Oropouche Virus: An Emerging Orthobunyavirus

NL Tilston-Lunel - Journal of General Virology, 2024 - microbiologyresearch.org
On 2 February 2024, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization
issued an epidemiological alert on rising Oropouche virus (OROV) infections in South …

Emergence of Oropouche fever in Latin America: a narrative review

KM Wesselmann, I Postigo-Hidalgo, L Pezzi… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Since its discovery in 1955, the incidence and geographical spread of reported Oropouche
virus (OROV) infections have increased. Oropouche fever has been suggested to be one of …

Newborns with microcephaly in Brazil and potential vertical transmission of Oropouche virus: a case series

FE das Neves Martins, JO Chiang… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Oropouche fever, an orthobunyavirus disease endemic in Brazilian Amazon,
has caused many febrile epidemics. In 2024, an epidemic of Oropouche fever spread in …

Organotypic culture of human brain explants as a preclinical model for AI-driven antiviral studies

E Partiot, B Gorda, W Lutz, S Lebrun… - EMBO Molecular …, 2024 - embopress.org
Viral neuroinfections represent a major health burden for which the development of
antivirals is needed. Antiviral compounds that target the consequences of a brain infection …

Modeling the Human Brain With ex vivo Slices and in vitro Organoids for Translational Neuroscience

GO Nogueira, PP Garcez, C Bardy… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Advances in translational neuroscience require experimental models recapitulating the
complexity of the human brain. In contrast to conventional 2D cell culture models and animal …

New insights into Oropouche: expanding geographic spread, mortality, vertical transmission, and birth defects

R Huits, JJ Waggoner, C Castilletti - Journal of Travel Medicine, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Oropouche virus (OROV) is an arbovirus transmitted by midges that is now emerging outside
the Amazon region. For the first time, fatal cases were reported, and possible vertical …

The multitaskers of the brain: Glial responses to viral infections and associated post‐infectious neurologic sequelae

VA Davé, RS Klein - Glia, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many viral infections cause acute and chronic neurologic diseases which can lead to
degeneration of cortical functions. While neurotropic viruses that gain access to the central …

[HTML][HTML] Oropouche virus: a neglected global arboviral threat

Y Zhang, X Liu, Z Wu, S Feng, K Lu, W Zhu, H Sun… - Virus Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The Oropouche virus is an important arthropod-borne virus in the Peribunyaviridae family
that can cause febrile illnesses, and it is widely distributed in tropical regions such as …

A review of omics studies on arboviruses: alphavirus, orthobunyavirus and phlebovirus

RS Peinado, RJ Eberle, RK Arni, MA Coronado - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since the intricate and complex steps in pathogenesis and host-viral interactions of
arthropod-borne viruses or arboviruses are not completely understood, the multi-omics …

Modulation of HERV expression by four different encephalitic arboviruses during infection of human primary astrocytes

FL Castro, OJB Brustolini, VEV Geddes, JPBM Souza… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Human retroelements (HERVs) are retroviral origin sequences fixed in the human genome.
HERVs induction is associated with neurogenesis, cellular development, immune activation …