Publications

first isolation of west nile virus from a dromedary camel.	although antibodies against west nile virus (wnv) have been detected in the sera of dromedaries in the middle east, north africa and spain, no wnv has been isolated or amplified from dromedary or bactrian camels. in this study, wnv was isolated from vero cells inoculated with both nasal swab and pooled trachea/lung samples from a dromedary calf in dubai. complete-genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis using the near-whole-genome polyprotein revealed that the virus belonged to lineage 1a. th ...	2016	27273223
molecular diagnosis of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by puumala virus.	rodent-borne hantaviruses cause two severe acute diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (hfrs) in eurasia, and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps; also called hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome [hcps]) in the americas. puumala virus (puuv) is the most common causative agent of hfrs in europe. current routine diagnostic methods are based on serological analyses and can yield inconclusive results. hantavirus-infected patients are viremic during the early phase of disease; therefore, dete ...	2016	26962084