Article
Evolutionary stasis of an RNA virus indicates arbovirus re-emergence triggered by accidental release
2019-12-13
Abstract excerpt
The mechanisms underlying virus emergence are rarely well understood, making the appearance of outbreaks largely unpredictable. Bluetongue virus serotype 8 (BTV-8), an insect-borne virus of ruminants, emerged in livestock in Northern Europe in 2006, spreading to most European countries by 2009 and causing losses of billions of Euros. Though the outbreak was successfully controlled through vaccination by early 2010...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 80721c70-9a0f-5fcf-8516-6c7b39c97f78
- DOI
- 10.1101/2019.12.11.872705
