Megataxonomy and global ecology of the virosphere

EV Koonin, JH Kuhn, VV Dolja, M Krupovic - The ISME Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Nearly all organisms are hosts to multiple viruses that collectively appear to be the most
abundant biological entities in the biosphere. With recent advances in metagenomics and …

Changes to virus taxonomy and the ICTV Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2024)

P Simmonds, EM Adriaenssens, EJ Lefkowitz… - Archives of …, 2024 - Springer
This article reports changes to virus taxonomy and taxon nomenclature that were approved
and ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) in April 2024 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in the Elimination of Viral Hepatitis in Mexico: A Local Perspective on the Global Initiative

G Santos-López, A Panduro, F Sosa-Jurado, NA Fierro… - Pathogens, 2024 - mdpi.com
Viral hepatitis (A–E) presents a major global health challenge. In 2015, the World Health
Organization (WHO) launched an initiative to eliminate viral hepatitis, with the aim of …

Ambiviricota, a novel ribovirian phylum for viruses with viroid-like properties

JH Kuhn, L Botella, M de la Peña, EJ Vainio… - Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fungi harbor a vast diversity of mobile genetic elements (MGEs). Recently, novel fungal
MGEs, tentatively referred to as 'ambiviruses,'were described.'Ambiviruses' have single …

[HTML][HTML] vHDvDB 2.0: Database and Group Comparison Server for Hepatitis Delta Virus

CC Lee, YC Lau, YK Liang, YH Hsian, CH Lin, HY Wu… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
The hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a unique pathogen with significant global health
implications, affecting individuals who are coinfected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). HDV …

Identification of an ambisense kolmiovirus from birds

M Kishimoto, S Imai, M Igarashi, M Horie - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Viruses in the family Kolmioviridae (KoVs) are unique among RNA viruses in that they have
small, highly self-complementary, circular, negative-sense genomes and are satellite viruses …

Monitoring the Spread of Human Respiratory Viruses: Integrating Wastewater-Based Epidemiology and Target Capture Sequencing

LR Brazell - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a valuable tool for monitoring the
spread of human respiratory viruses, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic …