Simon Vieth

TL;DR: The novel coronavirus might have a role in causing SARS and was detected in a variety of clinical specimens from patients with SARS but not in controls.

TL;DR: The ability of the assay to detect various Old World arenaviruses was demonstrated with in vitro transcribed RNA, material from infected cell cultures and samples from patients with Lassa fever and monkeys with LCMV-associated callitrichid hepatitis.

TL;DR: The secondary structure-assisted alignment of the RNA polymerase region permitted a reliable reconstruction of the phylogeny of all negative-strand RNA viruses, indicating that Arenaviridae are most closely related to Nairoviruses.

TL;DR: Genotype G of hepatitis B virus (HBV) isolated in Germany from a chronic HBV carrier showed characteristic genotype G-specific features: stop codons at codon 2 and 28 of the pre-C region and insertion of 36 nucleotides at the 5′ end of the C gene, suggesting either close epidemiological link among European genotypes G isolates or high genetic stability of genotypeG.

TL;DR: The real-time PCR assays may be used as complementary diagnostic tests for pathogenic New World arenaviruses and the universal PCR assay could also be suitable for the detection of novel clade B arenviruses in patients as well as in animal reservoirs.