Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses

Preface Table of Contents Contributing Authors Part I Surveillance, Diagnosis and Classification of hemorrhagic fever viruses 1. Global Spread of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses: Predicting PandemicsJean Paul Gonzalez, Marc Souris, and Willy Valdivia-Granda 2. An Approach to the Identification and Phylogenetic Analysis of Emerging and Hemorrhagic Fever VirusesFrancisco J. Díaz, Luis Paternina, and Juan D. Rodas 3. Preliminary Classification of Novel Hemorrhagic Fever-Causing Viruses Using Sequence-Based Pairwise Sequence Comparison (PASC) AnalysisYimíng Bào and Jens H. Kuhn 4. Epidemiological Surveillance of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers with Emphasis on Clinical VirologyCarolina Montoya-Ruiz and Juan D. Rodas 5. Diagnostics for Lassa Fever: Detecting Host Antibody ResponsesMaria S. Salvato, Igor S. Lukashevich, Sandra Medina-Moreno, and Juan Carlos Zapata 6. Sampling Design and Mosquito Trapping for Surveillance of Arboviral ActivityLuis E. Paternina and Juan D. Rodas 7. Epidemiological Surveillance of Rodent-Borne Viruses (Roboviruses)Juan D. Rodas, Andrés Londoño, and Sergio Solari Part II Structural Studies and Reverse Genetics of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses 8. Entry Studies of New World ArenavirusesMaría Guadalupe Martínez, María Belén Forlenza, Nélida A. Candurra, and Sandra M. Cordo 9. Studies of Lassa Virus Cell EntryAntonella Pasquato, Antonio Herrador Fernandez, and Stefan Kunz 10. A Cell-Cell Fusion Assay to Assess Arenavirus Envelope Glycoprotein Membrane-Fusion ActivityJoanne York and Jack H. Nunberg 11. Assays to Assess Arenaviral Glycoprotein FunctionJunjie Shao, Xiaoying Liu, Yuying Liang, and Hinh Ly 12. Expression and X-Ray Structural Determination of the Nucleoprotein of Lassa Fever VirusXiaoxuan Qi, Wenjian Wang, Haohao Dong, Yuying Liang, Changjiang Donga, and Hinh Ly 13. Assays to Demonstrate the Roles of Arenaviral Nucleoproteins (NP) in Viral RNA Synthesis and in Suppressing Type I InterferonQinfeng Huang, Junjie Shao, Yuying Liang, and Hinh Ly 14. Intracellular Detection of Viral Transcription and Replication using RNA FISHMichael E. Lindquist and Connie S. Schmlajohn 15. Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Budding StudiesRonald N. Harty Part III In Vivo Models of Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Infection 16. Murine Models for Viral Hemorrhagic FeverRosana Gonzalez-Quintial and Roberto Baccala 17. Testing Experimental Therapies in a Guinea Pig Model for Hemorrhagic FeverGary Wong, Yuhai Bi, Gary Kobinger, George F. Gao, and Xiangguo Qiu 18. A Primate Model for Viral Hemorrhagic FeverMaria S. Salvato, Igor S. Lukashevich, Yida Yang, Sandra Medina-Moreno, Mahmoud Djavani, Joseph Bryant, and Juan C. Zapata 19. A Primary Human Liver Cell Culture Model for Hemorrhagic Fever VirusesMahmoud Djavani Part IV Immune Assays and Vaccine Production for Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses 20. Protocol for the Production of a Vaccine Against Argentine Hemorrhagic FeverAna María Ambrosio, Mauricio Andrés Mariani, Andrea Soledad Maiza, Graciela Susana Gamboa, Sebastián Edgardo Fossa, and Alejando Javier Bottale 21. Detection of Virus-Antibody Immune Complexes in Secondary Dengue Virus InfectionMeng Ling Moi, Tomohiko Takasaki, and Ichiro Kurane 22. Future Approaches to DNA Vaccination Against Hemorrhagic Fever VirusesJohn J. Suschak and Connie S. Schmaljohn Part V Host Responses to Viral Hemorrhagic Fever 23. Identifying Restriction Factors for Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses: Dengue and JunínFederico Giovannoni, Jose Rafael Peña Cárcamo, María Laura Morell, Sandra Myriam Cordo, and Cybele Carina García 24. Determining the Virus Life-Cycle Stage Blocked by an AntiviralClaudia S. Sepúlveda, Cybele C. García, and Elsa B. Damonte 25. Retrovirus-Based Surrogate Systems for BSL-2 High-Throughput Screening of Antivirals Targeting BSL-3/4 Hemorrhagic Fever-Causing VirusesSheli R. Radoshitzky, Veronica Soloveva, Dima Gharaibeh, Jens H. Kuhn, and Sina Bavari 26. Protocols to Assess Coagulation following In Vitro Infection with Hemorrhagic Fever VirusesMelissa L. Tursiella, Shannon L. Taylor, and Connie S. Schmaljohn... Mehr