• 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 ...
    • Molecular detection of rickettsial bacteria in ticks of the genus Ixodes from the Southern Cone of America 

      Sebastian, Patrick Stephan; Flores, Fernando Sebastian; Saracho Bottero, Maria Noelia; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Venzal, José Manuel; Nava, Santiago (Elsevier, 2020-10)
      To obtain information about rickettsial bacteria in ticks of the genus Ixodes from Argentina and Uruguay, specimens of I. fuscipes (previously named as I. aragaoi), Ixodes pararicinus, Ixodes sp. cf. I. affinis, and Ixodes ...
    • A novel Ehrlichia strain (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae) detected in Amblyomma triste (Acari: Ixodidae), a tick species of public health importance in the Southern Cone of America 

      Cicuttin, Gabriel L.; De Salvo, María Nazarena; Díaz Pérez, Paula; Silva, Darío; Félix, María Laura; Venzal, José Manuel; Nava Santiago (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      The aim of this work was to report the detection of a putative novel Ehrlichia strain associated with the tick Amblyomma triste. Free-living adult ticks determined as A. triste were collected by drag-sampling in Argentina ...
    • 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 ...
    • Species occurrence of ticks in South America, and interactions with biotic and abiotic traits 

      Estrada-Peña, Agustín; Nava, Santiago; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Bermúdez, Sergio; de la Fuente, José; Domingos, Ana; Labruna, Marcelo B.; Mosqueda, Juan; Merino, Octavio; Szabó, Matías P.J.; Venzal, José Manuel; Guglielmone, Alberto (Springer Nature, 2019-12)
      The datasets of records of the distribution of ticks and their hosts are invaluable tools to understand the phylogenetic patterns of evolution of ticks and the abiotic traits to which they are associated. Such datasets ...
    • The Ixodes ricinus complex (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Southern Cone of America: Ixodes pararicinus, Ixodes aragaoi, and Ixodes sp. cf. I. affinis 

      Saracho Bottero, Maria Noelia; Venzal, José Manuel; Tarragona, Evelina Luisa; Thompson, Carolina Soledad; Mangold, Atilio Jose; Beati, Lorenza; Guglielmone, Alberto; Nava, Santiago (Springer, 2019-11)
      The goal of this study was to clarify the taxonomic status of the Ixodes ricinus complex in the Southern Cone of America, by using morphological characters and molecular markers (mitochondrial 16SrDNA and cox1 genes). The ...
    • 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 ...