Ryotaro Nouda

A bivalent Lassa virus mRNA vaccine protects guinea pigs from lethal infection with Lassa virus

Lassa virus (LASV), the causative agent of the life-threatening febrile disease, Lassa fever, remains a major public health concern in West Africa, where hundreds of thousands of infections occur annually. However, no licensed vaccine is currently available, highlighting the urge...

Nelson Bay Orthoreovirus cell attachment protein σC determines strain-specific differences in infectivity and pathogenesis

Nelson Bay orthoreovirus (NBV) was initially discovered in a bat sample but has since been isolated from patients with acute respiratory tract diseases. Accumulating reports of NBV isolation from patients with respiratory tract viral infections suggest that NBV is able to transmi...