Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a universal health problem and may result into acute, fulminant, chronic hepatitis liver cirrhosis, or hepatocellular carcinoma. Sequence for protein X of HBV was retrieved from Uniprot database. ProtParam from ExPAsy server was used to investigate the physicochemical properties of the protein. Homology modeling was carried out using Phyre2 server, and refin...

Standard and real-time reverse transcription-PCR (rRT-PCR) procedures were used to monitor cultured and wild bivalve molluscs from the Ría de Vigo (NW Spain) for the main human enteric RNA viruses, specifically, norovirus (NoV), hepatitis A virus (HAV), astrovirus (AsV), rotavirus (RT), enterovirus (EV), and Aichi virus (AiV). The results showed the presence of at least one enteric virus in 63....

Influenza virus infection causes global shutdown of host protein synthesis in the infected cells, while viral proteins are efficiently produced. This host shutoff activity is considered to allow the virus to escape host innate and acquired immune recognition, which otherwise restricts viral replication and spread. It had been thought that cap snatching activity and degradation of host RNA polym...

We previously reported a novel rhabdovirus produced from the Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 cell line, designated as Sf-rhabdovirus X+ since it contained unique accessory gene X. The genome sequence was generated using Sanger sequencing and short-read high-throughput (HTS). In this study, we have used long-read HTS technologies, PacBio’s single-molecule real-time Oxford’s Nanopore RNA direct sequenc...