“Looking for a needle in a haystack: nanopore sequencing of a new Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) from a chacma baboon (Papio usrinus)” is the title of Susan Engelbrecht’s 2019 London Calling session. Engelbrecht, from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, spoke about primate lentiviruses and their “extreme genetic variability.” SIV is a retrovirus about 9 kb […]