Monkeypox virus in Nigeria: infection biology, epidemiology, and evolution

E Alakunle, U Moens, G Nchinda, MI Okeke - Viruses, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease caused by monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is a member of
orthopoxvirus genus. The reemergence of MPXV in 2017 (at Bayelsa state) after 39 years of …

COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia

A Elengoe - Osong public health and research perspectives, 2020‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In 2020 a significant threat to public health emerged. The novel severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic outbreak emerged in December 2019 …

Introducing the bacterial and viral bioinformatics resource center (BV-BRC): a resource combining PATRIC, IRD and ViPR

RD Olson, R Assaf, T Brettin, N Conrad… - Nucleic acids …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) established the
Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) program to assist researchers with analyzing the …

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the total CD4+ and CD8+ T cell reactivity in infected or vaccinated individuals

A Tarke, J Sidney, N Methot, ED Yu, Y Zhang… - Cell Reports …, 2021‏ - cell.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with evidence of antibody escape highlight the
importance of addressing whether the total CD4+ and CD8+ T cell recognition is also …

Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families

I Kalvari, EP Nawrocki… - Nucleic acids …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Rfam is a database of RNA families where each of the 3444 families is represented by a
multiple sequence alignment of known RNA sequences and a covariance model that can be …

Off-season RSV epidemics in Australia after easing of COVID-19 restrictions

JS Eden, C Sikazwe, R **e, YM Deng… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an important cause of acute respiratory infection
with the most severe disease in the young and elderly. Non-pharmaceutical interventions …

[HTML][HTML] A sequence homology and bioinformatic approach can predict candidate targets for immune responses to SARS-CoV-2

A Grifoni, J Sidney, Y Zhang, RH Scheuermann… - Cell host & …, 2020‏ - cell.com
Effective countermeasures against the recent emergence and rapid expansion of the 2019
novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) require the development of data and tools to understand …

[HTML][HTML] Preliminary identification of potential vaccine targets for the COVID-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) based on SARS-CoV immunological studies

SF Ahmed, AA Quadeer, MR McKay - Viruses, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
The beginning of 2020 has seen the emergence of COVID-19 outbreak caused by a novel
coronavirus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). There is an …

UniProt: a worldwide hub of protein knowledge

UniProt Consortium - Nucleic acids research, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract The UniProt Knowledgebase is a collection of sequences and annotations for over
120 million proteins across all branches of life. Detailed annotations extracted from the …

Serological approaches for COVID-19: epidemiologic perspective on surveillance and control

CYP Lee, RTP Lin, L Renia, LFP Ng - Frontiers in immunology, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Since December 2019, the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has garnered global attention
due to its rapid transmission, which has infected more than two million people worldwide …