In a recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, researchers investigated whether denser intrahost human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) populations had a higher incidence of coinfection ...

Researchers have identified a positive correlation between viral load and the rate at which genetic diversity increases within intrahost HIV populations. HIV has been historically difficult to treat ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that HIV populations in people with higher viral loads also have higher rates of viral recombination. In ...

Researchers working across the USA, Ghana and South Africa have captured an instance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) superinfection in an individual, simultaneously ...

In January 2022, around the time that the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 started spreading rapidly, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) led by Shashank Tripathi, Assistant ...

Homologous recombination is an event in which parts of a genome from different parent lineages are combined to form a new lineage. This can occur for coronaviruses when a single cell is co-infected, ...

An analysis of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes finds that recombination of the virus is uncommon, but when it occurs, it is most often in the spike protein region, the area which allows the virus to ...

Murid herpesviruses, a group of gamma-herpesviruses infecting rodents, serve as pivotal models for understanding viral pathogenesis, latency and immune evasion mechanisms. Following mucosal exposure, ...

The recombinant “deltacron” variant of the coronavirus has left many people unsure about the future of the pandemic, amid fears it could combine the delta variant’s virulence with omicron’s ...