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Self-testing for 5 respiratory viruses in adult VACCELERATE volunteers in Germany—a pilot study on multi-pathogen rapid antigen testing to monitor community-acquired acute respiratory infections

This prospective pilot study assessed the real-time epidemiology of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in Germany using self-administered, multi-pathogen antigen rapid testing among adult volunteers from the VACCELERATE...

9 September, 2025

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Breakthrough in respiratory virus prevention and treatment: researchers develop NanoSTING nasal spray and pan-coronavirus vaccine

A team of researchers, led by the University of Houston (UH), has discovered two new ways of preventing and treating respiratory viruses. In back-to-back papers in Nature Communications, the team — from the lab of Navin...

13 August, 2024

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Gone fishing: highly accurate test for common respiratory viruses uses DNA as ‘bait’

A new test that ‘fishes’ for multiple respiratory viruses at once using single strands of DNA as ‘bait’, and gives highly accurate results in under an hour, has been developed by Cambridge researchers. The test uses DNA...

17 January, 2023

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Wellcome Sanger Institute launches new initiative to better understand respiratory viruses

A new initiative to better understand respiratory viruses has been launched by the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The new Respiratory Virus & Microbiome Initiative will lay the groundwork for large-scale genomic...

11 January, 2023

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Competition between respiratory viruses may hold off a ‘tripledemic’ this winter

Triple threat. Tripledemic. A viral perfect storm. These frightening phrases have dominated recent headlines as some health officials, clinicians, and scientists forecast that SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and respiratory...

19 November, 2022

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Self-testing for 5 respiratory viruses in adult VACCELERATE volunteers in Germany—a pilot study on multi-pathogen rapid antigen testing to monitor community-acquired acute respiratory infections

Breakthrough in respiratory virus prevention and treatment: researchers develop NanoSTING nasal spray and pan-coronavirus vaccine

Gone fishing: highly accurate test for common respiratory viruses uses DNA as ‘bait’

Wellcome Sanger Institute launches new initiative to better understand respiratory viruses

Competition between respiratory viruses may hold off a ‘tripledemic’ this winter