This is the first time in nearly 50 years that a new plant genus has been described in a U.S. national park, since the discovery of the July gold shrub (Dedeckera eurekensis) in Death Valley ...

Why Zika and dengue vaccines are critical Shresta and Carlin are eager to move forward with flavivirus research. They know there's no time to lose. Many mosquito-borne viruses are spreading ...

Shresta is leading efforts at LJI to develop a "pan-flavivirus" vaccine that might combat many flaviviruses at once. "Our challenge is to develop vaccines that are both safe and effective against ...

The more work we can do now, the more it will pay off in case of a novel pandemic.” Kuhn is co-lead of the Flavivirus and Alphavirus ReVAMPP (FLARE) grant, which will help direct efforts to understand ...

Results: We detected three strains of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), five strains of Getah virus (GETV), and 45 strains of insect-specific flaviviruses including Aedes flavivirus (AeFV, 1), ...

Figure 6 Phylogenetic tree generated by maximum likelihood analysis of insect-specific flavivirus (ISFV) partial non-structural 5 gene. Sequences referable to the same host-genus (except for the ...

The genus Flavivirus includes major pathogens such as dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile and tick-borne encephalitis viruses. Molecular amplification assays for the diagnosis ...