In January 2026, the journal PLOS ONE published an article titled "Isothermal real-time RT-RPA for Machupo virus detection: Field-adaptable sensitivity comparable with laboratory PCR". The article was prepared by scientists from the Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute (Marina Kapitonova, Anna Shabalina, Igor Sukhikh, Artemiy Volkov, Vladimir Dedkov, and Aanna Dolgova).