First report of putative Leishmania RNA virus 2 (LRV2) in Leishmania infantum strains from canine and human visceral leishmaniasis cases in the southeast of Brazil.
Felipe Dutra RêgoEduardo Sérgio da SilvaValeriana Valadares LopesRafael Gonçalves Teixeira-NetoVinícius Silva BeloAntônio Augusto Fonseca JúniorDiego Andrade PereiraHeber Paulino PenaMárcia Dalastra LaurentiGabriela V AraújoVânia Lúcia Ribeiro da MattaIslam Hussein ChoumanThainá Bergantin BurrinCarmen M SandovalStella Maria Barrouin-MeloFlaviane Alves de PinhoHélida Monteiro de AndradeRamon Vieira NunesCélia Maria Ferreira GontijoVanete Thomaz SoccolDonnamae KlocekDanyil GrybchukDiego Henrique MacedoRubens Lima do Monte-NetoVyacheslav YurchenkoRodrigo Pedro SoaresPublished in: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (2023)
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first detection of LRV2 in the New World.