Background The severity of influenza disease can range from mild symptoms to severe
respiratory failure and can partly be explained by host genetic factors that predisposes the …

Epidemiological studies show that COVID-19 variants-of-concern, like Delta and Omicron,
pose different risks for severe disease, but they typically lack sequence-level information for …

Introduction Influenza A viruses cause global health concerns due to their high amino acid
substitution rates. They are linked to yearly seasonal epidemics and occasional pandemics …

Each year, seasonal influenza results in high mortality and morbidity. The current
classification of circulating influenza viruses is mainly focused on the hemagglutinin gene …

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) has opened up a lot of new possibilities for virus
surveillance, however, many applications have remained unexploited in the context of …

Influenza A viruses (IAVs) cause yearly epidemics and occasionally appearing new
pandemics. IAVs are subtyped based on their virion surface glycoproteins haemagglutinin …