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| Symptomatic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reinfection by a phylogenetically distinct strain J Van Elslande, P Vermeersch, K Vandervoort, T Wawina-Bokalanga, ... Clinical Infectious Diseases 73 (2), 354-356, 2021 | 353 | 2021 |
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| STAT2 signaling restricts viral dissemination but drives severe pneumonia in SARS-CoV-2 infected hamsters R Boudewijns, HJ Thibaut, SJF Kaptein, R Li, V Vergote, L Seldeslachts, ... Nature communications 11 (1), 5838, 2020 | 272 | 2020 |
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| The Substitutions L50F, E166A, and L167F in SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro Are Selected by a Protease Inhibitor In Vitro and Confer Resistance To Nirmatrelvir D Jochmans, C Liu, K Donckers, A Stoycheva, S Boland, SK Stevens, ... MBio 14 (1), e02815-22, 2023 | 102 | 2023 |
| Nanopore sequencing as a revolutionary diagnostic tool for porcine viral enteric disease complexes identifies porcine kobuvirus as an important enteric virus S Theuns, B Vanmechelen, Q Bernaert, W Deboutte, M Vandenhole, ... Scientific reports 8 (1), 9830, 2018 | 94 | 2018 |
| A Phylodynamic Workflow to Rapidly Gain Insights into the Dispersal History and Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages S Dellicour, K Durkin, SL Hong, B Vanmechelen, J Martí-Carreras, MS Gill, ... Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2020 | 92 | 2020 |
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| Discovery and genome characterization of three new Jeilongviruses, a lineage of paramyxoviruses characterized by their unique membrane proteins B Vanmechelen, M Bletsa, L Laenen, AR Lopes, V Vergote, L Beller, ... BMC genomics 19, 1-11, 2018 | 43 | 2018 |
| The virota and its transkingdom interactions in the healthy infant gut L Beller, W Deboutte, S Vieira-Silva, G Falony, RY Tito, L Rymenans, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (13), e2114619119, 2022 | 38 | 2022 |
| Isolation of infectious Lloviu virus from Schreiber’s bats in Hungary G Kemenesi, GE Tóth, M Mayora-Neto, S Scott, N Temperton, E Wright, ... nature communications 13 (1), 1706, 2022 | 37 | 2022 |
| Spatio‐temporal analysis of Nova virus, a divergent hantavirus circulating in the European mole in Belgium L Laenen, S Dellicour, V Vergote, I Nauwelaers, S De Coster, I Verbeeck, ... Molecular Ecology 25 (23), 5994-6008, 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Fast detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants including Omicron using one-step RT-PCR and Sanger sequencing M Bloemen, A Rector, J Swinnen, M Van Ranst, P Maes, B Vanmechelen, ... Journal of virological methods 304, 114512, 2022 | 25 | 2022 |
| The characterization of multiple novel paramyxoviruses highlights the diverse nature of the subfamily Orthoparamyxovirinae B Vanmechelen, S Meurs, M Horemans, A Loosen, T Joly Maes, ... Virus Evolution 8 (2), veac061, 2022 | 24 | 2022 |
| Common occurrence of Belerina virus, a novel paramyxovirus found in Belgian hedgehogs B Vanmechelen, V Vergote, M Merino, E Verbeken, P Maes Scientific reports 10 (1), 19341, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| Identifying the patterns and drivers of Puumala hantavirus enzootic dynamics using reservoir sampling L Laenen, V Vergote, B Vanmechelen, K Tersago, G Baele, P Lemey, ... Virus Evolution 5 (1), vez009, 2019 | 21 | 2019 |
| Grotenhout virus, a novel nairovirus found in Ixodes ricinus in Belgium B Vanmechelen, L Laenen, V Vergote, P Maes Genome announcements 5 (21), 10.1128/genomea. 00288-17, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Complete genome sequence of a new Ebola virus strain isolated during the 2017 Likati outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo T Wawina-Bokalanga, B Vanmechelen, J Martí-Carreras, V Vergote, ... Microbiology Resource Announcements 8 (20), 10.1128/mra. 00360-19, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| Identification of a novel species of papillomavirus in giraffe lesions using nanopore sequencing B Vanmechelen, MF Bertelsen, A Rector, JJ Van den Oord, L Laenen, ... Veterinary microbiology 201, 26-31, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
Marc Van RanstProfessor of Virology, University of LeuvenVerified email at uz.kuleuven.ac.be
