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Yellow fever epizootics in non-human primates, São Paulo state, Brazil, 2008-2009
Moreno, Eduardo Stramandinoli; Spinola, Roberta; Tengan, Cilea Hatsumi; Brasil, Roosecelis Araujo; Siciliano, Melissa MascherattiDesde 2000, vem sendo observada a expansão da febre amarela (FA) no Sudeste do Brasil, sendo detectados casos em áreas consideradas silenciosas por décadas. Epizootias em primatas não humanos (NHPs) são considerados eventos sentinela para a detecção de casos humanos. É importante relatar eventos epizoóticos que podem ter impacto sobre o estado de conservação de espécies sensíveis. Descrevemos as epizootias, not...
Isolation of yellow fever virus (YFV) from naturally infectied Haemagogus (Cono...
Souza, Renato Pereira de; Petrella, Selma; Coimbra, Terezinha Lisieux Moraes; Maeda, Adriana Yurika; Rocco, Iray Maria; Bisordi, IvaniAfter detecting the death of Howlers monkeys (genus Alouatta) and isolation of yellow fever virus (YFV) in Buri county, São Paulo, Brazil, an entomological research study in the field was started. A YFV strain was isolated from newborn Swiss mice and cultured cells of Aedes albopictus - C6/36, from a pool of six Haemagogus (Conopostegus) leucocelaenus (Hg. leucocelaenus) mosquitoes (Dyar & Shannon) collected at...
Molecular characterization of two rocio flavivirus strains isolated during the ...
Coimbra, Terezinha Lisieux Moraes; Santos, Raimundo N.; Petrella, Selma; Nagasse-Sugahara, Teresa Keico; Castrignano, Silvana BeresRocio virus (ROCV) was responsible for an explosive encephalitis epidemic in the 1970s affecting about 1,000 residents of 20 coastland counties in São Paulo State, Brazil. ROCV was first isolated in 1975 from the cerebellum of a fatal human case of encephalitis. Clinical manifestations of the illness are similar to those described for St. Louis encephalitis. ROCV shows intense antigenic cross-reactivity with Ja...