• Anthropogenic infection of domestic cats with SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant B.1.1.7 lineage in Buenos Aires 

      Pecora, Andrea; Malacari, Darío Amilcar; Mozgovoj, Marina Valeria; Díaz, María de los Ángeles; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Puebla, Andrea Fabiana; Carusso, Cristian; Mundo, Silvia Leonor; Gonzalez Lopez Ledesma, María Mora; Gamarnik, Andrea Vanesa; Rinaldi, Osvaldo; Vidal, Osvaldo; Mas, Javier; Dus Santos, Maria Jose (Frontiers Media, 2022-03)
      SARS-CoV-2 reverse zoonosis, particularly to domestic animals, and the potential role of infected animals in perpetuating the spread of the virus is an issue of increasing concern. In this case report, we identified the ...
    • 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 ...
    • Bovine colostral cells : the often forgotten component of colostrum 

      Gonzalez, Diego; Dus Santos, Maria Jose (American Veterinary Medical Association, 2017-05)
      Because bovine maternal and fetal blood supplies are kept separate in utero, calves are immunologically naïve immediately after birth, which puts them at high risk for disease. The acquisition of passive immunity, generally ...
    • Bovine colostral cells—the often forgotten component of colostrum 

      Gonzalez, Diego; Dus Santos, Maria Jose (American Veterinary Medical Association, 2017-05)
      At birth, neonatal calves have all the essential immune components they need as adult cattle; however, it takes at least 2 to 4 weeks for those components to become fully functional.1,2 The immune system does not become ...
    • Bovine respiratory syncytial virus seroprevalence and risk factors in feedlot cattle from Córdoba and Santa Fe, Argentina = Seroprevalencia del virus respiratorio sincicial bovino y factores de riesgo asociados en engordes a corral de Córdoba y Santa Fe, Argentina 

      Ferella, Alejandra; Perez Aguirreburualde, María Sol; Margineda, Carlos Augusto; Aznar, Maria Natalia; Sammarruco, Romina Ayelén; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Mozgovoj, Marina Valeria (2018-09)
      Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) is one of the causative agents of respiratory disease in cattle all over the world, leading to important economic losses. The aim of this work was to determine the seroprevalence ...
    • Brucella spp. Lumazine synthase as a novel immunomodulator to produce egg yolk antibodies 

      Bellido, Demian; Chacana, Pablo; Mozgovoj, Marina Valeria; Gonzalez, Diego; Goldbaum, Fernando Alberto; Wigdorovitz, Andres; Dus Santos, Maria Jose (Scientific Research, 2012-02)
      Lumazine synthase from Brucella spp. (BLS) is a highly immunogenic decameric protein. It has been previously described as a carrier of peptides or proteins to increase their immunogenicity in different animal species, but ...
    • Chicken egg yolk antibodies against bovine respiratory syncytial virus neutralize the virus in vitro 

      Ferella, Alejandra; Bellido, Demian; Chacana, Pablo; Wigdorovitz, Andres; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Mozgovoj, Marina Valeria (Elsevier, 2012)
      Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) and its counterpart in humans (HRSV) are two closely related virus, which are the leading cause of severe respiratory syndrome in calves and young children, respectively. Passive ...
    • Complejo respiratorio bovino: evidencia de circulación viral múltiple en un establecimiento de cría 

      Streitenberger, Nicolas; Ferella, Alejandra; Perez Aguirreburualde, Maria Sol; Sammarruco, Romina Ayelén; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Mozgovoj, Marina Valeria; Maidana, Silvina Soledad; Romera, Sonia Alejandra; Pecora, Andrea; Quiroga, María Alejandra; Fazzio, L.E. (Gerencia de Comunicación e Imagen Institucional, DNA SICC, INTA, 2017-08)
      El complejo respiratorio bovino (CRB) es una de las principales causas de pérdidas productivas en rodeos de cría, tambo y engorde a corral. Los agentes infecciosos involucrados incluyen virus, bacterias y micoplas mas. ...
    • 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 ...
    • Development of an APC-targeted multivalent E2-based vaccine against Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus types 1 and 2 

      Pecora, Andrea; Malacari, Darío Amilcar; Pérez Aguirreburualde, María Sol; Bellido, Demian; Nuñez, Maria del Carmen; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Martínez Escribano, José Angel; Wigdorovitz, Andres (Elsevier, 2015-09)
      The aim of this study was to develop and test a multivalent subunit vaccine against Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) based on the E2 virus glycoprotein belonging to genotypes 1a, 1b and 2a, immunopotentiated by targeting ...
    • Dynamics of neutralizing antibodies against Bovine respiratory syncytial virus in a dairy herd from Santa Fe Province, Argentina = Dinámica de anticuerpos neutralizantes contra el virus respiratorio sincitial bovino en un rodeo lechero de la provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina 

      Ferella, Alejandra; Perez Aguirreburiald, Maria Sol; Sammarruco, Romina Ayelén; Parreño, Viviana; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Mozgovoj, Marina Valeria (Elsevier, 2020-05)
      Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) is one of the most relevant agents responsible for respiratory disease in cattle from both dairy and beef farms. BRSV is spread by horizontal contact causing a constant presence ...
    • Efficacy of a BVDV subunit vaccine produced in alfalfa transgenic plants 

      Perez Aguirreburialde, Maria Sol; Gomez, Maria Cristina; Ostachuck, Agustín; Wolman, Federico Javier; Albanesi, Guillermo Luis; Pecora, Andrea; Odeon, Anselmo Carlos; Ardila, Fernando Jorge; Escribano, José M.; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Wigdorovitz, Andres (Elsevier, 2013-02-15)
      Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is considered an important cause of economic loss within bovine herds worldwide. In Argentina, only the use of inactivated vaccines is allowed, however, the efficacy of inactivated BVDV ...
    • Estudio de la respuesta inmune frente a la vacunación con virus respiratorio sincitial bovino (VRSB) inactivado en bovinos. Evaluación de la inmunidad pasiva 

      Margineda, Carlos Augusto; Ferella, Alejandra; Perez Aguirreburialde, Maria Sol; Sammarruco, Romina Ayelén; Gonzalez, Diego; Toledo, Gabriela Fernanda; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Mozgovoj, Marina Valeria (Ediciones INTA, 2019-04)
      El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar el título y la duración de anticuerpos neutralizantes (AN) en vacas inmunizadas con una vacuna experimental inactivada para el virus respiratorio sincitial bovino (VRSB) y los niveles ...
    • Evaluation of PMA‐qPCR methodology to detect and quantify viable Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli in beef burgers 

      Rey, Maria De Los Angeles; Cap, Mariana; Favre, Leonardo Cristian; Rodriguez, Anabel; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Vaudagna, Sergio Ramon; Mozgovoj, Marina Valeria (2021-02-06)
      Propidium monoazide (PMA) is a selective nucleic acid intercalating dye that can be combined with real‐time PCR (qPCR) in order to evaluate cell viability in food samples. The aim of the present work was to evaluate PMA‐qPCR ...
    • HoBi-like pestivirus in 2 cases of fatal respiratory disease of feedlot cattle in Argentina 

      Margineda, Carlos Augusto; Ferreyra, Franco Matías; Masnyj, Franco Ezequiel; Audrito, Maximiliano; Favaro, Paula Melisa; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Pecora, Andrea (American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, 2022-07)
      HoBi-like pestivirus (HoBiPeV) is an emerging virus that has been detected in cattle and other ruminants. We diagnosed 2 cases of fatal bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) associated with infection with HoBiPeV in a ...
    • Improvement of bovine pestiviral diagnosis by the development of a cost-effective method for detecting viral RNA in fresh specimens and samples spotted in filter papers 

      Favaro, Paula Melisa; Molineri, Ana Ines; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Calvinho, Fernando Luis; Pecora, Andrea (Elsevier, 2023-01)
      Bovine pestiviruses are the causative agents of bovine viral diarrhea, a disease thatcauses severe economic losses in cattle. The aim of this study was to improve their diagnosisby developing a RT-qPCR to detect bovine ...
    • Molecular characterization of pestiviruses in fetal bovine sera originating from Argentina: evidence of circulation of HoBi-like viruses 

      Pecora, Andrea; Perez Aguirreburiald, Maria Sol; Ridpath, Julia; Dus Santos, Maria Jose (Frontiers Media, 2019-10)
      Serological evidence suggests that HoBi-like viruses, an emerging species within the Pestivirus genus of the Flaviviridae family, are in circulation in Argentina. While HoBi-like viruses were first isolated from Brazilian ...
    • Molecular detection and differentiation of arthropod, fungal, protozoan, bacterial and viral pathogens of honeybees 

      Lannutti, Lucas; Gonzalez, Fernanda Noemi; Dus Santos, Maria Jose; Florin-Christensen, Mónica; Schnittger, Leonhard (MDPI, 2022-05)
      The honeybee Apis mellifera is highly appreciated worldwide because of its products, but also as it is a pollinator of crops and wild plants. The beehive is vulnerable to infections due to arthropods, fungi, protozoa, ...
    • 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 ...
    • Pestivirus emergentes HoBi : impacto en salud animal y su importancia como contaminante de insumos biotecnológicos 

      Pecora, Andrea; Pérez Aguirreburualde, María Sol; Malacari, Darío Amilcar; Zabal, Osvaldo Alfredo; Bauermann, Fernando Viçosa; Ridpath, Julia; Dus Santos, Maria Jose (Gerencia de Comunicación e Imagen Institucional, DNA SICC, INTA, 2016-11-02)
      Los virus HoBi son un grupo de Pestivirus emergentes que afecta a bovinos y bubalinos y son contaminantes muy comunes de productos biológicos. Luego de ser identificados por primera vez en Alemania a partir muestras ...