Publications

no evidence of gouléako and herbert virus infections in pigs, côte d'ivoire and ghana.	a recent report suggested that 2 novel bunyaviruses discovered in insects in côte d'ivoire caused lethal disease in swine in south korea. we conducted cell culture studies and tested serum from pigs exposed to mosquitoes in côte d'ivoire and ghana and found no evidence for infection in pigs.	0	26583956
discovery of a unique novel clade of mosquito-associated bunyaviruses.	bunyaviruses are the largest known family of rna viruses, infecting vertebrates, insects, and plants. here we isolated three novel bunyaviruses from mosquitoes sampled in côte d'ivoire, ghana, and uganda. the viruses define a highly diversified monophyletic sister clade to all members of the genus orthobunyavirus and are virtually equidistant to orthobunyaviruses and tospoviruses. maximal amino acid identities between homologous putative proteins of the novel group and orthobunyaviruses ranged b ...	2013	24067954