Endemic Venezuelan equine encephalitis in the Americas: hidden under the dengue umbrella

PV Aguilar, JG Estrada-Franco, R Navarro-Lopez… - Future …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) is an emerging infectious disease in Latin America.
Outbreaks have been recorded for decades in countries with enzootic circulation, and the …

[HTML][HTML] COI barcode versus morphological identification of Culex ( Culex ) (Diptera: Culicidae) species: a case study using samples from Argentina and …

M Laurito, TMP Oliveira, WR Almiron… - Memórias do Instituto …, 2013 - SciELO Brasil
Sequences of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) mitochondrial gene from adults of 22
Culex (Culex) species from Argentina and Brazil were employed to assess species …

[HTML][HTML] Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus: the problem is not over for tropical America

C Guzmán-Terán, A Calderón-Rangel… - Annals of clinical …, 2020 - Springer
The equine encephalitis viruses, Venezuelan (VEEV), East (EEEV) and West (WEEV),
belong to the genus alphavirus, family Togaviridae and still represent a threat for human and …

Emergent and reemergent arboviruses in South America and the Caribbean: why so many and why now?

CB Marcondes, M Contigiani… - Journal of medical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Several arboviruses have emerged and/or reemerged in the New World in the past decades.
Zika and chikungunya viruses, formerly restricted to Africa and perhaps Asia, invaded the …

[HTML][HTML] Classification of immature mosquito species according to characteristics of the larval habitat in the subtropical province of Chaco, Argentina

M Stein, F Ludueña-Almeida, JA Willener… - Memórias do Instituto …, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
To classify mosquito species based on common features of their habitats, samples were
obtained fortnightly between June 2001-October 2003 in the subtropical province of Chaco …

West nile virus and equine encephalitis viruses: New perspectives

MT Long - Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice, 2014 - vetequine.theclinics.com
The genus Alphavirus belongs to the family Togaviridae and includes several viruses that
have been isolated from horses with neurologic disease. Of these alphaviruses, Eastern …

[HTML][HTML] Wing Geometric Morphometrics as a Tool for the Identification of Culex Subgenus Mosquitoes of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae)

RF Simões, ABB Wilke, CRF Chagas, RMT Menezes… - Insects, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Different mosquito species have different ecology and behaviors.
Therefore, the correct identification of vector mosquito species is essential for the …

Alphaviruses in Latin America and the introduction of chikungunya virus

JC Navarro, JP Carrera, J Liria, AJ Auguste… - Human Virology in Latin …, 2017 - Springer
Alphaviruses are enveloped, single-stranded, plus-strand RNA viruses belonging to the
Togaviridae family. These are zoonotics and arthropod-borne viruses (mainly mosquitoes) …

[HTML][HTML] Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses (VEEV) in Argentina: serological evidence of human infection

MB Pisano, G Oria, G Beskow, J Aguilar… - PLoS Neglected …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses (VEEV) are responsible for human diseases in the
Americas, producing severe or mild illness with symptoms indistinguishable from dengue …

[HTML][HTML] Alphavirus Identification in Neotropical Bats

L Moreira Marrero, G Botto Nuñez, S Frabasile… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alphaviruses (Togaviridae) are arthropod-borne viruses responsible for several emerging
diseases, maintained in nature through transmission between hematophagous arthropod …