Usutu virus infection in Latin America: A new emerging threat

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Internacional, Barquisimeto, Venezuela; Laboratory of Biochemistry, Instituto de Biomedicina / Instituto Venezolano de los Seguros Sociales (IVSS), Caracas, Venezuela; Working Group on Zoonoses, International Society for Chemotherapy, Aberdeen, UK; Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases, Quito, Ecuador; The Regional Zika-Lara collaborative network and Emerging Pathogens and Zoonoses Research Group, Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
• ² Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases, Quito, Ecuador; Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia; Programa del Doctorado de Medicina Tropical, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia; Committee on Zoonoses and Haemorrhagic Fevers, Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá, DC, Colombia.
• ³ Working Group on Zoonoses, International Society for Chemotherapy, Aberdeen, UK; Committee on Travel Medicine, Pan-American Association of Infectious Diseases, Quito, Ecuador; Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Research Group, Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia; Committee on Zoonoses and Haemorrhagic Fevers, Asociación Colombiana de Infectología, Bogotá, DC, Colombia; Public Health and Infection Research Incubator and Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; Organización Latinoamericana para el Fomento de la Investigación en Salud (OLFIS), Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia. Electronic address: arodriguezm@utp.edu.co.