RT-PCR for 179 151 patients, of whom 13 161 (7.3%) tested positive. Up to the end of May,
3790 of these samples, reported as positive on nasopharyngeal samples, were inoculated …

During the 12 past years, five new or putative virus families encompassing several members,
namely Mimiviridae, Marseilleviridae, pandoraviruses, faustoviruses, and virophages were …

As new pathogens emerge, new challenges must be faced. This is no different in infectious
disease research, where identifying the best tools available in laboratories to conduct an …

Most viruses are known for the ability to cause symptomatic diseases in humans and other
animals. The discovery of Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus and other giant amoebal …

We enrolled 136 patients with laboratory-confirmed monkeypox during June 4–August 31,
2022, at the University Hospital Institute Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, France. The …

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, large in silico screening studies and numerous
in vitro studies have assessed the antiviral activity of various drugs on SARS-CoV-2. In …

Viruses generally are defined as lacking the fundamental properties of living organisms in that
they do not harbor an energy metabolism system or protein synthesis machinery. However…

Objective: Following the isolation of a Marseillevirus from the stool of a healthy young Senegalese
and a Mimivirus from a Tunisian patient with pneumonia, we attempted to isolate other …

The monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in sewage has been proposed as a simple and
unbiased means of assessing epidemic evolution and the efficiency of the COVID-19 control …

Giant viruses of amoebae are distinct from classical viruses by the giant size of their virions
and genomes. Pandoraviruses are the record holders in size of genomes and number of …