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The TBFVnet project video is out

The TBFVnet project video is out

In this video, Alessandro Marcello and Tea Carletti leader and research assistant at the Molecular Virology laboratory of project partner ICGEB explains the TBFVnet project. TBFVnet involves many researchers across Europe that share and try to find new solutions to...
How science can make safer a mountain walk

How science can make safer a mountain walk

Riccardo loves walking in the mountains in spring and summer. Last July he went hiking in Carina in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in Italy. It was a hot sunny day, so he wore short pants and a short-sleeved shirt. Riccardo took some friends with him to show them...
The NS1 ELISA has been tested on the TBE virus

The NS1 ELISA has been tested on the TBE virus

Department of Virology at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) has been the National Reference lab for Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE virus) since 2008. The reference lab is divided into a routine and a research lab group. The NS1 TBE research group...
TBE vaccine failure explained

TBE vaccine failure explained

Heterogeneity in virus populations and immunosuppression of the host could cause tick-borne encephalitis virus vaccine failures. These are the results of a study recently published in Microorganism by the Karganova group, the TBFVnet partner from Moscow. The only...
International Scientific Cooperation Can Boost the Knowledge Society

International Scientific Cooperation Can Boost the Knowledge Society

Viruses don’t care about human geographical borders. The coronavirus pandemic made it clear how fast even great distances can be covered by viruses within days. The same is also true for tick-borne diseases and, in particular, for flaviviruses. Tick-borne flaviviruses...