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Amazonian Phlebovirus (Bunyaviridae) potentiates the infection of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis: Role of the PKR/IFN1/IL-10 axis.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
BackgroundLeishmania parasites are transmitted to vertebrate hosts by phlebotomine sandflies and, in humans, may cause tegumentary or visceral leishmaniasis.
Carolina Torturella Rath, Laila Castro Schnellrath, Clarissa R Damaso, Luciana Barros de Arruda, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos, Claudia Gomes, Marcia Dalastra Laurenti, Teresa Cristina Calegari Silva, Áislan de Carvalho Vivarini, Nicolas Fasel, Renata Meirelles Santos Pereira, Ulisses Gazos Lopes   +11 more
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Production, quantification, and infection of Amazonian Phlebovirus (Bunyaviridae) [PDF]

BIO-PROTOCOL, 2021
Phlebotomine vectors, sand flies of the order Diptera, are known to transmit Leishmania parasites as well as RNA viruses (arboviruses) to humans. The arbovirus, Icoaraci Phlebovirus (BeAN 24262 - ICOV), used in this study was isolated from Nectomys rodents, a mammalian species that is the same natural sylvatic reservoir of Leishmania (Leishmania ...
Carolina Rath, Aislan Vivarini, Renata Pereira, Ulisses Lopes   +3 more
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Sociodemographic characteristics, clinical manifestations, and concurrent outcomes of Oropouche fever and dengue in Espírito Santo, Brazil [PDF]

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Objective. To compare sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and the outcome severity between confirmed cases of Oropouche fever and dengue in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Methods. A cross-sectional study used secondary data from the state
João Paulo Cola, Thiago Nascimento do Prado, Otavio T. Ranzani, Ana Paula Brioschi dos Santos, Brenda Silva Freire, Raphael Lubiana Zanotti, Adriana Endlich da Silva Dela Costa, Karina Bertazo Del Carro, Lesliane de Amorim Lacerda Coelho, Cintia Lepaus Thomas, Dijoce Prates Bezerra, Orlei Amaral Cardoso, Angelica Espinosa Miranda, Ethel Leonor Noia Maciel, Creuza Rachel Vicente   +14 more
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Oropouche virus – another antecedent event for Guillain–Barré syndrome? [PDF]

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
In May 2024, the Pan American Health Organization issued alerts of increased numbers of cases of Oropouche fever in non-Amazonian regions in Latin America. Following this, an association between Oropouche fever and Guillain–Barré syndrome was reported in
Alina González-Quevedo, Zurina Lestayo O’Farrill, Reinaldo Mustelier Becquer   +2 more
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Replication-Competent Oropouche Virus in Semen of Traveler Returning to Italy from Cuba, 2024 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
A febrile man in Italy who had traveled to Cuba in July 2024 was diagnosed with Oropouche fever. Reverse transcription PCR detected prolonged shedding of Oropouche virus RNA in whole blood, serum, urine, and semen.
Concetta Castilletti, Ralph Huits, Rebeca Passarelli Mantovani, Silvia Accordini, Francesca Alladio, Federico Gobbi   +5 more
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Molecular Screening of Black Flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) for Vector-Borne Zoonotic Pathogens, South Moravia, Czech Republic. [PDF]

Zoonoses Public Health
ABSTRACT Introduction Black flies (Simuliidae) are globally distributed blood‐feeding arthropods and vectors of viral, bacterial, and parasitic pathogens to many animal species, including humans. We investigated the occurrence of selected vector‐borne pathogens in black flies in South Moravia, Czech Republic, and evaluated their possible role in the ...
Šikutová S, Mravcová K, Mendel J, Šebesta O, Sak B, Holubová N, Kváč M, McKee C, Adler PH, Otranto D, Rudolf I.   +10 more
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Novel 2-Aryl-1H-Benzimidazole Derivatives and Their Aza-Analogues as Promising Anti-Poxvirus Agents [PDF]

Viruses
Introduction: Despite the impressive progress carried out in the field of biomedical sciences in recent decades, the incidence of emerging and neglected lethal viral infections mainly belonging to the Coronaviridae, Filoviridae, Arenaviridae ...
Valeria Manca, Laura Locci, Roberta Ibba, Laura Sanna, Ilenia Lupinu, Sandra Piras, Gabriele Murineddu, Gabriele Serreli, Roberta Loddo, Rebecca Piras, Luca Virdis, Michela Isola, Vanessa Palmas, Giuseppina Sanna, Antonio Carta   +14 more
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Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of Confirmed Cases of Severe Fever With Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in Jeju Province, Korea, 2014-2018 [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2019
Objectives: Jeju Province is well known as the region showing the highest incidence of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in South Korea.
Jinhee Kim, Jong-Myon Bae
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Infection, Dissemination, and Transmission Potential of North American Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex tarsalis, and Culicoides sonorensis for Oropouche Virus

Viruses, 2021
Oropouche virus (OROV), a vector-borne Orthobunyavirus circulating in South and Central America, causes a febrile illness with high rates of morbidity but with no documented fatalities.
Bethany L. McGregor, C. Roxanne Connelly, Joan L. Kenney   +2 more
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Transmission of Heartland Virus (Bunyaviridae:Phlebovirus) by Experimentally InfectedAmblyomma americanum(Acari: Ixodidae) [PDF]

Journal of Medical Entomology, 2016
Heartland virus (HRTV; Bunyaviridae: Phlebovirus) is a recently described cause of human illness in the United States. After field studies conducted in 2012 implicated Amblyomma americanum (L.) as a vector of HRTV, we initiated experiments to assess the vector competence of A. americanum.
Marvin S, Godsey, Harry M, Savage, Kristen L, Burkhalter, Angela M, Bosco-Lauth, Mark J, Delorey   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources