The arbovirus life cycle involves viral transfer between a vertebrate host and an arthropod vector, and acquisition of virus from an infected mammalian host by a vector is an essential step in this ...

In recent years, numerous molecular techniques utilizing a generic approach have been described for flavivirus diagnosis. [114–129] For identification of flaviviruses, molecular amplification methods ...

In a recent article published in the journal Viruses, researchers study the challenges impeding the development of vaccines against flaviviruses, which are single-stranded ribonucleic acid (ssRNA) ...

Remember the 2016 Olympics in Brazil? It was the year Brazil defeated Germany in the final game of the men's football (aka soccer) tournament, but it was also the year when Zika virus made its entry ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Opening doors to the possibility of developing new vaccines and antiviral agents to fight a host of insect-borne diseases, scientists have, for the first time, determined the ...

A new technology to produce safer ‘hybrid’ viruses at high volumes for use in vaccines and diagnostics for mosquito-borne diseases has been developed at The University of Queensland. Researchers from ...

Flaviviruses including West Nile, Zika and dengue can result in significant morbidity and mortality. However, new research suggests that a viral protein may prove vital in the discovery of therapeutic ...

Viruses of the family Flaviviridae, including Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), Dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus (ZIKV), West Nile virus (WNV), and Tick-borne encephalitis virus, are significant ...

Treatment of flavivirus encephalitis currently consists of managing the complications of infection and, with good nursing care and physical therapy, avoiding bedsores and contractures. Even with ...

Researchers have gotten the closest look ever at Zika virus and may have discovered some chinks in its armor. Using cryo-electron microscopy, structural biologist Madhumati Sevvana and colleagues ...

Until now, we have been unaware of any reports of flavivirus encephalitis in New Zealand, but we do acknowledge the possibility. 2 At least one local species of mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, is a ...