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Possible non-sylvatic transmission of yellow fever between non-human primates in Sao Paulo city, Brazil, 2017-2018.

ABSTRACT: Yellow Fever (YF) is a severe disease caused by Yellow Fever Virus (YFV), endemic in some parts of Africa and America. In Brazil, YFV is maintained by a sylvatic transmission cycle involving non-human primates (NHP) and forest canopy-dwelling mosquitoes, mainly Haemagogus-spp and Sabethes-spp. Beginning in 2016, Brazil faced one of the largest Yellow Fever (YF) outbreaks in recent decades, mainly in the southeastern region. In São Paulo city, YFV was detected in October 2017 in Aloutta monkeys in an Atlantic Forest area. From 542 NHP, a total of 162 NHP were YFV positive by RT-qPCR and/or immunohistochemistry, being 22 Callithrix-spp. most from urban areas. Entomological collections executed did not detect the presence of strictly sylvatic mosquitoes. Three mosquito pools were positive for YFV, 2 Haemagogus leucocelaenus, and 1 Aedes scapularis. In summary, YFV in the São Paulo urban area was detected mainly in resident marmosets, and synanthropic mosquitoes were likely involved in viral transmission.

SUBMITTER: Cunha MS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7519641 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Possible non-sylvatic transmission of yellow fever between non-human primates in São Paulo city, Brazil, 2017-2018.

Cunha Mariana Sequetin MS Tubaki Rosa Maria RM de Menezes Regiane Maria Tironi RMT Pereira Mariza M Caleiro Giovana Santos GS Coelho Esmenia E Saad Leila Del Castillo LDC Fernandes Natalia Coelho Couto de Azevedo NCCA Guerra Juliana Mariotti JM Nogueira Juliana Silva JS Summa Juliana Laurito JL Coimbra Amanda Aparecida Cardoso AAC Zwarg Ticiana T Witkin Steven S SS Mucci Luís Filipe LF Timenetsky Maria do Carmo Sampaio Tavares MDCST Sabino Ester Cerdeira EC de Deus Juliana Telles JT

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Yellow Fever (YF) is a severe disease caused by Yellow Fever Virus (YFV), endemic in some parts of Africa and America. In Brazil, YFV is maintained by a sylvatic transmission cycle involving non-human primates (NHP) and forest canopy-dwelling mosquitoes, mainly Haemagogus-spp and Sabethes-spp. Beginning in 2016, Brazil faced one of the largest Yellow Fever (YF) outbreaks in recent decades, mainly in the southeastern region. In São Paulo city, YFV was detected in October 2017 in Aloutta monkeys i ...[more]

PMID: 32978448

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Project description:Yellow fever (YF) is a zoonotic arthropod-borne disease that is caused by the yellow fever virus (YFV) and characterized by a sylvatic and urban cycle. Its most severe presentation is manifested as a hemorrhagic disease, and it has been responsible for thousands of deaths in the last decades. This study describes the public health approaches taken to control the 2016-2017 YF outbreak in nonhuman primates (NHPs) that took place in the northeastern region of São Paulo state, Brazil. NHPs recovered from the field were necropsied, and YF diagnoses were made at the Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School and the Center of Pathology, Adolfo Lutz Institute of São Paulo. NHP samples were inoculated into Vero cells for YFV isolation. RNA extraction was performed directly from NHP tissues and tested by RT-qPCR. YFV-positive samples were confirmed by sequencing. Based on the rapid RT-qPCR results, surveillance actions were implemented in the entire region. Confirmatory histopathology and immunohistochemistry for YFV were also performed. Among nine NHPs, gross hepatic involvement was observed in six animals, five of which were YFV-RT-qPCR-positive. One YFV was isolated from the serum of an infant NHP. YFV RNA sequences diverged from the virus responsible for the last epizootic that occurred in São Paulo state, but it was similar to the current Brazilian epizootic. Public health actions included dissemination of information on YF transmission, investigation of the probable location of NHP infection, characterization of the environment, and subsequent creation of the blueprint from which prevention and control measures were implemented. The YFV sylvatic cycle occurred in the periurban areas of the northeastern region of São Paulo state, but no human cases were reported during this period, showing that integrated actions between human, animal, and environmental health professionals were critical to restrain the virus to the sylvatic cycle.

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Possible non-sylvatic transmission of yellow fever between non-human primates in Sao Paulo city, Brazil, 2017-2018.

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Possible non-sylvatic transmission of yellow fever between non-human primates in São Paulo city, Brazil, 2017-2018.

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