Conveners
Innovative Techniques
- Anna Salvaggiulo (University of Bari "Aldo Moro")
- Nicola Decaro (University of Bari - Dept of Veterinary Medicine)
Newcastle disease virus (NDV) remains a major vaccination challenge due to its rapid evolution and the emergence of new variants.. Although molecular and sequence data are now quickly and inexpensively produced, genetic distance rarely are a good proxy for cross-protection, while experimental studies to assess antigenic differences are time-consuming and resource-intensive. In the present...
Tick-borne viruses (TBVs) include several emerging zoonotic agents with variable pathogenic potential ranging from asymptomatic to mild to severe symptoms, such as encephalitis, or meningitis. As part of the project “Ricerca Corrente 2022 – IZS ME 02/22 RC,” we investigated the virome of ticks collected from wild boars in Southern Italy, a species with potential epidemiological relevance for...
The emergence of COVID-19 and recent zoonotic outbreaks highlight the need of early pathogen detection, thus the development of quick and reliable diagnostic strategies. In this study, we developed an agnostic and cost-effective unbiased sequence-independent enrichment (USIE) protocol for the complete genome sequencing of circular DNA viruses.
DNA extracts from different hosts and biological...
