• Discovery and molecular characterization of a group A rotavirus strain detected in an Argentinean vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) 

      Badaracco, Alejandra; Matthijnssens, Jelle; Romero, Sandra Raquel; Heylen, Elisabeth; Zeller, Mark; Garaicoechea, Lorena Laura; Van Ranst, Marc; Parreño, Gladys Viviana (Elsevier, 2013-01-25)
      The wild vicuña (Vicugna vicugna) is one of the four species of native South American camelids (SACs) in addition to the wild guanaco, and their domesticated counterparts, alpaca and llama, respectively. Serological data ...
    • Molecular characterization of group A rotavirus strains detected in alpacas (Vicugna pacos) from Peru 

      Badaracco, Alejandra; Cordero, Aida; Vega, Celina Guadalupe; Bok, Marina; Zeller, Mark; Heylen, Elisabeth; Fernández, Gonzalo; Díez-Baños, Pablo; Morrondo, Patrocinio; Guevara, Héctor; Matthijnssens, Jelle; Parreño, Gladys Viviana (Microbiology Society, 2021-04)
      The alpaca is a very important social and economic resource for the production of fibre and meat for Andean communities. Peru is the main producer of alpacas. Group A rotavirus (RVA) has been sporadically detected in ...
    • Molecular detection of bovine Noroviruses in Argentinean dairy calves : circulation of a tentative new genotype 

      Ferragut, Fátima; Vega, Celina Guadalupe; Mauroy, Axel; Conceição-Neto, Nádia; Zeller, Mark; Heylen, Elisabeth; Louge Uriarte, Enrique Leopoldo; Bilbao, Gladys; Bok, Marina; Matthijnssens, Jelle; Thiry, Etienne; Badaracco, Alejandra; Parreño, Gladys Viviana (2016)
      Bovine noroviruses are enteric pathogens detected in fecal samples of both diarrheic and non-diarrheic calves from several countries worldwide. However, epidemiological information regarding bovine noroviruses is still ...
    • Novel viruses determined using fecal virome analysis in the feces of foals with diarrea 

      Vega, Celina Guadalupe; Conceição-Neto, Nádia; Miño, Samuel; Zeller, Mark; Heylen, Elisabeth; Parreño, Viviana; Barrandeguy, Maria Edith; Matthijnssens, Jelle (2016)
      This study aims to expand the knowledge of viral species present in feces of foals suffering diarrhea using Next Generation Sequencing. This will be useful to further explore the role of new infectious agents in this illness ...