The complete genome sequence, including the untranslated regions, of two Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) strains isolated from mosquitoes that were collected from disease outbreaks in Saudi Arabia (2001) and Kenya (2006 to 2007) were sequenced using next-generation sequencing technology.

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is rarely fatal except in patients with chronic liver disease. In the case reported here, an elderly women died of HAV infection 12 years after incomplete HAV vaccination. The possible role of a concordant Rift Valley fever virus infection acquired in Kenya is discussed.

Tim D. White, C. Owen Lovejoy, Berhane Asfaw, Joshua P. Carlson, and Gen Suwa Department of Integrative Biology, Human Evolution Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; Department of Anthropology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242–0001; Rift Valley Research Service, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and The University Museum, The University of Toky...

Distribution of Toscana virus (TOSV) is evolving with climate change, and pathogenicity may be higher in nonexposed populations outside areas of current prevalence (Mediterranean Basin). To characterize genetic diversity of TOSV, we determined the coding sequences of isolates from Spain and France. TOSV is more diverse than other well-studied phleboviruses (e.g.,Rift Valley fever virus).

The sedimentary record of Lake Malawi, one of the large rift valley lakes of east Africa, contains thick sequences of biologically undisturbed, finely laminated muds and silts. Laminated sequences were recovered in cores from the extensive diatom ooze and silty diatom clay facies of the lake basin that is permanently anoxic below 250 m. The sequences consist of light-dark laminae couplets with ...

Using next-generation sequencing technologies, the first complete genome sequence of Rift Valley fever virus strain Lunyo is reported here. Originally reported as an attenuated antigenic variant strain from Uganda, genomic sequence analysis shows that Lunyo clusters together with other Ugandan isolates.

Didemnins, a new class of depsipeptides isolated from a Caribbean tunicate, have been shown to have potent antiviral activity against a broad range of RNA viruses in vitro. Didemnins A and B both protected mice against a lethal challenge of Rift Valley fever virus.

10.1128/JCM.40.7.2323-2330.2002. 2002, 40(7):2323. DOI: J. Clin. Microbiol. Günther Asper, Marcus Panning, Herbert Schmitz and Stephan Christian Drosten, Stephan Göttig, Stefan Schilling, Marcel Transcription-PCR Yellow Fever Virus by Real-Time Reverse Rift Valley Fever Virus, Dengue Virus, and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, of Ebola and Marburg Viruses, Lassa Virus, Rapid Detection and...

To elucidate whether Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) diversity in Sudan resulted from multiple introductions or from acquired changes over time from 1 introduction event, we generated complete genome sequences from RVFV strains detected during the 2007 and 2010 outbreaks. Phylogenetic analyses of small, medium, and large RNA segment sequences indicated several genetic RVFV variants were circulat...