Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos

Research interests

Publications

• An evolutionary NS1 mutation enhances Zika virus evasion of host interferon induction

  Nature Communications · 2018 · 10.1038/s41467-017-02816-2

• In situ immune response and mechanisms of cell damage in central nervous system of fatal cases microcephaly by Zika virus

  Scientific Reports · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17765-5

• A single-dose live-attenuated vaccine prevents Zika virus pregnancy transmission and testis damage

  Nature Communications · 2017 · 10.1038/s41467-017-00737-8

• Vaccine Mediated Protection Against Zika Virus-Induced Congenital Disease

  Cell · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.06.040

• A live-attenuated Zika virus vaccine candidate induces sterilizing immunity in mouse models

  Nature Medicine · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.4322

• Potential risk of re-emergence of urban transmission of Yellow Fever virus in Brazil facilitated by competent Aedes populations

  Scientific Reports · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05186-3

• Multiplexed reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction for simultaneous detection of Mayaro, Oropouche, and Oropouche-like viruses

  Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz · 2017 · 10.1590/0074-02760160062

• Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic findings

  Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5036

• Zika virus and microcephaly: why is this situation a PHEIC?

  The Lancet · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)00320-2

• Emergence and potential for spread of Chikungunya virus in Brazil

  BMC Medicine · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0348-x

• Air Travel Is Associated with Intracontinental Spread of Dengue Virus Serotypes 1–3 in Brazil

  PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2014 · 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002769

• Yellow fever

  Journal of Clinical Virology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2014.08.030

• Allergies and Diabetes as Risk Factors for Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever: Results of a Case Control Study

  PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2010 · 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000699

• Yellow Fever Virus inHaemagogus leucocelaenusandAedes serratusMosquitoes, Southern Brazil, 2008

  Emerging infectious diseases · 2010 · 10.3201/eid1612.100608

• Yellow fever in Brazil: thoughts and hypotheses on the emergence in previously free areas

  Revista de Saúde Pública · 2010 · 10.1590/s0034-89102010005000046

• Bat-transmitted Human Rabies Outbreaks, Brazilian Amazon

  Emerging infectious diseases · 2006 · 10.3201/eid1208.050929

• Revisiting the liver in human yellow fever: Virus-induced apoptosis in hepatocytes associated with TGF-β, TNF-α and NK cells activity

  Virology · 2005 · 10.1016/j.virol.2005.09.058

• Isolations of yellow fever virus from Haemagogus leucocelaenus in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil

  Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2003 · 10.1016/s0035-9203(03)90023-x

• Febre amarela

  Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1590/s0037-86822003000200012

• Dynamics of dengue virus circulation: a silent epidemic in a complex urban area

  Tropical Medicine & International Health · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.2002.00930.x

• Epidemic of jungle yellow fever in Brazil, 2000: Implications of climatic alterations in disease spread

  Journal of Medical Virology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.2078

• Inadequate management of natural ecosystem in the Brazilian Amazon region results in the emergence and reemergence of arboviruses

  Cadernos de Saúde Pública · 2001 · 10.1590/s0102-311x2001000700025

• An Overview of Arbovirology in Brazil and Neighbouring Countries

  · 1998

• New arenavirus isolated in Brazil

  The Lancet · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(94)91226-2

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