La Jolla Institute for Immunology professor Sujan Shresta, Ph.D. will receive more than $2.4 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to help test experimental ...

This same receptor is shared by WEEV's cousin, eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), which is the most virulent alphavirus and has continued to cause outbreaks in North America.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency established in 2022 in the USA, has launched a new Advancing Clinical Trial Readiness (ACTR) initiative. Designed to address ...

Antibodies assemble: Grant brings together dream team of experts Kuhn is co-lead of the Flavivirus and Alphavirus ReVAMPP (FLARE) grant, which will help direct efforts to understand the physical ...

Despite their role as innate sentinels, macrophages can serve as cellular reservoirs of chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a highly-pathogenic arthropod-borne alphavirus that has caused large outbreaks among ...

Data for the study was obtained from the Department of Health in Victoria, Australia, between 2017 and 2022. Data collection was comprised of all cases of Buruli ulcer and Alphavirus infections ...

The WHO released a list of over 30 pathogens that could cause the next pandemic, citing their high transmissibility and lack of vaccines. The updated ...

Featured Ross River virus is an alphavirus in the Togaviridae family. This family also includes chikungunya and Mayaro viruses. Common characteristics of alphaviruses include: ...

In November 2023, the FDA granted accelerated approval of the first vaccine for chikungunya virus for adults. According to recent data, the single-dose, live-attenuated vaccine is highly effective ...

Ross River virus (RRV) is a small encapsulated single-strand RNA (ribonucleic acid) alphavirus endemic to Australia, Papua New Guinea and other islands in the South Pacific.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found an innovative way to block infection by a variety of alphaviruses, a group of mosquito-borne viruses that can cause ...