Publications

[presence of antibodies against venezuelan equine encephalitis virus subtype vi in patients with acute febrile illness].	in argentina, there is no record of human cases produced by dengue virus (flavivirus), but paraguay and brasil (neighbouring countries) have notified human outbreaks of dengue haemorrhagic fever. in this report, we inform the serological results of a limited human outbreak of a dengue-like acute illness that occurred in general belgrano island, formosa, argentina in april 1989. this island is 35 km far from clorinda city of paraguay river, with a human population of 150 inhabitants. the weather ...	1993	8153352
seroprevalence of antibodies to venezuelan equine encephalitis complex (subtypes iab and vi) in humans from general belgrano island, formosa, argentina.	this work presents the results of the detection of antibodies (immunoglobulin g) for subtypes i and vi of vee viruses complex (togaviridae family) in people from the general belgrano island, formosa province (argentina). the prevalence of neutralizing (nt) antibodies for subtype vi was from 30% to 70% and the prevalence of antibodies inhibitory of hemagglutination (hi) was of 0% in the first and second inquiry respectively. for the subtype iab the prevalence of nt antibodies was from 13% to 3.6% ...	2003	14502347
cocirculation of rio negro virus (rnv) and pixuna virus (pixv) in tucumán province, argentina.	venezuelan equine encephalitis complex includes viruses considered emerging pathogens for humans and animals in the americas. two members of this complex have been detected previously in argentina: rio negro virus (rnv), detected in mosquitoes from chaco province and rodents from formosa province, and pixuna virus (pixv), detected in mosquitoes from chaco province. to carry out surveillance studies in other parts of the country, detection of a 195-bp fragment of alphaviruses by rt-nested pcr was ...	2010	20497404