| human febrile illness caused by encephalomyocarditis virus infection, peru. | etiologic studies of acute febrile disease were conducted in sites across south america, including cusco and iquitos, peru. patients' clinical signs and symptoms were recorded, and acute- and convalescent-phase serum samples were obtained for serologic examination and virus isolation in vero e6 and c6/36 cells. virus isolated in vero e6 cells was identified as encephalomyocarditis virus (emcv) by electron microscopy and by subsequent molecular diagnostic testing of samples from 2 febrile patient ... | 2009 | 19331761 |
| long-term arthralgia after mayaro virus infection correlates with sustained pro-inflammatory cytokine response. | mayaro virus (mayv), an alphavirus similar to chikungunya virus (chikv), causes an acute debilitating disease which results in the development of long-term arthralgia in more than 50% of infected individuals. currently, the immune response and its role in the development of mayv-induced persistent arthralgia remain unknown. in this study, we evaluated the immune response of individuals with confirmed mayv infection in a one-year longitudinal study carried out in loreto, peru. we report that mayv ... | 2015 | 26496497 |