LeDuc, J. W. Epidemiology of hemorrhagic fever viruses.
Marburgvirus is one of the most important hemorrhagic fever viruses with extremely high infectivity and fatality rate (∼90%).
Graham, S. P. et al. Challenge of pigs with classical swine fever viruses after C-strain vaccination reveals remarkably rapid protection and insights into early immunity.
Sylla, M. et al. Yellow fever and dengue fever viruses serosurvey in non-human primates of the Kedougou forest galleries in Southeastern Senegal.
In particular, Dr. LaBeaud investigates dengue, chikungunya, and Rift Valley fever viruses in Kenya, where outbreaks cause fever, arthritis, retinitis, encephalitis, and hemorrhagic fever.
The mosquito-borne flaviviruses include important human pathogens such as dengue, Zika, West Nile, and yellow fever viruses, which pose a serious threat for global health.
"It's not un-useful information, but it's not altogether convincing of reservoir status," said Tom Ksiazek, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, who specializes in hemorrhagic fever viruses, such as Ebola.
The specificity studies indicated that there was no cross-reactivity with other related hemorrhagic fever viruses circulating in Sudan including, Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), Dengue fever virus, and yellow fever virus.
A method for genetic grouping of classical swine fever viruses (CSFV) was developed based on the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) revealed by AvaII, BanII and PvuII digestion of RT-PCR amplified segments of the E2 gene.
Here, we present an overview of the animal models that have been established for each of the haemorrhagic fever viruses and identify which aspects of human disease are modelled.
The RT-LAMP assays were specific for the detection of the respective species of ebolavirus with no cross reaction with other species of ebolavirus and other viral hemorrhagic fever viruses such as Marburg virus, Lassa fever virus, and Dengue virus.
