Identification and characterization of viruses causing fever diseases and transmitted by arthropods and rodents in the region of Porto Velho, Rondônia

• Grant number: 15/04882-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: July 01, 2015
• End date: June 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Epidemiology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Victor Hugo Aquino Quintana
• Grantee: Mario Luis Garcia de Figueiredo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (FCFRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Among the viruses affecting tropical countries, those transmitted by rodents (robovirus, rodent-borne virus) and arthropods (arbovirus, arthropod-borne virus) have great importance in public health and in veterinary because most of them are zoonoses. Several of them are emergent viruses, representing threats to public health worldwide. Arboviruses and roboviruses causing diseases in humans in Brazil belong mainly to four families: Flaviviridae, Togaviridae, Bunyaviridae, and Arenaviridae. Considering the importance in public health of some of these viruses, and the possibility of emergence of others, it is of great interest to monitor the circulation of these viruses. Porto Velho, the capital of Rondonia state, is located in an endemic region for malaria that is transmitted by the bite of female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Dozen of individual seek everyday the Center of Tropical Medicine of Rondonia (CEPEM) for specific laboratorial diagnosis. However, several cases are negatives for that disease, suggesting it is a viral disease that could be caused by arboviruses or roboviruses that it is not generally diagnosed. Therefore, it is of great interest the specific diagnosis of viral infections in the cases negatives for malaria, in order the health authorities can take the necessary strategies to avoid epidemics outbreak caused by these viruses. The aim of this project is to identify and characterized arboviruses and roboviruses circulating in the region of Porto Velho. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GARCIA DE FIGUEIREDO, MARIO LUIS; WILLIAMS, EVAN P.; JONSSON, COLLEEN B.; KHAN, MOHD JASEEM; TEIXEIRA NUNES, MARCIO ROBERTO; SILVA DE LIMA, CLAYTON PEREIRA; MORAES FIGUEIREDO, LUIZ TADEU; FARIAS COSTA, MONICA REGINA; GOMES MOURAO, MARIA PAULA; GUIMARAES LACERDA, MARCUS VINICIUS; et al. Screening of febrile patients with suspected malaria from the Brazilian Amazon for virus infection. ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY, v. 167, n. 11, p. 12-pg., 2022-07-16. (15/04882-3, 17/09194-3)

GARCIA DE FIGUEIREDO, MARIO LUIS; AMARILLA, ALBERTO ANASTACIO; DE FIGUEIREDO, GLAUCIANE GARCIA; ALFONSO, HELDA LIZ; LIPPI, VERONICA; MOTTA MAIA, FELIPE GONCALVES; MORAIS, FELIPE ALVES; DA COSTA, CRISTOVAO ALVES; HENRIQUES, DYANA ALVES; DURIGON, EDISON LUIS; et al. Cacipacore virus as an emergent mosquito-borne Flavivirus. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, v. 50, n. 4, p. 539-542, JUL-AUG 2017. (15/04882-3)

GARCIA DE FIGUEIREDO, MARIO LUIS; AMARILLA, ALBERTO ANASTACIO; DE FIGUEIREDO, GLAUCIANE GARCIA; ALFONSO, HELDA LIZ; LIPPI, VERONICA; MOTTA MAIA, FELIPE GONCALVES; MORAIS, FELIPE ALVES; DA COSTA, CRISTOVAO ALVES; HENRIQUES, DYANA ALVES; DURIGON, EDISON LUIS; et al. Cacipacore virus as an emergent mosquito-borne Flavivirus. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, v. 50, n. 4, p. 4-pg., 2017-07-01. (15/04882-3)