Four principles to establish a universal virus taxonomy

P Simmonds, EM Adriaenssens, FM Zerbini… - PLoS …, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
A universal taxonomy of viruses is essential for a comprehensive view of the virus world and
for communicating the complicated evolutionary relationships among viruses. However …

Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUViG)

S Roux, EM Adriaenssens, BE Dutilh, EV Koonin… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
We present an extension of the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS)
standard for reporting sequences of uncultivated virus genomes. Minimum Information about …

Monkeypox virus genomic accordion strategies

S Monzón, S Varona, A Negredo, S Vidal-Freire… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The 2023 monkeypox (mpox) epidemic was caused by a subclade IIb descendant of a
monkeypox virus (MPXV) lineage traced back to Nigeria in 1971. Person-to-person …

Metagenomic sequencing with spiked primer enrichment for viral diagnostics and genomic surveillance

X Deng, A Achari, S Federman, G Yu… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS), the shotgun sequencing of RNA and
DNA from clinical samples, has proved useful for broad-spectrum pathogen detection and …

[HTML][HTML] Hantaviridae: Current Classification and Future Perspectives

L Laenen, V Vergote, CH Calisher, B Klempa… - Viruses, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
In recent years, negative-sense RNA virus classification and taxon nomenclature have
undergone considerable transformation. In 2016, the new order Bunyavirales was …

Characterizing phage genomes for therapeutic applications

CW Philipson, LJ Voegtly, MR Lueder, KA Long… - Viruses, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
Multi-drug resistance is increasing at alarming rates. The efficacy of phage therapy, treating
bacterial infections with bacteriophages alone or in combination with traditional antibiotics …

Past, present, and future of arenavirus taxonomy

SR Radoshitzky, Y Bào, MJ Buchmeier, RN Charrel… - 2015‏ - Springer
Until recently, members of the monogeneric family Arenaviridae (arenaviruses) have been
known to infect only muroid rodents and, in one case, possibly phyllostomid bats. The …

Navigating microbiological food safety in the era of whole-genome sequencing

J Ronholm, N Nasheri, N Petronella… - Clinical microbiology …, 2016‏ - journals.asm.org
The epidemiological investigation of a foodborne outbreak, including identification of related
cases, source attribution, and development of intervention strategies, relies heavily on the …

A multicomponent animal virus isolated from mosquitoes

JT Ladner, MR Wiley, B Beitzel, AJ Auguste… - Cell host & …, 2016‏ - cell.com
RNA viruses exhibit a variety of genome organization strategies, including multicomponent
genomes in which each segment is packaged separately. Although multicomponent …

Contamination issue in viral metagenomics: problems, solutions, and clinical perspectives

H Jurasz, T Pawłowski, K Perlejewski - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
We describe the most common internal and external sources and types of contamination
encountered in viral metagenomic studies and discuss their negative impact on sequencing …