Lisa J. Jameson

TL;DR: Deep sequencing of 179 patient samples processed by the European Mobile Laboratory, the first diagnostics unit to be deployed to the epicentre of the outbreak in Guinea, reveals an epidemiological and evolutionary history of the epidemic from March 2014 to January 2015, providing an unprecedented window into the evolution of an ongoing viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that it is possible to run a cost-effective nationwide surveillance program to successfully monitor endemic tick species, identify subtle changes in their distribution, and detect the arrival and presence of exotic species.

TL;DR: This study provides the first contemporary evidence for substantial importation of this tick species into the UK.

TL;DR: Assessment of the available data suggests that epidemics in Eastern Europe are not the result of a spreading viral wave, but more likely are due to a combination of factors, such as habitat abandonment, landscape fragmentation, and proliferation of wildlife hosts that have exacerbated prevalence rates in tick vectors.

TL;DR: This is the first hantavirus isolated from wildrodents in the UK and confirms the presence of a pathogenic Seoul virus in Europe and is provisionally designated as strain Humber.