João R. Mesquita

First European Identification of a Partial Tacheng Tick Virus 8-like Underscores the Hidden Burden of Tick-Borne Flavivirus-like Viruses

Tick-associated viruses are an underexplored component of global viromes, and highly divergent RNA viruses often remain undetected due to low abundance and sequence divergence. Tacheng tick virus 8 (TcTV8) is a poorly characterized RNA flavivirus-like virus originally reported fr...