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Authored By: Aguilar, Patricia V.

Endemic Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis in Northern Peru

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Aguilar, Patricia V.; Greene, Ivorlyne P.; Coffey, Lark L.; Medina, Gladys; Moncayo, Abelardo C.; Anishchenko, Michael; Ludwig, George V.; Turell, Michael J.; O’Guinn, Monica L.; Lee, John; Tesh, Robert B.; Watts, Douglas M.; Russell, Kevin L.; Hice, Christine; Yanoviak, Stephen; Morrison, Amy C.; Klein, Terry A.; Dohm, David J.; Guzman, Hilda; Travassos da Rosa, Amelia P.A.; Guevara, Carolina; Kochel, Tadeusz; Olson, James; Cabezas, Cesar; Weaver, Scott C.;

Published Date:

May 2004

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Emerg Infect Dis. 10(5):880-888.

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Since Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) was isolated in Peru in 1942, >70 isolates have been obtained from mosquitoes, humans, and sylvatic mammals primarily in the Amazon region. To investigate genetic relationships among the Peru VEEV iso...

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Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis and 2 Human Deaths, Peru

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Vilcarromero, Stalin; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Halsey, Eric S.; Laguna-Torres, Alberto; Razuri, Hugo; Perez, Juan; Valderrama, Yadira; Gotuzzo, Eduardo; Suárez, Luis; Céspedes, Manuel; Kochel, Tadeusz J.;

Published Date:

Mar 2010

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Emerg Infect Dis. 16(3):553-556.

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Studies have suggested that enzootic strains of Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) subtype ID in the Amazon region, Peru, may be less pathogenic to humans than are epizootic variants. Deaths of 2 persons with evidence of acute VEE virus infection i...

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Itaya virus, a Novel Orthobunyavirus Associated with Human Febrile Illness, Peru

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Hontz, Robert D.; Guevara, Carolina; Halsey, Eric S.; Silvas, Jesus; Santiago, Felix W.; Widen, Steven G.; Wood, Thomas G.; Casanova, Wilma; Vasilakis, Nikos; Watts, Douglas M.; Kochel, Tadeusz J.; Ebihara, Hideki; Aguilar, Patricia V.;

Published Date:

May 2015

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Emerg Infect Dis. 21(5):781-788.

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Our genetic analyses of uncharacterized bunyaviruses isolated in Peru identified a possible reassortant virus containing small and large gene segment sequences closely related to the Caraparu virus and a medium gene segment sequence potentially deriv...

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Phylogenetics and Pathogenesis of Early Avian Influenza Viruses (H5N1), Nigeria

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Aiki-Raji, Comfort O.; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Kwon, Yong-Kuk; Goetz, Sue; Suarez, David L.; Jethra, Aashish I.; Nash, Oyekanmi; Adeyefa, Christopher A.O.; Adu, Festus D.; Swayne, David; Basler, Christopher F.;

Published Date:

Nov 2008

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Emerg Infect Dis. 14(11):1753-1755

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Three highly pathogenic avian influenza subtype H5N1 and 4 Newcastle disease viruses were isolated from sick or dead chickens in southwestern Nigeria. Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis placed them within H5N1 subclade 2.2.2. Intravenous and intran...

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Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Transmission and Effect on Pathogenesis

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Smith, Darci R.; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Coffey, Lark L.; Gromowski, Gregory D.; Wang, Eryu; Weaver, Scott C.;

Published Date:

Aug 2006

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Emerg Infect Dis. 12(8):1190-1196.

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Quantifying the dose of an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes is essential for designing pathogenesis studies simulating natural infection of vertebrates. Titration of saliva collected in vitro from infected mosquitoes may not accurately estimate ti...

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Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infection of Cotton Rats

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Carrara, Anne-Sophie; Coffey, Lark L.; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Moncayo, Abelardo C.; Da Rosa, Amelia P.A. Travassos; Nunes, Marcio R.T.; Tesh, Robert B.; Weaver, Scott C.;

Published Date:

Aug 2007

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Emerg Infect Dis. 13(8):1158-1165.

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Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) is an emerging pathogen of equids and humans, but infection of its rodent reservoir hosts has received little study. To determine whether responses to infection vary among geographic populations, we inocula...

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St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Infection in Woman, Peru

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Felices, Vidal; Ampuero, Julia S.; Guevara, Carolina; Caceda, Edna R.; Gomez, Jorge; Santiago-Maldonado, Felix W.; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Halsey, Eric S.;

Published Date:

Apr 2014

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Emerg Infect Dis. 20(4):730-732.

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Ilheus Virus Infection in Human, Bolivia

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Venegas, Erika A.; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Cruz, Cristhopher; Guevara, Carolina; Kochel, Tadeusz J.; Vargas, Jorge; Halsey, Eric S.;

Published Date:

Mar 2012

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Emerg Infect Dis. 18(3):516-518.

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Mayaro Virus Infection, Amazon Basin Region, Peru, 2010–2013

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Halsey, Eric S.; Siles, Crystyan; Guevara, Carolina; Vilcarromero, Stalin; Jhonston, Erik J.; Ramal, Cesar; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Ampuero, Julia S.;

Published Date:

Nov 2013

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Emerg Infect Dis. 19(11):1839-1842.

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During 2010-2013, we recruited 16 persons with confirmed Mayaro virus infection in the Peruvian Amazon to prospectively follow clinical symptoms and serologic response over a 12-month period. Mayaro virus infection caused long-term arthralgia in more...

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Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis and Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Child

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Vilcarromero, Stalin; Laguna-Torres, Alberto; Fernández, Connie; Gotuzzo, Eduardo; Suárez, Luis; Céspedes, Manuel; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Kochel, Tadeusz J.;

Published Date:

Feb 2009

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Emerg Infect Dis. 15(2):323-325.

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Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) is reemerging in Peru. VEE virus subtype ID in Peru has not been previously associated with severe disease manifestations. In 2006, VEE virus subtype ID was isolated from a boy with severe febrile disease and gast...

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Reemergence of Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever, 2007–2008

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Aguilar, Patricia V.; Camargo, Wilfredo; Vargas, Jorge; Guevara, Carolina; Roca, Yelin; Felices, Vidal; Laguna-Torres, Alberto; Tesh, Robert; Ksiazek, Thomas G.; Kochel, Tadeusz J.;

Published Date:

Sep 2009

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Emerg Infect Dis. 15(9):1526-1528.

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Persistence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Aerosol Suspensions

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Fears, Alyssa C.; Klimstra, William B.; Duprex, Paul; Hartman, Amy; Weaver, Scott C.; Plante, Kenneth S.; Mirchandani, Divya; Plante, Jessica Ann; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Fernández, Diana; Nalca, Aysegul; Totura, Aysegul; Dyer, David; Kearney, Brian; Lackemeyer, Matthew; Bohannon, J. Kyle; Johnson, Reed; Garry, Robert F.; Reed, Doug S.; Roy, Chad J.;

Published Date:

June 22 2020

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Emerg Infect Dis. 26(9):2168-2171

Description:

We aerosolized severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and determined that its dynamic aerosol efficiency surpassed those of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Middle East respiratory syndrome. Although we performed experiment ...

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