Randal J. Schoepp

TL;DR: Using standard histologic and ultrastructural methods, virus isolation, immunohistochemistry, in situ hybridization and reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction,West Nile virus was identified as the cause of clinical disease, severe pathologic changes, and death in 27 birds representing eight orders and 14 species and should aid diagnosticians faced with the emergence of West Nile virus in the United States.

TL;DR: The genomes assembled from blood samples from the patient and a semen sample from the survivor were consistent with direct transmission of Ebola virus disease and provided evidence of sexual transmission of EBOV and evidence of the persistence of infective E BOV in semen for 179 days or more after the onset of EVD.

TL;DR: This work describes FDA-ARGOS, a reference database for high-quality microbial reference genomes, and demonstrates its utility on the example of two use cases and provides quality control metrics for the FDA- ARGOS genomic database resource and outlines the need for genome quality gap filling in the public domain.

TL;DR: These real-time hemorrhagic fever virus assays are qualitative (presence of target), they are also quantitative (measure a single DNA/RNA target sequence in an unknown sample and express the final results as an absolute value) and can be used in viral load, vaccine, and antiviral drug studies.

TL;DR: Three-dimensional structure of the ice-embedded intact Sindbis virus, reconstructed from electron images, unambiguously shows that proteins in both shells are arranged with the same icosahedral lattice of triangulation number T = 4.