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UNA Virus: First report of human infection in ArgentinaVirus UNA: primeiro registro de infecção em humanos na República Argentina
(Instituto de Medicina Tropical, 2003-03)
Una virus (UNAV), Togaviridae family, is widely distributed in South America, where infections have been detected in mosquitoes and vertebrate hosts (humans, birds and horses). We analyzed human sera from Córdoba inhabitants ...
Togaviridae
(Springer, 2017)
Alphavirus constitutes one of the two genera included in the family Togaviridae. This genus contains 31 viral species (with different variants and strains), grouped into seven antigenic complexes. Depending on the geographical ...
An emerging public health threat: Mayaro virus increases its distribution in Peru
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-03-01)
Background: The infection caused by Mayaro virus (MAYV), which presents as an acute febrile illness, is considered a neglected tropical disease. The virus is an endemic and emerging pathogen in South America and the ...
Whole-genome sequencing analysis from the Chikungunya Virus Caribbean outbreak reveals novel evolutionary genomic elements
(PLoS, 2016)
Background Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus and member of the Togaviridae family, is capableof causing severe febrile disease in humans. In December of 2013 the Asian Lineage of CHIKV spread from the Old World to ...
Human and Equine Infection with Alphaviruses and Flaviviruses in Panamá during 2010: A Cross-Sectional Study of Household Contacts during an Encephalitis Outbreak
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2018)
Members of the genera Alphavirus (family Togaviridae) and Flavivirus (family Flaviridae) are important zoonotic human and equine etiologic agents of neurologic diseases in the New World. In 2010, an outbreak of Madariaga ...
Human Genetic Host Factors and Its Role in the Pathogenesis of Chikungunya Virus Infection
(Front Med (Lausanne), 2022)
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus from the Togaviridae family that causes acute arthropathy in humans. It is an arthropod-borne virus transmitted initially by the Aedes (Ae) aegypti and after 2006's epidemic in ...
The risk of chikungunya fever in a dengue-endemic area
(BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2008)
Background. Chikungunya, an alphavirus of the Togaviridae family, causes a febrile disease transmitted to humans by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes. This infection is reaching endemic levels in many Southeast Asian ...
Mayaro: an emerging viral threat?
Mayaro virus (MAYV), an enveloped RNA virus, belongs to the Togaviridae family and Alphavirus genus. This arthropod-borne virus (Arbovirus) is similar to Chikungunya (CHIKV), Dengue (DENV), and Zika virus (ZIKV). The term ...
Shmuel Willensky1, Hagit Bar-Rogovsky1, Eduardo A. Bignon3, Nicole D. Tischler3, Yorgo Modis2, Moshe Dessau
(2016)
Hantaviruses are important emerging human pathogens and are the causative agents of serious diseases in humans with high mortality rates. Like other members in the Bunyaviridae family their M segment encodes two glycoproteins, ...