Cameron Myhrvold

A versatile fluorescent reporter for Usutu virus drug screening and infection tracking

Abstract Usutu virus (USUV) is an emerging mosquito-borne orthoflavivirus closely related to West Nile and Japanese encephalitis viruses. Despite its increasing prevalence in Europe and reports of neuroinvasive disease in humans, the molecular and immunological determinants of US...

Streamlined CRISPR-based assays for detection and subtyping of H5 and H7 avian influenza

Avian influenza viruses (AIVs) are zoonotic pathogens that pose an increasing global threat due to their potential for significant economic losses in agriculture, and the risk of a pandemic should human-to-human transmission occur. In light of this, we need rapid, sensitive, and...