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SUBMITTER: Lednicky JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6328082 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lednicky John A JA White Sarah K SK Mavian Carla N CN El Badry Maha A MA Telisma Taina T Salemi Marco M OKech Bernard A BA Beau De Rochars V Madsen VM Morris J Glenn JG
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20190110 1
Madariaga virus (MADV), also known as South American eastern equine encephalitis virus, has been identified in animals and humans in South and Central America, but not previously in Hispaniola or the northern Caribbean. MADV was isolated from virus cultures of plasma from an 8-year-old child in a school cohort in the Gressier/Leogane region of Haiti, who was seen in April, 2015, with acute febrile illness (AFI). The virus was subsequently cultured from an additional seven AFI case patients from ...[more]