• A beginner’s guide for FMDV quasispecies analysis: sub-consensus variant detection and haplotype reconstruction using next-generation sequencing 

      Cacciabue, Marco Polo; Curra, Anabella Paola; Carrillo, Elisa Cristina; Konig, Guido Alberto; Gismondi, Maria Ines (Oxford Academic Press, 2020-09)
      Deep sequencing of viral genomes is a powerful tool to study RNA virus complexity. However, the analysis of next-generation sequencing data might be challenging for researchers who have never approached the study of viral ...
    • A computational study of the interaction of the foot and mouth disease virus VP1 with monoclonal antibodies 

      Marrero Diaz De Villegas, Rubén; Rodríguez Limardo, Ramiro; Carrillo, Elisa Cristina; Konig, Guido Alberto; Turjanski, Adrián G. (Elsevier, 2015-10)
      Foot and mouth disease is caused by a non-enveloped virus (FMDV), which disposes several antigenic sites at the surface of their capsid proteins. The most relevant and immunodominant antigenic site of FMDV (site A or AnSA) ...
    • Assessing the hidden diversity underlying consensus sequences of SARS-CoV-2 using VICOS, a novel bioinformatic pipeline for identification of mixed viral populations 

      Goya, Stephanie; Sosa, Ezequiel Jorge; Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes Soledad; Torres, Carolina; Konig, Guido Alberto; Acuña, Dolores; Ceballos, Santiago; Distefano, Ana Julia; Dopazo, Hernán; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Fass, Monica Irinia; Fernandez Do Porto, Darío Augusto; Fernandez, Ailen; Gallego, Fernando; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Gramundi, Ivan; Lusso, Silvina; Marti, Marcelo Adrián; Mazzeo, Melina; Mistchenko, Alicia Susana; Muñoz Hidalgo, Marianne Graziel; Natale, Mónica; Nardi, Cristina; Ousset, Julia; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Pintos, Carolina; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Pianciola, Luis; Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro; Turjanski, Adrián; Valinotto, Laura; Vera, Pablo Alfredo; Zaiat, Jonathan; Zubrycki, Jeremias Enrique; Aulicino, Paula; Viegas, Mariana (Elsevier, 2023-02)
      Introduction: Coinfection with two SARS-CoV-2 viruses is still a very understudied phenomenon. Although next generation sequencing methods are very sensitive to detect heterogeneous viral populations in a sample, there is ...
    • Cost-Effective Method to Perform SARS-CoV-2 Variant Surveillance: Detection of Alpha, Gamma, Lambda, Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta in Argentina 

      Torres, Carolina; Mojsiejczuk, Laura; Acuña, Dolores; Alexay, Sofía; Amadio, Ariel; Aulicino, Paula; Debat, Humberto Julio; Fay, Fabián; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Giri, Adriana A.; Goya, Stephanie; Konig, Guido Alberto; Lucero, Horacio; Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes; Pianciola, Luis; Sfalcin, Javier A.; Acevedo, Raúl M.; Bengoa Luoni, Sofía Ailin; Bolatti, Elisa M.; Brusés, Bettina; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Casal, Pablo E.; Cerri, Agustina; Chouhy, Diego; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Fernandez, Ailen; Fernandez, Paula Del Carmen; Fernández Do Porto, Darío; Formichelli, Laura; Gismondi, María Inés; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Lorenzini Campos, Melina; Lusso, Silvina; Marquez, Nathalie; Muñoz Hidalgo, Marianne Graziel; Mussin, Javier; Natale, Mónica; Oria, Griselda; Pisano, María Belén; Posner, Victoria; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Viegas, Mariana (Frontiers Media, 2021-12-10)
      The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with concerning characteristics to public health has attracted the attention of the scientific community and governments both regionally and globally since the end of 2020. The most ...
    • Differences in the virulence of two strains of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype A with the same spatiotemporal distribution 

      Garcia Nuñez, Maria Soledad; Konig, Guido Alberto; Berinstein, Analia; Carrillo, Elisa Cristina (Elsevier, 2010-01)
      During the 2000–2001 epidemic of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) in Argentina, two FMDV serotype A viruses were identified among others. Since different pathogenic properties between these virus strains were noticed ...
    • Identification and molecular characterization of Orf virus in Argentina 

      Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Robles, Carlos Alejandro; Martinez, Agustin; Alvarez, Lucia Paula; Valera, Alejandro; Calamante, Gabriela; Konig, Guido Alberto (Springer, 2015-06)
      Orf virus (ORFV) is the etiological agent of contagious ecthyma (CE), a pustular dermatitis of sheep and goats. Outbreaks of ORFV have been observed in all geographical regions of the world, including Argentina. The origin ...
    • Identification and molecular characterization of Orf virus infection in occupationally exposed women in South America 

      Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Flores Olivares, Carlos; Verna, Andrea Elizabeth; González Altamiranda, Erika; Odriozola, Ernesto Raul; Madariaga, Carolina; Odeon, Anselmo Carlos; Konig, Guido Alberto; Canton, German Jose (Elsevier, 2023-06)
      Contagious Ecthyma (CE) is a severe exanthematous dermatitis caused by the Orf virus (ORFV) that mainly affects domestic small ruminants such as sheep and goats. It is a worldwide-distributed occupational zoonosis, ...
    • Molecular analyses detect natural coinfection of water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) with bovine viral diarrhea viruses (BVDV) in serologically negative animals = Detección molecular de coinfección con los virus de la diarrea viral bovina (BVDV) en búfalos de agua (Bubalus bubalis) serológicamente negativos 

      Craig, María Isabel; Konig, Guido Alberto; Benitez, Daniel Francisco; Draghi, Maria Graciela (Asociación Argentina de Microbiología, 2015)
      Infection of water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) with bovine viral diarrhea viruses (BVDV) has been confirmed in several studies by serological and molecular techniques. In order to determine the presence of persistently ...
    • Molecular characterization and cluster analysis of field isolates of avian infectious laryngotracheitis virus from Argentina 

      Craig, Marí­a Isabel; Rojas, Marí­a Florencia; Van Der Ploeg, Claudia Andrea; Olivera, Valeria Soledad; Vagnozzi, Ariel Eduardo; Perez, Andrés M.; Konig, Guido Alberto (2017-12-13)
      Avian infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) is a worldwide infectious disease that causes important economic losses in the poultry industry. Although it is known that ILT virus (ILTV) is present in Argentina, there is no ...
    • Molecular characterization of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) isolated in Argentina indicates a regional lineage 

      Vera, Federico Sebastian; Craig, María Isabel; Olivera, Valeria Soledad; Rojas, María Florencia; Konig, Guido Alberto; Pereda, Ariel Julian; Vagnozzi, Ariel Eduardo (2015-08)
      In Argentina, classical vaccines are used to control infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV); however, outbreaks of IBDV are frequently observed. This could be due to failures in the vaccination programs or to the emergence ...
    • Omicron Waves in Argentina: Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages BA.1, BA.2 and the Emerging BA.2.12.1 and BA.4/BA.5 

      Torres, Carolina; Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes; Acuña, Dolores; Zambrana Montaño, Romina Micaela; Culasso, Andrés Carlos Alberto; Amadio, Ariel; Aulicino, Paula; Ceballos, Santiago; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Debat, Humberto Julio; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Espul, Carlos; Fay, Fabián; Fernández, María Ailén; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Fernandez Muñoz, Juan Manuel; Ferrini, Florencia; Gallego, Fernando; Giri, Adriana Angélica; Cerri, Agustina; Bolatti, Elisa; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Goya, Stephanie; Gramundi, Iván; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Konig, Guido Alberto; Leiva, Viviana; Lucero, Horacio; Marquez, Nathalie; Nardi, Cristina; Ortiz, Belén; Pianciola, Luis; Pintos, Carolina Beatriz; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Rastellini, Carolina Victoria; Rojas, Alejandro Ezequiel; Sfalcin, Javier; Suárez, Ariel; Tittarelli, Estefanía; Toro, Rosana; Villanova, Gabriela Vanina; Ziehm, María Cecilia; Zimmermann, María Carla; Zunino, Sebastián; Proyecto PAIS Working Group; Valinotto, Laura; Viegas, Mariana (MDPI, 2023-01-22)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has lately been driven by Omicron. This work aimed to study the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages during the third and fourth waves of COVID-19 in Argentina. Molecular surveillance was performed ...
    • Optimization and application of a high-resolution melting protocol in the characterization of avian infectious laryngotracheitis virus = Optimización y aplicación de un protocolo de desnaturalización de alta resolución en la caracterización del virus de la laringotraqueítis infecciosa aviar 

      Rojas, María Florencia; Konig, Guido Alberto; Vagnozzi, Ariel Eduardo; Vera, Federico Sebastian; Scolaro, Luis Alberto; Craig, María Isabel (Elsevier, 2020-09)
      A previous sequence analysis of a US5 gene fragment of infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) performed in an Argentinian epidemiological study allowed to differentiate between wild and vaccine strains. This analysis ...
    • Phylogenetic analysis of ORF viruses from five contagious ecthyma outbreaks in Argentinian goats 

      Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Robles, Carlos Alejandro; Micheloud, Juan Francisco; Rossanigo, Carlos Esteban; Martinez, Agustin; Carosio, Agustin; Konig, Guido Alberto (2018-06)
      Orf virus (ORFV) is the etiological agent of Contagious Ecthyma (CE) disease that mainly affects sheep, goats, wild ruminants, and humans with a worldwide distribution. To date, only two strains from Argentinian sheep have ...
    • Phylogeographic analysis of the 2000-2002 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic in Argentina 

      Brito, Barbara Patricia; Konig, Guido Alberto; Cabanne, Gustavo Sebastian; Perez Beascoechea, Claudia; Rodriguez, Luis; Perez, Andres (2016)
      Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly transmissible disease of hooved livestock. Although FMD has been eradicated from many countries, economic and social consequences of FMD reintroductions are devastating. After ...
    • The Lambda Variant in Argentina: Analyzing the Evolution and Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Lineage C.37 

      Nabaes Jodar, Mercedes Soledad; Torres, Carolina; Mojsiejczuk, Laura; Acuña, Dolores; Valinotto, Laura Elena; Goya, Stephanie; Natale, Monica; Lusso, Silvina; Alexay, Sofia; Amadio, Ariel; Irazoqui, Jose Matias; Fernandez, Franco Daniel; Acevedo, Maria Elina; Alvarez Lopez, Cristina; Angelletti, Andres; Aulicino, Paula; Bolatti, Elisa; Brusés, Bettina; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Cavatorta, Ana; Cerri, Agustina; Cordero, Andres; Debat, Humberto Julio; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Eberhardt, María Florencia; Ercole, Regina; Espul, Carlos; Farber, Marisa Diana; Fay, Fabián; Fernandez, Ailen; Ferrini, Florencia; Formichelli, Laura; Ceballos, Santiago; Gallego, Fernando; Giri, Adriana; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Acevedo, Raul Maximiliano; Gramundi, Ivan; Ibañez, María Eugenia; Konig, Guido Alberto; Leiva, Viviana; Lorenzini Campos, Melina; Lucero, Horacio; Marquez, Nathalie; Mazzeo, Melina; Mistchenko, Alicia Susana; Montoto, Luciana; Muñoz Hidalgo, Marianne Graziel; Nadalich, Victoria; Nardi, Cristina; Ortiz, Belén; Pianciola, Luis; Pintos, Carolina; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Rastellini, Carolina; Rojas, Alejandro Ezequiel; Sfalcin, Javier; Suarez, Ariel; Theaux, Clara; Thomas, Guillermo; Tittarelli, Estefania; Toro, Rosana; Villanova, Vanina; Wenk, Gretel; Ziehm, Cecilia; Zimmermann, Maria Carla; Zunino, Sebastian; Proyecto PAIS; Viegas, Mariana (MDPI, 2023-06-16)
      The second wave of COVID-19 occurred in South America in early 2021 and was mainly driven by Gamma and Lambda variants. In this study, we aimed to describe the emergence and local genomic diversity of the SARS-CoV-2 Lambda ...
    • Variation in the VP1 Gene of Foot-And-Mouth Disease Virus Serotype a Associated with Epidemiological Characteristics of Outbreaks in the 2001 Epizootic in Argentina 

      Pérez, Andrés M.; Konig, Guido Alberto; Spath, Ernesto Juan; Thurmond, Mark C. (Sage Publishing, 2008)
      A mixed binomial Bayesian regression model was used to quantify the relation between nucleotide differences in the VP1 gene of Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) serotype A, and epidemiologic characteristics of the outbreaks ...