Coronaviruses have caused three major epidemics since 2003, including the ongoing SARS-
CoV-2 pandemic. In each case, the emergence of coronavirus in our species has been …

BackgroundHaiti remains the poorest country in the Americas and one of the poorest in the
world. Children in Haiti face many health concerns, some of which were exacerbated by the …

Coronaviruses have caused three major epidemics since 2003, including the ongoing SARS-
CoV-2 pandemic. In each case, coronavirus emergence in our species has been associated …

Mayaro virus has been associated with small outbreaks in northern South America. We
isolated this virus from a child with acute febrile illness in rural Haiti, confirming its role as a …

Background Zika virus (ZIKV), first isolated in Uganda in 1947, is currently spreading rapidly
through South America and the Caribbean. In Brazil, infection has been linked with …

Madariaga virus (MADV), also known as South American eastern equine encephalitis virus,
has been identified in animals and humans in South and Central America, but not previously …

Abstract Background Beginning in December 2013, an epidemic of chikungunya virus
(CHIKV) infection spread across the Caribbean and into virtually all countries in the Western …

As part of on-going arboviral surveillance activity in a semi-rural region in Haiti,
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV)-positive mosquito pools were identified in 2014 (the peak of the …

In the context of recent arbovirus epidemics, questions about the frequency of simultaneous
infection of patients with different arbovirus species have been raised. In 2014, a major …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is one of the main
acute and chronic diarrhea causes both in children and adults, mainly in developing …