Publications by authors named "Homer D Pantua"

We report the complete genome sequence (4,727,598 bp chromosome, 308,757 bp plasmid of emerging . Infantis (pESI), and 5,423 bp pSCD6R1a_5.4k plasmid) of serovar Infantis SCD6R1a, isolated from raw chicken meat sold at a wet market in Metro Manila, Philippines.

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An African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak was first recorded in the Philippines in July 2019. Since then, the disease has spread across provinces in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, causing severe economic consequences for the country's swine industry. Here, we report the genome sequencing of ASF virus strains from outbreaks in several provinces of the Philippines between 2021 and 2023, using a long-read tiled amplicon sequencing approach.

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Paramyxoviruses, such as Newcastle disease virus (NDV), assemble in and bud from plasma membranes of infected cells. To explore the role of each of the NDV structural proteins in virion assembly and release, virus-like particles (VLPs) released from avian cells expressing all possible combinations of the nucleoprotein (NP), membrane or matrix protein (M), an uncleaved fusion protein (F-K115Q), and hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) protein were characterized for densities, protein content, and efficiencies of release. Coexpression of all four proteins resulted in the release of VLPs with densities and efficiencies of release (1.

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