Lassa virus (LASV) is endemic in the rodent populations of Sierra Leone, Nigeria and other
countries in West Africa. Spillover to humans occurs frequently and results in Lassa fever, a …

RNA viruses include many important human and animal pathogens, such as the influenza
viruses, respiratory syncytial virus, Ebola virus, measles virus and rabies virus. The …

Bunyaviruses are negative sense, single-strand RNA viruses that infect a wide range of
vertebrate, invertebrate and plant hosts. WHO lists three bunyavirus diseases as priority …

In common with all segmented negative-sense RNA viruses, bunyavirus transcripts contain
heterologous sequences at their 5′ termini originating from capped host cell RNAs. These …

Bunyaviridae and Arenaviridae virus families include an important number of highly
pathogenic viruses for humans. They are enveloped viruses with negative stranded RNA …

Negative-strand (-) RNA viruses (NSVs) comprise a large and diverse group of viruses that
are generally divided in those with non-segmented and those with segmented genomes …

Arenaviruses can cause severe haemorrhagic fever and neurological diseases in humans
and other animals, exemplified by Lassa mammarenavirus, Machupo mammarenavirus and …

Hemorrhagic fevers (HF) resulting from pathogenic arenaviral infections have traditionally
been neglected as tropical diseases primarily affecting African and South American regions …

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) is a phenuivirus that has
rapidly become endemic in several East Asian countries. The large (L) protein of SFTSV …

The Bunyavirales order is one of the largest groups of segmented negative-sense single-
stranded RNA viruses, which includes many pathogenic strains that cause severe human …