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AN OVERVIEW OF NEGLECTED ORTHOBUNYAVIRUSES IN BRAZIL
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Imunologia Viral. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Imunologia Viral. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University. College Station, TX, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Imunologia Viral. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University. College Station, TX, USA.
Abstract
Dozens of orthobunyaviruses have been isolated in Brazil, and at least thirteen have
been associated with human disease. The Oropouche virus has received most attention for having
caused explosive epidemics with hundreds of thousands of cases in the north region between the
1960sand the 1980s, and since then has been sporadically detected elsewhere in the country. Despite
their importance, little is known about their enzootic cycles of transmission, amplifying hosts and
vectors, and biotic and abiotic factors involved in spillover events to humans. This overview aims to
combine available data of neglected orthobunyaviruses of several serogroups, namely, Anopheles
A, Anopheles B, Bunyamwera, California, Capim, Gamboa, Group C, Guama, Simbu and Turlock,
in order to evaluate the current knowledge and identify research gaps in their natural transmission
cycles in Brazil to ultimately point to the future direction in which orthobunyavirus research should
be guided.
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