Koray Ergunay
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Ergunay K, Bourke B, Linton Y
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
. 2025 Mar;
19(3):e0012907.
PMID: 40048471
Background: We set out to investigate the utility of publicly available tick transcriptomic data to identify and characterize known and recently described tick-borne viruses, using de novo assembly and subsequent...
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Ergunay K, Boldbaatar B, Bourke B, Caicedo-Quiroga L, Tucker C, Letizia A, et al.
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2024 Nov;
30(14):105-110.
PMID: 39530915
We performed nanopore-based metagenomic screening on 885 ticks collected from 6 locations in Mongolia and divided the results into 68 samples: 23 individual samples and 45 pools of 2-12 tick...
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Keskek Turk Y, Ergunay K, Kohl A, Hughes J, McKimmie C
J Gen Virol
. 2024 Nov;
105(11).
PMID: 39508743
Toscana virus (TOSV) is an emerging arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) of medical importance that is increasing its range across much of the Mediterranean Basin, Europe and the Middle East. Transmitted by...
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Bourke B, de Oliveira J, Ergunay K, Linton Y
Arch Virol
. 2024 Oct;
169(10):215.
PMID: 39365450
Triatomines are infamous as vectors of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. However, climate-driven range expansion and urbanization adaptation of triatomine populations, coupled with their highly...
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Kuhn J, Brown K, Adkins S, de la Torre J, Digiaro M, Ergunay K, et al.
J Virol
. 2024 Sep;
98(10):e0106924.
PMID: 39303014
Prior to 2017, the family included five genera of arthropod and rodent viruses with tri-segmented negative-sense RNA genomes related to the Bunyamwera virus. In 2017, the International Committee on Taxonomy...
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Bourke B, Dusek R, Ergunay K, Linton Y, Drovetski S
Front Vet Sci
. 2024 Jun;
11:1396552.
PMID: 38860005
The threat posed by emerging infectious diseases is a major concern for global public health, animal health and food security, and the role of birds in transmission is increasingly under...
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Kuhn J, Alkhovsky S, Avsic-Zupanc T, Bergeron E, Burt F, Ergunay K, et al.
J Gen Virol
. 2024 Apr;
105(4).
PMID: 38687001
is a family for negative-sense RNA viruses with genomes of about 17.2-21.1 kb. These viruses are maintained in and/or transmitted by arthropods among birds, reptiles and mammals. Norwaviruses and orthonairoviruses...
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Ergunay K, Bourke B, Reinbold-Wasson D, Caicedo-Quiroga L, Vaydayko N, Kirkitadze G, et al.
Infect Genet Evol
. 2024 Apr;
121:105593.
PMID: 38636618
Members of the Orthonairovirus genus (family Nairoviridae) include many tick-borne viruses of significant human and animal health impact, with several recently-documented pathogenic viruses lacking sufficient epidemiological information. We screened 215...
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Gulmez A, Emecen A, Emek M, Unal B, Ergunay K, Oktem I, et al.
Infect Dis Clin Microbiol
. 2024 Apr;
4(2):107-115.
PMID: 38633338
Objective: West Nile Virus (WNV), which causes widespread outbreaks in different parts of the world, is a risk to public health in Turkey, too. Community-based study data are needed to...
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Polat C, Ayhan N, Ergunay K, Charrel R
Microbiol Spectr
. 2024 Mar;
12(4):e0342823.
PMID: 38456695
Importance: Virus nucleic acid testing is the primary diagnostic method, particularly in the early stages of illness. Virus-specific or syndromic tests are widely used for this purpose. The use of...