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Volume 31, Number 5—May 2025
Dispatch

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, Peruvian Amazon, 2020

Marta Piche-Ovares, Maria Paquita García Mendoza, Andres Moreira-Soto, Carlo Fischer, Sebastian Brünink, Maribel Dana Figueroa-Romero, Nancy Susy Merino-Sarmiento, Adolfo Ismael Marcelo-Ñique, Edward Málaga-Trillo, Miladi Gatty-Nogueira, César Augusto Cabezas Sanchez, and Jan Felix DrexlerComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (M. Piche-Ovares, A. Moreira-Soto, C. Fischer, S. Brünink, J.F. Drexler); Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru (M.P. García Mendoza, M.D. Figueroa-Romero, N.S. Merino-Sarmiento, A.I. Marcelo-Ñique, C.A. Cabezas Sanchez); Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica (A. Moreira-Soto); Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima (E. Málaga-Trillo); Laboratorio de Refencia Regional en Salud Publica, Loreto, Peru (M. Gatty-Nogueira); German Centre for Infection Research, associated partner of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin (J.F. Drexler)

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Table 1

Alphavirus serologic reactivity patterns in VEEV IgG-positive serum samples from Loreto, Peru, in study of Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Peruvian Amazon, 2020*

Sample VEEV PRNT50 titer IgG indirect immunofluorescent assay result
CHIKV ONNV RRV BFV SINV WEEV EEEV VEEV CHIKV vlp MAYV vlp
3216 >1:320 + + + - - + - + + +
3270 1:40 + + + + + + + + + +
3393 1:40 +
3399 1:160 +
3624 1:40 +
3634 1:40 + + + + + + +
3876 1:40 +
3927 1:80 +
3940 1:40 +
4140 >1:320 + + + +
4294 1:160 + + + + + +
4321 1:80 + + + + +
4420 1:80 + +
4590 1:40 +
4669 1:80 +
4747 1:160 +
4768 1:40 + + + +
4797 1:160 + + + +

*Bold indicates monotypic reactions. BFV, Barmah Forest virus; CHIKV, chikungunya virus; EEEV, Eastern equine encephalitis virus; MAYV, Mayaro virus; ONNV, o’nyong-nyong virus; PRNT50, plaque reduction neutralization test with ≥50% plaque reduction considered positive; RRV, Ross River virus; SINV, Sindbis virus; VEEV, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus; vlp, virus-like particle; WEEV, Western equine encephalitis virus.

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