Genotype switching in hepatitis B virus may increase the risk of vertical transmission from mother to child, highlighting an important factor in HBV transmission dynamics.
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Some maternal HIV infections may be missed during pregnancy – study More than half of infants diagnosed with HIV in their first year of life had not received this essential postnatal treatment — suggesting their mothers’ infections may not have been detected during pr...

#VerticalTransmission of #HIV needs highlighting (including among #LGBT): Over half of infants diagnosed with HIV in their first year of life had not received postnatal treatment, suggesting their mothers’ infections may not have been detected during pregnancy.
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We have a new pre-print on #Oropouche virus! Recent evidence suggests this emerging #bunyavirus may be associated with #verticaltransmission. Using ex vivo models of the placenta, we found villous trophoblasts are permissive to infection with the #prototype strain BeAn19991.

Check-out our new preprint on the characterization of novel nitrifier lineages that are widespread in marine sponges

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