Sentences with word «arbovirus»

Underreporting might be due to the circulation of other arboviruses which cause similar clinical features as ZIKV infection.

The inoculation of viruses into mosquito bite sites is an important and common stage of arbovirus infections.

For Pedro Vasconcelos, director of the National Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses in Brazil at the Evandro Chagas Institute, there is no time to lose.

The specificity of the rRT - PCR assay allows its use for differential diagnosis of arboviral infections in Africa and Asia where ZIKV co-circulates with other arboviruses such as Dengue, Chikungunya and yellow fever viruses [22].

The studies found that transmission of dengue, and other arboviruses by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, has been found to occur between 18 - 34 °C (64 to 93 °F) with maximal transmission in the range of 26 - 29 °C (78 to 84 °F).

albopictus in Panama is very related to European populations, this could have implications for the introduction of emergent arboviruses like chikungunya and Zika from Europe into Panama.

This work demonstrates how a conditional series of non-average but realistic events could result in local arbovirus transmission and outbreaks of human disease, even in temperate cities.

Carrie Manore of the Laboratory's Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group and a team developed a mathematical model informed by field data to assess the conditions likely to facilitate local transmission of the Zika and chikungunya arboviruses from an infected traveler to the tiger mosquito and then to other people in cities in the eastern United States.

Mosquitoes samples were collected during a routine surveillance for arbovirus in Kedougou, Southeastern Senegal from May to December 2011 as described previously [27] and pooled by species into groups of up 50 individuals.

Spot - slides of C6 / 36 and Vero cells were subsequently prepared on days 10 post-inoculation of the samples (or sooner if CPE developed) and an immunofluorescence assay (IFA) was performed using polyclonal antibody against arboviruses endemic to Peru, including ORO virus [17], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30].

Within 10 days, slides were prepared for IFA against 7 pools of immune ascitic fluids specific for most of the African mosquito - borne arboviruses.

Career Goals: I plan to pursue a career in scientific research focused on Arboviruses involved in human disease.

Scientists and public health officials involved with arbovirus transmission have had limited ability to make credible predictions, in part based on incomplete information about conditions that permit an outbreak and the likelihood those conditions will arise.

For example, rapid urbanization in Africa could transform yellow fever, chikungunya fever (which causes severe joint pain and fever), and other rural African arboviruses (viruses, including yellow fever, spread by bloodsucking insects) into plagues of African cities, as has already happened with dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Its flexible framework can be readily applied to other US states and adapted for risk assessments of other emerging arboviruses, including Chikungunya, Dengue, and Yellow fever.»

«This research team's dedication and previous research on dengue and other arboviruses enabled them to quickly develop this model for Zika virus, an important first step to enable testing of candidate vaccine and therapeutics,» said Stephen Higgs, PhD, the president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

albopictus in the United States and delineate areas with risk for the transmission of these introduced arboviruses,» the authors wrote.

They store virus samples in a reference bank sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health, called the Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses Reference Collection, at the UTMB.

The mosquitoes known as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus transmit arboviruses that are increasing threats to human health in the Americas, particularly dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses.

While the intra-mosquito viral dynamics in this model were parameterised for dengue virus, the limited information currently available on other arboviruses suggests that their dynamics are similar (Lambrechts et al., 2011).

This assay is a useful tool for detection of ZIKV infection in regions where a number of other clinically indistinguishable arboviruses like dengue or chikungunya co-circulate.

The non-specific clinical presentation can be confused with most other arboviruses particularly dengue and chikungunya virus infection.

In Senegal, the entomological and virological surveillance program of arboviruses since 1972 showed an enzootic circulation of ZIKV [20].

Fleas transmit the plague bacteria and mosquitoes transmit West Nile Virus and other arboviruses within the United States.

It is important to note that none of the 150 experts that signed this letter has expertise is the epidemiology of mosquito - borne arboviruses.

Blood specimens which will be tested for antibodies to arboviruses such as tickborne Powassan virus at a lab in the David Axelrod Institute on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron / Times Union)

This proportion was derived from existing temperature suitability models (Brady et al., 2013; 2014), which predict the total number of days within an average year that arbovirus transmission can be sustained in Ae.

Zika and chikungunya arboviruses are transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, including the Asian tiger mosquito (Ae.

If Zika behaves like other arboviruses, such as chikungunya and dengue, it will probably stick around.

A year old colt in the town of Vernon had to be euthanized after it was observed to be suffering neurological symptoms that were later determined to be the result of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) arbovirus, Oneida County Health Department officials said today.

«It really fits with what we've been seeing,» says Laura Kramer, director of the arbovirus laboratories at the New York State Department of Health in Albany.

«We see it with all of these arboviruses that cause epidemics.

The Zika virus is an arbovirus spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and has been strongly linked to congenital malformations in infants born to mothers who contracted the disease while pregnant.

Using funding from a grant to the World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses (WRCEVA) at UTMB, Rossi injected several genetically distinct varieties of laboratory mice with Zika virus isolated in Asia in 2010.

Yellow fever is caused by an arbovirus of the family Flaviviridae, and is one of the smallest RNA viruses isolated.

For choosing among competing theories about what went wrong with Zika, it also helps that arbovirus expert Scott Weaver, the university's director of the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, and his colleagues have become good at a rather arcane skill: making mosquitoes spit.

Galveston is an ideal place to tackle this inside versus outside debate because the Medical Branch research center is home to the massive World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses.

West Nile virus (WNV) is an arthropod - borne virus (arbovirus) that was originally identified in Uganda during the mid-1900's.

Like others arbovirus (YFV, DENV, CHIKV) in this Kedougou region, ZIKV were found frequently at the end of the rainy season between September and December [2, 35], characterized by the existence of a very diversified mosquito fauna and an old population of vectors that have taken several blood meals and thus are more likely to be infected by contact with viremic hosts.

Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus (Flaviviridae family genus flavivirus [1] transmitted by mosquitoes.

Research Focus: My research projects are focused on the roles of T - cell epitopes in Arboviruses.

arbovirus any of various viruses transmitted by arthropods and including the causative agents of dengue fever, yellow fever, and some encephalitis