• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Baculovirus AcMNPV induces type I interferons and NK/NKT cells-mediated protection against foot-and-mouth disease virus in mice 

      Molina, Guido Nicolas; Cacciabue, Marco Polo; Gismondi, Maria Ines; Taboga, Oscar Alberto; Molinari, Maria Paula (Elsevier, 2020-08)
      Foot-and-mouth disease is a viral illness that affects cloven-hoofed animals causing serious economic losses. Inactivated vaccines against its causative agent, foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), require approximately ...
    • 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 ...
    • Differential replication of Foot-and-mouth disease viruses in mice determine lethality 

      Cacciabue, Marco Polo; Garcia Nuñez, Maria Soledad; Delgado, Fernando Oscar; Curra, Anabella Paola; Marrero Diaz De Villegas, Rubén; Molinari, Maria Paula; Rieder, Elizabeth; Carrillo, Elisa Cristina; Gismondi, Maria Ines (2017-09)
      Adult C57BL/6J mice have been used to study Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) biology. In this work, two variants of an FMDV A/Arg/01 strain exhibiting differential pathogenicity in adult mice were identified and ...
    • INFINITy : A fast machine learning-based application for human influenza A and B virus subtyping 

      Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Marcone, Débora Natalia (Wiley, 2023-01)
      Influenza viruses are one of the main agents causing acute respiratory infections (ARI) in humans resulting in a large amount of illness and death globally.1, 2 The influenza viruses classification is based on the nomenclature ...
    • 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 ...
    • SARS-CoV-2 RBD protein enhances the oncolytic activity of the vesicular stomatitis virus 

      Alkayyal, Almohanad A.; Ajina, Reham; Cacciabue, Marco Polo Domingo; Alkayyal, Aaesha A.; Saeedi, Nizar H.; Hussain Alshehry, Taofik; Kaboha, Feras; Alotaibi, Mohammed A.; Zaidan, Nada; Shah, Khalid; Alroqi, Fayhan; Bakur Mahmoud, Ahmad (Frontiers Media, 2023-01)
      Despite recent advances in the research on oncolytic viruses (OVs), a better understanding of how to enhance their replication is key to improving their therapeutic index. Understanding viral replication is important to ...
    • 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 ...
    • ViralPlaque: a Fiji macro for automated assessment of viral plaque statistics 

      Cacciabue, Marco Polo; Curra, Anabella Paola; Gismondi, Maria Ines (PeerJ, 2019-09)
      laque assay has been used for a long time to determine infectious titers and characterize prokaryotic and eukaryotic viruses forming plaques. Indeed, plaque morphology and dimensions can provide information regarding the ...