

Dengue cases set to break records in 2019
Dengue fever has become the fastest growing mosquito-borne disease worldwide, now present in over 100 countries compared to only nine before 1970. This year, the number of dengue cases and outbreaks worldwide have surged further compared with 2018, with numbers in many countries set to break records. Compared to the same time periods in 2018, data for dengue infections so far in 2019 shows substantial increases, prompting several countries across continents to declare nationa

The ArboTyping tool: monitoring virus genotypes to track disease outbreaks
Monitoring of virus genotype diversity is an important aspect of tracking the emergence and evolution of these outbreaks and, in recent work


Dr. Michela Mazzon (University College London)
Dr. Michela Mazzon University College London MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology Dr. Michela Mazzon is a Researcher in the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at the University College London. Throughout her time working as a researcher at several universities both in Italy and the UK, Dr. Mazzon has worked on a large variety of DNA and RNA viruses and on several aspects of cell-pathogen interaction, including innate immunity, virus traffickin