A recent study estimates if ASFV reached the United States it could result in economic losses exceeding $50 billion over a ten-year period.

As viral vaccines are increasingly used to meet global health needs, the pharmaceutical industry is manufacturing larger ...

Monkeypox virus (MPXV), which can cause monkeypox (MPX), is a zoonotic enveloped dsDNA virus that belongs to the orthopoxvirus genus of the Poxviridae family. There are two clades of the Monkeypox ...

are used to translocate double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) into preformed capsids (proheads) of bacterial viruses and certain animal viruses. Here, we describe the motor that packages the dsDNA of the ...

Varicella is caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), an enveloped dsDNA virus responsible for varicella (chickenpox) and herpes zoster (shingles). VZV is one of eight herpesviruses known to infect ...

Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is a zoonotic enveloped dsDNA virus that can cause monkeypox (MPX). It is a member of the Poxviridae family and belongs to the orthopoxvirus genus. The monkeypox virus was ...

Canada has an opportunity to prevent sustained Clade I mpox transmission, but only if decisive action is taken now.

Their genome is unusually large. One isolate, PBCV-1, for example, (genome size = 330744 bp dsDNA) codes for ~375 proteins, nearly half of which resemble proteins of known function. The genomes of ...