Special Issue "Arbovirus Discovery"

A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Viruses".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Eric Mossel
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Guest Editor
Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Interests: arboviruses; virus discovery; virus surveillance; arboviral diagnostics; diagnostic capacity building

Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,

Arthropod-borne viruses, arboviruses, are those viruses transmitted to vertebrates via the bite of an infected arthropod vector, such as a mosquito, tick, midge, or sandfly. All known arboviruses belong to one of five taxonomic groups: order Bunyavirales, or families Flaviviridae, Togaviridae, Reoviridae, or Asfarviridae. Transmission to a susceptible vertebrate host may result in inapparent infection or symptoms ranging from mild undifferentiated illness, arthralgia, mild to severe encephalitis, hemorrhagic fever, or death. The recent Zika and chikungunya virus pandemics, ongoing yellow fever virus outbreaks, and the spread of Usutu virus are only a few of the examples that highlight the importance of continued arbovirus surveillance and discovery. Technological advances in the last decade have facilitated and accelerated these research endeavors.

For this Special Issue of Viruses, we are soliciting papers on arbovirus discovery. In this context, the discovery may be of a novel arbovirus or the rediscovery of an arbovirus not isolated in many years. This also includes the discovery of known arboviruses in a new vector or host, or in a place that extends its previously known range. 

Dr. Eric Mossel
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • arbovirus
  • virus discovery
  • bunyavirales
  • Flaviviridae
  • flavivirus
  • togaviridae
  • alphavirus
  • reoviridae
  • asfarviridae

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A 1958 Isolate of Kedougou Virus (KEDV) from Ndumu, South Africa, Expands the Geographic and Temporal Range of KEDV in Africa
Viruses 2021, 13(7), 1368; https://doi.org/10.3390/v13071368 - 14 Jul 2021
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The mosquito-borne flavivirus, Kedougou virus (KEDV), first isolated in Senegal in 1972, is genetically related to dengue, Zika (ZIKV) and Spondweni viruses (SPOV). Serological surveillance studies in Senegal and isolation of KEDV in the Central African Republic indicate occurrence of KEDV infections in [...] Read more.
The mosquito-borne flavivirus, Kedougou virus (KEDV), first isolated in Senegal in 1972, is genetically related to dengue, Zika (ZIKV) and Spondweni viruses (SPOV). Serological surveillance studies in Senegal and isolation of KEDV in the Central African Republic indicate occurrence of KEDV infections in humans, but to date, no disease has been reported. Here, we assembled the coding-complete genome of a 1958 isolate of KEDV from a pool of Aedes circumluteolus mosquitoes collected in Ndumu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The AR1071 Ndumu KEDV isolate bears 80.51% pairwise nucleotide identity and 93.34% amino acid identity with the prototype DakAar-D1470 strain and was co-isolated with SPOV through intracerebral inoculation of suckling mice and passage on VeroE6 cells. This historical isolate expands the known geographic and temporal range of this relatively unknown flavivirus, aiding future temporal phylogenetic calibration and diagnostic assay refinement. Full article
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