Preface Table of Contents
Contributing Authors
Part I Surveillance, Diagnosis and Classification of hemorrhagic fever viruses
1. Global Spread of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses: Predicting Pandemics
Jean Paul Gonzalez, Marc Souris, and Willy Valdivia-Granda
2. An Approach to the Identification and Phylogenetic Analysis of Emerging and Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses
Francisco J. Díaz, Luis Paternina, and Juan D. Rodas
3. Preliminary Classification of Novel Hemorrhagic Fever-Causing Viruses Using Sequence-Based Pairwise Sequence Comparison (PASC) Analysis
Yīmíng Bào and Jens H. Kuhn
4. Epidemiological Surveillance of Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers with Emphasis on Clinical Virology
Carolina Montoya-Ruiz and Juan D. Rodas
5. Diagnostics for Lassa Fever: Detecting Host Antibody Responses
Maria S. Salvato, Igor S. Lukashevich, Sandra Medina-Moreno, and Juan Carlos Zapata
6. Sampling Design and Mosquito Trapping for Surveillance of Arboviral Activity
Luis 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 Arenaviruses
María Guadalupe Martínez, María Belén Forlenza, Nélida A. Candurra, and Sandra M. Cordo
9. Studies of Lassa Virus Cell Entry
Antonella Pasquato, Antonio Herrador Fernandez, and Stefan Kunz
10. A Cell-Cell Fusion Assay to Assess Arenavirus Envelope Glycoprotein Membrane-Fusion Activity
Joanne York and Jack H. Nunberg
11. Assays to Assess Arenaviral Glycoprotein Function
Junjie Shao, Xiaoying Liu, Yuying Liang, and Hinh Ly
12. Expression and X-Ray Structural Determination of the Nucleoprotein of Lassa Fever Virus
Xiaoxuan 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 Interferon
Qinfeng Huang, Junjie Shao, Yuying Liang, and Hinh Ly
14. Intracellular Detection of Viral Transcription and Replication using RNA FISH
Michael E. Lindquist and Connie S. Schmlajohn
15. Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Budding Studies
Ronald N. Harty
Part III In Vivo Models of Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Infection
16. Murine Models for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
Rosana Gonzalez-Quintial and Roberto Baccala
17. Testing Experimental Therapies in a Guinea Pig Model for Hemorrhagic Fever
Gary Wong, Yuhai Bi, Gary Kobinger, George F. Gao, and Xiangguo Qiu
18. A Primate Model for Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
Maria 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 Viruses
Mahmoud Djavani
Part IV Immune Assays and Vaccine Production for Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses
20. Protocol for the Production of a Vaccine Against Argentine Hemorrhagic Fever
Ana 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 Infection
Meng Ling Moi, Tomohiko Takas
