Important Challenges in the Search for a Correct
Characterization of Arbovirus Cases

Claudio Cesar Cirne Santos; Caroline de Souza Barros; Izabel Christina Nunes de Palmer Paixão

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Important Challenges in the Search for a Correct Characterization of Arbovirus Cases

Claudio Cesar Cirne Santos*, Caroline de Souza Barros and Izabel Christina Nunes de Palmer Paixão

Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

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Received Date: April 10, 2019; Published Date: April 22, 2019

Abstract

Arthropod-borne viruses (known as arboviruses) are widely circulated throughout the world, causing numerous episodes of emergence and resurgence of epidemic outbreaks with serious consequences to public health [1,2]. The arboviruses most frequently responsible for causing important outbreaks are distributed in the genera Alphavirus (family Togaviridae) including Chikungunya, Semliki Forest, Ross River, Mayaro virus and Sindbis virus [3]. Flavivirus (Flaviviridae family) such as Dengue, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis viruses are important to public health as well. Other viruses of consequence to human health are also reported, although less frequently. These include the Bunyaviridae, Reoviridae, and Rhabdoviridae.

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Claudio Cesar Cirne Santos, Caroline de Souza Barros, Izabel Christina Nunes de Palmer Paixão. Important Challenges in the Search for a Correct Characterization of Arbovirus Cases. Arch Biomed Eng & Biotechnol. 1(3): 2019. ABEB.MS.ID.000513.