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Sindbis Virus Infection in Resident Birds, Migratory Birds, and Humans, Finland

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008
Sindbis virus (SINV), a mosquito-borne virus that causes rash and arthritis, has been causing outbreaks in humans every seventh year in northern Europe.
Satu Kurkela, Osmo Rätti, Eili Huhtamo, Nathalie Y. Uzcátegui, J. Pekka Nuorti, Juha Laakkonen, Tytti Manni, Pekka Helle, Antti Vaheri, Olli Vapalahti   +9 more
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Alphavirus Nonstructural Proteases and Their Inhibitors

, 2017
Alphaviruses, such as Chikungunya virus, O’Nyong–Nyong virus, Ross River virus, have been widely known to cause fever, rash, and rheumatic diseases.
Subrat K. Pattanayak, Behera, S.S., Debabrata Satpathy, Ashish Patel, Patel, A., Akalabya Bissoyi, Pattanayak, S.K., Bit, A., Bissoyi, A.; id_orcid, Abhishek K. Singh, Singh, A.K., Arindam Bit, Sudhanshu S. Behera, Satpathy, D.   +13 more
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Alphavirus replicon particles acting as adjuvants promote CD8+ T cell responses to co-delivered antigen [PDF]

, 2008
Alphavirus replicon particles induce strong antibody and CD8+ T cell responses to expressed antigens in numerous experimental systems. We have recently demonstrated that Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus replicon particles (VRP) possess adjuvant ...
Herman F. Staats, Whitmore, Alan C., Johnston, Robert E., Thompson, Joseph M., Joseph M. Thompson, Robert E. Johnston, Staats, Herman F., Alan C. Whitmore   +7 more
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Disruption of the Opal Stop Codon Attenuates Chikungunya Virus-Induced Arthritis and Pathology

mBio, 2017
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus responsible for several significant outbreaks of debilitating acute and chronic arthritis and arthralgia over the past decade.
Jennifer E. Jones, Kristin M. Long, Alan C. Whitmore, Wes Sanders, Lance R. Thurlow, Julia A. Brown, Clayton R. Morrison, Heather Vincent, Kayla M. Peck, Christian Browning, Nathaniel Moorman, Jean K. Lim, Mark T. Heise   +12 more
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BST2/Tetherin Inhibition of Alphavirus Exit

, 2015
Alphaviruses such as chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Semliki Forest virus (SFV) are small enveloped RNA viruses that bud from the plasma membrane. Tetherin/BST2 is an interferon-induced host membrane protein that inhibits the release of many enveloped ...
Mathieu Dubé, Margaret Kielian, Yaw Shin Ooi, Yaw Ooi   +3 more
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Characteristics of Madariaga and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infections, Panama

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Madariaga virus (MADV) and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) are emerging arboviruses affecting rural and remote areas of Latin America. However, clinical and epidemiologic reports are limited, and outbreaks are occurring at an increasing ...
Luis Felipe Rivera, Carlos Lezcano-Coba, Josefrancisco Galué, Xacdiel Rodriguez, Yelissa Juarez, William M. de Souza, Zeuz Capitan-Barrios, Anayansi Valderrama, Leyda Abrego, Hector Cedeño, Carmela Jackman, Jesse J. Waggoner, Patricia V. Aguilar, Hilda Guzman, Scott C. Weaver, Robert B. Tesh, Sandra López-Vèrges, Christl A. Donnelly, Cassia F. Estofolete, Mauricio L. Nogueira, Nuno R. Faria, Nikos Vasilakis, Amy Y. Vittor, Darci R. Smith, Jean-Paul Carrera   +24 more
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Nonreciprocity in CHIKV and MAYV Vaccine-Elicited Protection

Vaccines
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a pathogenic arthritogenic alphavirus responsible for large-scale human epidemics for which a vaccine was recently approved for use.
Whitney C. Weber, Takeshi F. Andoh, Craig N. Kreklywich, Zachary J. Streblow, Michael Denton, Magdalene M. Streblow, John M. Powers, Gauthami Sulgey, Samuel Medica, Igor Dmitriev, David T. Curiel, Nicole N. Haese, Daniel N. Streblow   +12 more
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Sequences 5’-3’ of Alphavirus and Flavivirus specific primers used for Nested-PCR reactions.

, 2018
Sequences 5’-3’ of Alphavirus and Flavivirus specific primers used for Nested-PCR reactions.
Larissa M. Bueno (5942822), Matheus R. Beguelini (5942825), Paula Rahal (6841), Rafael R. G. Machado (5942816), Eliana Morielle-Versute (751945), Renato P. de Souza (5942828), Cíntia Bittar (406933), Maurício L. Nogueira (5655004), Manuela T. Comelis (5942819)   +8 more
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Coding-Complete Genome Sequence of Yada Yada Virus, a Novel Alphavirus Detected in Australian Mosquitoes

, 2020
Copyright © 2020 Batovska et al. Here, we report the detection of a novel alphavirus in Australian mosquitoes, provisionally named Yada Yada virus (YYV). Phylogenetic analysis indicated that YYV belongs to the mosquito-specific alphavirus complex.
Jan P Buchmann (9634136), Edward C Holmes (9634139), Jana Batovska (9477251), Stacey E Lynch (9634142)   +3 more
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PLoS One [PDF]

We established a rapid, specific technique for detecting alphaviruses using a replicon-defective reporter gene assay derived from the Sindbis virus XJ-160.

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