Zika virus: diagnostics for an emerging pandemic threat

JJ Waggoner, BA Pinsky - Journal of clinical microbiology, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an Aedes mosquito-borne flavivirus that emerged in Brazil in 2015 and
then rapidly spread throughout the tropical and subtropical Americas. Based on clinical …

Dengue detection: advances in diagnostic tools from conventional technology to point of care

MA Kabir, H Zilouchian, MA Younas, W Asghar - Biosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The dengue virus (DENV) is a vector-borne flavivirus that infects around 390 million
individuals each year with 2.5 billion being in danger. Having access to testing is paramount …

Field-deployable viral diagnostics using CRISPR-Cas13

C Myhrvold, CA Freije, JS Gootenberg, OO Abudayyeh… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Mitigating global infectious disease requires diagnostic tools that are sensitive, specific, and
rapidly field deployable. In this study, we demonstrate that the Cas13-based SHERLOCK …

Viremia and clinical presentation in Nicaraguan patients infected with Zika virus, chikungunya virus, and dengue virus

JJ Waggoner, L Gresh, MJ Vargas… - Clinical Infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Zika virus (ZIKV), chikungunya virus (CHIKV), and dengue virus (DENV)
cocirculate in Nicaragua. In this study, we sought to compare the quantified viremia and …

Global and cell type-specific immunological hallmarks of severe dengue progression identified via a systems immunology approach

L Ghita, Z Yao, Y Xie, V Duran, HB Cagirici… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe dengue (SD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. To define dengue virus
(DENV) target cells and immunological hallmarks of SD progression in children's blood, we …

Homotypic dengue virus reinfections in Nicaraguan children

JJ Waggoner, A Balmaseda, L Gresh… - The Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Infection with any of the 4 related dengue virus serotypes (DENV-1–4) is
thought to result in lifelong immunity to homotypic reinfection (ie, reinfection with the same …

Performance of dengue diagnostic tests in a single-specimen diagnostic algorithm

EA Hunsperger, J Muñoz-Jordán… - The Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Anti–dengue virus (DENV) immunoglobulin M (IgM) seroconversion has been
the reference standard for dengue diagnosis. However, paired specimens are rarely …

A sensitive electrochemical method for rapid detection of dengue virus by CRISPR/Cas13a-assisted catalytic hairpin assembly

J Wang, Q Xia, J Wu, Y Lin, H Ju - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Dengue fever caused by Dengue virus (DENV) infection has been widely popular,
especially in tropical and subtropical areas. Rapid and sensitive diagnosis is the first priority …

Comparison of four serological methods and two reverse transcription-PCR assays for diagnosis and surveillance of Zika virus infection

A Balmaseda, JV Zambrana, D Collado… - Journal of clinical …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that is responsible for recent explosive
epidemics in the Americas. Notably, ZIKV infection during pregnancy has been found to …

[HTML][HTML] High dengue burden and circulation of 4 virus serotypes among children with undifferentiated fever, Kenya, 2014–2017

MM Shah, BA Ndenga, FM Mutuku, DM Vu… - Emerging Infectious …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Little is known about the extent and serotypes of dengue viruses circulating in Africa. We
evaluated the presence of dengue viremia during 4 years of surveillance (2014–2017) …