Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses (VEEV) in Argentina: serological evidence of human infection.

• Published in: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: María Belén Pisano, Griselda Oria, Geraldine Beskow, Javier Aguilar, Brenda Konigheim, María Luisa Cacace, Luis Aguirre, Marina Stein, Marta Silvia Contigiani
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Argentina; Chaco
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002551; https://doaj.org/article/76f61203abf94135838b39012bdc8eee

Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses (VEEV) are responsible for human diseases in the Americas, producing severe or mild illness with symptoms indistinguishable from dengue and other arboviral diseases. For this reason, many cases remain without certain diagnosis. Seroprevalence studies for VEEV s...