Virome of Terrestrial Mammals and Bats from Southern Brazil: Circulation of New Putative Members of the Togaviridae Family and Other Findings [PDF]
PathogensThe surveillance of wildlife viromes is essential for identifying zoonotic threats within the One Health framework. This study analyzed rectal and oral swabs from 88 individuals representing 13 species as felids, wild rodents, marsupials and non-human ...
Julyana Sthéfanie Simões Matos +8 more
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Uso de células de Aedes albopictus C6/36 na propagação e classificação de arbovírus das famílias Togaviridae, Flaviviridae, Bunyaviridae e Rhabdoviridae [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 1990 Colônias de células de mosquito Aedes albopictus C6/36 foram infectadas com 23 arbovirus, sendo 19 destes existentes no Brasil, pertencentes às famílias Togaviridae, Flaviviridae, Bunyaviridae e Rhabdoviridae.
Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo
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Seroprevalence of Alphaviruses (Togaviridae) among Urban Population in Nouakchott, Mauritania, West Africa [PDF]
Viruses, 2023 The presence of alphaviruses, such as chikungunya virus (CHIKV), has never been reported in Mauritania. We assessed the seroprevalence of CHIKV among Nouakchott residents.
Bedia Abdoullah +8 more
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Intervirology, 1985 The family Togaviridae comprises four genera: Alphavirus (with 26 species), Rubivirus (one species), Pestivirus (three species), and Arterivirus (one species). The main characteristics of the member viruses are: (i) the virus particles are spherical, 50-70 nm in diameter, including an envelope with surface projections that incorporate two or three ...
Horzinek, M.C. +9 more
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Group size and nest spacing affect Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus) infection in nestling house sparrows. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The transmission of parasites and pathogens among vertebrates often depends on host population size, host species diversity, and the extent of crowding among potential hosts, but little is known about how these variables apply to most vector-borne ...
Valerie A O'Brien, Charles R Brown
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Pathogenicity and virulence of O’nyong-nyong virus: A less studied Togaviridae with pandemic potential [PDF]
VirulenceO’nyong-nyong virus (ONNV) is a neglected mosquito-borne alphavirus belonging to the Togaviridae family. ONNV is known to be responsible for sporadic outbreaks of acute febrile disease and polyarthralgia in Africa.
Samuel Tong Jia Ming +2 more
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Insect-specific viruses: transmission dynamics and biological control strategies against arboviruses [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyMosquitoes are known to vector arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) that pose a global public health issue in the form of mosquito-borne viral diseases such as chikungunya fever, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever, and Zika.
Lukas Wilkman +7 more
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Virology of the Family Togaviridae
Uirusu, 2011 Many pathogens important for medicine, veterinary medicine or public health belong to the genera alphavirus and rubivirus within the family Togaviridae. 29 species of alphaviruses have been reported, and most of them are arboviruses. Chikungnya virus re-emerged in Kenya in 2004 and the epidemics spread to the Indian Ocean islands and many countries in ...
Yoshio, Mori +3 more
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ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Togaviridae
Journal of General Virology, 2018 The Togaviridae is a family of small, enveloped viruses with single-stranded, positive-sense RNA genomes of 10–12 kb. Within the family, the genus Alphavirus includes a large number of diverse species, while the genus Rubivirus includes the single species Rubella virus.
Chen, Rubing +8 more
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