Bats are known to harbor and transmit many emerging and re-emerging viruses, many of
which are extremely pathogenic in humans but do not cause overt pathology in their bat …

Beginning about 80 years ago, the recognition of morphological varieties of mosquitoes was
gradually replaced by the recognition of subspecies. As an examination of revisionary and …

West Nile virus (WN virus) is one of the most widespread arbovirus and exhibits a great
genetic diversity with 8 lineages, at least 4 (1, 2, Koutango, and putative new) are present in …

A Ugandan child with an unexplained encephalitis was investigated using viral
metagenomics. Several sequences from all segments of a novel orthobunyavirus were …

A large number of arthropod-borne viruses are endemic to East Africa. As a part of the
process of undertaking a systematic characterization of the mosquito fauna of Uganda, we …

Zika virus (ZIKV), transmitted by Aedes species mosquitoes, was first isolated in Uganda in
1947. From February 2014 to October 2017, the Uganda Virus Research Institute, in …

Introduction: A number of arboviruses have previously been isolated from naturally-infected
East African bats, however the role of bats in arbovirus maintenance is poorly understood …

Emerging infectious disease events are frequently caused by arthropod-borne viruses
(arboviruses) that are maintained in a zoonotic cycle between arthropod vectors and …

Mosquito-transmitted arboviruses constitute a large proportion of emerging infectious
diseases that are both a public health problem and a threat to animal populations. Many …

Background Mozambique, same as many other tropical countries, is at high risk of arthropod-
borne virus (arbovirus) diseases and recently two dengue virus (DENV) outbreaks occurred …