How to detect new viral outbreaks or epidemics? We need to survey the circulation of viruses in humans and other animals using fast, sensible, cheap, and broad-spectrum methodologies

Braz J Infect Dis. 2017 Mar-Apr;21(2):211-212. doi: 10.1016/j.bjid.2016.12.001. Epub 2016 Dec 21.

Authors

Joel Henrique Ellwanger¹, Valéria de Lima Kaminski¹, José Artur Bogo Chies²

Affiliations

¹ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Departamento de Genética, Laboratório de Imunogenética, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
² Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Departamento de Genética, Laboratório de Imunogenética, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Animals
Brazil / epidemiology
Disease Outbreaks* / veterinary
Epidemiological Monitoring*
Humans
Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods
Virus Diseases / diagnosis*
Virus Diseases / epidemiology*
Virus Diseases / veterinary
Viruses / isolation & purification*
Viruses / pathogenicity