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African Viral Dark Matter: From Viral Discovery to Anticipatory Surveillance

2026-08-24

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Global genomic surveillance has transformed pathogen detection, but most diagnostic assays and reference databases remain optimized for known targets. Divergent, low-abundance, and uncharacterized viruses can therefore remain undetected or biologically unresolved. This limitation is particularly relevant in Africa, where complex ecosystems and rapidly changing human–animal interfaces coexist with historically unev...

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Literature Corpus work: 83f7eb2e-98eb-501c-bb75-7f41a30e305d
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202608.1629.v1

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