ALLMedicine™ Arenaviruses Center

Jan 6th, 2023 - Pathogenic New World arenaviruses (NWAs) cause haemorrhagic fevers and can have high mortality rates, as shown in outbreaks in South America. Neutralizing antibodies (Abs) are critical for protection from NWAs. Having shown that the MOPEVAC vaccin...

Nov 24th, 2022 - We detected arenavirus RNA in 1.6% of 1,047 bats in Brazil that were sampled during 2007-2011. We identified Tacaribe virus in 2 Artibeus sp. bats and a new arenavirus species in Carollia perspicillata bats that we named Tietê mammarenavirus. Our ...

Oct 31st, 2022 - Diagnostic Considerations Accurately diagnosing influenza A or B infection solely on the basis of clinical criteria is difficult because of the overlapping symptoms caused by the various viruses associated with upper respiratory tract infection (U...

Aug 13th, 2022 - Abalos Therapeutics---arenaviruses take on cancer.|2022|DeFrancesco L,|

Aug 2nd, 2022 - Lassa virus (LASV) is a mammarenavirus that can cause lethal Lassa fever disease with no FDA-approved vaccine and limited treatment options. Fatal LASV infections are associated with innate immune suppression. We have previously shown that the sma...

Oct 26th, 2021 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2/2019-nCoV) and has developed into a pandemic with serious global public health and economic sequelae. As of June 30, 2020 over 10,000,...

Oct 1st, 2014 - In this age of globalization, just a few hours of air travel separates even the most remote places in our world. Given this reality, the recent epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa (Figure 1) has arrived on the doorstep of Texas He.