Search Results - "Ciro, José Usme"

Characterization of the emerging B.1.621 variant of interest of SARS-CoV-2 by Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Franco-Muñoz, Carlos, Álvarez-Díaz, Diego A., Ruiz-Moreno, Hector Alejandro, Usme-Ciro, José A., Prada, Diego Andrés, Reales-González, Jhonnatan, Corchuelo, Sheryll, Herrera-Sepúlveda, María T., Naizaque, Julian, Santamaría, Gerardo, Rivera, Jorge, Rojas, Paola, Ortiz, Juan Hernández, Cardona, Andrés, Malo, Diana, Prieto-Alvarado, Franklin, Gómez, Fernando Ruiz, Wiesner, Magdalena, Martínez, Martha Lucia Ospina, Mercado-Reyes, Marcela

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic diversity has the potential to impact the virus transmissibility and the escape from…”
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Molecular analysis of several in-house rRT-PCR protocols for SARS-CoV-2 detection in the context of genetic variability of the virus in Colombia by Álvarez-Díaz, Diego A., Franco-Muñoz, Carlos, Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Usme-Ciro, José A., Franco-Sierra, Nicolás D., Flórez-Sánchez, Astrid C., Gómez-Rangel, Sergio, Rodríguez-Calderon, Luz D., Barbosa-Ramirez, Juliana, Ospitia-Baez, Erika, Walteros, Diana M., Ospina-Martinez, Martha L., Mercado-Reyes, Marcela

“…The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is a public health problem unprecedented in the recent history of humanity. Different in-house real-time RT-PCR…”
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Novel Putative Tymoviridae -like Virus Isolated from Culex Mosquitoes in Colombia by Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Guzmán, Camila, Perdomo-Balaguera, Erik, Sarmiento, Ladys, Torres-Fernandez, Orlando, Ruiz, Héctor Alejandro, Rosales-Munar, Alicia, Peláez-Carvajal, Dioselina, Navas, Maria-Cristina, Wong, Matthew C, Junglen, Sandra, Ajami, Nadim J, Parra-Henao, Gabriel, Usme-Ciro, José A

“…The family comprises positive-sense RNA viruses, which mainly infect plants. Recently, a few -like viruses have been found in mosquitoes, which feed on…”
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Substitutions in Spike and Nucleocapsid proteins of SARS-CoV-2 circulating in South America by Franco-Muñoz, Carlos, Álvarez-Díaz, Diego A., Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Wiesner, Magdalena, Escandón, Patricia, Usme-Ciro, José A., Franco-Sierra, Nicolás D., Flórez-Sánchez, Astrid C., Gómez-Rangel, Sergio, Rodríguez-Calderon, Luz D., Barbosa-Ramirez, Juliana, Ospitia-Baez, Erika, Walteros, Diana M., Ospina-Martinez, Martha L., Mercado-Reyes, Marcela

“…SARS-CoV-2 is a new member of the genus Betacoronavirus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus crossed the species barrier and established in the…”
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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors Possibly Associated with Emerging Zoonotic Vaccinia Virus in a Farming Community, Colombia by Styczynski, Ashley, Burgado, Jillybeth, Walteros, Diana, Usme-Ciro, José, Laiton, Katherine, Farias, Alejandra Pinilla, Nakazawa, Yoshinori, Chapman, Christina, Davidson, Whitni, Mauldin, Matthew, Morgan, Clint, Martínez-Cerón, Juan, Patiña, Edilson, López Sepúlveda, Leidy Laura, Torres, Claudia Patricia, Cruz Suarez, Anyely Eliana, Olaya, Gina Paez, Riveros, Carlos Elkin, Cepeda, Diana Yaneth, Lopez, Leydi Acosta, Espinosa, Daniela Gomez, Gutierrez Lozada, Faiber Antonio, Li, Yu, Satheshkumar, P S, Reynolds, Mary, Gracia-Romero, Martha, Petersen, Brett

“…In 2014, vaccinia virus (VACV) infections were identified among farmworkers in Caquetá Department, Colombia; additional cases were identified in Cundinamarca…”
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Phylogenetic reconstruction of dengue virus type 2 in Colombia by Méndez, Jairo A, Usme-Ciro, José A, Domingo, Cristina, Rey, Gloria J, Sánchez, Juan A, Tenorio, Antonio, Gallego-Gomez, Juan C

“…Dengue fever is perhaps the most important viral re-emergent disease especially in tropical and sub-tropical countries, affecting about 50 million people…”
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Complete Genome Sequence of a Colombian Zika Virus Strain Obtained from BALB/c Mouse Brain after Intraperitoneal Inoculation by Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Álvarez-Díaz, Diego A., Rengifo, Aura Caterine, Torres-Fernández, Orlando, Usme-Ciro, José A., Rivera, Jorge Alonso, Santamaría, Gerardo, Naizaque, Julián, Monroy-Gómez, Jeison, Sarmiento, Ladys, Gunturiz, María Luz, Muñoz, Alejandra, Vanegas, Ricardo, Rico, Angélica, Pardo, Lissethe, Peláez-Carvajal, Dioselina

“…A Zika virus (ZIKV) strain was isolated from an acute febrile patient during the Zika epidemics in Colombia. The strain was intraperitoneally inoculated into…”
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Multisystem Failure in Fatal Dengue: Associations between the Infectious Viral Serotype and Clinical and Histopathological Findings by Rivera, Jorge, Rengifo, Aura Caterine, Alvarez-Díaz, Diego, Parra, Edgar, Usme-Ciro, José, Castellanos, Jaime, Velandia, Myriam, Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Rico, Angélica, Pardo, Lisseth, Caldas, María Leonor

“…Dengue is the most important arthropod-borne viral infection of humans. However, its viral pathogenesis is still unknown. The information collected from dengue…”
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5'/3' RACE method for sequencing the 5' and 3' untranslated regions of Zika virus by Álvarez-Díaz, Diego Alejandro, Usme-Ciro, José Aldemar, Corchuelo, Sheryll, Naizaque, Julián Ricardo, Rivera, Jorge Alonso, Castiblanco-Martínez, Hernán Darío, Torres-Fernández, Orlando, Rengifo, Aura Caterine

“…The spread of Zika virus (ZIKV) from the African continent to the Americas promoted its molecular evolution, as reflected by mutations in its RNA genome. Most…”
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Progressive Vaccinia Acquired through Zoonotic Transmission in a Patient with HIV/AIDS, Colombia by Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Ávila-Robayo, Paola, Páez-Martinez, Andrés, Benjumea-Nieto, Paula, Usme-Ciro, José A, Pinzón-Nariño, Nicole, Giraldo, Ivan, Torres-Castellanos, Diego, Nakazawa, Yoshinori, Patel, Nishi, Wilkins, Kimberly, Li, Yu, Davidson, Whitni, Burgado, Jillybeth, Satheshkumar, Panayampalli Subbian, Styczynski, Ashley, Mauldin, Matthew R, Gracia-Romero, Martha, Petersen, Brett W

“…In March 2015, a patient in Colombia with HIV/AIDS was hospitalized for disseminated ulcers after milking cows that had vesicular lesions on their udders…”
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Diversity and interactions among triatomine bugs, their blood feeding sources, gut microbiota and Trypanosoma cruzi in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia by Murillo-Solano, Claribel, López-Domínguez, Jaime, Gongora, Rafael, Rojas-Gulloso, Andres, Usme-Ciro, Jose, Perdomo-Balaguera, Erick, Herrera, Claudia, Parra-Henao, Gabriel, Dumonteil, Eric

“…Chagas disease remains a major neglected disease in Colombia. We aimed to characterize Trypanosoma cruzi transmission networks in the Sierra Nevada de Santa…”
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An updated RT-qPCR assay for the simultaneous detection and quantification of chikungunya, dengue and zika viruses by Álvarez-Díaz, Diego Alejandro, Valencia-Álvarez, Emmanuel, Rivera, Jorge Alonso, Rengifo, Aura Caterine, Usme-Ciro, José Aldemar, Peláez-Carvajal, Dioselina, Lozano-Jiménez, Yenny Yolanda, Torres-Fernández, Orlando

“…The real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (real-time RT-qPCR) has become a leading technique for the detection and quantification of…”
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Genomic Epidemiology of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, Colombia by Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Villabona-Arenas, Christian Julián, Usme-Ciro, José A, Franco-Muñoz, Carlos, Álvarez-Díaz, Diego A, Villabona-Arenas, Liz Stephany, Echeverría-Londoño, Susy, Cucunubá, Zulma M, Franco-Sierra, Nicolás D, Flórez, Astrid C, Ferro, Carolina, Ajami, Nadim J, Walteros, Diana Marcela, Prieto, Franklin, Durán, Carlos Andrés, Ospina-Martínez, Martha Lucia, Mercado-Reyes, Marcela

“…Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Colombia was first diagnosed in a traveler arriving from Italy on February 26, 2020. However, limited data are available on…”
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Molecular characterization of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Colombian rainforest by Muñoz-Gamba, Andrew S, Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Perdomo-Balaguera, Erick, Castro, Lyda R, Usme-Ciro, José A, Parra-Henao, Gabriel

“…A few studies have carried out the taxonomic and molecular characterization of sylvatic mosquito species in Latin America, where some species have been…”
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Genotyping of dengue virus from infected tissue samples embedded in paraffin by Rivera, Jorge Alonso, Rengifo, Aura Caterine, Rosales-Munar, Alicia, Díaz-Herrera, Taylor H, Ciro, José Usme, Parra, Edgar, Alvarez-Díaz, Diego A, Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Caldas, María Leonor

“…Dengue has become one of the vector-borne diseases that affect humans worldwide. In Latin American countries, Colombia is historically one of the most affected…”
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Molecular characterization of dengue virus reveals regional diversification of serotype 2 in Colombia by Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Alvarez, Diego A, Peláez-Carvajal, Dioselina, Mercado, Marcela, Ajami, Nadim J, Bosch, Irene, Usme-Ciro, José A

“…Dengue is hyperendemic in Colombia, where a cyclic behavior of serotype replacement leading to periodic epidemics has been observed for decades. This level of…”
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Genetic diversity of hepatitis C virus and resistance associated substitutions to direct-acting antiviral treatment in Colombia by Lopez-Osorio, Maria C., Usme-Ciro, José Aldemar, Martínez, José William, Peláez-Carvajal, Dioselina, Hernández, Javier, Hoyos, Sergio, Restrepo, Juan Carlos, Navas, Maria-Cristina

“…•Active case finding of individuals with history of transfusion events before 1996 in three cities in Colombia.•Characterization of HCV genetic diversity in…”
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Cytoplasmic RNA viruses as potential vehicles for the delivery of therapeutic small RNAs by Usme-Ciro, Jose A, Campillo-Pedroza, Natalia, Almazán, Fernando, Gallego-Gomez, Juan C

“…Viral vectors have become the best option for the delivery of therapeutic genes in conventional and RNA interference-based gene therapies. The current viral…”
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Detection and Molecular Characterization of Zoonotic Poxviruses Circulating in the Amazon Region of Colombia, 2014 by Usme-Ciro, Jose A, Paredes, Andrea, Walteros, Diana M, Tolosa-Pérez, Erica Natalia, Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Pinzón, Maria Del Carmen, Petersen, Brett W, Gallardo-Romero, Nadia F, Li, Yu, Wilkins, Kimberly, Davidson, Whitni, Gao, Jinxin, Patel, Nishi, Nakazawa, Yoshinori, Reynolds, Mary G, Satheshkumar, P S, Emerson, Ginny L, Páez-Martínez, Andrés

“…During 2014, cutaneous lesions were reported in dairy cattle and farmworkers in the Amazon Region of western Colombia. Samples from 6 patients were analyzed by…”
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Efficient Method for Molecular Characterization of the 5' and 3' Ends of the Dengue Virus Genome by Rosales-Munar, Alicia, Alvarez-Diaz, Diego Alejandro, Laiton-Donato, Katherine, Peláez-Carvajal, Dioselina, Usme-Ciro, Jose A

“…Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that is of major importance in public health. Although it has been extensively studied at the molecular level, sequencing of…”
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