Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2025)

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infection in Nonhuman Primate, Guatemala, 2023

  • Wendy K. Jo,
  • Marta Piche-Ovares,
  • Lincoln Carranza,
  • Carlo Fischer,
  • Sebastian Brünink,
  • Laura Paul,
  • Alejandro Morales,
  • Fernando Martinez,
  • Jan Felix Drexler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3102.241484
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 2
pp. 397 – 400

Abstract

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We isolated Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) subtype IE phylogenetically related to Gulf Coast strains in a spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) released from a rescue center in Guatemala. Serologic testing of 118 monkeys indicated no additional VEEV infections. Infection of a primate warrants intensified surveillance of VEEV transmission cycles in North America.

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