South Africa’s viral blind spot: endemic zoonoses and arboviruses slipping past surveillance
A new Perspective argues that South Africa's most actionable surveillance blind spot is the delayed recognition of endemic zoonotic and ...
Tag: Viral Surveillance
New duplex qPCR test distinguishes wild-type from persistent O foot-and-mouth virus
Researchers report a duplex TaqMan RT-qPCR assay that detects and differentiates wild-type and persistent O foot-and-mouth disease virus strains in ...
Clade B transmission dynamics linked to acute flaccid myelitis risk
A phylodynamic analysis of EV-D68 sequences from the 1990s to 2023 shows seasonal transmission long predated the 2014 outbreak and ...
Raman barcodes distinguish 20 SARS-CoV-2 variants in laboratory study
A laboratory study used Raman barcodes to distinguish 20 SARS-CoV-2 strains and subvariants through RNA molecular architecture rather than nucleotide ...
New Monoclonal Antibody Toolkit Powers Rapid Magnetic Lateral Flow Test for SFTS Virus
Researchers have developed anti-Gn monoclonal antibodies and a magnetic nanoparticle-enhanced lateral flow assay that detects SFTS virus antigen within 45 ...
Novel FP-NSA Technique Enhances Virus Surveillance in Humans, Animals
In a groundbreaking advancement in the field of virology, researchers have introduced an innovative technique known as multiplex family-wide polymerase ...
