load and disease burden in distinct northern and southern koala populations (2020)
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Koala retrovirus (KoRV) displays features of both an endogenous and exogenous virus and is linked to neoplasia and immunosuppression in koalas. This study explores the apparent differences in the nature and impact of KoRV infection between geographic... Read More about Koala retrovirus viral load and disease burden in distinct northern and southern koala populations.

Discovery and Prevalence of Divergent RNA Viruses in European Field Voles and Rabbits (2019)
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The advent of unbiased metagenomic virus discovery has revolutionized studies of virus biodiversity and evolution. Despite this, our knowledge of the virosphere, including in mammalian species, remains limited. We used unbiased metagenomic sequencing... Read More about Discovery and Prevalence of Divergent RNA Viruses in European Field Voles and Rabbits.

Schmallenberg Virus Neutralising Antibody Responses in Sheep (2019)
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Schmallenberg virus (SBV) is a midge borne virus of cattle and sheep. Infection is typically asymptomatic in adult sheep but fetal infection during pregnancy can result in abortion, stillbirth, neurological disorders and malformations of variable sev... Read More about Schmallenberg Virus Neutralising Antibody Responses in Sheep.

Δccr5 Genotype Is Associated with Mild Form of Nephropathia Epidemica (2019)
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Nephropathia Epidemica (NE), a mild form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and linked to hantavirus infection, is endemic in the Republic of Tatarstan. Several genetic markers of HFRS severity have been identified previously, including... Read More about Δccr5 Genotype Is Associated with Mild Form of Nephropathia Epidemica.

Genetic diversity of Koala retrovirus env gene subtypes: insights into northern and southern koala populations (2019)
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Koala retrovirus (KoRV) is a recently endogenised retrovirus associated with neoplasia and immunosuppression in koala populations. The virus is known to display sequence variability and to be present at varying prevalence in different populations, wi... Read More about Genetic diversity of Koala retrovirus env gene subtypes: insights into northern and southern koala populations.

Cytokine Storm Combined with Humoral Immune Response Defect in Fatal Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Case, Tatarstan, Russia (2019)
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Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is endemic in Tatarstan, where thousands of cases are registered annually. Puumala orthohantavirus is commonly detected in human case samples as well as in captured bank voles, the rodent hosts. The pathog... Read More about Cytokine Storm Combined with Humoral Immune Response Defect in Fatal Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Case, Tatarstan, Russia.

Shared common ancestry of rodent alphacoronaviruses sampled globally (2019)
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The recent discovery of novel alphacoronaviruses (alpha-CoVs) in European and Asian rodents revealed that rodent coronaviruses (CoVs) sampled worldwide formed a discrete phylogenetic group within this genus. To determine the evolutionary history of r... Read More about Shared common ancestry of rodent alphacoronaviruses sampled globally.

Do Antiretroviral Drugs Protect From Multiple Sclerosis By Inhibiting Expression Of MS-Associated Retrovirus? (2019)
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The expression of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) has been associated with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The MS-related retrovirus (MSRV/HERV-W) has the potential to activate inflammatory immunity, which could promote both susceptibility and progres... Read More about Do Antiretroviral Drugs Protect From Multiple Sclerosis By Inhibiting Expression Of MS-Associated Retrovirus?.

The interaction between viral and environmental risk factors in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (2019)
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic debilitating inflammatory disease of unknown ethology targeting the central nervous system (CNS). MS has a polysymptomatic onset and is usually first diagnosed between the ages of 20–40 years. The pathology of the... Read More about The interaction between viral and environmental risk factors in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.

A survey to determine the farm level impact of Schmallenberg virus during the 2016-17 UK lambing season (2018)
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Schmallenberg virus (SBV) causes abortions, still births and fetal malformations in naive ruminants. The impact of the initial outbreak (2011/2012) on British sheep farms has been previously investigated, with higher farmer perceived impacts and incr... Read More about A survey to determine the farm level impact of Schmallenberg virus during the 2016-17 UK lambing season.

Identification of stable reference genes for quantitative PCR in koalas (2018)
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To better understand host and immune response to diseases, gene expression studies require identification of reference genes with stable expression for accurate normalisation. This study describes the identification and testing of reference genes wit... Read More about Identification of stable reference genes for quantitative PCR in koalas.

How is Europe positioned for a re-emergence of Schmallenberg virus? (2017)
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The Schmallenberg virus (SBV) caused a large scale epidemic in Europe from 2011–2013 infecting ruminants and causing fetal deformities after infection of pregnant animals. The main impacts of the virus were financial losses due to animal, meat and se... Read More about How is Europe positioned for a re-emergence of Schmallenberg virus?.

The association between human endogenous retroviruses and multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2017)
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Background: The interaction between genetic and environmental factors is crucial to multiple sclerosis (MS) pathogenesis. Human Endogenous Retroviruses (HERVs) are endogenous viral elements of the human genome whose expression is associated with MS.... Read More about The association between human endogenous retroviruses and multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Canine parvovirus (CPV-2) variants circulating in Nigerian dogs (2016)
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Canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2) is a highly contagious viral disease with three variants (CPV-2a, CPV-2b and CPV-2c) currently circulating in dogs worldwide. The main aim of this study was to determine the prevalent CPV-2 variant in faecal samples f... Read More about Canine parvovirus (CPV-2) variants circulating in Nigerian dogs.

Is gibbon ape leukaemia virus still a threat? (2016)
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, an outbreak of lymphoma and leukaemia in gibbons (Hylobatidae), attributed to the retrovirus gibbon ape leukaemia virus (GALV), was widely reported in the literature. The virus was identified in captive gibbon colon... Read More about Is gibbon ape leukaemia virus still a threat?.

RNA expression of TLR10 in normal equine tissues (2016)
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Background: Toll like receptors are one of the major innate immune system pathogen recognition systems. There is little data on the expression of the TLR10 member of this family in the horse. Results: This paper describes the genetic structure of... Read More about RNA expression of TLR10 in normal equine tissues.