• 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 ...
    • Brote atípico de ectima contagioso en ovinos Merino de la Patagonia Argentina 

      Robles, Carlos Alejandro; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Alvarez, Lucia Paula; Martinez, Agustin (2017)
      El ectima contagioso es causado por el virus ORF afectando mucosas y piel de ovinos y caprinos. En este trabajo se describe un brote de ectima contagioso que comienza en el mes de junio en un establecimiento donde no se ...
    • Detection and first molecular characterization of bovine papular stomatitis virus in dairy calves in Argentina 

      Micheloud, Juan Francisco; Aguirre, Laura S.; Sandoval, Gabriela V.; Avellaneda-Cáceres, Agustín; Diodati, Julian Angel; Peralta, Andrea Veronica (Springer, 2019)
      Bovine papular stomatitis virus (BPSV) is a parapoxvirus associated with papular and erosive lesions on the muzzle, lips, and oral mucosa of cattle. BPSV infection occurs worldwide; however, it has still not been unequivocally ...
    • Double-layered rotavirus-like particles are efficient carriers to elicit strong CTL responses to delivered heterologous antigens 

      Molinari, Maria Paula; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Maletto, Belkys Angélica; Pistoresi Palencia, Maria Cristina; Crespo, Maria Ines; Moron, Victor Gabriel; Taboga, Oscar Alberto (Elsevier, 2014-11)
      The first 92 amino acids of VP2 of rotavirus are dispensable for VLP assembly and can be replaced by heterologous reporter proteins without affecting either self-assembly of chimeric VP2 or the interaction with VP6 to ...
    • Functional and biochemical properties of Mal de Río Cuarto virus (Fijivirus, Reoviridae) P9-1 viroplasm protein show further similarities to animal reovirus counterparts 

      Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Mongelli, Vanesa Claudia; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Distefano, Ana Julia; Llauger, Gabriela; Taboga, Oscar Alberto; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Del Vas, Mariana (Elsevier, 2010-09)
      Mal de Río Cuarto virus (MRCV) is a plant virus of the genus Fijivirus within the family Reoviridae that infects several monocotyledonous species and is transmitted by planthoppers in a persistent and propagative manner. ...
    • 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, ...
    • The localization of a heterologous displayed antigen in the baculovirus-budded virion determines the type and strength of induced adaptive immune response 

      Tavarone, Maria Eugenia; Molina, Guido Nicolas; Amalfi, Sabrina; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Molinari, Maria Paula; Taboga, Oscar Alberto; Diaz, Silvio Ricardo; Gravisaco, Marí­a José (2017-05)
      In the search of strategies of presentation of heterologous antigens to elicit humoral or cellular immune responses that modulate and properly potentiate each type of response, researchers have been studying baculovirus ...
    • 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 ...
    • Ursolic acid : a novel antiviral compound inhibiting rotavirus infection in vitro 

      Tohmé, M. J.; Giménez, M. Cecilia; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Colombo, M. I.; Delgui, Laura Ruth (Elsevier, 2019-11)
      Rotavirus is one of the leading causes of severe acute gastroenteritis in children under 5 years of age, mainly affecting developing countries. Once the disease is acquired, no specific treatment is available; as such, the ...
    • Virus orf en humanos, confirmación molecular de un caso clínico en Chile. 

      Flores, Carlos; González Altamiranda, Erika; Verna, Andrea Elizabeth; Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Madariaga, Carolina; Odeon, Anselmo Carlos; Canton, German Jose (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2017-12)
      La infección por el virus orf, también conocida como ectima contagioso, es reconocida una zoonosis ocupacional. Se diagnostica por lesiones cutáneas que evolu cionan rápidamente desde máculas a pápulas, vesículas y pústulas. ...
    • VP1 protein of Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) impairs baculovirus surface display 

      Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Maroniche, Guillermo Andrés; Alfonso, Victoria; Molinari, Maria Paula; Taboga, Oscar Alberto (Elsevier, 2013-07)
      The Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) causes important economical losses in livestock farming. In order to develop a novel subunit vaccine against FMDV, we constructed recombinant baculoviruses that display the protein ...
    • Zoonosis por parapoxvirus: diagnóstico e identificación de pseudocowpox (PCPV) 

      Peralta, Andrea Veronica; Buffarini, Miguel Angel; Trojaola, Ariel; Bruni, Andrea; Formica, Marcelo (Estación Experimental Agropecuaria General Villegas, INTA, 2021)
      Las zoonosis son enfermedades infecciosas que han pasado de un animal a humanos y representan un gran porcentaje de todas las enfermedades infecciosas recientemente identificadas, así como de muchas de las ya existentes. ...