Burden of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B and C viruses in incoming Venezuelan migrants at the Colombian border: a laboratory-based cross-sectional study, 2021-2023 The socioeconomic crisis in Venezuela has urged many to seek refuge elsewhere, primarily in Colombia. The vulnerability to and epidemiology of blood-borne viruses causing chronic infections like human...

Excited to share our latest paper investigating the epidemiology of three major viral infections in Venezuelan migrants at the Colombia-Venezuela border. 🧪
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A new study argues that Monte Verde is far younger than once thought, challenging when people arrived in the Americas. https://scim.ag/40OdBiW

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse McKellar et al. have discovered that some satellite viruses act as the ultimate hitchhikers. They physically become a virus inside a virus, hiding within helper virus particles by hitching a ride as a Trojan Horse and sneaking into new animal species and organs they could not reach alone, including the human brain.

Now online! Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse

Prevalence and Spectrum of Chronic Liver Disease Among Patients Seeking Health Care in Ghana Background Chronic liver diseases (CLD) leading to liver fibrosis and cirrhosis are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and pose a significant burden on its health care sy...

Happy to announce our new paper on chronic liver disease in people seeking health care in Ghana is out now, published in Liver International! Take a look: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A replication-competent deltavirus from the marsupial fat-tailed dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata Deltaviruses are circular, negative-sense RNA agents that replicate autonomously but depend on heterologous envelope glycoproteins for spread. Only partial sequences of deltaviruses had been reported ...

Zoe Denis a PhD student in our lab , describing the first marsupial deltavirus ! :)

CCC | CCC unterstützt den monatlichen Digital Independence Day Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.

Trump und seine Tech-Milliardäre scheuen sich nicht davor, uns mit Abhängigkeiten zu erpressen. CCC unterstützt Digital Independence Day: Gemeinsam wechseln. www.ccc.de/de/updates/2...

New paper (micro) from our lab : “No evidence for human or rodent deltavirus replication in yeast”. A collaboration with Dom helmlinger’s lab .

Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection Acquired Under Cytostatic Treatment in Childhood — Clinical, Virological and Immunological Long‐Term Follow‐Up Oncology patients receiving cytostatic therapy used to be at high risk of HBV infection when HBV screening measures were less reliable. Infections acquired under these conditions often persist, like ...

Excited to share our latest research on #HBV published in Journal of Viral Hepatitis. Take a look!

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