Oropouche virus importation in Southern Brazil and emerging concern calling for enhanced public health surveillance

Abstract excerpt

Oropouche virus, an arthropod-borne virus transmitted by Culicoides paraensis , is an endemic arbovirus that mostly circulates in the Amazon basin. However, between 2022 and 2024, it reemerged as a more widespread public health concern in South America. We conducted a pooled-sample molecular surveillance to understand the true prevalence of Oropouche fever in Brazil’s southernmost state. Over 18 months, we analyze...

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• Bunyaviridae Infections
• Climate
• Colombia
• Disease Outbreaks
• Evolution, Molecular
• High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
• Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
• Viral Infections and Vectors

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Literature Corpus work

3839b30e-11e7-5e04-8577-bbd3ade4ad77

DOI

10.1101/2025.02.19.25322570